"Happiness does not heal, but happiness protects against falling ill," says Ruut Veenhoven of Rotterdam's Erasmus University in a study to be published next month. After reviewing 30 studies carried out worldwide over periods ranging from one to 60 years, the Dutch professor said the...
Do you want more happiness? Even if you're already happy, would you like more happiness in your life? Well why wouldn't you! But if you want something more than you currently have you'll probably need to change in some way. Because the only time things will...
Being happy and staying happy isn't up to your genetic makeup or your life circumstances alone, says happiness researcher Sonja Lyubomirsky of the University of California, Riverside, who told an audience at the American Psychological Association on Friday that people can add to their capacity...
For quite some time now I"ve taken what's called an ideographic approach to understanding people and, in my career as a therapist and coach, to helping them. In simple terms, this approach is based on the premise that we"re all different and contrasts with...
Please enjoy this interesting article from my friend, Lionel Ketchian's Be Happy Zone eNewsletter. HIERARCHY OF HAPPINESS Attending a lecture this past Thursday by Mark Setton, Ph.D., held at our New Haven Happiness Club, I realized that the characteristics of the self-actualized person are the...
ENDANGERED ice caps and polar bears notwithstanding, the thing that most annoys me about global warming is that the climate wars have turned its prophets into priests of a new campaign against the modern world. It's a few years since Australian author and former think tank...
Research over the last few decades has increasingly pointed to the fact that happiness is associated with longer life. Click here to read more. But I would say that's only part of the picture. Happiness may well be linked to living more years but...
So much for the grumpy old man/woman image! It seems that we may well become happier, not grumpier and more irritable, as we age. If the Rolling Stones couldn't get no satisfaction in their youth, new research suggests they might have a better shot...
We all want to be happy but for many people, happiness is harder during the winter months. An extreme form of unhappiness, or depression experienced by a small proportion of people during colder times is known as SAD or Seasonal Affective Disorder. It's...