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I invite you to become an exhilarationist, which is the opposite of a terrorist: Conspire to unleash blessings on unsuspecting recipients, causing them to feel good. Give anonymous gifts or provide some beauty or healing to people who can’t do you any favors in return.

Before bringing your work as a exhilarationist to strangers, you might want to practice with two close companions. Offer them each a gift that fires up their ambitions. It should not be a practical necessity or consumer fetish, but rather a provocative tool or toy. Give them an imaginative boon they’ve been hesitant to ask for, a beautiful thing that expands their self-image, a surprising intervention that says, “I love the way you move me.

”—Rob Brezsny, Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia