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Worried About Money? Give Some Away

Three-quarters of Americans are stressed out over money. But donating (even a little bit) to charity can reduce that stress and enhance well-being. Here’s why you should share the wealth, even when you’re feeling poor. Read More

It is I suppose as it is in

It is I suppose as it is in just the act itself beyond the money itself . It is in the doing so . To offer more then what one may have or want to share of . As we can in just being with those around us . To give to a charity when to know a need that can be fulfilled is tenfold to possible know that what was once thought as only a tangible can be a tool to connect us closer to what others may be going through different struggles may they be yet a connection that ties us to what this world was possibly meant to be . Money will come and go yet those around us and other will and are here to hold in anyway we can even if to give but a cent or a moment in time and presence of mind .

Thank you for a great reminider of what can be if only to find what each can do or find to do if only . Possibly it is not what we think need it may be in what we have to offer others .

Recently an unemployed friend

Recently an unemployed friend ask me if I could send him $25 so he could pay his rent. I'm living only on SS benefits and have to rely on my family to help me out with money and since they've been so generous I figured I could in no way refuse his request so I sent him $50 thinking it might perk him up to have a couple of bucks to spend on himself. This is what I think of as keeping the good karma flowing. Even though I can scarcely afford to give money I did anyway and it not only made me feel better but my friend, as well. A win win situation!

Nothing new

It's called tithing; it's been perscribed by the Bible for a long time. Lol. Funny how that works.

:p

I'm sorry but if your hard up for money and you give it away it adds to your stress. In the study people are handed 5-20 dollars of someone elses money! not their own. Had the study been done actually using people who were hard up for money and forcing them to give away that money I think you'd find the results quite different. This article is a farce.

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Linda Wasmer Andrews is a health writer with a master's degree in health psychology.

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