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Kindness Turnaround
Alzheimer’s Alliance of Smith County
Age of Champions
4/11/2014
Liza Ely, M.S., L.P.C.
www.centerofwellbeing.comSlide2
The question is not whether we will die,
but how we live.
Joan
BorysenkoSlide3
Love and Survival
Dean
Ornish
, M.D.
Love and Intimacy among most powerful factors in health and illness.
At the root of what makes us sick, makes us well, causes sadness and brings happiness, what makes us suffer, and what leads to healing.
If a new drug had the same impact, virtually every doctor in the country would be recommending it for their patients.
We are creatures of communitySlide4
Questions to Consider:
Do you have anyone who really cares for you?
Who feels close to you?
Who loves you?
Who wants to help you?
In whom you can confide?Slide5
If the answers are “no,”
you are, at the least, 3-5 times
at a higher risk of premature
death and disease from all causes.Slide6
Between 1979-1994, eight large-scale community-based studies from around world:
Those who were socially isolated had at least 2-5 times the risk of premature death from all causes when compared to those who had a sense of connection and community.Slide7
What is important is not only how much you
get
,
but how much you
give
.
Study of 700 elderly adults: Affects of aging had more to do with what they
contributed
to their social support network than what they
received
from it.Slide8
New Questions to Consider:
Do you have anyone you really care for?
Whom you feel close to?
Whom you love?
Whom you want to help?
In whom others can confide in?Slide9
“Souls are
leaking”
…26% of adults in US have been diagnosed with a major mental illness...loss of connection….
gangs
Trained to notice deficits, what is wrong. Bonding in some support groups comes from a connection
through
wounds.Slide10
What if it is possible to
decrease suffering
by
adding joy!Slide11
A number of scientific studies
show that Acts of Kindness result in significant health benefits, both physical and mental, for those who perform them.
There are chemical changes in our brain even by just witnessing
love in action
.Slide12
“Random acts of kindness are those little sweet or grand lovely things we do for no reason except that, momentarily, the best of our humanity has sprung, exquisitely, into full bloom.”
Daphne Rose
Kingma
Random Acts of KindnessSlide13
Why don’t we?
Embarrassed
“Too busy”
Don’t know what to do.Slide14
Awaken
Reticular Activating System
to what is possible.Slide15
Kindness Turnaround Pledge
Kindness Turnaround Pledge
I pledge that every time I have an unkind or disrespectful thought, word or action,
I turn it around with
two
kind thoughts/words/actions? Slide16
Resources
Random Acts of Kindness
,
Conari
Press
More Random Acts of Kindness
, Conair Press
Love and Survival
, Dean
Ornish
, MD
Happy for No Reason
, Marci
Shimoff
The Joy of Appreciative Living
, Jacqueline
Kelm
www.randomactsofkindness.org
www.compassionateaction.org/citiesSlide17
“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.”
SenecaSlide18