World Kindness Day reminds us every November of how we as a community can make a difference to someone’s life. Making an intentional effort, even though it should not be the only day gives us pause for thought to think about how we communicate and act. If each one of us, did one act of kindness every day, the statistics for Australian alone would equate to 9.1 Billion acts of kindness a year. There are also personal benefits from being kind. Research suggests that higher levels of kindness is associated with greater optimism, compassion, forgiveness, and goal mastery, as well as lower rates of anxiety as well as having a ripple effect on those around you. (Neimiec, 2017).
I read this week that ‘It’s not a thought or a feeling, kindness is actually when our feeling or thought is actually put into action.
Rosemarie Dunn
Head of Campus – Duncraig