Benefits of Kindness on Health

Here's a fascinating study that was just completed, that any person who is the recipient of an

act of kindness has their serotonin levels increased just because they received an act

of kindness.

And their immune system is strengthened because they received this dose of kindness.

That's the recipient.

And secondly, any person who is the giver, the provider of an act of kindness, anything

you ever do, which is providing an act of kindness, and if you are the provider of an

act of kindness towards anyone, but particularly towards the people that you're close to in

your life, and particularly towards strangers, with just a smile, the serotonin levels in

you are increased to the same degree that they are in the receiver.

And so is your immune system strengthened.

You want to strengthen your immune system?

Be kind.

But even more dramatic than that, I get excited about this, because this is what blows me

away about, is that the observer of an act of kindness, the observer of an act of kindness

has their serotonin levels and their immune system strengthened just because they're in

the energy field of someone who is displaying kindness.

When you see someone being kind to another person, it's like a dose of an antidepressant.