happiness Tag

I don't want to sound like a Scrooge but to a large extent, I think Mother's Day is just a plot hatched by marketing professionals to encourage us to buy more stuff (dare I say make us feel guilty if we don't buy more stuff)!  I've...

08 May, 2011

Now here's a great happiness related article from Science Daily ScienceDaily (May 2, 2011) — People who look at the past through rose-tinted glasses are happier than those who focus on negative past experiences and regrets, according to a new study published in the journal Personality...

06 May, 2011

The Happiness Within - by Jaime Cundy The Cullinan diamond is the world's largest diamond. Frederick Wells, a surface manager for the Premier Diamond Mining Company, found the diamond on January 26, 1905 in South Africa. There is no argument that the diamond had been residing in...

05 May, 2011

Here's another interesting article from Psychology Today by Nicholas Kardaras Oh, yeah. That decadent all-the-toppings Ben and Jerry's double fudge brownie is really going to taste good as you let it go from spoon to joy-spot. Mmm-hmmm. Yes indeed, that chocolaty good-taste is really going to make...

04 May, 2011

Flow is the technical term positive psychologists use for being "in the zone". Flow is a great way to boost your life satisfaction and wellbeing, as well as a great path to more happiness. In this morning's free eNewsletter I posted a series of articles...

02 May, 2011

by Joe Wilner from Psych Central One of my favorite contributions of positive psychology is the classification system to help people uncover their strengths as human beings. Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman are the two researchers whom created the ‘Values in Action Inventory of Strengths’ (VIA-IS), which...

01 May, 2011

I just re-read the title of an article I posted yesterday which included the words "simple rules for happiness". Funnily, I misread it and thought it said happiness is in simple rules" which made me rethink again, another theme...

29 April, 2011