The extraordinary power of kindness | BBC Ideas

Every day for a year Bernadette Russell did a random act of kindness for a stranger. How did it change her? And what happens to your brain when you're kind?

Made by Daniel Nils Roberts

Based on The Kindness Test, the world's largest study of kindness, launched on BBC Radio 4 devised by the University of Sussex.


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[ruthdenova]

To be kind is to live a sublime life.
I am most grateful for this video for the world to see.

[annmathews]

This channel needs more people visiting it and see the quality content!!

[sarina]

Absolutely agree and I have experienced it myself and has seen it too.

[curiouslyunruffled]

A powerful message expressed rather eloquently. Thank you for this beautiful video, BBC Ideas. I hope this will reach millions of people and act as an inspiration like it has for me. Keep going! :)

[partoutbsb]

Thank you very much for this video. I'm an advocate for small acts of kindness and, as a teacher, I try to pass this on to my students. I'll share this video with them <3

[angelina]

Thank you for this wonderful video ❤ Quote to remember: The small stuff may actually be the big stuff.

[pinaky_AnVikSiki]

Hopefully instict of kindness never ending...

[Kindness_Inspires]

This is absolutely amazing!

I feel exactly the same way! So much so that I’m starting my own passion project related to Kindness, called ‘Kindness for Health’.

One act of kindness a day can significantly improve the wellbeing of the giver, the receiver and anyone who witnessed the act of kindness.

Kindness releases oxytocin in the brain which stimulates various types of positive social interaction and helps you to feel less pain, lower stress, anxiety and your blood pressure, which in turn could help you to live longer! - To me, that’s incredible!

I feel driven to share these health benefits with others and experience joy, happiness and meaningful human connection in the process.

I love this video!!

[MariaMartinez-researcher]

Most curious. In the 70s there was a TV series called Kung Fu. The main character was a Shaolin monk, so he fought, but to defend himself and often to defend others. Remarkably, the change of ways or opinions he achieved in others wasn't caused by him kicking people, but by him being very kind.
It's worthy a rewatch. It's available in DVD and streaming.

[alexandermagnus]

Let's to be the kindest person😃😀

[marietamiqayelyan]

I really enjoyed your video and I would like to translate it into my language for everyone to see it💜💛

[SquishyMain]

I wish people cared to be more kind, seems like the world is getting worse and worse.

[campmag]

I really want to watch this, but cannot and had to stop by the 2:21 mark. It is so incredijly busy with unnecessary flashes of light, colors, images, and animations mixed with text descriptions, all overlaid in brief flashes of clip edits with the people giving verbal monologs that I guess I'm just too dim to understand and make sense of it. I wish the producers would have been more kind and thoughtful.
Maybe I'll try again another time.

[Z-bs]

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[AbdulQayoompalijo]

See which behavior you like for yourself from others, then behave with them accordingly, and what you consider a bad behaviour for yourself from them, then do not behave with them similarly.

Prophet Mohammed (Prace be Upon Him)