World Kindness Day is an international holiday first introduced in 1998 by the World Kindness Movement and celebrated on November 13th. Our prompt for day 13 of #Gratitude30 is “kindness” and invites us to appreciate the kindness that we share and receive.

Both gratitude and kindness are needed now more than ever. I have found that both practices enrich my life in such a way that I am able to carry on, to do the work I want to be doing, to share and uplift in the ways that I want to even whilst there is so much that is heavy in the world.

How can we create change? Through practices such as observing gratitude and consciously being kind.

This too is part of our yoga practice. This awareness and honouring of self and those around us. This building of good vibrations and positive thoughts that turn into actions.

Today let us observe how we can be kind to ourselves, to those we interact with everyday, to nature and the environment we inhabit, to our communities and our country, to the world.

Let us empower ourselves to be kind, let us empower others through our kindness.

~Renee Arundhati

*these posts are also being shared on my social media (Instagram and Facebook) as I have shared there over the past years.