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A 'grand addiction'

Do you want to be honored and admired by everyone you know? I can tell you how.

Each time you help someone and are kind and caring, your body releases neurochemicals such as endorphins, dopamine, oxytocin, and serotonin. These neurochemicals are responsible for your feelings of happiness each day. They affect your nervous system and for each positive and kind act you will be rewarded for what you do.

We are what we do, not what we say, not what we think, but the acts we perform.

All of the chemicals will give you a greater rush than any drug or alcohol. The more you do, the better you feel; and the more you feel it, the more you will do; it's cyclic. It is what I call the Grand Addiction. It is the way we evolve, how we learn to live together and help each other, to our mutual benefit. We make a quantum leap in our evolution, a sudden advance in our human development and civilization.

Jim Ewart

Elk Grove Village

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