To paraphrase the Bible, “It is better to give than to receive.”
Regardless of your religious beliefs, this piece of ancient wisdom just might be an important life lesson that can benefit your mental health. For while it can feel really good to get something we want badly, new research shows that our brains actually respond more positively to giving than receiving.
The study, which was conducted at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, found that being generous--or even thinking of being generous--is associated with positive brain changes that produce happiness
Thoughts, experiences as a giver and or as a recipient ...
TeddyBear says "Be peaceful - it's good for your BP"
pedro27: IMO every intention is recorded in outer space or by angels, and weighed up according le, PS there listening to everything we say...........
There's some sayings in the ancient Vedic texts that predate Christianity by several thousand years, I don;t have time now to go get but I can paraphrase from memory
"As it is in the microcosm so it is in the macrosm"
This says 'Everything si made from the same stuff, it's just a matter of scale ...
so YOU contain the univers in 'micro' just as the Universe contains YOU in it's entirety :-)
Another is roughly
" Every thing is a metaphor for every thing else "
You might ponder that in terms of
Man and Emerson's 'Oversoul'
Or you might look at
The Internet and the Akashic Records ... both are receptacles of "All knowledge and all events"
Do you hear that, sort of a cackling noise ... ever get the sense yer being watched here Pedro ( and I'm NOT meaning Guardian Angels eh ;-) )
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To paraphrase the Bible, “It is better to give than to receive.”
Regardless of your religious beliefs, this piece of ancient wisdom just might be an important life lesson that can benefit your mental health. For while it can feel really good to get something we want badly, new research shows that our brains actually respond more positively to giving than receiving.
The study, which was conducted at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, found that being generous--or even thinking of being generous--is associated with positive brain changes that produce happiness
Thoughts, experiences as a giver and or as a recipient ...
TeddyBear says "Be peaceful - it's good for your BP"