{"id":12254,"date":"2020-02-04T23:56:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T05:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=12254"},"modified":"2020-02-04T23:57:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T05:57:59","slug":"you-may-be-the-very-person-that-can-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/you-may-be-the-very-person-that-can-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"You May Be The Very Person That Can Do It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cYou were born with the ability to change someone\u2019s life. Don\u2019t\never waste it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We often hear that we must help ourselves before we can help\nsomeone else, and to some extent I believe that to be true.  But I also\nfind it to be true that one of the best ways to help ourselves is to spend our\ntime helping others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You don\u2019t have to take my word for it, there is tremendous\namounts of research that have proven that doing good and being kind will make\nyou happier and healthier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeople who volunteer tend to have higher self-esteem,\npsychological well-being, and happiness,\u201d Mark Snyder, a psychologist and head\nof the Center for the Study of the Individual and Society at the University of\nMinnesota says. \u201cAll of these things go up as their feelings of social\nconnectedness goes up, which in reality, it does. It also improves their health\nand even their longevity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another study states that \u201cPsychologists have identified a\ntypical state of euphoria reported by those engaged in charitable activity.\nThey call it \u201chelper\u2019s high,\u201d and it\u2019s based on the theory that giving produces\nendorphins in the brain that provide a mild version of a morphine high.\u201d\n(excerpt from article by James Baraz and Shoshana Alexander).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carolyn Schwartz, a research professor at the University of\nMassachusetts Medical School did a research study which resulted in the\nfollowing finding:   Those who helped others were significantly\nhappier and less depressed than those who didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the list of studies could go on and on.  The more you\nresearch it the more you can\u2019t deny that helping others is the very best way to\nhelp yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I believe that each of us have the ability to change other people\u2019s life for the better. Regardless of our circumstances we can always find a way to help someone else. Even if that help comes through the form of something as simple as a smile or a hello.\u00a0 You never know when just the act of acknowledging another person’s worth may be all it will take to save that person\u2019s life.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Never underestimate or dismiss your ability to change someone else\u2019s life because you may be the very person that can do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

~Amy Rees Anderson (author of the book \u201cWhat Awesome Looks Like: How To Excel in Business & Life<\/a>\u201d ) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cYou were born with the ability to change someone\u2019s life. Don\u2019t ever waste it.\u201d We often hear that we must help ourselves before we can help someone else, and to some extent I believe that to be true.  But I also find it to be true that one of the best ways to help ourselves […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[395,500,46,16310,368,63,1686,91,3331,782,1151,5099,1392,778,942,5097,30,1316,55,180,246,144,412,5098,464,5096,35,628,3474,861,1096,496,519,112,1416,145,20217,2257,78,2888,1192,4006,19932,755],"class_list":["post-12254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-appreciation","tag-attitude","tag-be-the-change","tag-believe","tag-blessings","tag-brain","tag-change","tag-change-someones-life","tag-charitable","tag-charity","tag-chicken-soup-for-the-soul","tag-depressed","tag-depression","tag-endorphins","tag-euphoria","tag-gift","tag-give","tag-happiness","tag-happy","tag-health","tag-help","tag-help-others","tag-helpers-high","tag-joy","tag-longevity","tag-love","tag-make-a-difference","tag-psychologists","tag-research","tag-sacrifice","tag-self-worth","tag-self-esteem","tag-self-improvement","tag-serve","tag-service","tag-stand-together","tag-suicide","tag-time","tag-volunteer","tag-waste","tag-well-being","tag-what-awesome-looks-like","tag-wonder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12255,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12254\/revisions\/12255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}