The Benefits of Praising Others

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Praising others should be part of our daily life and a component of our Dharma practice. Imagine what our life would be like if we trained our minds to dwell on others' talents and good attributes. We would feel much happier and so would they! We would get along better with others, and our families, work environments, and living situations would be much more harmonious. We plants the seeds from such positive actions on our mindstream, creating the cause for harmonious relationships and success in our spiritual and temporal aims.

An interesting experiment is to try to say something nice to or about someone every day for a month. Try it. It makes us much more aware of what we say and why. It encourages us to change our perspective so that we notice others' good qualities. Doing so also improves our relationships tremendously.

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Many people feel that their efforts go unnoticed by others.  For example, workers often feel unappreciated by their employers.  Many married people believe that their mate takes them for granted.  And some children think that they can never meet the expectations of their parents.  Surely, such feelings could be alleviated if were all willing to praise one another from time to time.

Sincere words of praise are not the norm in today's world.  This is hardly surprising, for this is the degenerating period; for men will be lovers of themselves, ... unthankful, disloyal, etc.

Have you been given sincere priase? Then you know how it can warm the heart and lift the spirit.  "A word at its right time is Oh how good!" It can help us to treat one another with kindness and build an organisation and nation.

[icy]

Praising others should be part of our daily life and a component of our Dharma practice. Imagine what our life would be like if we trained our minds to dwell on others' talents and good attributes. We would feel much happier and so would they! We would get along better with others, and our families, work environments, and living situations would be much more harmonious. We plants the seeds from such positive actions on our mindstream, creating the cause for harmonious relationships and success in our spiritual and temporal aims.

An interesting experiment is to try to say something nice to or about someone every day for a month. Try it. It makes us much more aware of what we say and why. It encourages us to change our perspective so that we notice others' good qualities. Doing so also improves our relationships tremendously.