WHAT YOU THINK, YOU BECOME.
WHAT YOU FEEL, YOU ATTRACT.
WHAT YOU IMAGINE, YOU CREATE.
The Mind is Everything
Tag: emotional development
How to Inspire Kindness in Others
It’s important to find ways to boost your own kindness. But arguably the greatest good we can do in the world comes from finding ways to increase kindness in others.
The first is to create Reminders of Connectedness in a home, office, or classroom. These reminders can be something as simple as a quote evoking shared goals, words like “community,” or a picture conveying warmth or friendships.
“Reminding people to see the basic humanity that they share with those who might seem different from them can help overcome fear and distrust and promote cooperation.”
The second involves Putting a Human Face on Suffering: being able to identify distinct, specific victims of a problem – and learning about their personal stories – can make that problem more vivid, strike an emotional chord, and thus motivate people to help.
The third, Shared Identity, involves forging a sense of common humanity across group boundaries. Reminding people to see the basic humanity that they share with those who might seem different from them can help overcome fear and distrust and promote cooperation. Even small similarities, like appreciating sports, can foster a greater sense of kinship.
Finally, the practice for Encouraging Kindness in Kids offers four specific techniques to bring out children’s natural propensity for kindness and generosity. These techniques include avoiding external rewards for kind behavior, so that kids get to experience the feeling that kindness is its own reward, praising kids’ character instead of their behavior so they come to see kindness as an essential part of who they are, and modelling kindness in your own behavior, since actions tend to speak louder than words when it comes to nurturing generosity.
Becoming a kinder person – and nurturing kindness in others – isn’t something that happens overnight. It takes practice to turn your best intentions into concrete actions. I hope these kindness exercises provide an effective way to start building that habit today.
Forgive…
5 Life Hacks From Gandhi
Change yourself
If you change yourself you will change the world. If you change how you think you will change how you feel and what actions you take. And so the world around you will change. The change within can allow you to take action in ways you wouldn’t have or even thought about.
You are in control
As you realize no one outside of yourself can actually control how you fell you can start to incorporate this thinking into your daily life and develop it as a thought habit. A habit that you can grow stronger and stronger and stronger over time.
Forgive and let go
If you don’t forgive then you let the past and another person control how you feel. By forgiving you release yourself from these bonds.
Take Action
Without taking action very little will be done. To really get where you want to go and to really understand yourself You have to take action and translate knowledge into results.
Take care of this moment
When you are in the present moment you don’t worry about the next moment that you can’t control. Imagining negative future consequences – or reflecting on past failures caused your actions to lose its power. Reconnecting with and staying in the now is a mental habit – a sort of muscle – that you grow. Over time it becomes more powerful and makes it easier to slip into the present moment.
Confucius
