Being Kind

The most challenging form of being kind is, being kind to those who cannot help us, or those who we don't tend to like. 

Kindness is one of the most important human actions. 

Kindness helps others become stronger. If you want to help someone, you're kind to them. Kindness and love go hand in hand.

In being kind to others, we cannot forgot probably the most important starting point in kindness... that  is, being kind to ourselves. 

If being kind to someone will help them grow, how can we expect to personally grow by thinking negative and harmful thoughts about ourselves. If you cannot have a kind view of yourself, you likely will be unable to have a kind view of other people. A person who dislikes themselves will most likely dislike other people and in turn be unkind to them.

Kindness starts within ourselves, towards ourselves.

If we want to grow and flourish, it takes love and kindness towards ourselves. This is obviously not about excusing ourselves of bad behaviour or bad characteristics. It's about recognizing the good we have and being confident in those things, while still working on the things that we need to grow in. We will be unable to work and grow on the things were weak in if we have a bad and unkind view of ourselves. 

Loving yourself has to precede loving other people. 

So today, latch onto your good qualities and be kind to yourself. Believe in yourself, say kind and positive things to yourself. Being nasty and mean on yourself hinders growth. Be honest with yourself, but in that be kind and considerate, just as you would be to someone you really care for. 

Caring for yourself is step 1 in caring for other people.