5 Ways Giving Is Good for You

1. Giving makes us feel happy.

A 2008 study by Harvard Business School professor Michael Norton and colleagues found that giving money to someone else lifted participants’ happiness more that spending it on themselves (despite participants’ prediction that spending on themselves would make them happier). Happiness expert Sonja Lyubomirsky, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Riverside, saw similar results when she asked people to perform five acts of kindness each week for six weeks.

2. Giving is good for our health.

A wide range of research has linked different forms of generosity to better health, even among the sick and elderly. In his book Why Good Things Happen to Good People, Stephen Post, a professor of preventative medicine at Stony Brook University, reports that giving to others has been shown to increase health benefits in people with chronic illness, including HIV and multiple sclerosis.

3. Giving promotes cooperation and social connection.

When you give, you’re more likely to get back: Several studies, including work by sociologists Brent Simpson and Robb Willer, have suggested that when you give to others, your generosity is likely to be rewarded by others down the line—sometimes by the person you gave to, sometimes by someone else. It is our utmost aim to promote social connections in Maharashtra and North America through this foundation.

4. Giving evokes gratitude.
Whether you’re on the giving or receiving end of a gift, that gift can elicit feelings of gratitude—it can be a way of expressing gratitude or instilling gratitude in the recipient. And research has found that gratitude is integral to happiness, health, and social bonds.

5. Giving is contagious.
When we give, we don’t only help the immediate recipient of our gift. We also spur a ripple effect of generosity through our community.

If you want to be involved in giving, Ashacare purpose is for giving.

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” – Mother Theresa

Healthcare, like education is essential to human dignity and the pursuit of happiness. To build an active and vibrant society, the first thing to take care of is the health of its citizens, especially of those from the lowest strata of the society.