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Happiness through change and life transition

Life is never static and so to be happy and to continually experience happiness I've previously talked about the benefits of flexibility. Well, what's also important for happiness is the ability to effectively navigate change and to create positive transitions. This is one of the...

21 February, 2007

Direct connection between a nation’s overall happiness and its citizens’ blood pressure problems

Researchers at the University of Warwick have found a direct connection between a nation's overall happiness and its citizens' blood pressure problems. Sweden, Denmark and the UK come top of this blood pressure based happiness league while Germany, Portugal and Finland come bottom. The research...

20 February, 2007

Mindfulness & Happiness

There's a very valuable concept in mindfulness that's directly relevant to happiness - it concerns the non-judgemental observation of reality. In essence, it's about watching what is and what isn't, expecting no more or no less, and accepting "this is it". While conducting...

20 February, 2007

Famous Quoes modified for Happiness

I came across the following two great quotes and have made some modifications to make then more relevant to happiness. Let me know what you think...

20 February, 2007

Why do primates and humans experience less happiness and more stress than other animals?

Why do humans and their primate cousins get more stress-related diseases than any other member of the animal kingdom? The answer, says Stanford University neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky, is that people, apes and monkeys are highly intelligent, social creatures with far too much spare time on...

19 February, 2007

Free Happiness Test

I've just added an interesting new resource to our happiness site. Click on the following link and complete The Happiness Institute's Happiness Test to find out how happy you really are - free happiness test. ...

19 February, 2007

Happiness Life Coaching versus Therapy for Misery

There is a saying: "Life is a ball of yarn - if you want to unwind it, you need a therapist, if you want to make a sweater, you get a life coach." At The Happiness Institute we're all about promoting happiness, satisfaction and wellbeing (not...

19 February, 2007

Gossip may be good for happiness!

Gossip is a stress buster Men gossip as much as women, but they spend more time talking about themselves. This is one of the findings from a study about the role of mobile telecommunications in the 21st century. The study, "Evolution, Alienation and Gossip" by the...

19 February, 2007

The Happiness Hypothesis

One of the more interesting, and better, happiness books released during the last few years has been Jonathan Haidt's "The Happiness Hypothesis; finding modern truth in ancient wisdom." Although this blog posting is not intended in any way to provide a full or thorough...

19 February, 2007

Relationships and happiness

Another interesting study from the latest Journal of Positive Psychology explored the association between interpersonal relationships, irrational beliefs and happiness (or life satisfaction). In short, the results indicated that interpersonal relationships mediated the association between irrational thoughts and happiness. What does this mean?...

19 February, 2007