Enrique Gili is a freelance writer covering Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (The Institue for Research on Unlimited Love (IRUL) has the feel good ring of a New Age spiritual retreat where enlightened devotees get to hug things out. Except Stephen Post Post is no guru, as the director of IRUL, at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, he's sponsored more than 50 studies by scientists from 54 major universities. In a wide range of disciplines - from public health to human development to neuroscience, sociology, and evolutionary biology - the studies have demonstrated that altruism expressed in doing good for others lead people to have healthier, happier, and even longer lives. (CS Monitor)
IRUL research is part of a significant shift under way within key scientific disciplines from focusing just on the deficit or disease model of human nature to studying the positive, virtuous, and thriving aspects. In the process, the research is broadening the understanding of what contributes to health and longevity.
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