The science of happiness, more formally known as positive psychology, uses many tools and strategies to achieve its outcomes. Among these are "appreciative enquiry" and the identification and utilisation of strengths. Among other things, these have been utilised to enhance happiness and wellbeing...
When happiness knocks Ruth Ostrow | April 04, 2008 I heard a wonderful parable the other day that captures something so profound I thought it worth repeating. A man returned from war to find his five-year-old son had been killed when bandits came in and sacked...
Money tilts the happiness scale Vancouver Sun Published: Friday, April 04, 2008 The old bromide that money can't buy happiness is accepted as conventional wisdom and researchers have bent over backwards trying to prove that it's true. But too often the surveys and studies measure the wrong things. Dozens...
Giving Money Brings Joy Published On Wednesday, April 02, 2008 1:03 AM By HYUNG W. KIM Contributing Writer A study has found that money does indeed bring happiness-spending money on other people, that is. Authored by Harvard Business School professor Michael I. Norton and Elizabeth W. Dunn "99,...
Check out the Wall Street Journal's article "On happiness, money and TV". It reviews a good study in the happiness area, conducted by a few of the very well known happiness researchers (including economists) and provides some practical happiness tips to boot. Click here to...
Here at The Happiness Institute we've long considered meditation as one of the more useful strategies for those wanting to experience more happiness by living in, and enjoying the present moment. Well, here's a nice confirmation of our beliefs in an article that reviews some...
"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves." - Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt...
As many of you know, my background is in clinical psychology and I still operate a clinical psychology practice that primarily offers CBT (or cognitive behavioural therapies). You can find out more at http://www.makingchanges.com.au but the point of this posting is that our current...
I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing. - William James, 1842-1910, American Philosopher and Psychologist In our coaching work we often encourage people to do knowing that they will then feel. That is, if you want to feel happiness, then do...