THE BENEFITS OF GIVING AND HELPING OTHERS

THE BENEFITS OF GIVING AND HELPING OTHERS…

1. Helps strengthen the immune-system.
2. Decreases both the intensity and the awareness of physical pain.
3. Activates emotions that are vital to maintaining good health.
4. Reduces negative attitudes, such as chronic hostility, that arouse and damage the body.
5. Provides stress release which has multiple benefits to the body’s systems.
6. Provides a “helper’s high,” a rush of euphoria, followed by a longer period of calm, after performing a kind act.
7. This initial rush from the “helper’s high” is followed by a longer-lasting period of improved emotional well-being.
8. Releases the body’s natural painkillers, the endorphins as part of the “helper’s high.”
9. Helps people survive and heal from tragic or challenging events. Survivors of tragic or life changing experiences reveal that altruism-the unselfish concern for others-is a common survival strategy.

Seeing acts of kindness inspire others to reach out in kindness. This “pay it forward” effect is wonderfully contagious! You know it’s working when you see the smile on the face of someone you’ve just helped.

Take a moment. Make someone smile!