happiness Tag

The science of happiness: the results are in Last week, we invited you to join the psychologist Richard Wiseman's latest mass experiment: an attempt to explore whether various techniques could boost your happiness. Participants were randomly assigned to one of five groups: four of the groups...

12 August, 2009

Happiness and mental health improve with age. A Pew Research Center study found that the happiest men are ages 60 to 69, while the least happy are ages 20 to 29. With the exception of those with age-dementia, mental health tends to improve as people...

12 August, 2009

Happiness is saying no; happiness is eliminating negativity from your life; happiness is sacking bad clients & focusing more on good ones...

12 August, 2009

Studies Say Teachers Should 'Accentuate the Positive' Everyone admires the "Orphan Annies" of the world_ã”those resilient kids who keep on smiling, forging ahead in the face of adversity. But can you actually teach someone to be resilient and positive? Apparently so, according to Martin E. P. Seligman,...

12 August, 2009

The epidemic of "busy-ness" that has crept into Australian family life is creating a generation of unhappy kids, according happiness expert and author Timothy Sharp. But often it's just a matter of perception, he says. "Perceived busy-ness is an increasing problem in our modern society,"...

11 August, 2009

When you're smiling, the whole world really does smile with you.A paper being published Friday in a British medical journal concludes that happiness is contagious - and that people pass on their good cheer even to total strangers.American researchers who tracked more than 4,700 people...

11 August, 2009

Happiness is flexibility; happiness is having options; happiness is focusing on the colour rather than the black and white...

11 August, 2009

Happiness is looking back over your day and reflecting on at least 3 good things that have happened; happiness is focusing on the positives...

10 August, 2009