2.1.1 Spiritual Identity

The definition of spiritual identity includes a desire to orient one’s life in relation to ultimate questions of value or meaning. … These concepts, like fairness, equality, love  and tolerance relate to the definition of the common good.

This common good is something that is naturally formed in us through who we are created to be, by God.  It is natural for us to want to do good to others, and when we resist this we resist God’s plan.  It is now known that when we perform acts of kindness or notice someone’s need and meet it we experience an increase of oxytocin in our body, a hormone that has the ability to reduce stress and promote prosocial behaviors such as trust, empathy and well being.

Please read the following article, which sets out what science is discovering about this concept of wanting the good and doing good for another.   God has created us to want to respond like this and has incorporated a type of reward in the form of this feeling of rightness and happiness we feel

(“Seven Scientific Facts about the Benefit of Doing Good” by Mirele Mann.)