The Daily G.I.F.T. from The GratiDude

Kid Made an easy choice: Help others or Himself? Duh, Others, Bruh.

And from a neuroscientific standpoint, every experience he had of giving, and the things that he received emotionally and spiritually reinforced, not only the fact that he made the right decision in choosing to help others, but those great feelings are there in our experience because God wants us to remember these experiences and do it again.

That is the reason why witnesses also the same uplift as the participants in acts of kindness as I talk about regularly. This is important because the witnessing and the creation of positive endorphins and other brain chemicals further shows that the ripple effect is not hypothetical or conceptual but factual and scientific.

The more you peel the onion around neuroscience kindness, compassion, public behavior, the more and more evident it becomes that science justifies kindness, and compassion in societies.

Kindness is good for profits.

Compassion creates more healthy people who can be better employees and create more value for shareholders.

And for global capitalism to survive and thrive over the next hundred years compassion and kindness need to be sewn into the very fabric of culture even if that’s at the expense of annual shareholder returns as blasphemous as that sounds on Wall Street.

Human beings ARE Capital, we are Capital with Consciousness is. That’s what Labor is IMO. 

We all must be cared for and preserved, protected, just like other assets with the major difference that THESE assets have hearts and minds.

Michael Jackson had a great message when he talked about the man in the mirror and not looking beyond that image as a source for creating change in the world.  Believe me, I used to think differently and would always look outside of myself at what was wrong in the world as if I was and needed no improvement at all.  The reality was that I was seeing in the outside world what I was experiencing inside myself, and I didn’t always like it.  

Furthermore, I realize that lasting change will only happen when the hearts and minds of women and men change through an evolution of consciousness that embraces more fundamentally the interconnectedness of all living things.  The ability to coexist within an economic framework that may trumpet individualism and personal success over collective well-being, makes it a difficult needle to thread for all of us wishing for a kinder gentler world around us.

We have very little ability to change, massive social structures and other entrenched political systems. However, we have 100% ability to work on ourselves and, in the words of the fishmongers from the book “FISH” we can choose our attitude every single day.

These messages are particularly important when we are in such a toxic daily new cycle, so focused on the upcoming presidential election, which just seems to highlight and amplify all the division and toxicity within Western culture and particularly our nuanced United States.

To be clear, politics is the art of division everywhere in the world, and our group of buffoons and swindlers are not that much different than those from other parts of the world, and they certainly don’t reflect the way that most of us live and think on the ground here in towns and cities throughout our country.

What this does to us is mental health and well-being more challenging because the information in the news cycles that are fed to us are so disconnected from reality strange negative dark and lacking love and compassion that it’s like eating spoiled food when you consume it.  And I use that metaphor intentionally because consuming it will make you sick just like spoiled food.  

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Instead, choose kindness and personal connection. That reclaims your Mental and Emotional Power, every time.

Choose your information and your food wisely so that when you can make critical decisions, like doing something just for yourself or helping others and being kind, you will always choose the ladder and make the right decision and be happy about it afterwards.

You would not want to see a Brain Scan of what watching CNN or FOX News does to your Brain. It ain’t pretty, Sugar.

However, on the other hand……

When scientists scan the brains of people who have done an act of kindness, they find that the reaction in the brain is even more profound. Altruism lights up a whole spectrum of the brain.

Being kind to someone in need can make us feel good partly because we instinctively don’t like to see people sad, nervous, anxious or stressed, and we feel relief when we help them. We are putting something right, and we feel like a better person, more complete.

Furthermore, studies in neuroscience also show that when we witness an act of kindness we also get a brain boost. We can probably all attest to this. Who hasn’t felt warm and fuzzy when they’ve seen an elderly person being helped to their feet after a fall, watched a nurse show compassion to a worried relative, seen an injured animal on tv nursed back to life?

When we see acts of kindness our brains have the opposite reaction to when we see negative, cruel and critical exchanges where our brains are flooded with stress inducing cortisol.

It is the Antidote to the News Cycle.

The universe will always reward you as God wanted you to go to the golf tournament the whole time!! Now listen here Little Ginger kid, put some sunscreen on your pasty face you little lionhearted kid and go get some autographs and show all those PGA players your attitude of gratitude.

EVERY DAY:

Love

and

Gratitude

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