Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Kindness and Joy: Expressing the Gentle Love
    Unavailable
    Kindness and Joy: Expressing the Gentle Love
    Unavailable
    Kindness and Joy: Expressing the Gentle Love
    Ebook120 pages

    Kindness and Joy: Expressing the Gentle Love

    By Harold G. Koenig

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    This book includes guidance as well as information and inspiration. There are practical recommendations on how to perform acts of kindness in personal lives and at work, toward friends, colleagues, and family members—even with one's enemies. Suggestions are also offered on ways to encourage others to be kind so they, too, can experience the joy that results.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTempletonPress
    Release dateNov 1, 2007
    ISBN9781599471921
    Unavailable
    Kindness and Joy: Expressing the Gentle Love
    Author

    Harold G. Koenig

    Harold Koenig completed his undergraduate education at Stanford University, nursing school at San Joaquin Delta College, medical school training at the University of California at San Francisco, and geriatric medicine, psychiatry, and biostatistics training at Duke University Medical Center. He is on the faculty at Duke as Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Associate Professor of Medicine. He is also Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health at Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, People’s Republic of China. Dr. Koenig is Director of the Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health at Duke University Medical Center, and has published extensively in the fields of mental health, geriatrics, and religion, with over 500 scientific peer-reviewed publications and book chapters and nearly 50 books in print or preparation. His research on religion, health and ethical issues in medicine has been featured on dozens of national and international TV news programs, over a hundred national or international radio programs, and hundreds of newspapers and magazines. Dr. Koenig has given testimony before the U.S. Senate (1998) and U.S. House of Representatives (2008) concerning the benefits of religion and spirituality on public health, and travels widely to give seminars and workshops on this topic. He is the recipient of the 2012 Oskar Pfister Award from the American Psychiatric Association and the 2013 Gary Collins Award from the American Association of Christian Counselors.

    Read more from Harold G. Koenig

    Related to Kindness and Joy

    Related ebooks

    Religion & Spirituality For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      On KINDNESS

      Mar 1, 2021

      On KINDNESS
      2 min read

    • Article

      Being Kind

      Apr 13, 2022

      Being Kind
      2 min read

    • Article

      All Well And Good

      Jan 6, 2023

      All Well And Good
      10 min read

    • Article

      Let Kindness In

      Dec 11, 2019

      Let Kindness In
      7 min read

    • Article

      My Husband’s Daughter Hates Me And He Outs Her First

      Dec 1, 2020

      Q My partner has an adult daughter he raised alone and she is close to his family. My relationship with her was OK but I didn’t fit into the clan, found it claustrophobic and my mental health declined. Eventually, I attempted suicide while she was in

      4 min read

    • Article

      On The Plus Side

      Feb 5, 2022

      On The Plus Side
      5 min read

    • Article

      Thanks For That

      Oct 18, 2022

      Thanks For That
      2 min read

    • Article

      Four Ways To Ease Family Life

      Apr 8, 2021

      Four Ways To Ease Family Life
      7 min read

    • Article

      The Problem With Empathy

      Mar 3, 2021

      The Problem With Empathy
      3 min read

    • Article

      Ask Anna

      Dec 7, 2023

      Ask Anna
      3 min read

    • Article

      Lessons From The Zeitgeist

      Apr 10, 2020

      This time of enforced isolation with our families has made us realize a lot of things. We really miss spending time with the family. Keli said it best when she told us during our bedtime prayer and sharing session that her prayer since she was four y

      9 min read

    • Article

      The Positivity Trap

      Mar 16, 2022

      The Positivity Trap
      5 min read

    • Article

      Buddhism And Me

      Oct 6, 2020

      Buddhism And Me
      6 min read

    • Article

      Spread THE LOVE

      Nov 8, 2023

      It’s World Kindness Day on 13 November – a day that’s held every year to celebrate and promote kindness. And you would be surprised at how much good you can do, so let’s all help to make the world a better place. You don’t have to give away all your

      2 min read

    • Article

      Share The Love

      Jul 21, 2021

      It’s amazing how a simple act of kindness can mean so much. Something as small as sharing a smile can make a person’s day. Recently I was invited to speak to 800 gorgeous tamariki, across two sessions, for the Kind Hearts in Schools programme in Palm

      2 min read

    • Article

      In Truth

      Nov 4, 2020

      In Truth
      2 min read

    • Article

      Better Than Willpower

      Jan 18, 2018

      Better Than Willpower
      6 min read

    • Article

      Q & A

      Mar 15, 2022

      Q My best friend’s mother died early on in the pandemic and I know it’s still affecting her very badly – but she refuses to even consider going to grief counselling. She says that she doesn’t want to have a stranger digging around and making things w

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Positivity Trap

      Jan 12, 2022

      The Positivity Trap
      4 min read

    • Article

      Your Dilemmas…

      Oct 15, 2020

      Lucy Power is a Conscious Success Coach and educator, trained and experienced in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy. Lucy helps people to raise their self awareness so they can live freely without limits. www.iamlucypower.com Q My boyfriend says he

      3 min read

    • Article

      Choose Kindness

      Oct 3, 2019

      Choose Kindness
      3 min read

    • Article

      It’s A Kind Of Mindfulness

      Apr 21, 2020

      ‘KINDFULNESS’ IS A BLEND of kindness and mindfulness: to be mindfully kind; kind on purpose. Kindfulness means being alert for opportunities to be kind, because it’s the right thing to do, and even being kind in our thoughts about people and how we c

      1 min read

    Reviews for Kindness and Joy

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words