IAM Group Limited | Being Charitable Reduces Stress

There is this profound feeling whenever you give out your old clothes or other belongings to those people in need, or hand in some extra cash to those who are less unfortunate. The sense of euphoria or bliss from carrying out the deed of giving is indeed a universal chemical reaction function among us human beings. That is why people sometimes find this unique joy of helping other fellow beings.

IAM Group Ltd found out that according to the University at Albany’s faculty experts study, there is a significant reduction on their subjects that have voluntarily given out their possessions to those who are in dire need compared to those who did not submit to charity or forced to do one.

This is more so augmented by the fact that the seasonal holidays where materialism is abound, people tend to buy and rush for all necessities to purchase and then get a lot of stress from the carnage of consumerism.

Another research published in the Journal of Happiness and Development, has shown that you stand to gain even greater emotional benefits when you know the person you are giving to. In this series of studies, 68 men and women were shown a video advertisement for a charity in Africa and then invited to make some donations. Some in a randomly assigned group, however, were told that they had a friend who had just come back from Africa and that this money was being raised on that person’s behalf. Then the participants reported their life satisfaction. According to the study, the stress levels of these holiday rushers have been greatly reduced to a significant level when they have surrendered their old belongings or extra money to other people for charity. Some subjects claimed that they find it most enjoyable if the items were given to people they are close to or known for a long time.

The study concludes that the stress reduction from charitable giving is very significant that it affects the long term outlook of an individual to the extent that it lengthens their life expectancy.

If you’d like to make a bigger impact in a small community or even online, you can sign up for IAM Group Ltd �" a charity based in Seoul, Korea but has some major charters in Yokohama Japan, North American and even Europe. Whether if it is just helping out with a clothing drive, or raising funds as a group for a shared cause, IAM Group has something for everyone in their local area. When you team up for a collective effort, you share the wealth in more ways than one and that is what makes charity giving a more healthy activity for young and old.