{"id":272,"date":"2009-12-03T11:55:58","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T11:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/angelsonyourshoulder\/2009\/12\/random-acts-of-kindness-a-great-way-to-relieve-stress.html"},"modified":"2009-12-03T11:55:58","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T11:55:58","slug":"random-acts-of-kindness-a-great-way-to-relieve-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/2009\/12\/random-acts-of-kindness-a-great-way-to-relieve-stress.html","title":{"rendered":"Random acts of kindness: a great way to relieve stress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aloha,<\/p>\n<p>The holidays are upon us and stress often becomes a big factor in people&#8217;s lives. There are articles about how to eat less during the holidays, find the right gift, manage your time, deal with family dinners and a whole plethora of other things we think cause stress in our lives.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, the most effective ways to avoid stress is by changing your thinking and the way you feel about life. The best way I have ever found to do that is by committing random acts of kindness. What a wonderful holiday tradition to begin! When we are sharing love and kindness with others there isn&#8217;t any room left for stress in our lives.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nTo me, angels are the epitome of random acts of kindness. Many people over the years have touched my life is such profound ways, sometimes with something as simple as a smile. Here on the Big Island of Hawaii the aloha spirit is still very much alive. My heart is always touched by a warm smile of aloha. The street I live in is one way in places so people have to pull over to let one another go buy and it is seldom done without a wave and a smile.<\/p>\n<p>Later this week (Saturday) I am going to run a contest about random acts of kindness and I will give away copies of my book on Spiritual Healing so stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some fun sites and organizations that are all about random acts of kindness.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.actsofkindness.org\/\">Acts of Kindness<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehow.com\/how_2166167_commit-random-acts-kindness.html\">How to commit random acts of kindness<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theraokgroup.com\/\">The online Random Acts of Kindness Group<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifehack.org\/articles\/lifestyle\/29-ways-to-carry-out-random-acts-of-kindness-every-day.html\">29 Ways to commit random acts of kindness<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And here are a whole lot of posts on our own <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/04\/your-random-acts-of-kindness.html\">Beliefnet<\/a> about random acts of kindness<\/p>\n<p>With love and aloha,<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifehack.org\/articles\/lifestyle\/29-ways-to-carry-out-random-acts-of-kindness-every-day.html\">Susan<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Angels are everywhere just open your mind and your heart to the signs.<\/p>\n<p>Make <a href=\"http:\/\/susangregg.com\/\">Angels on Your Shoulder<\/a>  part of your daily routine and share it with a friend! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually the most effective ways to avoid holiday stress is to change your thinking and the way you feel about life. The best way I have ever found to do that is by committing random acts of kindness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,26,19,3,12,13,14],"tags":[29,106,41,60,105,104],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-angels","category-beliefs","category-communicating-with-angels","category-happiness","category-kindness","category-love","category-prayers","tag-angels-2","tag-holiday-traditions","tag-prayers-2","tag-random-acts-of-kindness","tag-relieveing-stress","tag-stress"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Random acts of kindness: a great way to relieve stress - Angels on Your Shoulder<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/2009\/12\/random-acts-of-kindness-a-great-way-to-relieve-stress.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Random acts of kindness: a great way to relieve stress - Angels on Your Shoulder\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Actually the most effective ways to avoid holiday stress is to change your thinking and the way you feel about life. The best way I have ever found to do that is by committing random acts of kindness.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/2009\/12\/random-acts-of-kindness-a-great-way-to-relieve-stress.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Angels on Your Shoulder\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-12-03T11:55:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Susan Gregg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Random acts of kindness: a great way to relieve stress - Angels on Your Shoulder","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/2009\/12\/random-acts-of-kindness-a-great-way-to-relieve-stress.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Random acts of kindness: a great way to relieve stress - Angels on Your Shoulder","og_description":"Actually the most effective ways to avoid holiday stress is to change your thinking and the way you feel about life. The best way I have ever found to do that is by committing random acts of kindness.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/2009\/12\/random-acts-of-kindness-a-great-way-to-relieve-stress.html","og_site_name":"Angels on Your Shoulder","article_published_time":"2009-12-03T11:55:58+00:00","author":"Susan Gregg","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/2009\/12\/random-acts-of-kindness-a-great-way-to-relieve-stress.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/2009\/12\/random-acts-of-kindness-a-great-way-to-relieve-stress.html","name":"Random acts of kindness: a great way to relieve stress - Angels on Your Shoulder","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/#website"},"datePublished":"2009-12-03T11:55:58+00:00","dateModified":"2009-12-03T11:55:58+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/#\/schema\/person\/b87299a8cec940d47d994d9cb2ccb40c"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/2009\/12\/random-acts-of-kindness-a-great-way-to-relieve-stress.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/2009\/12\/random-acts-of-kindness-a-great-way-to-relieve-stress.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/2009\/12\/random-acts-of-kindness-a-great-way-to-relieve-stress.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Random acts of kindness: a great way to relieve stress"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/","name":"Angels on Your Shoulder","description":"Beliefnet Voices - Susan Gregg","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/#\/schema\/person\/b87299a8cec940d47d994d9cb2ccb40c","name":"Susan Gregg","description":"Susan Greggis an author, Karuna Reiki Master, and Nagual Woman. She has written eight books including the award-winning \"Mastering the Toltec Way\" and \"The Encyclopedia of Angels, Spirit Guides and Ascended Masters.\" Susan completed an apprenticeship with Don Miguel Ruiz, author of \"The Four Agreements,\" and she has been exploring spirituality, human potential, and the nature of physical and metaphysical reality since the early 1970s. Her greatest passion is showing others how they can be happy, no matter what is going on in their lives or in the world around them. This passion has resulted in her creating a podcast, \"Food for the Soul,\" and numerous video meditations. Susan's spiritual journeys have also taken her around the world with students she teaches. Currently, she lives on the beautiful island of Hawaii where she is an avid gardener, hiker, and writer. She often spends time playing with the numerous four-legged friends she's rescued or swimming with the turtles and wild dolphins. Follow me on twitter","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/author\/sgregg"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}