Donna Cameron on Kindness
The One You Feed
The Profound Benefits of Kindness
This chapter explores the profound health benefits of kindness, based on research by a Scottish scientist. It highlights how acts of kindness can positively impact physical and mental well-being, including lowering blood pressure and reducing social anxiety.
Donna Cameron has spent her career working with non-profit organizations and causes as an executive, consultant, a trainer and a volunteer. She’s the recipient of multiple awards an has published numerous articles. In 2011 she co-authored a book with Kristen Leathers called One Hill, Many Voices: Stories of Hope and Healing. In this interview, Donna and Eric discuss her book, A Year of Living Kindly: Choices That Will Change Your Life and the World Around You. You’ll hear insights into what it means, feels like and looks like to live kindly and your perspective on kindness will be broadened and enriched – possibly even changed – as a result.
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In This Interview, Donna Cameron and I Discuss…
- Her book, A Year of Living Kindly: Choices That Will Change Your Life and the World Around You
- That incivility is contagious
- That kindness is contagious
- Listening for the missed note instead of the music
- Playing “Gotcha” in the way you look at life
- The negativity bias
- The power of kindness
- The difference between nice and kind
- Her year of living kindly and blogging about it
- Quantifying the benefits of kindness
- Being indifferent and still being nice
- How you can’t be indifferent and still be kind
- That it takes courage to be kind, it doesn’t take courage to be nice
- Extending yourself beyond what is comfortable
- Caring, making an effort without worrying about getting anything in return
- The chasm between kindness and unkindness
- Not being unkind doesn’t mean that you are being kind
- Keeping score and being kind
- That when we say yes to one thing means we’re saying no to something else
- The health business of kindness
- How kindness alleviates social anxiety
- Employing curiosity instead of judging people – “I wonder what’s going on in their lives?”
- Various kindness practices
- Practicing a pause
- Asking yourself “What is the kind response here?”
- Receiving graciously as an act of kindness
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