Title: Be Friendly | Psychology Today
Headings: Be Friendly
Rick Hanson Ph.D.
Be Friendly
Friendliness is a down-to-earth approach that is welcoming and positive.

Content: Again, it's startling how easily friendliness can be crowded out of our most important relationships by busyness, little irritations and hurts, or weariness from working too hard. But bits of friendliness, sprinkled here and there, can be absolutely transformational in a relationship. Try it and see! article continues after advertisement
Also consider being friendlier toward people you might normally ignore or treat with distance, even coolness. Such as wait staff in restaurants, someone shuttling you to the airport, or - breaking the big taboo - strangers in an elevator. See what happens. Take in the rewards, like one small log after another, fueling that warm glowing fire on the hearth in your heart. Rick Hanson, Ph.D., is a neuropsychologist and author of Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom (in 22 languages) and Just One Thing: Developing a Buddha Brain One Simple Practice at a Time (in 9 languages).