YOU were likely told to be kind to others when you were growing up. Kindness is a universal good – both on the giving and receiving end. Learn how it leads you to an improved state of well-being.

If there was one magical cure for many of the woes of the world, it might be the power of kindness. When the epidemic of stress, anxiety, and depression threatens to overload the medical system and impede progress toward a greater sense of common humanity, and when the world can seem more divided than united, giving and receiving kindness is a way to connect at a deeper level.