Is Helping Others The Very Best Way To Assist Oneself?

 Let's say you find someone who just did something generous and put them on the spot by examining them.

You ask them, "Why did you do that generous thing?" They might say "because it was the right thing to do" or "because I wanted to give back." What it comes down to, though, is that people help others because it feels good.

“There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others.”

― Mandy Hale

It turns out to be a good feeling you get from helping others. It can have a real effect on your overall psychological well-being, happiness, and health.

The research followed 473 people over the course of 6 weeks. People were instructed to perform either acts of kindness directed at other people or society in general.

Self-focuses "act of kindness" aimed at raising their mood, or random acts aimed at no one in particular. The group assigned to undertake self-oriented acts didn't fare any better or worse than the group performing natural acts.

The acts of generosity tended to boost people's sense of well-being regardless of whether they're directed at individuals or society in general.

This finding led the authors to conclude: Helping other people appears to be a human impulse that is both universal and very deeply ingrained.

The theory that helping others is one of the best ways of helping yourself is leading to exciting new interventions to improve people's health, happiness, and psychological well-being.

But, the best thing about this sort of intervention is that there is pretty much an unlimited number of ways you can implement it in your own life.

So, what you want to do is, do something nice for yourself. Go and do something nice for someone else!