When it comes to health and wellbeing, mental health and happiness, and most areas of life in fact, what you believe is important. Even more so, believing that what you believe is important is also important. Whether you're interested in happiness or not, although if...
Eric Barker is a great writer, who covers and makes sense of the science in areas such as happiness and wellbeing, life and more! He does a great job of briefly reviewing the evidence, and then presenting it in a way that readers can put into...
Much of happiness, and, indeed, unhappiness, comes down to how we think about things. There's no doubt that negative life events can, and do, effect our mood, including our happiness, but there's also no doubt that the way we interpret, and think about negative life...
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Stress is constant, and ubiquitous. Which is OK. Until it isn't. That is, mild to moderate levels of stress are OK but when it becomes overwhelming, that can obviously be problematic. How so? Well, high levels of stress can undermine happiness and other positive emotions,...
I'm always reluctant to write or talk about "secrets" to happiness, or to say things like it's "easy". That being said, the strategies we know of that boost happiness are, in some ways, relatively simple. Simple, isn't always easy, and however you put it, most...
We all feel down and depressed sometimes, and we all definitely feel tired and sluggish sometimes. We all know, I think, that it's hard to be happy if you're down and lacking energy! So, for more happiness, we need to address these challenges. And the good...
Happiness, can be so elusive and yet so easy to enjoy. Positive emotions come and go, and we could enjoy them more, for longer, if only we were aware of and practised just a few (relatively) simple strategies. So many positive emotions are "wasted" because...
Most people enjoy positive emotions like happiness because they feel good. But they're also really good for us. Positive emotions like happiness can protect against stress and depression, and help to build resilience. And it's not just happiness. Other positive emotions have wonderful benefits too...
Although I write and talk a lot about happiness, what I'm really interested in is what positive psychologists call thriving and flourishing. This is about living a good life, our best lives, which includes positive emotions like happiness but also, much more. In addition to...