{"id":1925,"date":"2020-05-14T13:43:26","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T13:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=1925"},"modified":"2020-05-14T13:43:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T13:43:27","slug":"kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=1925","title":{"rendered":"Kindness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well, since I have nothing particular on my mind today, and I just finished reading the news, and a couple of articles talked about the President\u2019s news conferences, and it seems like the news conferences consisted mostly of name calling, finger pointing and various other types of school-yard behavior\u2026. I thought we might talk about <em>kindness<\/em> today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was young, I was told to be kind \u2014 always. Of course when you\u2019re a kid, that kind of advice goes right over your head. But like a lot of things you hear when you\u2019re a kid, it begins to makes sense and the older you get, you realize it\u2019s really good advice.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a lot of reasons to be kind \u2014 in fact I\u2019ve heard that it\u2019s actually good for your health. Research has shown that the act of being kind releases a range of natural feel-good hormones in your body, including oxytocin and endorphins. So, theoretically, at least, practicing kindness, compassion, and appreciation can make you happier, boost your immune system, reverse signs of aging, relieve pain, and even help you live longer. Call me a pessimist, but I don\u2019t think the President is going to push this a a cure for COVID-19, even though it might make more sense than bleach\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kindness is about treating others the way you want to be treated. It\u2019s more than just holding your tongue when you\u2019re tempted to say something unkind. Kindness is the way you interact with people to\u00a0 remind them they\u2019re not invisible, alone or insignificant. Compassion usually goes right along with kindness \u2014 it enables you to see a situation from someone else\u2019s perspective and agree with them or at least give them the benefit of the doubt. Generally speaking, when you show kindness and compassion to others, you benefit as much \u2014 or maybe more \u2014 than they do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s an old saying that kindness begets kindness. Kindness also makes you a better person. Again, no real point \u2014 just that even though my parent\u2019s advice to \u201cbe kind \u2014 always\u201d was and is good advice\u2026 it somehow seems more important these days.<br>The Dalai Lama has a good quote: \u201cBe kind whenever possible. It is always possible.\u201d<br>\u2014 30 \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, since I have nothing particular on my mind today, and I just finished reading the news, and a couple of articles talked about the President\u2019s news conferences, and it seems like the news conferences consisted mostly of name calling, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=1925\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions\/1926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}