Allan Luks, the former executive director of the Institute for the Advancement of Health, wrote The Healing Power of Doing Good: The Health and Spiritual Benefits of Helping Others.The book, published in 1991, details scientific research that proves that being kind has physical and mental health benefits.
Some surprising findings include:
· Helping others can diminish the effect of minor and serious diseases and disorders .
· Stress-related health problems improve after performing kind acts. Helping reverses feelings of depression, supplies social contact, and decreases feelings of hostility and isolation that can cause stress, overeating, ulcers, etc. A drop in stress may, for some people, decrease the constriction within the lungs that leads to asthma attacks.
· After doing good, a decrease in both the intensity and the awareness of physical pain can occur.
· When a person establishes a relationship of friendship, love, or some sort of positive bonding, he or she feels emotions that can strengthen the immune system.
Being kind is an easy way to improve your health!
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