I've frequently been heard to say that healthy living is an important part of happiness as it's hard to be happy if you're sick and tired all the time. Well, I've just read a short but interesting article looking at happiness from a somatopsychic perspective...
Happiness on the medal stand - it's as simple as 1:3:2 By Shankar Vedantam Monday, August 18, 2008; Page A02 Nearly a century ago, American middle-distance runner Abel Kiviat entered the Stockholm Olympics as the odds-on favorite to win the 1,500-meter race, an event in which he...
I've written before, several times in fact, about the research showing that the relationship between money and happiness is relatively minimal. That is, money doesn't make people nearly as happy as they think it will! Well, research is research and for many people it's hard...
I have, for a year or two now, been teaching happiness (or more accurately, Positive Psychology) at UTS Business School. From next year (2009) I'll be teaching happiness (and positive psychology coaching) at RMIT in a new Wellness degree. Tal Ben-Shahar has, for quite some...
"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...