Day 8: Kindness, Joy & Music “A joyful heart is the normal result of the heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.” – Mother Teresa What brings you the most joy in your life today? Really think about it and answer honestly. Please don’t list the obligatory: family, friends, and children. […]
Category: Seeking Kindness
Feeding Our Souls With Kindness
I recently read Elizabeth Gilbert’s new book “Big Magic,” and not only did I find it magnificently inspiring, I found it to be exactly what I needed to hear. The book is about living a creative life in whatever capacity aligns with you, whether that is singing, painting, writing, collecting or even figure skating. Big Magic is […]
Dancing Your Way to Happiness & Kindness
Can you dance yourself to happiness and ultimately kindness? Absolutely! Think about it. Have you ever seen a happy person be unkind? I don’t think so! How can we dance ourselves to happiness and kindness? By turning up the volume on your favorite upbeat songs and grooving to the music and dancing like no one is watching. Or […]
Finding Kindness by Relearning What Love is
What is love? And what has been my definition and understanding of love and how has that hindered my journey to find, create, and exude kindness? I used to think love meant sacrificing myself for the other person. I thought it meant that I needed to care for the other person first before I cared […]
Whose Life am I Living?
Hello Kindness Followers! As a follow-up to my last post titled “Kindness and Our Story,” I started thinking about whose life I’m living. Now that I’m trying to figure out and live my story, I wanted to take it a step deeper and ask myself about the ways I do and do not live my […]
Kindness and Our Story
What is your story? Are you the author of your own story? Or have you adopted someone else’s version of your story? I believe that we all have an inner story that is our true story. So what happened? Why am I not living what I think is my true story and how do I know […]
Kindhearted
We have all heard the expression “kindhearted” to describe a person who is genuinely kind in their words, actions and interactions. To be honest, I’m not sure I have ever been described as kind or kindhearted. I think the words that people use to describe me are nice, sweet, sad, melancholy, busy, shy, but I […]
What is Kindness
Many years ago, I was lucky to meet an amazing and gifted life coach. One of the many things she taught me over the 10 years I knew her, was to look up the definition of words in order to fully understand the given word. Often times, I was quite surprised and other times it […]
Back, After a Long Hiatus, but Still Seeking Kindness
I did not forget about my journey of finding and living kindness. I still seek kindness, still want kindness in my life and hope that I have been practicing as much kindness as I can. The reason for my long hiatus from blogging is that I started to work out of the home, but here […]