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Why Kindness Works

How does it feel when your kind to someone or if someone shows kindness towards you? For me, it feels exceptionally rewarding whether you simply leave a door open for someone and they say thank you. Or It can even go as far as donating a spare kidney so someone can survive the next part of their life.

When we act with kindness it can have a trickle on effect that can change future outcomes for the better. Just like a row of dominos falling down, when kindness is shown it can’t helped be recipicated or passed on in some way.

Just look at Comic Relief where millions are raised in hope of helping people through kindness. With more kindness in the world, only good things can happen whereas when the opposite to kindness happens the same happens but in the opposite direction. This only creates more problems in our lives.

This is why it’s so crucial to a child’s upbringing that kindness is taught. Especially when expressed through parenting throughout their childhood. If they can better themselves and others through this action. The world they live in will become a much better place.

How It Helps Children

We can express kindness through affection, kind words, praise on their positive actions and also as parents showing how kindness works. With mental illness being highlighted even more so within our society. This is one part that is crucial to giving children an amazing tool they can use for the rest of their life. This will lead to their own happiness and others too.

The best praise we as parents have received was from a school report. It was of our son showing kindness to his fellow classmates. It was reported from the mother of a fellow classmate who has learning difficulties. Our son took it upon himself to help her, and comfort her when she is unhappy. These acts of kindness not only had a positive effect on the young girl but the mother was so happy that her child was part of a great environment to learn and grow. Imagine if more people were taught this skill especially in higher powers how better our world would be.

This skill can have wondrous effects on how children make friends, how others help them and overall positive environment they can create around themselves.

Remember They’re Always Watching

As a parent, you soon come to realise that your children are always watching you. When you finally know this to be the case. Happens when they pick up one of the bad habits and makes you feel what have I done. Of course, no one can be the perfect human being but you sure can be conscious of your actions around your children. By working on yourself this can add great value for your children to copy the best parts of you.

As parents, we have made a conscious effort to show as much kindness towards our children. Whether that be showing our love to them or making sure we handle ourselves in difficult situations when they are watching. If you have ever seen The Crown on Netflix. You can see the difference between the Queen’s approach to parenting compared to Princess Diana and the effects it can have on children.

The World Needs More Kind People

I believe humans are generally kind and it comes more natural than we think it does. Unfortunately, we live in a world where humans are hooked on all the bad things that happen. Which inadvertently affects our own life if we live within that world. The media will make us believe that the human race is terrible on all counts but the news is just a small percentage of what’s really happening in the world. Whereas all the good and kindness that’s shown is perceived as boring or not newsworthy.

This is the change I believe that needs to happen within our world towards all the good and away from all the bad stuff. Imagine if all the leaders in the world showed more kindness towards their people and peers. How much of a difference that would make. This is why when we are bringing up any child. Teaching them kindness is one step to creating a better world that we all can feel happy and safe to live in.

To Conclude

Overall if we can show more kindness within our lives and be conscious of this around our children this can go a long way to creating amazingly kind-hearted adults. We all love kindness and the more we spread this the better our world will be.

How are you going to spread kindness today? How do you develop this with you children?

I would love to hear your comments back to these questions and I look forward to seeing you in the next post.

By Adam Smith

In today’s article, How Travel Can Help Build An Improved Mindset. I will discuss the mental wellbeing benefits of travelling has on our minds. More than ever being connected with nature is important for happiness and wellness. After reading this get outside and enjoy what nature has for you.

Why Travelling Is Vital For A Strong Mental Health

I want to answer the question of how travel can help build an improved mindset. We are living in an age where technology plays a massive part in our life whether it be work or in our downtime.

We can get lost in the mundane day to day of life living off distraction after distraction. Without noticing this can affect our mental health. I’ve noticed in myself and others a change in mood, especially in overall happiness when they spend too much time in one place.

Humans are built for adventure and exploring and this is one of the ways to fight back mental health by becoming part of nature once more. Some of the happiest people I know are explorers and keen travellers who can’t get enough of the feeling of adventure.

Why Being In Nature Benefits Us

We are connected to the earth and nature has a big part of what makes us happy. That’s why travelling has to be an important part of your goals and how you live your life whether it be getting away every other weekend or going on yearly adventures around the world.

Studies have shown that being In nature reduces anger, fear and stress and increases your positive feelings. As well as emotional it also has physical well-being of reducing blood pressure, heart rate, muscles tension and the production of stress hormones.

This is why we need to spend more time in nature.

What I Love About Travel

For me, it gives me great joy to travel. To explore all the wonders of what the world has to offer whether that’s 20 minutes away or travelling around the world. It feels like this is where I belong. Being part of mother nature of how it was intended.

It also allows my brain to relax more and my body in turn becomes a lot more relaxed from the day to day of city life. I admire people who have made travelling their life and maybe one day this can be a huge part of my life too.

Travel Is Great For Creating New Pathways

Travelling is great for the brain as an exercise. With all the new sights and smells, it amazingly stimulates the brain. Also with or without a map or your phones GPS, exploring new routes enables your brain to form new pathways of your surroundings.

It’s like unlocking new parts of the world map in games such as GTA or Fallout.

Even though I haven’t been in a while I remember everywhere I’ve been in Barcelona and Copenhagen and I walk through it in my mind like I’m right there. It also opens your mind to new ways of thinking and understanding.

The news sites you read and society opinion on things allow you to think about things in a certain way. You would think for example all Russians are bad which is far from the case when you meet them, they are one of the most hospital people you could meet.

This is what travelling does. It allows growing as a person and breaking down misconceptions.

Travelling Is What We Were Meant To Do

Everything about us is built from the Earth. This is our home and how we engage with it matters. When you walk through a park and hear birds singing, how does it make you feel? For most, it gives us a good feeling.

In the world, there are still a small number of people who still live in the hunter-gathering stage of humanity and they can be some of the happiest people on earth. That’s why life can be at its happiest when it’s at its simplest.

There’s a part of us that’s happy travelling in nature and we should listen to that voice more often.

Travel Opens Our Mind To New Possibilities

Looking for creativity or if you’re at a crossroad in life. Getting away and travelling can help shape new pathways for you to explore. It can also calm your mind to allow the thoughts of what you want to do to seep through. Bill Gates, for example, spend x amount of time each year getting away in nature to think of new ideas and gain clarity on what to do next. This shows how beneficial travelling and being part of nature can open your mind to new ideas and possibilities.

Travel Decreases Stress And Boost Happiness

One of the main benefits of travelling is the way it makes you feel. Why is it that most people don’t want to go back home and travel longer or get the holiday blues on their return?

It’s because the feelings you get travelling are so profound your mind and body are telling you to continue living like this for its benefits of decreasing stress and boosting happiness. On a recent trip to Malta, I had this exact feeling.

So if you are feeling stressed and unhappy, it’s time for you to travel within your country or abroad for an x amount of time that you can.

Travel Resets The Mind

Lastly, travelling allows you to reset your mind and regain focus on what you want. This is a great time to do your monthly, quarterly or yearly goals. It will create a clear mind to keep you on the right path in your life.

Final Thoughts

Hopefully, I’ve answered the question for you about how travel can help build an improved mindset. Of course, there are many benefits to living the way we do in the modern world but there is no doubt that it needs to be balanced with travelling and being a part of nature.

With all the stresses of life going on in our lives. Getting back to nature can help solve a lot of problems especially for our mental health. I hope this helps you in any way. Our next adventure will be to Bristol and Bath next. Where is your next adventure taking you?

All the best see you in our next post!