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What if we all were to choose to spend this holiday season living from the heart?\u00a0 What if we lived today or this moment with compassion?\u00a0 What if today we chose love instead of judgment?\u00a0 Instead of buying into the recent negativity in the social media, what if we decided to only spread kindness?\u00a0 Think of the impact, if this kindness were to continue to grow\u2026what an epidemic that would be! <\/span><\/p>\n This Thanksgiving, I decided to start reading the book Random Acts of Kindness by The Editors of Conari Press, Daphne Rose Kingma, Dawna Markova.\u00a0 This book states, \u201cKindness is twice blessed.\u00a0 It blesses the one who gives it with a sense of his or her own capacity to love, and the person who receives it with a sense of the beneficence of the universe.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n Using kindness can create miracles and heal.\u00a0 It works like an anti-depressant for those in pain.\u00a0 It counterbalances the negative around us.\u00a0 It sends a shining light of peace, hope, and love.\u00a0 Isn\u2019t that what the holidays are supposed to be about?<\/span><\/p>\n This year, during all of the holiday busyness, find time to do some random acts of kindness.\u00a0 Let someone cut in front of you in those long lines, who looks like they could use a break.\u00a0 Show some kindness to that cashier.\u00a0 Help someone who is struggling with their packages.\u00a0 Hold a door open.\u00a0 Smile and say hello.\u00a0 Carry spare change and drop it in those boxes by the cash register.\u00a0 Donate your old items to charity.\u00a0 Buy things on ebay or Amazon Smile and make a donation to charity while you shop.\u00a0 Remember that Tuesday is Giving Tuesday!\u00a0 When you send those Christmas Cards, put in a personal note and tell your recipients that they are special to you.\u00a0 One of the easiest things you can do is just to \u201clisten deeply\u201d to someone.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cMy religion is very simple.\u00a0 My religion is kindness.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 The Dalai Lama<\/span><\/p>\n Keep your light shining and pass it on!!<\/span><\/p>\n Kathi Ackerman, MSW, LGSW, LADC<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What if we all were to choose to spend this holiday season living from the heart?\u00a0 What if we lived today or this moment with compassion?\u00a0 What if today we chose love instead of judgment?\u00a0 Instead of buying into the recent negativity in the social media, what if we decided to only spread […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}