counting kindness study

The more we contribute, the more valuable and connected to others we feel.

A better psychology for her and children everywhere will view positive motivations—loving kindness, competence, choice, and respect for life—as being just as authentic as the darker motives. It will inquire about such positive feelings as satisfaction, happiness, and hope. It will ask how children can acquire the strengths and virtues whose exercis

“I mean that if you reach out to others and contribute to their well-being, then given that you are connected to them, you are also contributing to yourself. If you just focus on yourself—me, me, me—then you’re touching only a small part of the whole, and even if you do a great job of it, you are attaining only a tiny part of your potential for ful

Loving-Kindness and the Happiest Day in 7 Years In many of my public talks, I guide a very simple 10-second exercise. I tell the audience members to each identify two human beings in the room and just think, “I wish for this person to be happy, and I wish for that person to be happy.” That is it. I remind them to not do or say anything, just think—