Altruistic giving has shown to improve cognitive performance. Scientific evidence also shows that regular giving helps keep your brain in optimal condition. Next time you’re preparing for a test, do something kind first!

The act of giving releases Oxytocin which helps balance Cortisol, the hormone that causes stress. Acts of kindness have been shown to lower your heart rate and blood pressure too. A kind act a day helps keep the doctor away!

In one study, participants who were given a sum of money and spent it on others reported much higher increases in happiness than those who spent it on themselves. Looks like money can buy happiness – but only when we give it away!

The act of giving prevents aging by increasing telomere length. (Telomere are chromosomes that are the biological mark of aging.) You don’t need expensive night creams, you just need to be kind!

Studies show individuals who participated in more altruistic giving during their life, are less likely to get sick and live an average of 5 years longer. If that isn’t enough reason to be kind and start giving, we don’t know what is!

People who routinely give to others feel better about themselves and are more likely to engage in social situations. Next time you’re nervous about networking, just be kind!

The “warm glow” results from the activation of the Vagus Nerve. It releases Oxytocin “the love hormone” into our system, lowering our heart rate and causing us to feel more connected to others. Who doesn’t want to feel that?!

Oxytocin is the hormone that fosters human connection. When it floods our system, we are kinder to all those around us – smiling more, holding the door for someone, or having more patience. Each kind act plants a seed for another and continues to blossom!

Habits are formed by consistent and repetitive ACTION. Every action creates grooves in the gray matter of our brain. These grooves are a result of “neuroplasticity,” the ability of the brain to form and reorganize synaptic connections, especially in response to learning or experience.

These “grooves” in our brains are what create our habits. Each time we perform a particular act, such as leaving a Cards4Humanity to brighten someone’s day, we deepen that particular “groove” in our brain. When we perform the same act enough times, eventually the “groove” becomes so ingrained it becomes automatic, creating a habit we no longer have to think about. We simply do it!

Giving away Cards4Humanity 21 days in a row, your “kindness groove” deepens to eventually become a habit of happiness in your own life!

Kindness is like lifting weights, it only works if you do.

If you lift a 10-lb. weight once, nothing happens. If you lift it a 100 times, something amazing starts to take shape….

Kindness is like a muscle. It can grow stronger with exercise, but it takes REPETITION and CONSISTENCY. We don’t always want to go to the gym, but we know what happens when we commit and consistently choose to go each day. It’s the same with choosing to be kind and give to others every day.

Studies show that adults can actually be trained to be more compassionate toward one another! Our habits are learned behaviors that come from repetitive action, and (luckily) it’s easy to learn to be kind… (much easier than going to the gym every day!).

With Cards4Humanity, you’re performing a small kind act every single day and your “kindness” muscle is growing stronger than ever before!

Every time we give to another, the brain’s reward circuitry is triggered and “feel-good” chemicals (dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin) and endorphins are released.

When we give to others, we experience a “helper’s high,” and a whole slew of benefits flood our body: our stress level is reduced, a loving expansive feeling swells in our chest, we get a boost of energy, and the list goes on and on.

Our bodies – and brains – LOVE this cocktail of happy feels and so naturally looks to repeat the same actions that produced it in the first place.

You do something kind for another – you feel good – which makes you want to do this action more – which makes you feel even better, which makes you want to do something kind again, which…

Well, you get the point!

MESSAGES OF INSPIRATION & ENCOURAGEMENT

CARDS TO SHOW KINDNESS TO OTHERS

OPPORTUNITIES TO RECEIVE THE BENEFITS OF GIVING

DAYS TO FORM A NEW HAPPINESS HABIT & A NEW YOU

Resulting In…

A feel-good habit of giving and the satisfaction of knowing you’ve made this world
– and your life –
happier, kinder, and more connected,
one card at a time.

“Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.”

– Bob Kerrey