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The Power of Kindness

In his bestselling book, The Power of Intention, Dr. Wayne Dyer sites research that an act of kindness increases the serotonin levels in your brain. Serotonin is a natural chemical in your body that is responsible for improving mood. Many of the antidepressant medications on the market today work by enhancing the body’s utilization of serotonin. According to Dr. Dyer, however, science has discovered that an act of kindness will increase the release of serotonin in your brain without the need for medication.

What is more inspiring and interesting about this is that the research concluded that serotonin levels are increased in both the giver and receiver of an act of kindness. In addition, anyone who witnesses an act of kindness also has an increase in serotonin levels. You can relate this to the many inspiring status updates people post or the good things that has happened to their life, a good job, marriage, engagement, having a new born in their life, … the list goes on. Have you ever noticed how you feel reading it? ….

Wow…! How amazing life is! The mere fact that you did something good to others has an immeasurable reward in making yourself, and others feel inspired and happy. Kindness is a natural antidepressant for the giver, receiver and to the one who witnesses that human compassion.

So be kind in life! Know that the true joy you always crave to have in your life grows more when you are generous and kind to others. Live a life of selflessness. Know that you gain more by the hand you extend to help others. Your heart is warmed by more joy and happiness through the selfless act you showed to make others life to be of joy and blissful. Having the ear that your loved one’s want to hear them talk or giving the shoulder that others look for when they are in need of comfort or even your mere presence when they need to have a companion, have the amazing power to make your heart experience more joy and happiness.

Here are some ways you can practice kindness in your life.

Your life and the many lives around you are connected by your actions. The goodness you seek in others, the events you live by, the humility that you show in life and the act of being of service adds endless joy to you and the many more who have been the recipient and the audience in what we call LIFE. When you get the focus off of yourself in what ever you do or experience in life, you will be surprised how much better you will feel.

Kindness will bring to you a cascade of positive effects. Kindness elevates feelings of generosity, capability, contribution, compassion, and connection. Kindness is contagious in that it will win you smiles. There is reciprocity in kindness and as they say, “Like attracts like.” Be kind and watch kindness come back to you.

“No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.”

Adopted and modified from an article written by Matthew McQuaid under the title ‘Happiness is Being Kind’
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