Giving is often praised as one of the highest human virtues, yet few stop to ask whether all forms of giving are truly beneficial. While generosity can uplift, heal, and inspire, it can also become distorted when it arises from unhealthy motives or imbalance. Giving carries both benefits and drawbacks that are worth considering in their full context.
On the positive side, generosity brings countless rewards for both the giver and the receiver. Acts of kindness increase feelings of happiness and fulfillment — research shows that people experience greater life satisfaction when they help others. Giving strengthens social bonds and builds networks of mutual support, which are the foundation of healthy communities. On a neurobiological level, generosity triggers the release of endorphins and oxytocin, natural chemicals responsible for well-being.
On a personal level, giving nurtures empathy, gratitude, and perspective. By supporting others, we learn to better understand their situation and to appreciate what we already have. Giving can also provide a sense of meaning and purpose — both when we clearly see the positive effects of our actions, and even when we don’t.
Generosity often comes back to us in unexpected ways, sometimes from entirely different sources, creating a positive cycle of reciprocity that inspires others to do the same. Across the world’s spiritual traditions — from Christian caritas, Buddhist dāna, Islamic zakat, and Jewish tzedakah, to the Hindu concept of seva — generosity and selfless service are seen as essential paths of spiritual growth and higher consciousness. The practice of giving helps us transcend ego, cleanse the heart of attachment and greed, and cultivate universal compassion, as in the path of karma yoga.
Giving, however, can also take unhealthy forms, often rooted in distorted patterns, imbalance, or lessons carried over from childhood. One of the most common causes of unhealthy giving comes from upbringing based on forced obedience, where a child’s identity is built around serving others. Children raised to believe their worth depends on sacrifice often develop a compulsive need to give. In adulthood, this leads them to neglect their own needs and boundaries. Such a pattern creates individuals who cannot say “no” and who feel guilty whenever they do not help, even when common sense tells them otherwise. This is not true generosity — it is a conditioned reflex.
Some people also give from misguided motives: the desire to control others, to buy approval, to create a sense of obligation, or to build an image of themselves as noble. In such cases, giving becomes manipulative and harmful, producing relationships that appear positive on the surface but are secretly driven by hidden expectations.
Excessive giving can also lead to emotional or financial exhaustion when someone pushes beyond their limits in the name of helping others, all while neglecting their own well-being and responsibility for themselves. Those who give excessively often attract people who exploit them — manipulators and narcissists who thrive on their self-sacrifice.
At times, generosity can even harm the recipient. By over-giving, we may create dependency, take away their ability to solve problems, or hinder their growth and independence. In extreme cases, giving may even support destructive behavior — for example, when giving money to someone with an addiction indirectly finances the addiction instead of helping them recover.
Unbalanced giving can also generate guilt in the receiver, violate their dignity, or create a distorted power dynamic in which the giver feels superior to the one who receives. Giving rooted in inner compulsion often leads to burnout in helping professions, to conflict in family relationships where one always gives while others only take, and to a loss of personal identity. Ironically, those who give too much are often the ones most in need of help — yet they cannot accept it, which only deepens their isolation and suffering.
All forms of unhealthy giving feed negative emotional patterns. Over time, such tendencies grow stronger, pushing us toward extremes and making our emotions unstable. In effect, we condition ourselves to experience increasingly painful states.
As we have emphasized many times, intensifying negative emotions lower our inner state — our vibration — and in turn attract negative entities: spirits of the deceased who have not crossed beyond death’s veil and who project their suffering onto the living. For those caught in such tendencies and unconsciously tied to these spirits, our center was created to provide help.
Spirit possession is, in truth, a kind of addiction. Those affected suffer more and more deeply as time goes on. The solution lies in the spirit removal program — a process in which our assistants help people restore balance, heal their psyche, and overcome the negative patterns that once attracted spirits, so that the cycle will not repeat in the future.
From a higher perspective, the goal of this work is always the same: liberation. To be freed from destructive emotional and mental patterns. To step out of unconscious habits that cause suffering. To rise into clarity, strength, and wholeness.
This, we believe, is humanity’s central task in the decades — perhaps even centuries — ahead. To all who are reading these words, I wholeheartedly wish that this process may unfold for you as soon as possible.
About the Author:
Michael, a co-founder of The Dr. Wanda Pratnicka Center, holds a B.A. degree in psychology and is a spiritual teacher and healer, with a specialization in spirit removal. Under the mentorship of his wife Wanda Pratnicka, Michael gained profound spiritual insights into the nuances of spirit attachment phenomenon, and for many years, he played a crucial role in assisting her with the remote spirit removal process. In his leisure time, Michael finds solace in meditation, immerses himself in the timeless beauty of classical music, and cherishes tranquil walks by the sea.
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