What if I told you that you could instantly change your life and the lives of those around you by simply paying attention to the universe and embracing opportunities to spread good energy? Don’t believe me? I challenge you to give it a try!
Acts of kindness and spreading good energy will bring you immense joy and happiness, lift your spirits, and instantly change your mood. An act of kindness given freely with no expectation for anything in return can change another person’s day and your own. Here are ten simple ways to spread good energy and instantly lift your mood. In helping someone, you will experience mood boosters for yourself.
1. Pay attention
The universe is constantly presenting us with opportunities to be kind. Are you paying attention to these mood boosters? From assisting someone with carrying groceries to standing back and opening doors to allowing someone to go before you in a queue, events are occurring around you and in front of you that will offer you the opportunity to lift yourself and someone else. In today’s busy world, practicing courtesy has gone by the wayside. Start paying attention to who is around you. Expand your energy and shower kindness to the people you encounter over your day. A single act of kindness sends out a blast of positive energy that spreads further than you could ever imagine.
2. Pay it forward
Practice random acts of kindness as often as you can.
For example –
Pay for a stranger’s coffee if you have spare change.
Cook a meal for someone who is struggling and needs a hand.
Send someone a beautiful handwritten letter – YES, handwritten! The art of handwriting a beautiful letter has been replaced with emailing and texting, so take the time to create a personal note to let someone know how important they are to you.
Wash someone’s car.
Clean someone’s house.
Tidy up someone’s garden.
Buy someone flowers.
I could keep going with this list as there are many ways to pay it forward. Giving your time, energy, or a small gift can lift someone’s spirits and warm someone’s heart as well as your own.
3. Be compassionate
Practice compassion with everyone. When someone is struggling, if you listen to them and offer words of support and encouragement, you will naturally shine light in what is often a dark place. A positive, compassionate, and forgiving outlook will recharge your soul and give you mood boosters.
4. Reconnect
Take the time to connect with your community. You will create positive emotions when you step outside and start engaging with the people around you, sharing their stories and embracing what they are contributing to the world. Take the time to reconnect with old friends you have lost touch with, and check up on people who may be experiencing hard times. I can assure you that the energy exchanged between you and someone else when you reconnect is powerful.
5. Volunteer
Volunteering is an investment in your community and the people who live in it. Investing pretty much always offers a return, right? So imagine the return you will get when you volunteer your time and energy and focus on positively impacting someone else’s life instead of your own.
6. Listen
Make someone else feel valued by listening. When you next meet with someone, please turn off your mobile phone and put it away. Could you give them your undivided attention? Be mindful, present, and engaged, and take in the whole conversation without distractions.
7. Create your movement
Inspire people around you to follow your lead. Maybe there is an opportunity for you to create a community event or activity that could change lives for the better. Recruit like-minded people and find a way to share some positive action in your community. Nothing is uplifting than throwing yourself into a project based on giving from the heart.
8. Give genuine compliments and smile
Take the time to give a sincere compliment to someone in your circle. Expressing honest, heartfelt praise to someone connects and creates a bond of pure uplifting energy between you and the recipient. And while you are at it, smile more. Smiling instantly changes your mood. It is like flicking on the switch to feeling happy. Smiling has all sorts of positive effects on your body, and when you smile at another person, that feel-good energy is nothing short of contagious.
9. Shine your light
Spread good energy, and don’t be afraid to be yourself. Have you ever met someone who “lights up a room”? They energize everyone around them with their positive attitude. You can choose to uplift and inspire people, and in return, you will be rewarded with even more positive energy and fuel for your soul. Remember, you do not need anyone’s approval to be yourself. Now more than ever, we need more unique, authentic people willing to shine their light on the world.
10. Repeat the above list daily
Keep your eyes and your heart open and embrace the opportunity to uplift someone else.
We can all make a difference and share more joy and positive energy with the world. For every act of kindness, you give out an abundance of warm, uplifting energy to the universe. There is no act too small or too big. Even the simplest of gestures can affect many lives for the better. The healing powers of kindness are plentiful, and I implore you to open up your heart and give generously to be kind and courteous. It will lift your spirits and change your life and the lives of many around you.
