Research indicates that practicing loving kindness meditation increases positive emotions including happiness, love, joy, gratitude, contentment, hope, pride, amusement and awe. Participants also benefited from an increase in mindfulness, self-acceptance, positive relationships and good physical health, as well as increased life satisfaction. To read more from...
"You make me feel better with your energy." "I want whatever you"re on." Two of the most recent comments I received - not from clients - but from colleagues. So, why am I at ease with myself despite a great recession, daily obstacles and...
A new University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) study published in the advanced online edition of the journal Social Indicators Research suggests a link between the ease with which older adults can access and understand health information and their happiness. In the study, researchers surveyed...
Anecdotal reports have, for many years, suggested that laughter and happiness help us recover more quickly from illness. In this short article, we learn that this is not just a good story...
Review by Paul Bloom Sunday, April 19, 2009 Attention and the Focused Life By Winifred Gallagher Penguin Press. 244 pp. $25.95 Don't check your e-mail; stop Twittering, browsing, Facebooking, eating, drinking, listening to music and watching the children. Take seriously, if just for a few minutes,...
This story touches on a topic I frequently refer to as "the tyranny of when" by which I mean thinking we'll find happiness when...
1. Some people are born happy 2. Getting what you want doesn"t bring lasting happiness 3. Pain is a part of happiness 4. Mindfulness brings happiness 5. Happiness lies in the chase 6. Yes, money buys happiness 7. Happiness is relative 8. Options make us miserable 9. Happiness is other people 10. Do your...
By Lily Garcia Special to washingtonpost.com Thursday, April 16, 2009; 6:43 PM Do you have tips for employees about how to prevent catching the negativity virus during layoffs? Catch the happiness virus. Just as you can catch the "negativity virus," you can also be infected by...
From time to time I've brought to you the writings of my friend Lionel Ketchian, founder of Happiness Clubs all around the world. His words of wisdom are always worth considering so it is with great pleasure that once again I bring him to...
Researchers at National Taiwan University and the University of Arkansas parsed data from the National Health Interview Survey in Taiwan (where 1 in 4 children is overweight). Their study, published recently in the Journal of Happiness Studies, found some perhaps unsurprising but worth-repeating connections. Among...