Think. Feel. Be. Mindful Mental Health In Everyday Life

By Caitlin McColl

This ebook is a collection of Elephant Journal articles I’ve written about positive psychology or other kinds or aspects of psychology, mindfulness and mental health/

• Language: English
• Publisher: Caitlin McColl
• Release date: Aug 16, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005901653

Caitlin McColl

Since childhood, Caitlin has written mainy fantasy - with dragons, wizards and other fantastical monsters. But now she writes Steampunk, stories that makes our world just a little bit more interesting, with the ability to mask the humdrum days we all have - those cold, grey, rainy, depressing days. The days you accidentally sleep in, lock yourself out of the house, battle morning rush hour and realize your still wearing your slippers. Caitlin lives in beautiful Vancouver, Canada with her husband and her dog.Amazon: www.amazon.com/author/caitlinmccollInstagram: instagram.com/caitlinmccollauthorSeptember 2020-Published The Clockwork Universe and The Stained Glass Heart, follow ups to Under A Starlit Sky. Also re-did covers for books.-Published All That Remains - a free short story collection from 2017-Republished The Diary of Dr Jekyll that was published by a Seattle based publisher that is no more2015-Released a free ebook compilation of stories from her short story blog, Under A Starlit Sky, collectively called The Dark And Shadowy Places.Hope you enjoy!

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This ebook is a collection of Elephant Journal articles I’ve written about positive psychology or other kinds or aspects of psychology. It will be added to whenever I write more on Elephant Journal around the subject of Psychology.

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How Doing Random Acts of Kindness can help us Cultivate Meaning, Purpose & Happiness

February 16th 2021

Edited by Lisa Erickson, Elephant Journal

Random Acts of Kindness Day, which is February 17th in the northern hemisphere, was started in 1995 in the United States.

(The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation is a nonprofit headquartered in Denver, Colorado).

But Random Acts of Kindness (RAK) Day appeared on the other side of the planet in 2004 in New Zealand (which happens on September 1st there).

What does it say about society and humanity in general that we need a specific day to celebrate and remind us of something that should be innate to all of us?

It’s a good thing that RAK Day exists. It’s like a tap on the shoulder (or a kick in the rear) to remind us to be kind to our fellow beings; as the well-known Ram Dass quote goes, We’re all just walking each other home.

The definition of kindness according to the dictionary is the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate. So on this day (or really, any day), we should do a random act of kindness to bring a smile and a boost in happiness and well-being to someone else—whether someone you know or a total stranger.

Some examples of random acts of kindness would be:

>> Pay for the person behind you in the drive-through or coffee shop (aka pay-it-forward, because that usually encourages the person you paid for to do the same for the person behind them).

>> Let someone go ahead of you in line (or go back to total basics and courtesy and hold the door open for someone else).

>> Send a text to a friend or loved one, telling them how grateful you are for them.

>> Post sticky notes with inspirational or mood-boosting messages on them, and post them places (or if you want to be more eco-friendly, paint a rock with an uplifting message or word on it for people to find).

>> If you see someone struggling, help them! And I don’t necessarily mean struggle in the big capital S sense—big life-changing struggles. I’m talking, if you see someone struggling with heavy grocery bags on their way to their car, maybe offer to carry one.

>> And finally, it could be something as simple as just smiling! (I know, a bit difficult at the moment with most people wearing masks when out and about, but if you can, smile at other people). You’ll most likely give that other person a boost of well-being.

Recently, I took a course in Positive Psychology, which is the science of well-being and human flourishing, and a few central aspects of it are finding meaning and purpose, cultivating positive relationships with