By Rob Silverblatt of USNEWS (click here for original article) Over the past several years, Richard Davidson has peered into the minds of monks, pored over brain scans, analyzed neural processes, and maybe_ã”just maybe_ã”discovered some of the keys to manufacturing happiness. dblclick('xxlA'); Davidson, a professor at the University...
Thoughts on Happiness By Lionel Ketchian (www.happinessclub.com) Happiness leaves clues. Let's explore them. The decision to be happy is most important. Unless you give happiness a try, you will never know how happiness feels or how great it works. Gratitude is essential to the experience...
by Marshall Goldsmith for BusinessWeek If you want to acquire a sense of meaning and happiness, enlist a friend to assist you on a regular basis. All it takes is one phone call a day In my work, the most frequent question I hear is:...
If you keep on doing what you've always done, you'll keep on getting what you've always got; so if you're not as happy as you'd like to be then for more happiness, you might need to consider doing something different. Even if you already have...
At the end of last year (2009) a fascinating study was published in The Journal of Positive Psychology; in this paper a number of researchers from Belgium and the UK explored what they called _ã–mental time travel_ã and the effects of daily practice. In simple terms,...
By Richard Wisement (from www.telegraph.co.uk) A decade ago, I set out to investigate luck. I wanted to examine the impact on people's lives of chance opportunities, lucky breaks and being in the right place at the right time. After many experiments, I believe that I now...
by John Grohol from PsychCentral Yes, I know. There are dozens of books written about how to increase your happiness, probably hundreds of different blogs all promising you the secrets to the keys of happiness, and thousands of articles written on this topic. Since the positive...
The Christian Science Monitor writes that happiness may well come from living cheaply. To read more, and to find out the benefits of spending money on experiences and time rather than stuff...
This article from Psychology Today sums up some really fascinating research! Did you know that genuine smiles predict happy and satisfied marriages? Can you believe that genuine smiles predict living a longer life? Happiness, and it's reflection in real, genuine smiles, is highly correlated with...
by C. Clinton Sidle In an editorial in the New York Times last week David Brooks argued that most of us pay attention to the wrong things when it comes to happiness and success. We want to believe that success and material gain bring happiness, but...