Positivity: Kindness
A little kindness could change the whole world.
With all the animosity, racism, sexism and outright hatred being shouted so loudly of late, we each need to do our part to show more kindness. This could change everything.
I think it’s safe to say that we all want to live decent, comfortable, happy lives. I don’t know anyone who wants to struggle, or to be in a constant state of fear, or to be miserable. I think that some people hate like they do because they are afraid, because they feel intimidated and disempowered, so they channel anger and hostility because that makes them feel something more powerful than the powerlessness of fear they don’t recognize for what it is.
We all can do something about this. Instead of spreading intolerance and being harsh, we can take a moment to be kind.
People can be infuriating, both on a personal and a global scale. I often say that while I like certain individual people, over all the human race disturbs and distresses me. That is an unfair statement on my part, and I need to practice more kindness myself.
Why? Because directing meanness at someone usually creates more hostility and anger and hate. Why do we think that more hate is the answer to hate? We need to practice kindness, because that is what I am pretty sure we would all prefer.
Consider this – you wake up in the morning feeling out-of-sorts. You’ve slept poorly, you go to work and you join everyone complaining about the upcoming elections. This is unfair. That is terrible. Why will no one do anything about this issue? How does that make you feel?
Now consider this – you wake up in the morning feeling out-of-sorts. You’ve slept poorly, and you go to work and ask your coworker how their weekend was. How are your friends and family? Want to get a cup of coffee? Want to split a donut with me? Let me help you with that bag. Wasn’t that episode of that show awesome? How does that make you feel?
This is not a grand, sweeping, ginormous change we have to make. It’s a matter of redirection. If we want to experience more acts of kindness in our lives, we need to give more kindness. It costs nothing, but it is priceless. Kindness is nothing but positivity, and I am pretty sure we can never have too much of that.
Acts of kindness are empowering. The more we empower others, the more we empower ourselves. I can see only good things that will come of that.
Finding positivity is not hard, it just requires action. Knowing that we all want to experience kindness from the people in our lives, we can work on practicing more acts of kindness ourselves. When we are kind to the people around us, friend, family, or random stranger, in empowering them with kindness we empower ourselves. When we feel empowered, we often spread that feeling to others around us, and as such can build more positive feelings. We can use the positive feelings this generates to dissolve negative feelings. When we take away negative feelings, we open up space to let in positive feelings, and that is something we can be grateful for. Gratitude leads to happiness. Happiness is the ultimate positive attitude. Positive attitude begets positive energy, and that is always a good thing.
This is the one hundred fourteenth entry of my Positivity series. It is my hope these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone. Feel free to share, re-blog and spread the positivity.
In relation to Positivity, check out my Five Easy Steps to Change the World for the Better.
