HEALTHY HELPING

HELP OTHERS TO HELP YOURSELF-Where did that come from? I think there have been many studies in the past that document the positive effects of giving.The terms "healthy helping " and "The Mother Teresa Effect" came out of these studies.Apparently even watching a movie about mother Teresa upped the Immune systems of the study subjects.Even remembering a good deed years later causes a surge of Immunoglobulins and feel good hormones.Older people who volunteer seem to be mentally and physically healthier and children who are encouraged to give and help others from a young age benefit considerably from it.
HIV patients who never converted to AIDS and advanced cases of cancer who didn't die as expected attributed their change of health to a lifestyle change which invariably involved helping other unfortunates and taking the focus off themselves and their troubles.
Psychoneuroimmunology or Mind-body medicine as it is now called,studies the link between the mind and the immune system.It is believed that by changing the way we think ,feel and act ,we can actually alter the course of disease in our bodies. Everything has a reason to exist ,including disease.By discovering the reason behind disease we can alter our thought patterns and behaviour to make the disease redundant.Scientists are now showing that all disease stems from unnatural stress nad generosity is a great stress buster.
So if you want to get healthy get out there and help somebody!!!!