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Are you a mother (or, for that matter, a father) and searching for happiness? Psychologists are now saying that the joy of motherhood is getting challenged by the stress of motherhood. There is an increasing amount of evidence to suggest that many women are...

This will come as no surprise to those of you who are familiar with my writings and philosophy of happiness but in the interests of bringing you as many happiness stories as possible, from as many happiness sources as possible, the following story reinforces what...

Once relegated to the self-help bookshelf, the subject of happiness is becoming a respectable theme for scientific research and business thinking. The rise of positive psychology and the discovery of happiness circuits in the brain have gone hand in hand with a growing realisation that...

Part of happiness involves accepting and then managing negative emotions such as 'stress". So in the interests of helping you achieve happiness by getting on top of stress, I thought you might like to review the following article (accessed by clicking on the link...

The question of what happiness really means and how it can be achieved has been a topic of deep human thought since Greek philosophers such as Aristotle and Plato began to discuss the true meaning of "eudaimonia," the Greek word for happiness. They said the experience...

Consider the following happiness line from a wonderful book titled "The Little Prince": For instance, if you come at four in the afternoon I'll begin to be happy by three. If we set up our lives in a way whereby we know that happiness is just...

An award-winning psychologist exposes traditional wisdom to the scrutiny of science to show why ancient insights still help us live more meaningful-and healthy-lives Your grandmother was smarter than you knew. In fact, grandmothers and other sages, in cultures all over the world, have handed down...

Although almost five million Brits admit to a touch of ergophobia (fear of work), the good news is that bosses think the situation is worse than it is - scoring their workers" happiness lower than workers rate it themselves. The finding comes from City & Guilds...