Cultivating Cultural Humility Through Simple Acts of Kindness and Gratitude
Taking Action from the Heart
Perhaps you may be feeling out of alignment with certain things that you are attracting into your life. You’re striving for the very best, but you may not be achieving it easily. Find out what you can do to attract good vibes from everywhere.
Many times may not easily recognize that it’s the simplest things that you can do to live more in alignment with who you are meant to be.
You may be be waking up each day and tirelessly pushing yourself into doing all sorts of meaningless tasks, being the selfless people pleaser to everyone and and feeling the need to constantly criticize yourself for not being ‘perfect.’
As a result, you end up going to sleep each night being consumed with how ‘badly’ your day went and how it could have been better. You fog up your mind with what went wrong rather than all the things that went right, and you end up in a constant flow of life dissatisfaction.
You know that you want to improve but you don’t have the awareness of how or what to change so you can breeze through each day feeling healthy, happy and successful.
FUELLING YOUR DAY WITH KINDNESS
There have been countless studies published concluding that performing acts of kindness has positive psychological effects on your overall well-being. A 2019 publication fro the Journal of Social Psychology cites, ‘performing kindness activities for seven days increases happiness.’ *
Kindness is simply being nice to someone and/or yourself and it is motivated for the sole reason to genuinely want to help someone without expecting anything in return. Also the act of kindness act does not have to be any of grand scale. It can be as simple as opening the door for someone, smiling at a stranger, or acknowledging your very own strong traits and praising yourself for it.
The positive effects of being kind are*:
Increases overall subjective well-being
Improves how others see you and accept you
It’s positively correlated with self-regulation
Can lower the effects of stress
Increases your happy hormones: serotonin, endorphins and oxytocin
Leads to a reduction of risk of disease.
Reduces depression and anxiety
It is good for your heart health.
