Kindness Challenge

Neuroscientists and psychologists are showing that it takes at least about 3 weeks to form a new habit. What if, every day, for 21 days, we each flexed our kindness muscles in simple ways? Join thousands of others in a transformative 21-Day Kindness Challenge starting September 11th. Grow and learn through your own experience by inviting kindness into your life. Watch as the ripples spread around you, to friends, family, and even strangers ultimately creating a better world one kind act at a time. Check out this one minute video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMITg_W2ldQ Join in a transformative three-week Kindness Challenge starting September 11th! Grow and learn through your own experience by inviting kindness into your life. Watch as the ripples spread around you, to friends, family, and even strangers ultimately creating a better world one kind act at a time. Together we can unleash a revolution of good. Sign up here: www.kindspring.org/21day Through this challenge, you'll receive a daily email with inspiration and ideas. You'll join a vibrant online community of like-minded people from all over the world, and you'll have a chance to share your experiences, read stories of what others are doing, and support each other's journeys along the way. Here is a powerful thought from John O’Donohue. The word kindness has a gentle sound that seems to echo the presence of compassionate goodness. When someone is kind to you, you feel understood and seen. There is no judgment or harsh perception directed toward you. Kindness has gracious eyes; it is not small-minded or competitive; it wants nothing back for itself. Kindness strikes a resonance with the depths of your own heart; it also suggests that your vulnerability, though somehow exposed, is not taken advantage of; rather, it has become an occasion for dignity and empathy. Kindness casts a different light, an evening light that has the depth of color and patience to illuminate what is complex and rich in difference. Despite all the darkness, human hope is based on the instinct that at the deepest level of reality some intimate kindness holds sway. This is the heart of blessing. To believe in blessing is to believe that our being here, our very presence in the world, is itself the first gift, the primal blessing.