Happy World Kindness Day! You get a health benefit from both receiving and giving kindness.
There’s overwhelming evidence it works on humans, too, she noted. Simply put: Kindness is actually good for us and improves lives.
“Medical care only accounts for 10-20% of our overall health and the other 80-90% is somewhat our genes and what’s happening in the rest of our lives outside clinical care,” Harding, an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York, told TODAY.It works on a physiological level: Stress is bad for the immune system, but kindness buffers stress, she noted.
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