October 2007

Check out the following article from Gretchen Rubin's Happiness Project. Need a simple way to boost your mood in one minute? Look at a photograph of someone you love. A reader sent me an email telling me about a strategy she uses when she needs...

A life coach in your pocket Tags: Patterns, Labs, Mobile Phone, Body Alex Kass, Accenture Published: 11 Oct 2007 16:29 BST Imagine a world where a device in your pocket lets you know whether you are managing your time well, talking too much...

Try this interesting happiness quiz from the Seattle PI.com How well do you know route to happiness? By DR. JOYCE BROTHERS The quest for happiness is a common one, but the need for it increases during troubled times. How much do you know about how to find it...

Happiness is partly about doing what you love and what you're good at and importantly, what's right. Happiness is also about learning new things and trying something new at regular intervals. For many people happiness and doing things differently is not always easy...

Memory power lies in pursuit of happiness Scarlett Chiang Monday, October 08, 2007 Being happy is the key to strengthening memory power, a survey shows. The Hong Kong Memory Study Association has found that 90 percent of 2,300 people who said they were unhappy complained that their...

Body-mind Meditation Boosts Performance, Reduces Stress Science Daily - A team of researchers from China and the University of Oregon have developed an approach for neuroscientists to study how meditation might provide improvements in a person's attention and response to stress. The study, done in China,...

This is a happiness story that's very interesting! The happiness paradox Monday, October 08, 2007 Thanks to scientific research, we now know that people with high happiness quotients are more likely to suffer greater bouts of unhappiness. That's the conclusion of a study in the October issue...

At The Happiness Institute we've been promoting the benefits of living in, and enjoying the moment for quite a while now and our activities in this domain frequenly involve a form of applied meditation. There's no doubt that regular meditation contributes to happiness and,...