Happy Tips

If you want to create an abundance of genuinely positive emotions, then you need to know what's most valuable to you. How often do you think about your values? The happiest people on the planet do it every day. If you don't know what you...

08 May, 2007

How would you teach happiness? What do you think is important in terms of happiness lessons? Click below to read an interesting happiness story, questioning several people about their thoughts on happiness and how it might be taught. Click here to read more. ...

07 May, 2007

The secret of happiness, it seems to me, is to be largely preoccupied with things other than oneself and one's own physical condition. As a society, however, we are increasingly self-obsessed, in a weirdly self-destructive way: British people are gripped by discussions of body weight,...

07 May, 2007

How great would it be if all our children learned happiness skills at school? This is certainly one of our dreams (goals) at The Happiness Institute so it's great to read happiness articles such as this - click here. ...

06 May, 2007

Positive psychology has for some time now advocated that happiness is possible for all (or most) who tend to their mental health. Many who work in this area have also suggested that happiness is, in some ways anyway, related to spirituality and faith. The two...

06 May, 2007

I believe happiness can be found in all sorts of (sometimes strange) places but it might not surprise you to read that after a recent Chinese meal with my family I discovered some interesting and thought provoking, hopefully happiness inducing quotes within the fortune cookies...

06 May, 2007

I'm often asked something along these lines - does happiness require turning a blind eye to reality? And my answer is definitely "no". Happy people are undoubtedly more optimistic than those who experience less happiness but their optimism is not blind optimism. That is,...

05 May, 2007

An important research study published its findings recently and claimed to have found evidence supporting the notion that regular, monthly therapy sessions were helpful in staving off relapse in depression. This is not surprising as depression has for some time now been considered a...

05 May, 2007

Find more time and happiness in your life by using one of positive psychology's powerful weapons against apathy and automatic negativity - try the morning test! In a short but interesting article on the happiness website, happynews.com, David Pollay describes a few situations and events to...

05 May, 2007

Friends worth their weight in cash By Tom Kelly and Tristan Swanwick May 02, 2007 01:00am But that hasn't stopped economists having a go. They have calculated exactly how valuable friends and family can be, with a lot of additions and subtractions. Seeing them every day is worth...

04 May, 2007