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Happiness is an acquired perception How happy are you in your life? Are you happier now than you were in earlier years? Do you expect to become happier later in life? What are the circumstances under which you assume your happiness will occur? Who or what...

05 May, 2008

Reinventing Date Night for Long-Married Couples http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/health/12well.html By TARA PARKER-POPE Long-married couples often schedule a weekly "date night" -- a regular evening out with friends or at a favorite restaurant to strengthen their marital bond. But brain and behavior researchers say many couples are going about date night...

04 May, 2008

Little by little one walks far. - Peruvian Proverb Which is entirely consistent with one of our favourite Happiness Institute sayings - that achieving happiness requires little more than practicing a few simple disciplines every day. I have found the paradox, that if you...

03 May, 2008

How about this for a great happiness quote attributable, I believe, to a David Steindl-Rast: Happiness is not what makes us grateful. It is gratefulness that makes us happy....

03 May, 2008

Just as my team and I at The Happiness Institute are ramping up our efforts to promote happiness in schools this great article written by Martin Seligman, one of the leaders in the happiness and positive psychology movement, about promoting happiness and well being in...

03 May, 2008

Wealth may be playing less of a role in Americans" pursuit of happiness, according to results from a Pew Research Center survey. Thirteen percent of 2,413 respondents in a survey earlier this year said being wealthy was "very important" to them, according to a survey posted...

03 May, 2008

The undo effect 1 May 2008by Richard A. Lovett Cosmos Online Happiness has a positive influence on longevity and health, but what's behind this effect? Psychologists are uncovering evidence that positive emotions undo the physical damage done by stress, fear and anxiety. To read more on how happiness might...

02 May, 2008

From time to time, well quite regularly actually, I bring to you stories in the news that some how or other relate to or touch upon happiness, positive psychology, coaching or pesonal development. If you read most newspapers, however, you'll probably soon realise that...

01 May, 2008

What makes you happy? What brings happiness to others? We can all learn from others and my fellow happiness blogger, Gretchen over at The Happiness Project, has begun interviewing a range of people and asking them, not surprisingly, what they do to create happiness. To...

01 May, 2008