Stephen G. Post

The Hidden Gifts of Helping (eBook, ePUB)

How the Power of Giving, Compassion, and Hope Can Get Us Through Hard Times

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The world's religions affirm it to be so and recent research across a number of disciplines tell us that "Helping others not only benefits those we assist but is good for us as well." The recent and astonishingly generous outpouring of help and donations in response to the earthquake in Haiti is a clear demonstration of this phenomenon, but what if we could be convinced to make helping others a way of life, even when times are hard? * Post is author of the widely praised Why Good Things Happen to Good People * Filled with inspirational anecdotes about the transformative power of doing good * The author is a leader in the study of altruism, compassion, and love as well as the President of the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love * Beautiful packaging, ideal for gift giving The Hidden Gifts of Helping Others will leave you with the unshakable feeling that the world is an essentially good place.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470940068
• Artikelnr.: 38215278

Autorenporträt

The Author

STEPHEN G. POST is professor of preventive medicine and director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at Stony Brook University. He is a leader in the study of altruism, compassion, and love and president of the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love. Post is the author (with Jill Neimark) of the widely praised Why Good Things Happen to Good People.

For more information go to www.StephenGPost.com

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: On the Move.
1 Learning to Travel on Life's Mysterious Journey.
2 The Gift of the "Giver's Glow".
3 The Gift of Connecting with the Neediest.
4 The Gift of Deep Happiness.
5 The Gift of Compassion and Unlimited Love.
6 The Gift of Hope.
Epilogue: Always Coming Home.
Notes.
Acknowledgments.
The Author.
Index.

Rezensionen

"Post (When Good Things Happen to Good People), president of theInstitute for Research on Unlimited Love, pens a hopeful text forhopeless times. His own job loss forced him and his family torelocate in 2008, and he writes poignantly of what he's personallylived through. No stranger to the emotional and spiritualdifficulties that accompany any major life change, the authorshares intimately how he put into practice the biblical principleof "giving unto others" as he worked through his own grief, sorrow,and loss during the transition that uprooted his family. Thelessons Post learned make up this practical resource that urgespurposeful giving, even while feeling the stings of disappointmentand hardship. Post's work is more than a feel-good read. It'stoday's handbook for survival." (Publishers Weekly, January10, 2011

"This inspirational, motivational, and feel good bookwill leave you bursting with an overflowing bucket list of thingsyou will want to do."
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