From: CBS News
Doing small acts of kindness may lower your stress
December 15, 2015
CBS:
Those “Practice random acts of kindness” bumper stickers may be preaching more wisdom than we realized.
While performing small, kind gestures every day helps others, a new study by Yale and UCLA researchers suggests it may also diffuse our own stress, improving our mental health.
“The take-home message is that when we are stressed and we help others, we can also end up helping ourselves,” study author Emily Ansell, assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine, told CBS News.
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