A Huge Lesson I Learned at an Airport
I was taught the importance of kindness many years ago on a trip to Barcelona. My husband and I were queuing up to go through security. We were stood directly behind a family of four: mum, dad and two teenage kids. The dad seemed extremely stressed.
When one of the man's sons went through the scanner, he started bucking and shrieking. He was over 6 feet tall and it was alarming to watch. His dad did his best to restrain him and calm him down so they could get through.
And then it hit me: the man's son was autistic. The dad had done this before and knew what was coming; that’s why he’d been so stressed.
This one small tip will help rewire your brain
We deal with worst case scenarios on a day-to-day basis, so it is so important to make our hyper alert brains feel safe by noticing the good things. This very simple practice takes one minute every night and has genuinely made me happier and better able to cope with the stresses of a career in the law.