Healthy Donating

Editor’s note: this post was written by a friend of mine, Steve Pelvina. He is a less known, but a very good personal development guru. Many people mistake Steve for another, more popular guru Steve Pavlina. Please do not make the same mistake and hear what Steve Pelvina has to say.

A powerful personal development tool is donating. Are people with healthy donating habits born or made? In my case it was definitely made. In my early 20s, I rarely donated at all. My non-existing donating practice couldn’t cover my depression. Basically I was lost on what to do until there came one of those “aha” moments.

You may wonder how I solved my problem. To cut this Balzac-like long story short – I stumbled upon a solution. I can hear you mumbling under your breath in surprise: “but-but… we thought that such productivity quantum leaps are reached through the awesome Law of Attraction!” No, it was a coincidence. Don’t throw your buts at me. Anyhow, you can stick to the popular myth and give the LoA another batch of tries. What do you know? Great composers listen to music. Great authors read voraciously. Great failures wolf success stories. And great donors know the Copenhagen study by heart.

Ultimately, you never know if anything works until you put it to test. Therefore I set on a path of righteous and regular donating. Still, I did have to ask the usual “Does this path have a heart?” question in the beginning, but after a while I couldn’t ignore the high correlation between success and donating, even in my own life. I noticed a significant feeling of well-being. So being the proactive goal-achiever I was, I set out to become a habitual donor.

It seems there are two main schools of thought about the art of donating. One is that you should go click aimlessly on any site you come across, which leads to success in the end. The second school says you should listen to your body’s needs and only click when your body and mind feel ready to do so. The latter school claims we are naturally predisposed to know the right moment. If you care about productivity, there are advantages and disadvantages to both methods. Let’s have a closer look at both of them:

Method 1: Click quickly and aimlessly

Pros:
• keeps you active and burns the body fat
• with practicing, your clicking becomes more elegant
• increases your patience – and patience wears away stones

Cons:
• you may forget to launch your browser
• you may lose the focus for a while and end up on a wrong site – with no donations!
• you may forget to stop clicking. It’s both unproductive and frustrating – you will have lost a lot of time and still you’re only halfway there.

Method 2: Listen to your body and wait for the moment

Pros:
• enhances self-awareness
• enhances abstract thinking
• if you close your eyes, you can get some decent rest or even sleep – which is good

Cons:
• you might not be lucky enough to hit the button (anyway, would you rather reach your goals consciously, or let luck decide instead?)
• requires days and months of practicing before you attain mastery

This is how you should donate

My approach is blend of the two with a pinch of my own brown rice (I love cooking my own brown rice).

1. Concentrate on the button below.
   It doesn’t matter how many times you failed – now fail better, condition yourself to become a donation guru by avoiding all distractions.
2. Rotate your pelvis clockwise and counterclockwise.
   I love this part. It brings intimacy abundance in my life as well.
3. Donate.

Most probably you will succeed the first time you try. If not, do not worry, breathe in, breathe out slowly and try again. Perhaps rotate the pelvis more quickly. Practically anyone can master this and enjoy the fulfilling sense of letting go and the subsequent urge to complete all tasks on your to-do-list (which boosts productivity). If you go on and keep donating for several weeks, it will become a positive habit. I guess it’s worth it.

A new University of Copenhagen study reveals that people who are deprived of donating substantial sums of money suffer from various afflictions ranging from sleep disorder and frequent episodes of severe depression to kidney stones.

“The study showed test subjects had diminished cognitive abilities during the donation-free period”, said Uschi Znamenak, lead study author. The overall functionality of the body-mind system is decreased by at least 25%.

“This is the first time anyone in the world has quantified the effects of donating deprivation,” said Znamenak’s assistant, Soeren Krakengaard. “The most evident example is the test group 2. Before the test itself, we subconsciously questioned them to confirm that they hadn’t been donating for at least 5 years. Subconsciously – which is the key term here – they were exposed to seeing various subliminal advertisements, web pages and alike offering the relieving opportunity to send money away. However, the direct connection to the subject of the charity was at least confusing, not to say distressing.”

The debilitating effects have implications for many areas of life, including medical and safety personnel, which may have critical impact on important public services. The study also illuminates the challenges faced by everyday people who are forced to make crucial decisions throughout the state of constant donationless deprivation. “If a policeman is suddenly posted outside the station, for example, to save a helpless kitten stuck in a tree from certain death, his or her motivation may be insufficient to overcome the effects of what we now call the money-clog syndrome,” said Dr. Uschi Znamenak.

On the other hand, the study volunteers who were navigated to and allowed to make donations, slept calmly for eight hours or at least until they felt rested. The control group had no medical or other disorders and expressed no need for medications, nicotine, alcohol or caffeine. Nine of ten excelled in difficult math tests and their physical fitness was evidenced by the fact that five of them completed the Cooper test in less than 10 minutes.

However, the Copenhagen study shows one fact of which most scientists are not aware of. Any sign of donation purpose or attempts to “validate” reasons why one should donate for that particular institute/NGO/ZOO greatly increases the state of nervousness within subjects. This may be a groundbreaking point for thousands of suffering patients around the world.

Located at Copenhagen’s Wolfowitz and Women’s Hospital, the donating lab used in the study contained infrared video cameras, audio equipment and physiological recorders to monitor behavior of subjects. As the researchers said, not revealing the target beneficiary requires some discipline. “People here in Denmark seem to dislike hearing anything about discipline. It sounds so German”, they said. Anyhow, no one seems to have come up with a solid argument against the results. More probable scenario is that we shall hear more about the Copenhagen study in the future.

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