The Dr. Jud Podcast

How to use kindness to create connection during crisis (Coronavirus Anxiety Update 5)


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This podcast teaches you to leverage your brain’s reward system to use the energy of crisis to replace division and separateness with unity and connection. Inspired by Kitty O’Meara’s poem gone viral (Oprah’s magazine dubbed her the “poet laureate of the pandemic”), Dr. Brewer explains the psychology behind shifting old entrenched mindsets to new ones based in kindness. He gives three actionable tips to practice kindness today, and how doing this “short moments, many times” throughout the day can create new mindsets of kindness and connection.

Today, leverage your awareness and pay attention to what it feels like when someone is kind to you. If you can, take a moment to pray or meditate as an act of kindness toward yourself. Notice when you’re short with your spouse or kids, eat your humble pie and immediately apologize as an act of kindness toward them. Think of one act of kindness you can do for someone else. Maybe it’s a phone call, maybe it’s a thank you to a delivery driver or grocery worker, maybe it’s something else. And pay attention to how it feels when you help out, when you connect, so you can lock that reward into your brain. Make kindness your new habit.

To ask questions or suggest future topics, please comment below or connect with me on Twitter @judbrewer

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