Giving is good for health
Giving is good for health
by Rusty Wright
Do you want to feel happy and brilliant? Well According To the advice of a renowned researcher if we can we Become One "The truth Is that science can claim to be good and is beneficial to health," says Dr. Stephen Post, a professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
Do you want to feel happy and brilliant? Well According To the advice of a renowned researcher if we can we Become One
"The truth Is that science can claim to be good and is beneficial to health," says Dr. Stephen Post, a professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
Post and Jill Neimark colleague and co-author several evidences presented in his latest book Why Good Things Happen to Good People [Why do good things happen to good people.] As director of an institute supported by philanthropist Sir John Templeton, Post found "more than fifty studies (related to the act of giving) in forty-four major universities. " That Post is convinced giving is essential to have a mind health and optimal physical in Such a fragmented society.
That says Post Investigations have Reached These important conclusions. "Give help to health as aspirin Helps Prevent heart attacks" And to speculate if the pharmaceutical companies can charge for giving That, Would certainly there to launch advertising campaign as they did with the antidepressant Prozac. Already In fact there is a program in California where doctors can prescribe to Their patients' activities to volunteer. "
All we need is to
Post and Neimark say around 500 scientific studies Have Shown That unselfish love can Strengthen your health. For example, the psychologist Paul Wink, a graduate of Wellesley College, Studied some data from the University of California Berkeley where I was two hundred people Given During follow every decade from the 1920s. Apparently the people who give From their teens from enjoying good physical and mental health in the next stages of Their Lives.
Other research shows That the act of giving is related to the decrease in depressive symptoms or adolescent suicide Among Populations and Stanford University found seniors.Studies Un Certain relations Between A frequent volunteering and delaying death. claims Post That is even better than giving in terms of Receiving Reducing mortality.
If I give more, live more?
Well, maybe, remember the words of Jesus: "It is more blessed to give than to receive" (Acts 20:35)
Examples of staff benefits are there to give abound. Millard Fuller was thirty years old yo've When Decided to invest his fortune on the needy. He and his wife, Linda, sold Their business and joined Koinonia Farm, a Christian community in Georgia. Thereafter, They Began to build houses in places as far away as Zaire and then founded Habitat for Humanity in 1976 to help people in need to get a decent home. Fuller's goal was to Eliminate poverty and huts completely from the face of the earth.
Habitat currently Hundreds of volunteers have built more than 225,000 houses Who Have to help more than one million people in 3,000 communities worldwide. Countless volunteers to staff the satisfaction attest They feel When They engage in Such projects.
Caring for orphans
Post and Neimark Also tell the interesting story of Susan Scott Krabacher, former model for Playboy, who has dedicated her life to helping impoverished children in Haiti. Susan's childhood Helped him connect with the wounded children who now Serves. Sexual abuse and psychiatric crises of his mother, multiple foster homes and the suicide of his brother marked her childhood. As a teenager, I Decided to Become a Playboy model.
Durantes ten years Suffered from depression but pit Eventually, I reconnected With the faith of his childhood. Looking at the poverty in Haiti, I have learned to live According To Christian values. The foundation That She and her husband created Began with three orphanages for 2,300 children. "I work hard? Says Krabacher? I sacrifice, burying many children and no more than love, which in the end is the most beautiful That one can know freedom worldwide compensation."
Post AGREES. Want today experience the happiness, love, security, loyal friends, Real relationships, hope? Post replies, Give. So be happier, healthier and live longer. "Love is the best cure" a dear friend writes psychiatrist, Karl Menninger , "both give it as Those Who For Those who receive it."
