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Spotlight On Kindness: World Kindness Day

We are thrilled to share this newly revamped KindSpring newsletter with you. We honestly couldn’t have imagined a better day to launch this than today — the World Kindness Day. Our hope is to continue highlighting and amplifying all the good things that are happening in our communities and create a better collective narrative for generations to come. –The KindSpring Team

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True beauty is born through our actions and aspirations and in the kindness we offer to others. –Alek Wek

Editor’s Note: We are thrilled to share this newly revamped KindSpring newsletter with you. We honestly couldn’t have imagined a better day to launch this than today — the World Kindness Day. Our hope is to continue highlighting and amplifying all the good things that are happening in our communities and create a better collective narrative for generations to come. –The KindSpring Team

Kindness In the News

“A flash mob broke out in downtown Portland on Sunday. Organizers said the same dance and same song is taking place in cities all around the world.”

From Our Members

Tonight, I went to see a play by, and full with, women I consider fierce. En route, a car cut me off. I turned my bright lights on him and I drove right …

Inspiring Video of the Week

An Angel of Queens

Jorge Munoz is one of the most inspiring people you’ll ever meet. A school bus driver by day and an angel by night.

In other news …

Did you know, that in Singapore, 45,000 yellow flowers were given away in 2009 on World Kindness Day. How cool is that? Don’t forget to add a little bit of kindness to your corner of the world today.

KindSpring is a 100% volunteer-run platform that allows everyday people around the world to connect and deepen in the spirit of kindness.

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Breaking Free from the Tyranny of Positivity

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November 13, 2017

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Our happiness comes not as a goal, but as a byproduct of engaging in honesty with ourselves.

– Susan David –

Breaking Free from the Tyranny of Positivity

Ever been told to ‘just be happy’ or, to ‘lighten up’? Does that really make you feel happier? For many, this advice leads to the opposite effect.
Author of Emotional Agility and leading Harvard Medical School psychologist Susan David recently teamed up with award-winning journalist and author Maria Shriver for a unique conversation on why positivity doesn’t necessarily lead to happiness. Read more to understand how our obsession with positivity undermines the truth of our authentic expressions, and is an untrue display of our experience in the world. Sometimes, we need to just admit that we are having a bad day. Both experts offer steps on how to achieve this authentic expression in your own life. Research focused on what creates resilience, empathy and joy reveals that expanding our emotional vocabulary and how we express our authentic feelings, is what allows us to transcend these emotions, and find more peace. { read more }

Be The Change

Next time someone asks you how you are doing, instead of a rote answer try checking in with yourself and responding from a more authentic place. Notice how it feels to do this.

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