Complete Small Acts of Kindness to Improve Your Brain Chemistry

How can you change your brain chemistry, releasing hormones that will help you de-stress and even help protect your heart health? Perform small acts of kindness. It sounds odd, and possibly too good to be true, but researchers, psychologists and many other experts all agree.

Being kind to others improves your sense of well-being, flooding your system with the pleasure hormone dopamine and the mood stabilizer serotonin. It also decreases the stress hormone cortisol, which is good for your cardiac health. Any form of kindness to others can be beneficial, but an exhaustive review of 201 studies by the American Psychological Association (APA) found small, random acts of kindness brought the biggest boost of all.

IT ALSO MAKES YOU A BETTER LEADER

Interestingly, neuroscience research also suggests being kind to others will make you a better leader. That’s because kindness to others will help increase your empathy, a key trait for every leader and a huge component of emotional intelligence. And when others witness an act of kindness, it releases those same hormones.

Please select this link to read the complete article from Fast Company.