Mental Health Awareness Week 2020
The theme for this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week is Kindness. A week of gaining knowledge, celebrating how far we have come in acknowledging mental health issues and for this year to promote acts of kindness during the uncertainty we currently live amidst.
“We have chosen kindness because of its singular ability to unlock our shared humanity. Kindness strengthens relationships, develops community and deepens solidarity. It is a cornerstone of our individual and collective mental health. Wisdom from every culture across history recognises that kindness is something that all human beings need to experience and practise to be fully alive. ”
Kindness can be expressed in so many different ways. And whether you are showing that kindness to yourself or others it holds much value in this world. Kindness will never have a use by date. Our ability to understand how beneficial kindness can be is forever developing with the changes going on in the world around us. It will never stop being a positive force for change.
At a time where there is underlying stress in everyone’s’ lives, uncertainty about the future and how Covid-19 will continue to affect all of our lives… Kindness can be the thread that holds everything together. You just have to allow it to be. It is far too easy to dwell upon the negative, for our expression to be based upon fear, isolation and anger. And i write this from the perspective of someone who is not in a vulnerable or potentially dangerous environment. Showing kindness is healing, an escape, a chance to spread joy, to understand another’s perspective of life, to acknowledge another as a human being.
