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Giving out Gifts wards off stress

You've emptied the contents of your bank account buying frivolous gifts for friends and family, but that's OK, because while your bank manager may have issues with it, you've done a wonderful thing for your mental health, according to Stephen G Post, professor of preventive medicine at Stony Brook University, New York, and author of Why Good Things Happen to Good People (Broadway Books).

Acts of giving are the single best daily therapy to prevent destructive and self-destructive emotions from gaining a foothold in the heart," Post says. "We know 96 per cent of volunteers (who do around two hours a week) say that helping others makes them feel happier, 68 per cent feel healthier, 73 per cent are less stressed. A majority also sleep better and have more meaningful friendships. It's good to be good. Science says it's so."