February 2009

Looking for happiness in all the right places Pastor's Corner by Dennis and Vicki Martin In a letter to his daughters, which Barack Obama publicly shared with us, he writes about how being a father changed his focus even as it brought him more happiness than any of...

By TOM MUHA, For The Capital When people think about losing weight, many consider it to be a losing battle. As they contemplate another attempt at slimming down, their mind automatically recalls all of their past failure experiences. These thoughts doom dieters from the beginning...

PsychCentral, which runs stories on all matters psychological including happiness and positive psychology coaching, ask the question "Is Happiness Tied to Emotions or Material Gifts?". To read more - click here The Baltimore Sun comments on the enduring positive psychology question about the relationship between...

A researcher from Kansas State University says employers should be concerned with the well-being of their employees because it could be the underlying factor to success. Thomas Wright, professor of management at K-State and the Jon Wefald Leadership Chair in Business Administration, found when employees...

Love 101 The study of love hasn"t been lost on the radical humanistic psychology of the 1970's. It is alive and well today. Robert Sternberg, Dean of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University, developed a triangular theory of love relationships. He claims that consummate or complete...

Circuits in your brain light up when you're happy. One groundbreaking researcher has discovered how to keep them lit. There are no dark corners in Madison, Wisconsin, a university town that sparkles with endowment and research dollars-more than $900 million last year-as well as just plain...

Math tests, soccer matches, the cafeteria bully. Grammar diagrams, global warming, dad losing his job. Now add this to some 8-year-olds' schedules: a second- period class on dealing with stress. Before graduating another generation of workaholic, road-raged adults, a number of California schools are intervening as...

The San Francisco Chronicle notes you can learn happiness - click here to read more Red and Black in Athens USA argues you can choose happiness, regardless of your situation - click here to read more And from WalesOnline, a suggestion that you can catch happiness -...