Intro:
Hello, thanks for joining, “Your Body Advocate Podcast”. I am Ruth Cummings, your host and today is episode 43 where I want to talk about, how does kindness affect our body. Let’s take a deep breath to relax, ready? (DEEP BREATH) All right, here we go.

You’re listening to your body Advocate, telling your body side of the story, the podcast, dedicated to supporting and improving your body-mind connection. So you can live a pain-free passion filled life, dissolving one, body tension, and aTime, discover the healing properties of your own body language and to gather, let’s explore ways to support and improve essential self talk. Now, here’s your host master of encouragement and body-mind life coach. Ruth Cummings.

Body:
Alright guys, so how does kindness affect our body? We know from studies through the years and from just knowing without having tohave astudy that kindness does affect our body, when we’re kind to others, then we feel better, we feel more grounded, we feel, we like, we have more purpose and we actually do better in life and thestudies show that not only does it decrease the symptoms of depression. Oppression and anxiety it. Also, it decreases your risk of heart disease. It lowers, your blood pressure to be kind to people to go and volunteer for others. And if all stress levels go down, while all your immune function goes up, you get over cold quicker. You get over injury quicker, when you help others, also, it’s across the board that people feel like they have more happiness, more wellness, and mmm. More intense sense of purpose. So we have all these things. Why should we be kind, right? I really want to press being kind and just encourage all of us and challenge all of us to be kind. So we can be kind to ourselves. How can we be kind to ourselves? We can be kind to ourselves, mentally, physically, spiritually, mentally. We’re kind to ourselves by taking time to quiet down. Some people can meditate some people cannot, but if you can just sit quietly and breathe and just try to forget about everything, just for aminute, they call it the monkey mind, where your thoughts willjust jump back in and try to pull you back into that stress and all those things, all those to-do lists. But any moment, 30 seconds, 10 seconds, 1 minute 10 minutes, 15 minutes, it does get easier, I’ve been practicing meditation, it does get easier to do longer and longer once. It passed like the five-minute mark. It’s way easier to get to the 10 minute mark and then from 10 it’s like you get to 30 and then from 30 really easy to get to 45 an hour Etc and that time of just relaxing the brain. It’s amazing. What you can do, sleep better, you focus better, everything is better. All of the things that Ido, I can focus better. Ican exercise more intensely. I tend to be more self-aware on a drastic scale, and the times that I’m not Meditating because I’m too busy or I’m feeling stressed about things going on at home. Then I feel like Idon’t have time, right? So I don’t do it, but then the focus goes down and it just makes it worse. It’s very interesting. How we put ourselves in that situation but be my be kind to your mind mentally by doing breathing and just prayer meditation. You can be kind to your body by exercising, stretching and hydration. Ithink those would be my top three and sleep, maybe, so. But all ofthose create more sleep, many, many people are chronically, dehydrated, and many of us have never learned how to breathe properly. So there’s a lot of ways to be really nice toher body physically and to learn a really gentle stretching routine. I have some of those available if you need them and then spiritually, of course prayer. And to, in my opinion, Diablo, Open to what’s coming from God. What’s coming from the universe to and be open toit? We’ve beentalking about giving and receiving and to receive what’s being given to you by the universe by God is amazing. If you’re, if you’redeflecting that, then you are really missing. A lot of what life can offer. So kindness, kindness all of these things. In myopinion, have something to do with kindness. When we’re kind to ourselves all these things can be so much Rich more. Richer in our lives and we want to pass that forward, pay that forward. So I often talk about spreading kindness one smile at atime. Smiling is a great way to create love and kindness in your community. It’s amazing how powerful are smiling is and I often talk about that if we can smile to someone else with this genuine love and just sincerity coming from like Your middle of your body. Like that’s the power area coming through your lungs, coming through you and just smiling, really sincerely and giving them some eye contact. The ripple effect that has your you keep walking, right? But you smile to this person, say the airport and then they smile at somebody and they smile at somebody. The ripple effect effect is amazing and that can happen on a football team that can happen on the tennis team that can happen in a school or at an office or in a family. so to smile, be the first one to smile be the one who spreads that kindness, When we aren’t feeling well when we’re feeling down, when we’re feeling sad or hopeless, if you go out into the world for just amoment and smile at people, you’ll notice that you will start to feel better. So when you’re feeling down and out and you’re just feeling hopeless and like, man, nothing isgoing to get better. And I’m always going to feel like this. I beg you to consider consider the possibility of going out and smiling to somebody even while you’re driving and here, Something else I tell especially my teenage clients when you’re wanting to like you want to feel better and you’re feeling really, really insecure like, oh my God, take anice deep breath and then smile, really loud. Really, I say this loud as if you’ve heard the funniest joke, and just smile and walk into a room with your shoulders back drive, like just heard the funniest joke and have the biggest smile and look around. And it drivers around you or walk in class, like, you’ve just heard the funniest joke and you to be so surprised how people like, oh, what’s happening? Oh, I just heard thefunniest joke or oh, Ijust, oh,she’s talking to afriend. It was, it was just so funny to just like that, just try to make that entrance with the smile and this amazing feeling that you just had, andyou just created it that type of kindness to yourself, then we’ll go Go out and we’ll spread around you. So that’s how we affect. Oh, one more. It also affects your community in a way that people that volunteer more right. Communities that have more volunteering more kindness to each other like the neighborhood, I live in we all help each other and when we’re down, they bring us food. When someone’s around here is not feeling well, we bring them food and we noticed that once that started then more and more people want to help. And that happens in small communities, bigger communities, and even bigger communities. So the more that you pay it forward, the more that you smile, the more that you add kindness to your little circles, it will have Ripple effects and affect the entire world. You guys have a wonderful day, be kind to yourself and be kind to each other. I will see you next time.

Outro:
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