Welcome back to “The Alphabet of Happiness – 26-day challenge,” celebrating Klaudia Mitura’s new book and counting down to the big launch party!
Today’s letter is K for Kindness. Klaudia explains how small acts of kindness can ripple out, boosting happiness for others—even people you don’t know. She also highlights the importance of being kind to yourself, not just others, to avoid burnout.
Today’s tip: try Metta meditation to nurture self-kindness and extend goodwill to those around you.
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I am so pleased that you are listening to this Alphabet of happiness 26 day post where I'm bringing you 26 days of science of backed happiness principles, one for every letter of the Alphabet to celebrate the launch of my brand new book the Alphabet of Happiness. It is our official countdown to the big book launch party on 31st of October at the Science Museum in London.
I hope you'll be able to join me, but of course it's very, very much about creating a happiness toolkit that works for you and I do hope that you're finding all the tips practical and you are able to apply them to give your mood a real boost. And today's letter is K for Kindness, which is all about making other people happy without resentment.
It's fascinating to know that by being kind to other people and engaging in random acts of kindness, we absolutely can influence the happiness of others and we can therefore shape our society. So research shows that when we are engaging in the random acts of kindness, we are able to influence people up to three degrees of separation.
Which really means that by being kind to one person, we are able to influence happiness of two other people connected to that person, even if we personally don't know them. And for me frankly, that's like the biggest proof that our small daily kind actions are seriously contributing to building a happier society.
If each of us can influence three people for being happy, for being kind, ultimately we creating incredible communities that we live in.
And in the Alphabet of Happiness, I also aim to be realistic about being kind because it's great we have that power and kindness is important to our happiness and happiness of other people. But if we are not, but if we are kind beyond our means and resources, that can really result in frustration and burnout.
Research shows that if we are helping out of obligation or we are under pressure, we are more likely to experience frustration or resentment rather that happiness boost we are after. So being kind towards ourselves is really important. We need to replenish our energy and resources.
So engaging in self kindness is as equally important as being kind to other people. So for today I would love you to cultivate your kindness towards yourselves and also others by trying meta meditation.
So meta means love in Pali, a language native to Indian subcontinent. And the practice of meta meditation is very simple.
You sit still, you take some deep breaths and first you're sending feelings of love and kindness and gratitude towards yourself. After a few breaths you expand your reach of love and kindness to close friends and family.
Then to people in your wider circle, acquaintances colleagues people in your community, then to all the strangers who may live in the city and to all the strangers who live in your country and finally to all of the human beings on this planet and metameditation has been shown to help cultivate feelings of love towards others. It shows to help us cultivate a self compassion and kindness towards ourselves so therefore we are more likely to be kind more often.
So thank you so much for listening. I hope that being kind is on your to do list for today.
Remember to also be kind to yourself and remember if you would like a summary of all the letters we've explored so far, make sure to subscribe to my newsletter on substack and be kind to other people. Tag them in your post about this letter about the Alphabet of Happiness for a chance for them to win one of the three signed copies of my book.
I wish you a wonderful day full of kindness and I see you soon for the next letter. Bye.
