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With Mother's Day, Father's Day and high school and college graduations upcoming, there will be plenty of gift-giving and well wishes. When those start pouring in, let yourself be grateful-it's the best way to achieve happiness according to several new studies conducted by Todd Kashdan,...

13 March, 2009

Helen Keller once said, "Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." I once had a conversation with a good friend of mine who led me to one very...

13 March, 2009

You can find happiness in other people; you can find happiness in nature; you can find happiness in books, in learning, in your work and in all manner of things, activities and places...

11 March, 2009

THE fear of looming job losses is affecting workers' morale so much some employers have resorted to "happiness classes" for key personnel. Even companies that seem to be weathering the storm are suffering from "pre-absenteeism" among staff who can't focus because of the fear of losing...

10 March, 2009

Positive psychology researchers led by Hilary Tindle, an internist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, analyzed eight years of data on 97,253 women, age 50 and over, participating in the Women's Health Initiative, a 15-year study launched in 1991 by the National Institutes of...

09 March, 2009

Happiness hardly seems at the top of the management agenda when the financial world is falling apart. But, as participants at a seminar on "Recession: health and happiness", organised by the Economic and Social Research Council, heard last week, it probably should be. Hard times put...

08 March, 2009

Although we think the concept of happiness at work, and more accurately, applying the principles of positive psychology at work is an important one to pursue we also, here at The Happiness Institute, try not to take ourselves too seriously. Hence, with a smile...

08 March, 2009

Data from the Gallup World Poll drove the findings, with adults in more than 140 countries providing a representative sample of 95 percent of the world's population. The sample included more than 150,000 adults. Participants reported emotions such as happiness, enjoyment, worry and sadness. They described...

08 March, 2009

Recent scientific studies prove what ancient people have known from, well, Antiquity, and namely that individuals who are always in a good mood and remain positive throughout the day experience less diseases and less sickness than those who are always gloomy. Researchers from the University...

06 March, 2009