Kindness
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Can Mindfulness Help Adults Who Were Abused as Children?
Posted on Sunday, May 18 th, 2014 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.By Greater Good Attachment theory predicts that children who had warm, close relationships with caregivers will grow into adults who are equipped to have open and trusting relationships of their own. On the flipside, research finds that mistreated ch...
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When Empathy Hurts, Compassion Can Heal
Posted on Friday, August 23 rd, 2013 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.By Greater Good Empathy can be painful. Or so suggests a growing body of neuroscientific research. When we witness suffering and distress in others, our natural tendency to empathize can bring us vicarious pain. Is there a better way of approaching d...
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Are Positive Emotions Good for Your Heart?
Posted on Friday, August 23 rd, 2013 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.By Greater Good Having a bad attitude can kill you. That’s the upshot of a large body of scientific research which suggests that a negative approach to life—as well as conditions like depression and anxiety—is connected to developing cardiovasc...
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How Positive Emotions Improve Our Health
Posted on Thursday, June 27 th, 2013 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.By Greater Good We all know that physical health depends on a good diet and exercise. But recent research suggests that it also comes from a regular dose of positive emotions. Now a new study goes one step further, not only showing that positive emot...
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How to Train the Compassionate Brain
Posted on Thursday, June 27 th, 2013 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.By Greater Good The first time I ever tried a loving-kindness meditation, I was overcome by a feeling of complete… futility. Mentally extending compassion to others and wishing them free from suffering seemed nice enough, but I had a hard time beli...
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Getting Angry Isn’t All Bad
Posted on Tuesday, April 02 nd, 2013 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.A new study says that we might not always be better off trying to get into a good mood. It is appropriate, healthy, and even useful to feel angry when competing or fighting with others, though it is not good for our overall well-being to feel anger a...
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Why Do We Walk On By?
Posted on Tuesday, March 26 th, 2013 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.Street people. The homeless. Truth be told, most of us find them an annoyance. It’s a spiritual truism that trading places with the less fortunate, psychologically if not literally, can be a powerful motive for doing unto others as you’d have the...
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Kindness Breeds More Kindness, Study Shows
Posted on Tuesday, March 26 th, 2013 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.WIRED MAGAZINE | In findings sure to gladden the heart of anyone who’s ever wondered whether tiny acts of kindness have larger consequences, researchers have shown that generosity is contagious. Goodness spurs goodness, they found: A single act c...
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RSA Animate – The Empathic Civilisation
Posted on Tuesday, March 26 th, 2013 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.Bestselling author, political adviser and social and ethical prophet Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development and our society.
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Being Kind Makes Kids Happy
Posted on Tuesday, February 26 th, 2013 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.By Greater Good Are kids born kind or do we need to teach them kindness? This nature versus nurture debate is an old one, but new findings published last month in the journal PLoS ONE may provide some novel insights. The study, by Lara Aknin and her...
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Stressed Out? Try Helping Out
Posted on Tuesday, February 26 th, 2013 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.By Greater Good Stress kills, as research by Robert Sapolsky and others has found—and during stressful times, it’s tempting to look out only for yourself. But a new study suggests a healthier way to cope with the perils of stress: helping others....
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Can Science Make Facebook More Compassionate?
Posted on Saturday, January 26 th, 2013 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.Facebook is confronting cyberbullying and online conflict. Can a team of researchers help boost kindness among the site’s 900 million users?
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How to Increase Your Compassion Bandwidth
Posted on Saturday, January 26 th, 2013 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.Research suggests we can actually expand our compassion bandwidth without hurting ourselves. As the science of compassion develops, we can find empirically supported ways to cultivate and sustain compassion when it is needed the most.
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Kindness Makes You Happy… and Happiness Makes You Kind
Posted on Saturday, January 26 th, 2013 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.GREATER GOOD | Kindness may have a profound, long-lasting effect on our happiness, according to the second study, published online in the Journal of Happiness Studies in April and conducted by researchers at Harvard Business School and the University...
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