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The Kindness In Alan Luks's The Healing It

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Kindness can give and receive in many different ways. It can eigther make us happy happy or make somebody angry and cause a problem that was not worth it. “Professor Sonja Lyubomirsky from the University of California asked participants in the study to preform random act of kindness over ten weeks. She found happiness increased with people who preformed a wide variety of kind acts over people who preformed one act of kindness repeatedly.” (Buckis) This suggestes that people are happy when they are kind to each other. In a way of when someone that is stressing or is having problems. Being kind in so many ways can have a certain affect in people, we can hurt them, see them smile or get sick. “Research by Alan Luks in his 1991 book, The Healing …show more content…

Everything in life that is happening is taking our kindness away and making our words worse than they ever sounded. We do not deserve to be hurt or sad just because of someones words that cause him/her pain. The people everything that is bad aside and look foward, smile and be kind no matter how hard or bad the situation was. Overcoming most of these outcomes in life can be painful to others, thats where being kind takes place and not let anything bring you down. Words can always be words, all that matters is how people can handle them, even when things are going right, there will always be someone somewhere trying to put you down in making sure you never …show more content…

But Bowless report, published in science this year, found other wise. Bowless believes we resent the idea that our principles can be bought. We prefer to do good deeds for their own sake.”(Buicks) We were born selfish, but along the way when we grow up, out actions are suppose to change because of what our parents have tought and by seeing other peoples actions against us.Being selfish is not as good, but everyone now a days are. People do not care other but themselves and lower those peoples selfestem that are kind to them. Most of the people around the world do not really know their actions actions toward others or know how much it hurts them. People that are kind deserve to be happy and not care about any word that is meant to hurt them. He/she know what they can do and not have to lower their-self at their standard, just because they can’t get back up or correct their broken words and not correct them. In life you have a choice to be happy or be the one in pain, to be kind or selfish about ourselves. Kindness can make us happier in life in so many ways the people do not realize. “When we do something

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