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By Deborah Rafferty for the Daily Utah Chronicle The holiday season can be stressful for many people. From buying gifts to dealing with extended family members, there are many triggers that can cause holiday angst. The U department of educational psychology is hosting a seminar Thursday...

by Sarah Hampson for the Globe and Mail Anyone can write a love note to himself to help create lasting happiness. The only caveat is that it doesn_ã_t work as well if you_ã_re too self-critical, needy and oversensitive to potential abandonment. That_ã_s the finding of a...

LONDON _ã” The government plans to introduce a "happiness index" to gauge its population's psychological and environmental wellbeing, a source told the Guardian newspaper Monday. Prime Minister David Cameron will ask the Office of National Statistics to prepare methods which will measure the "general wellbeing" despite...

I've often talked about my desire to start and/or be part of a happiness revolution; a movement I believe has already begun in which our health system really focuses on health rather than sickness; in which parents focus on the best in their children not...

The complete guide to blaming: How to play and how to quit. by Neil Farber for Psychology Today   I'm all about positivity. ? Belong to the International Positive Psychology Association ?Member of the Positive Health Section ?Have a website called wwwThePositivePower.net ?lecture on Creating a Positive...

As I've written about before, happiness comes at least partly from living in the moment (see this previous blog posting). But as long as we do it right, happiness also comes from positive reminiscing and future planning (especially when the planning involes setting and working towards...