happiness Tag

Weekend Competition: Chronologies for Happiness This weekend, co-vocabularists are invited to devise chronological prescriptions for contentment. One traditional formula ran thus: If you wish to be happy for a day, get well shaved;For a week, get invited to a wedding;For a month, buy a good nag;For half a...

22 August, 2009

Most people live their lives backwards. They attempt to acquire more money and stuff in order to be happy. But the key to happiness is to be fulfilled with what you have, knowing you've got what you deserve. A truly happy person is one who can...

21 August, 2009

The severe economic downturn has forced many people to reassess their values and the ways they act on them in their daily lives. For some, the pursuit of happiness, sanity, or even survival, has been transformed. Happy Days is a discussion about the search for contentment...

21 August, 2009

Achieving happiness requires nothing more than practising a few simple disciplines every day. This has long been our motto, here at The Happiness Institute, and it's just been reinforced from two quite different stories. Quite by coincidence, and a strange coincidence at that, I've been concurrently...

20 August, 2009

Happiness is doing something positive, for yourself and for others, that isn't necessarily expected; happiness is a nice surprise...

20 August, 2009

Meditation has long been lauded. Now science has shown that deep relaxation changes our bodies on a genetic level - for the better. Anastasia Stephens reports. It's a piece of advice yogis have given for thousands of years: take a deep breath and relax. Watch the...

20 August, 2009

PARENTS of children at private schools say they are not as interested in school performance tables as the Federal Government claims they are. The parents are more interested in the happiness, safety and social development of their children, says a position statement being drafted by the...

20 August, 2009

That's why University of Nebraska-Lincoln researcher Fred Luthans said it's essential during an economic downturn for businesses to help employees build "psychological capital" -- hopefulness, optimism, resiliency and happiness. Besides being good for employees, it's good for business, Luthans said: Research clearly shows a company...

20 August, 2009

Happiness is making new friends; happiness is catching up with old friends; happiness is appreciating other people...

19 August, 2009