Kindness is our loving Spirit in action......

The greatest joy the Spirit knows is to share its light and love with others. Unlike the ego –which is driven by the question, “What’s in it for me?” Spirit feels complete and wants to share its satisfaction with as many as possible. To share our spirit with another is one of the most healing and empowering experiences we can create.

Kindness is our loving Spirit in action; it is the act of our Divine nature to take over and lead our lives. When we are kind, we embody this nature and use it to feed and fuel the light in our world.
To be kind is to live with grace, dignity and elegance. It means taking an interest in life and caring about it enough to make it better for us and for others. It’s a powerful and profoundly self-loving choice because the kinder we are to others, the more love and kindness will return to us.

One of the best ways to be kind is not to stir up the emotional waters of others. When we rouse someone else’s emotions causing stress, anxiety, defensiveness, worry and fear to erupt from that person’s ego, we create some of the most painful vibrations to course through our nervous system as well as set these turbulent waters into motion in others and we often do this in such subtle ways that we aren’t even aware we are doing it.

Being kind takes discipline and only flows with ease if we are committed to loving and living our Spirit over our ego. In fact, one way we can definitely tell whether we are disconnected from our Spirit is to notice if we are being unkind. The Spirit is sensitive and aware of the Divine in all, so it chooses only to be loving and caring. To act in an unkind way only appeals to our false, impatient ego self. To be genuinely kind to others we must first be kind to our self. If we are insensitive and impatient with our self our internal vibration will be stressed and resentful and this will ripple out towards others in our life. To be kind to our self is to value and love our Spirit and fuel our inner light.

Kindness is a choice to honor the Divine in all, including our self. This action from awareness takes practice until it becomes a habit and we have the will and discipline within us to develop the habit of kindness, easing the harshness of life and feeding our Spirit.

Another basic aspect of kindness to self is to create and honor healthy boundaries and to be clear and direct in communicating them to others. Many of us were taught that we have no right to personal boundaries and that saying no or respecting our own needs is selfish. Fortunately, that old school of thought and programming of self-sacrifice is starting to dissipate, and we are now learning to be clear to ask for what we need without hesitation or guilt. When we live with healthy boundaries and we feel free to express them, we create the opportunity to connect with people honestly, without confusion or manipulation. Everyone feels safer and more grounded.

Another aspect of kindness to self and others is simply pacing our self and managing our life and our affairs in a realistic timetable so that there is no rush and we can relax into life leaving the stress and entering the Spirit of grace. This is love in action. It is the accelerant for our soul’s desire to grow and expand our peace. Slow down, relax and allow quality rather than quantity to be our highest goal in life. Kindness is less doing and more of an allowing. It allows mistakes, it allows time and patience. It allows encouragement and forgiveness. It allows us all to pursue our life path without shame and fear. It allows the dignity of Spirit to lead us in life. Know that simple kindness begets kindness and ripples into the world like the waves in the ocean.

May we all allow ourselves more kindness and afford more of it to others. It is the one self-loving expression of Spirit that keeps on giving. Love, Light and Blessings ……Christina