3 Ways That Being Kind Can Slow Ageing By Dr David Hamilton

[Manuel Tavares]

3 Ways That Being Kind Can Slow Ageing
By Dr David Hamilton
https://rayviolet.blogspot.com/2022/08/3-ways-that-being-kind-can-slow-ageing.html

At first it might sound a bit ‘out there’ to say that being kind to people might affect how fast you age but hear me out.

It’s all about the feelings that you get from being kind.

Here’s how:

1) kindness counteracts the effects of stress

It’s widely accepted that stress speeds up ageing. It’s widely accepted both in science and by the general public.

We’ve all heard stories of the person under extreme stress who visibly aged overnight. We’ve also seen the strain on the faces of people we know who are under a lot of stress. We’ve commented that such and such an experience aged them.

Kindness is physiologically opposite to stress. This is a topic I’ve written about in other blogs and in two of my books on kindness. It’s true in the sense that the experience of kindness – what it feels like – brings about opposite conditions in the body to the experience of stress, that is, what stress feels like...+
https://rayviolet.blogspot.com/2022/08/3-ways-that-being-kind-can-slow-ageing.html