happiness Tag

It's so easy to take things for granted.  It's so easy to forget those things in our life for which we could be grateful and appreciative.  It's so easy, therefore, to experience LESS happiness that we otherwise could.  But in yet another great post from Tiny Buddha, we're...

05 September, 2013

Do you really believe? In happiness? In yourself?  Are there challenges and obstacles that thwart your full enjoyment of life?  Do you question your abilities? Whether or not you really deserve to be happy and/or to enjoy specific activities?  Many of us could answer yes to one or...

05 September, 2013

by Peggy Drexler In 1998, psychologist Martin Seligman announced he was founding a new branch of psychology—one that, unlike old-fashioned psychology, focused more on the brighter sides of human nature than on the negative, dysfunctional, or pathological. His theory: That by looking at what makes you...

04 September, 2013

by James Brown from the Huffington Post Which are you doing right now, living or waiting? Various yoga practices are all techniques for becoming skilled at living more and waiting less, so that we get to make the most of this human experience. Last month, I...

29 August, 2013

Here at The Happiness Institute we've said since Day One that achieving happiness requires nothing more than practising a few simple disciplines, each and every day.  What that means is that each and every day, we make multiple decisions and the choices or decisions we make...

28 August, 2013