Exercising Kindness is a gratification in contrast to a pleasure.
- As a gratification, it calls on your strengths to rise to an occasion and to meet a challenge.
- Kindness is not accompanied by a separable
stream of positive emotion like joy, rather it consists in total engagement and
in the loss of self-consciousness.
- Time stops
Re-source: Reward
Where does happiness come from? Having Fun or Acts of Kindness?
Engage in one pleasurable activity and one philanthropic activity and write about both. You may notice that…
- The afterglow of the pleasurable activity (watching a movie or eating a hot fudge sundae) was much less than with the philanthropic action.
- When our philanthropic acts were spontaneous and called upon personal strengths, the whole day went better.
craving and resource from “Authentic Happiness” by Martin Selegman