September 2009

Because happy people tend to have a clear sense of life purpose, which allows for greater clarity of their life direction and specific and measurable life goals, these happy people also tend to feel markedly more focused and in control _ã_ of themselves, their lives...

16 September, 2009

September 15, 2009, 9:30 pm The Long and Short of It By Paul Bloom Is it better to be a happy pig or sad Socrates? How should one choose between happiness and other values, such as wisdom, morality, and piety? You have an angel on one shoulder,...

16 September, 2009

As I've said and written many times before, happiness is not just feeling good; happiness is just as much about doing good. There is a growing body of valid and reliable research from which we can confidently conclude that _ã–in giving, we receive_ã.  That is,...

16 September, 2009

Background TV found to have negative effect on parent-child interactions More than a third of American infants and toddlers live in homes where the television is on most or all the time, even if no one's watching. A new study looks for the first time at...

16 September, 2009

By Lionel Ketchian  - www.happinessclub.com   You are about to read the first happiness guarantee ever made. If you follow what I am about to reveal to you, I guarantee your happiness. If you choose not to follow it, you can have your unhappiness back. This...

16 September, 2009

Clive Thompson wrote the recent New York Times story, Is Happiness Catching? focusing largely on the work of social scientists Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler. Their studies suggest you can catch not only happiness, but possibly obesity and smoking, or their healthy antitheses. Thompson concludes his...

15 September, 2009

Happiness doesn't come easily. It takes work, preparation and positive thinking. Tal Ben-Shahar, author of "Happier" and "The Pursuit of Perfect," discusses the importance of positive psychology and its role in a happy life. First, accept your emotions. It's perfectly natural to be sad, unhappy...

15 September, 2009

Happiness is a fundamental object of human existence. To the extent that it is synonymous with pleasure, it could even be said to be one of the "two sovereign masters" that, Jeremy Bentham argued, govern our lives. The other master, lest we forget, is pain.Our...

14 September, 2009

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14 September, 2009

Please see below a guest article from this morning's free eNewsletter from The Happiness Institute. If you're not already receiving these then sign up now (great info and tips and...

14 September, 2009