In "The Great Eight," American gold medal Olympian Scott Hamilton reveals the secrets to happiness that helped him through his battle with cancer. In this excerpt, he writes about how each of life's challenges can be a gift. To read more about happiness and resilience...
20 Tips for a Positive New Year From www.jongordon.com 1. Stay Positive. You can listen to the cynics and doubters and believe that success is impossible or you can know that with faith and an optimistic attitude all things are possible. 2. When you wake up...
Being able to independently maintain your own sense of well-being allows you to find happiness within - whatever is going on outside of yourself. Studies show that happy people are able to produce a minimum of three times more positive than negative emotions within themselves....
Young unemployed adults need more help to deal with mental health problems, the Prince's Trust charity has warned. One in 10 youngsters questioned in a survey disagreed that "life was really worth living". Those not in work or education were less likely to be happy....
Tibetan monk offers path to escape economic crisis 'Mind training' ê_Ô_ In SLC, he advises Americans to be less attached to wealth. By Paul Beebe The Salt Lake Tribune Updated: 01/03/2009 05:04:01 PM MST One path to recovery from the worst financial crisis gripping the world since the Great Depression...
BYU study: Health decline makes happier couples Associated Press - January 3, 2009 1:25 PM ET PROVO, Utah (AP) - A Brigham Young University study says that couples who have one member experiencing a decline in health report a happier marriage afterward. The study is published in...
IT is that time again when it is customary to wish everyone a Happy New Year! The operational word is, of course, "Happy"! But it may not be so for this year, if what have been forecast for 2009 is to be believed. Many pundits...
Physical Disability Brings Marital Happiness ScienceDaily (Jan. 3, 2009) - A new study finds that the onset of physical disability boosts marital happiness more often than not. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brigham Young University professor Jeremy Yorgason's findings - reported in the academic journal Research on Aging - show what happens...
From livemint.com a publication of the Wall Street Journal The secret to happiness, science would have us believe, is shaped like a kidney and weighs less than 1kg. You can"t see it working (not directly, anyway), and its inner mechanisms were largely a mystery until recently. You...
HAPPINESS IS CONTAGIOUS! Happiness can be contagious. This is the discovery that Nicholas Christakis, Harvard University medical sociologist, with James Fowler, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego, have co-authored. Christakis said: "Happiness is like a stampede. Whether you're happy depends...