The Power of Giving, Compassion and Hope

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 president of the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love, established in 2001 with support from philanthropist John Templeton and the Templeton Foundation. Dr. Post, at the Stony Brook University Medical Center, started the fist graduate program in the United States on compassionate care, and addressed the United States Congress on the health benefits of generous behavior. He is the author most recently of the widely praised Why Good Things Happen to Good People.

In our current hard times, the best way to help oneself is to help others in compassionate love. For many people facing the loss of jobs and homes in this difficult economy, hunkering down may seem like the best way to deal with such enormous stress. But paradoxically, the most effective way to stay happy and healthy is to turn outwards, and reap the benefits of helping others, says Dr. Stephen G. Post, a leader in the study of compassion and unlimited love. 

Dr. Post, who underwent just such an upheaval in his own life, will show how helping others can get us through the inevitable tough times that come everyone’s way. For two decades Dr. Post has led the scientific study how and why healing others and contributing to their lives is so beneficial to the giver.  He calls the side effect of helping others the “giver’s glow.”
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