Travel And Exploration Spark Happiness, Study Suggests
There's not much we can do now, given current restrictions and limitations. But we can start to dream and maybe even plan...
26 May, 2020
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Understanding the Links Between Personality and Happiness
via Psychology Today by Luke Smilie Scholars have long asserted that well-being is the ultimate end-goal of virtually every human endeavour. If this is even partly true, then identifying the factors that influence well-being is an important mission for psychological science. And one factor that seems to...
25 May, 2020
Highly resilient people do these 6 things
Happiness isn't always easy. Happiness, therefore, requires resilience. Those wanting happiness could benefit from doing what these resilient people do...
22 May, 2020
10 Exercises That Will Help You Develop the Mental Strength You Need to Crush Your Goals
via Inc by Amy Morin If you want to lift heavier objects, you need more physical strength. Large biceps and a strong back will go a long way toward helping you do the heavy lifting. Well, the same can be said for your mental muscles. If you want...
22 May, 2020
How to Find and Practice Courage
Achieving happiness requires little more than practising a few simple disciplines, each and every day. That's been my motto for several decades now. Except what is missing from this motto is the recognition that practising positive disciplines isn't always easy. Happiness isn't just feeling good...
21 May, 2020
5 Ways to Give—and Feel Happier—During This Pandemic
via Psychology Today by Catherine Sanderson On the morning of December 26, 2004, Petra Němcová, a model from the Czech Republic, and her boyfriend, Simon Atlee, a British photographer, were vacationing at a resort on the coast of Thailand when an earthquake triggered a tsunami in...
20 May, 2020
The chemistry and psychology of kindness
If happiness and kindness aren't siblings then they're almost certainly first cousins! Happy people are more likely to be kind; and kind people are more likely to be happy. As such, this article on kindness is very much at home on this blog about happiness...
19 May, 2020
2 Psychological Tricks That Will Help You Stop Worrying About Things You Can’t Control
It's hard to be happy if you're worry all the time; especially if you're worrying about things you can't control. But the good news is there're things you can do about it. Here are a few "tricks" to help you worry less and, therefore, free...
15 May, 2020
The 8 Key Elements of Resilience
via Psychology Today by Shahram Heshmat Resilience is defined as the psychological capacity to adapt to stressful circumstances and to bounce back from adverse events. Resilience is considered a process to build resources toward searching for a better future after potentially traumatic events. Some of these resources come from our inherent...
14 May, 2020
What Is Happiness? To find happiness, we have to understand what it is (or can be).
via Psychology Today by Benjamin Radcliff This post discusses three different ways psychologists conceive of happiness, with the hope of drawing some tangible lessons about happiness for real people in their day-to-day lives. These ideas (and many others) are discussed in depth in my book on Happiness: A...
14 May, 2020