How Kindness can change your life and others!

I have read a few articles recently that inspired me to wish to share my reflection a little further...

Did you know that what you think and how you act effects everything? Yes, we hear this kind statement a lot these days, but truly did you know that our character and how we act and speak to others literally shapes how we look physically as well as how we are perceived.

From Article #1:
Having a desirable personality may indeed be a factor when judging physical attractiveness. “This findings indicates that human interior psychological activity is related to exterior physical feature[s], and that a human is the whole entity of psychology and physiology.” “If you want to enhance your physical attractiveness, become a valuable social partner.” I know this is not your standard beauty tip, but the results of these studies do suggest that if you want to improve your physical attractiveness, strengthening the content of your character may be the most effective thing you can do. 

So what does this mean when we are in the process to better ourselves, to get healthy, mentally physically, emotionally etc? Well it means that being a "nice person" a "kind person" can be all the world of difference, not only to the one you are being kind or nice to BUT even more interesting, it IS changing the way your brain is structured AND it IS sculpting your looks! It's Scientifically proven!

So don't wait to shift your view to one of kindness as you can save a lot of money on facials, save time on searching for ways to make yourself more beautiful, and save energy on frustration that your tactics are getting you no where! Just be a better person, be kind, be nice, offer your help, give love... These basics will help you shine and make the world a better place!

The second reflection I wish to share goes hand in hand with the first, if what we say and how we act effect not only others but our selves, well then, what we write should have a similar effect... and Article 2 is proving just that! Unexpected kindness... a girl who once again helps prove that random acts of kindness not only light up the lives all the people who received these acts, BUT that her own depression and anxiety disappeared!

From Article #2: 
She started writing love letters to strangers and leaving them all over the city. The first letter she left on a train simply addressed: "If you find this letter then it's for you." "What I noticed was that my sadness and loneliness got backburnered," she told the BBC. "I found something that allowed me to take the focus off of myself." 

Dr Lynn Alden and Dr Jennifer Trew, from the University of British Columbia, asked volunteers with high levels of social anxiety to commit multiple acts of kindness on two days a week over a four-week period."Sometimes people would give a small gift to somebody, or picking somebody up from work, visiting sick people, thanking a bus driver. They were actually fairly small acts," explained Dr Alden. They were small acts perhaps, but ones which had a much bigger impact.

But she urges caution about performing acts of kindness chosen by someone else or just to impress others. "I think it has be done in such a way that the individual has a sense of autonomy. They are performing the act because they want to and not because it's required by the group."

So what is this saying to us? It IS once again confirming if we want to be healthy Physically, mentally, and emotionally that kindness can be a POWERFUL tool in our maintaining Harmony, Health and Happiness!! Kindness shapes our Brains, our Faces and our Hearts as well as touching the lives of all those that come in contact with us when we are emitting Kindness.

For more support on developing Kindness contact me for an online or private session.

Happy Giving,
Lara Helena 
Harmonize2one.com
(Article #1. Is Kindness Physically Attractive?)
(Article #2: Love letters and kindness may improve mental health!)
(Video - Life Vest Inside - Kindness Boomerang - "One Day")

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