Kindness Is Not Just a Nice Idea—It’s the Key to a Longer and Healthier Life
Lifting one another up is as powerful as any fitness routine or healthy meal. Here’s why being kind matters, more than ever.Kindness isn’t simply a happy-face, cherry-on-top thing. Along with the cooperation and collaboration it fosters, kindness is one of the main things that’s made it possible for people to live in communities for thousands of years.
economic injustice, says Kelli Harding, M.D., M.P.H., an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York City. In fact, she says, “it might be the critical issue facing our world right now.” Kinder communities—ones that allow for fair access to things like housing, education, and health care—help us live longer, healthier lives, says Dr. Harding, who wrote a book on the topic:
. The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare this paradigm: Disadvantaged communities have faced much higher tolls from the deadly virus.shows that for us as individuals, our bodies work better when our lives are filled with more empathy and kindness. It doesn’t make us immune to the stressors and dangers around us, Dr. Harding explains, “but kindness helps us do better mentally and physically with whatever illness or other adversity shows up.
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