By Paige Reist | Posted: October 10, 2018

Wellness doesn’t only encompass your physical health, but your emotional and spiritual health, too. But in a world that puts so much value on ambition, success, stringent logic, overwork, and obtaining power through force and violence, how can we protect and nurture ourselves?

This week’s Wellness Roundup focuses on reconnecting to gentleness, intuition, and grace: the softer side of life that is so often neglected in favor of the relentless and exhausting task of just trying to keep up.

There are Two Kinds of Kindness, and They Affect Your Brain Differently

Lynn Shattuck for mindbodygreen

The motivations for acts of kindness are varied, and it turns out that your brain knows the difference, too. Research indicates that transactional kindness, or kindness that is performed with the expectation that you’ll receive something in return, is distinctly different than kindness performed just for the sake of it. Lynn Shattuck breaks down the new scientific evidence that kindness, and especially altruistic kindness, is rewarding all on its own.

Allowing Your Heart to Receive Amazing Grace: How Success Can Happen Effortlessly in Your Life

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar for Art of Living

What is the nature of grace, and how do we recognize it in our lives? How can we replace our ego with humble gratitude, expand our capacity to receive, and choose to live a life without a sense of lack? In this article, spiritual master Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar shares his wisdom on grace, growth, and destiny.

5 Tools to Connect You To Your Intuition

Giovanna Capozza for Sivana East

You have an innate wisdom locked inside of yourself: your intuition. Everyone has it, but for some, it’s hard to let the instinctive, emotional voice of your intuition rise above the practical, logical voice of your ego. Giovanna Capozza gives us five tried-and-true methods to awaken that voice and begin to trust it.

Wise Kings & Boy Tyrants: How to Support Healthy Masculinity in the #MeToo Era

Matthew Foley for Elephant Journal

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It has become abundantly clear in the current global climate that our expressions and conceptions of masculinity need a makeover. In this essay, Matthew Foley gives us a brief overview of healthy masculine archetypes, and how men everywhere can tap into them for the betterment of society as a whole.

This week, we encourage you to be gentle with yourself, to reconnect to your inner life, and to let go. Be soft and open, receptive and observant, and feel your soul begin to heal.

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Paige Leigh Reist is a writer, editor, blogger, and writing instructor.