The Healing Power of Doing Good: The Health and Spiritual Benefits of Helping Others. This item is unavailable.The Healing Power of Doing Good: The Health and Spiritual Benefits of Helping Others

Reveals how helping others can be a euphoric experience dubbed the "Helper's High" and can counteract a volunteer's physical and emotional problems

Allan Luks, an internationally recognized health and social services leader, led the first research which linked the emotional and physical health benefits gained by those who regularly help others. He is also the author of Will America Sober Up?, You Are What You Drink, and the editor of Having Been There. He has initiated health promotion laws that have become national models and written extensively for newspapers and magazines.Peggy Payne is a writer whose articles appear in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Science Digest, Family Circle, McCalls, and many others. The author of a novel, Revelations, she lives in Chatham County, North Carolina.