You know that feeling you get after volunteering at a food bank? Or after doing something nice like buying coffee for a stranger? That feeling isn’t just a coincidence. Turns out, something as simple as being kind can benefit your overall health.<\/p>\n
Don’t believe us? Tahnee Schulz, a psychologist at Kindness Factory<\/a>, helped us break down three surprising ways being kind affects your health below.<\/p>\n Chemical balance<\/strong> Boost everyday health<\/strong> Promote brain function<\/strong> xx, The FabFitFun Team<\/p>\n P.S.\u00a0Check out 10 acts of kindness you can do right now here<\/a>, then share your act of kindness at kindnessfactory.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":"WINTER 2018 BOX PARTNER You know that feeling you get after volunteering at a food ...","author":2488223,"featured_media":130424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[201],"tags":[437],"thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/09155925\/shutterstock_316713758.jpg","thumbnail_url_middle_card":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/09155925\/shutterstock_316713758-386x200.jpg","formated_date":"December 6, 2018","category_name":"Members Only","category_icon":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/11113301\/iSiu0EDM.png","author_name":"","trending":false,"sponsored":false,"random_color":"#11d638","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2488223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nYes, science shows that being kind can uplift your mood. How? Showing kindness changes your chemical balance to an oxytocin state, which is a feel-good hormone that elevates your ability to communicate, collaborate, and trust others.<\/p>\n
\n“Being in a state of kindness can support [your] immune system and help protect [you] from stress, inflammation, and disease,” says Schulz. Spread positivity while boosting health? We’ll take it!<\/p>\n
\nYou’d be pleased to know that there are proven neurological benefits of being kind. “Kindness activates networks in [your] prefrontal cortex, the area of the brain that helps [you] achieve high performance \u2013 to problem solve and define values,” says Schulz. “Therefore, kindness equals higher performance, higher intelligence, and a better world!”<\/p>\n