Rusty Wright, associate speaker and writer with Probe Ministries, is an international speaker, award winning author, journalist and columnist specializing. holds a degree in psychology from Duke University and a Masters I in Theology from Oxford University. He can be reached at RustyWright @ aol.com © 2004 Rusty Wright. rights reserved Used with permission.All. Translated and adapted by DesarrolloCristiano.com, all rights reserved.
by Rusty Wright
Do you want to feel happy and brilliant? Well According To the advice of a renowned researcher if we can we Become One "The truth Is that science can claim to be good and is beneficial to health," says Dr. Stephen Post, a professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
Do you want to feel happy and brilliant? Well According To the advice of a renowned researcher if we can we Become One
"The truth Is that science can claim to be good and is beneficial to health," says Dr. Stephen Post, a professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
Post and Jill Neimark colleague and co-author several evidences presented in his latest book Why Good Things Happen to Good People [Why do good things happen to good people.] As director of an institute supported by philanthropist Sir John Templeton, Post found "more than fifty studies (related to the act of giving) in forty-four major universities. " That Post is convinced giving is essential to have a mind health and optimal physical in Such a fragmented society.
That says Post Investigations have Reached These important conclusions. "Give help to health as aspirin Helps Prevent heart attacks" And to speculate if the pharmaceutical companies can charge for giving That, Would certainly there to launch advertising campaign as they did with the antidepressant Prozac. Already In fact there is a program in California where doctors can prescribe to Their patients' activities to volunteer. "
All we need is to
Post and Neimark say around 500 scientific studies Have Shown That unselfish love can Strengthen your health. For example, the psychologist Paul Wink, a graduate of Wellesley College, Studied some data from the University of California Berkeley where I was two hundred people Given During follow every decade from the 1920s. Apparently the people who give From their teens from enjoying good physical and mental health in the next stages of Their Lives.
Other research shows That the act of giving is related to the decrease in depressive symptoms or adolescent suicide Among Populations and Stanford University found seniors.Studies Un Certain relations Between A frequent volunteering and delaying death. claims Post That is even better than giving in terms of Receiving Reducing mortality.
If I give more, live more?
Well, maybe, remember the words of Jesus: "It is more blessed to give than to receive" (Acts 20:35)
Examples of staff benefits are there to give abound. Millard Fuller was thirty years old yo've When Decided to invest his fortune on the needy. He and his wife, Linda, sold Their business and joined Koinonia Farm, a Christian community in Georgia. Thereafter, They Began to build houses in places as far away as Zaire and then founded Habitat for Humanity in 1976 to help people in need to get a decent home. Fuller's goal was to Eliminate poverty and huts completely from the face of the earth.
Habitat currently Hundreds of volunteers have built more than 225,000 houses Who Have to help more than one million people in 3,000 communities worldwide. Countless volunteers to staff the satisfaction attest They feel When They engage in Such projects.
Caring for orphans
Post and Neimark Also tell the interesting story of Susan Scott Krabacher, former model for Playboy, who has dedicated her life to helping impoverished children in Haiti. Susan's childhood Helped him connect with the wounded children who now Serves. Sexual abuse and psychiatric crises of his mother, multiple foster homes and the suicide of his brother marked her childhood. As a teenager, I Decided to Become a Playboy model.
Durantes ten years Suffered from depression but pit Eventually, I reconnected With the faith of his childhood. Looking at the poverty in Haiti, I have learned to live According To Christian values. The foundation That She and her husband created Began with three orphanages for 2,300 children. "I work hard? Says Krabacher? I sacrifice, burying many children and no more than love, which in the end is the most beautiful That one can know freedom worldwide compensation."
Post AGREES. Want today experience the happiness, love, security, loyal friends, Real relationships, hope? Post replies, Give. So be happier, healthier and live longer. "Love is the best cure" a dear friend writes psychiatrist, Karl Menninger , "both give it as Those Who For Those who receive it."
Rusty Wright, associate speaker and writer with Probe Ministries, is an international speaker, award winning author, journalist and columnist specializing. holds a degree in psychology from Duke University and a Masters I in Theology from Oxford University. He can be reached at RustyWright @ aol.com © 2004 Rusty Wright. rights reserved Used with permission.All. Translated and adapted by DesarrolloCristiano.com, all rights reserved.