Q: Can you suggest some ways I can spread acts of kindness? My mom keeps suggesting this but doesn’t tell me how to do this.
A: This is a wonderful gift you have to even want to embark on this endeavor. So much kindness is needed on our planet and every bit of kindness you can spread is also an act of love.
I will list for you some ways you can get started now:
- Offer gratitude to someone whom you would not normally thank.
- Volunteer your time. Select something you would like to do to help others; i.e., wash their car, walk a dog at an animal shelter, take someone home-made cookies.
- Take someone for ice cream and it’s your treat.
- Send compassion to someone you may have judged.
- Do something nice for someone who may not be expecting it.
- Notice or experience something wonderful that you would normally take for granted.
- Forgive yourself for something you did that didn’t reflect your best self.
- Honor yourself for something you did do that reflects your best self.
- Let someone in ahead of you in traffic.
- Take someone flowers.
- Offer kind words and compliment them.
- Let someone know how much you appreciate them.
- Offer compassion to yourself, others, the mystery of life, for all suffering everywhere.
May the list above be a beginning in spreading kindness to yourself and others.