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Why is kindness important?

Kindness means thinking about how other people feel and how we can make them feel good.

Being kind is when you make an effort to make someone smile or improve their day somehow.

Kindness can help everyone:

  • it can change how the people around us feel
  • it can change the way we feel

Just thinking about kindness can change how you feel.

  • kind thoughts lead to kind feelings which lead to kind actions and kind actions can make everyone a bit happier.
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Video 鈥 Advice on connecting to kindness

Wellbeing professional, Lorna Walker, explains how we can remember and imagine acts of kindness to improve our mood.

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Activities 鈥 Think about kindness

Activity 1 鈥 Remember a kind act

Connect to kindness by remembering a time when someone did something for you that was really kind.

Some examples of acts of kindness to get you started:

  • they helped you to do something
  • they listened to you
  • they cheered you up when you weren't feeling so good

Activity 2 鈥 Imagine doing something kind

Imagine doing something kind for someone you care about.

It doesn't have to be big, even something really small can change how someone feels.

Step one

Imagine doing a kind thing for a person you care about.

Step two

Think about how they might react. Will they be surprised? Will they smile?

Step three

Notice how it feels. Does it also feel good to think about doing something kind for someone else?

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