Write about a random act of kindness you’ve done for someone.
The warm feeling of well-being that washes over you when you’ve done something kind isn’t just in your head. It’s in your brain chemicals too.
Acts of kindness can release hormones that contribute to your mood and over all well being. The practice of kindness is so effective it’s being formally incorporated into some types of psychotherapy.
The trick we need to know is that act of kindness have to be repeated because biochemically, you can’t live on the 3 to 4 minutes oxytocin boosts that come from a single act.
Most research on the science behind why kindness makes us feel better has centered around oxytocin which is sometimes called “the love hormone.”
The last random act of kindness I’ve done was I when I was working at a snow come stand for at race track to do a fund race to help make money for the local veterans in my community to buy meals for home bound veterans during the Christmas holidays. I bought a man’s order which I turn caused him to buy the people’s order behind him, until the last person didn’t buy the person’s order behind her. But the act of kindness when on for about 45 minutes. It was just good people paying it forward to bless the person behind them. Which I turn made people feel good.
We can build better selves and better communities at the same time. By doing a simple act of kindness and people paying forward that kindness to another person.
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