Fascinating article which also includes insights about the vagus nerve and the role of teasing...
http://www.dailygood.org/story/579/kindness-emotions-david-disalvo/ On Saturday, October 19, 2013 6:41 AM, DailyGood.org <cl...@charityfocus.org> wrote: DailyGood.org You're receiving this email because you are a DailyGood subscriber. Trouble Viewing? On a mobile? Just click here. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe. October 19, 2013 a project of ServiceSpace A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. - Washington Irving - Darwin & The Survival of the Kindest Dacher Keltner, director of the Berkeley Social Interaction Laboratory, investigates what it means to live a good and meaningful life from the fascinating perspectives of neurobiology, emotion science, and evolutionary science. Contrary to the idea that Darwin saw human beings as competitive and self-interested, Keltner argues that Darwin saw the human species as profoundly social and caring. He explains that humans have developed remarkable tendencies toward kindness, play, generosity, reverence, and self-sacrifice that are vital to our survival as a species and are experienced through emotions such as compassion, gratitude, awe, embarrassment, and mirth. He discusses findings from the science of happiness that uncover familiar ways in which such goodness can be cultivated in oneself and in others. { read more } Be The Change Experiment with one of the practices suggested in the article as a means to cultivating more goodness in your own life. COMMENT | RATE Related Good News 24 Acts of Kindness To Restore Faith In Humanity 11 Amazing Thank You Notes 15 Serious Games Aiming to Change the World The Science of Love 10 Life-Changing Perspectives On Anger A Moving Letter from Fiona Apple Gandhi's Ten Rules for Changing the World Relationships Are More Important than Ambition DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 131,754 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring // KarmaTube // Conversations // Awakin // More
