A Kindness Movement | By Guy Farmer
I've spent many years working with individuals, families, and organizations to help them minimize the impact of conflict and strife. Almost every problem I've ever seen arise is due to people not feeling good about themselves deep inside and not healing what's troubling them and causing them to behave in less than positive ways.
Entire societies are built upon this hurt way of being, a state of mind that promotes fear, anger, and war with "enemies." It all comes from ideas planted in children's heads by parents and adults who don't know any better. What these societies (and the individuals in them) don't realize is that things don't have to be this way. People can actually function based on hope, love, peace, and kindness. You hear stories about how even the most horrible people love someone or something. We all have the capability to love if we follow our more positive instincts.
The fundamental problem is that we teach our children to fear others, go against their own nature to be part of the tribe, submit to domination, conform, compete, and avoid celebrating their natural gifts. This leads kids who grow up to be very unhappy adults. My kindness movement is about changing this age-old script and replacing it with one that says kindness is a fact, and that we can live based on love and compassion instead of all the other junk. How do we do it? We resolve to stop acting like jerks and focus on behaving with kindness. Of course it will be hard at first, change always is, and there will always be detractors but, if we stick with it, we'll eventually build healthy societies.
All this starts with you. When you decide to heal yourself and think and behave with kindness it creates ripples that eventually lead to a new state of being.
Entire societies are built upon this hurt way of being, a state of mind that promotes fear, anger, and war with "enemies." It all comes from ideas planted in children's heads by parents and adults who don't know any better. What these societies (and the individuals in them) don't realize is that things don't have to be this way. People can actually function based on hope, love, peace, and kindness. You hear stories about how even the most horrible people love someone or something. We all have the capability to love if we follow our more positive instincts.
The fundamental problem is that we teach our children to fear others, go against their own nature to be part of the tribe, submit to domination, conform, compete, and avoid celebrating their natural gifts. This leads kids who grow up to be very unhappy adults. My kindness movement is about changing this age-old script and replacing it with one that says kindness is a fact, and that we can live based on love and compassion instead of all the other junk. How do we do it? We resolve to stop acting like jerks and focus on behaving with kindness. Of course it will be hard at first, change always is, and there will always be detractors but, if we stick with it, we'll eventually build healthy societies.
All this starts with you. When you decide to heal yourself and think and behave with kindness it creates ripples that eventually lead to a new state of being.
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