How You Feel
Over the past 25 years, there’ve been hundreds of studies into the effects of generosity. Here are ways that generosity is good for you: generosity improves your physical health, your mood, you live longer, it ignites gratitude, it enhances your awareness of the meaning and purposes of life, generous people have better relationships, it transforms how we view ourselves, you tend to have more friends, stimulates positive outlook on life, it has a mysterious way of rewarding you in the long run, and it leads to higher self-esteem
Whenever you hold the door open for someone, don’t you just…feel good about yourself after? Or when you let someone go in front of you in line. Or when you give someone a smile in public - even if you don’t know them. Doesn’t it just give you a sense of peace? Or…just feels good to be good? And it feels good to give. Even small things that seem to make no difference. The most motivating factor of being generous is the feeling it gives us when we are generous. It stimulates something in your brain that will eventually crave being good.
