Besides the obvious, kindness has several benefits for our emotional wellbeing. Kindness is the opposite of stress physiologically. Carrying out kind acts for others releases oxytocin (feel-good hormone) into our system, which makes us feel good, but it also has a healing effect on our system.
Some of the benefits include:
- Slowing of ageing at the genetic level
- Increasing vagal tone
- Offers cardio-protection (protects the heart)
- Improves antioxidant activity
- Slows ageing of skin cells.
As you can see, being kind has many benefits, so from today, practice kindness daily, even if it's for selfish health reasons, it's a win-win for all.
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