happy Tag

via the Huffington Post by Arlene Chaplin On my granddaughter’s 21st birthday, I sat with her and her expired driver’s license at the RMV on a hard wooden bench similar to the pews in old churches, shifting around to give my bones a rest from time...

08 October, 2015

via Thought Catalog by Kathryn Stanley A lot of people are able to tell us what happiness is not. Not as many are able to tell us what happiness is, or what brings it about, or what we can do to get it. In my opinion,...

07 October, 2015

via the Huffington Post by Poonacha Machaiah Seven years have flown by since I moved to India. It has been a fantastic journey reconnecting with my roots. Growing up in India, I did not have the luxury of travel, but thanks to the support of my family...

07 October, 2015

via Tiny Buddha by Maria Stenvinkel “Hug harder. Laugh louder. Smile bigger. Love longer.” ~Unknown Did you ever have it all mixed up? Happiness, I mean. I once thought that a university degree and good grades would make me happy. I thought that traveling the world would leave...

06 October, 2015

via the Huffington Post by Elyse Santilli According to the ancient Advaita philosophy, the morning has a special energetic quality to it - it's still, peaceful and enlightened in nature. This makes it the perfect time to set intentions, connect with your inner spirit and meditate. Creating a...

04 October, 2015

It's normal to have negative thoughts from time to time.  You wouldn't be human if you didn't have the odd pessimistic doubt or catastrophic worry.  But too much of these is undoubtedly unhelpful if we want happiness.  And certain thoughts are deadset killers of happiness and life success.  So...

28 September, 2015

For more than a decade now, here at The Happiness Institute we've been saying that achieving happiness requires little more than practising a few simple disciplines each and every day.  You see, those small habits build up in to big results...

27 September, 2015

via Eric Barker Trying to find happiness in a world so busy and complicated can seem impossible. What’s weird is that in so many ways our lives are objectively better than our grandparents’ lives were. We have more… yet we often feel worse. Don’t you wonder if...

26 September, 2015