happy Tag

Here at The Happiness Institute we believe that happiness and healthiness are intimately linked.  It's hard to be happy if you're sick and tired and it's hard to be healthy without the positivity that comes from happiness.  Creating health is not overly difficult but sometimes, it requires...

28 July, 2014

by Eric Barker University of California professor Sonja Lyubomirsky details the things research shows the happiest people have in common. Via The How of Happiness: They devote a great amount of time to their family and friends, nurturing and enjoying those relationships. They are comfortable expressing gratitude for all...

25 July, 2014

I'm not always a fan of positive affirmations.  There's no doubt they work for some people, some of the time. But if they're unrealistic and irrelevant then they can also set people up for failure and simply cause disappointment and frustration.  None of which is good for...

23 July, 2014

by Cris Nikolov from MotivationGrid Wait, what did you just say to yourself? Were they the empowering, encouraging words you would speak to a friend?  Or were they the belittling remarks you would shout to an enemy if you had no heart?  Or the negative remarks about...

22 July, 2014

Here at The Happiness Institute we've long said that achieving happiness requires little mroe than practising a few simple disciplines each and every day.  We've also often argued that happiness need not be overly complicated; but rather, that it largely derives from common sense.  But common sense...

18 July, 2014

Happy people are realistic people.  They acknowledge that they're not and that the world's not perfect.  But they also acknowledge and focus more on and spend more time savouring ...

17 July, 2014

Here at The Happiness Institute we are, not surprisingly, big advocates of positive emotion and happiness.  Too often, we believe, the benefits of (real) happiness are ignored or underestimated. But there are real benefits to happiness and these should be acknowledged and utilised to live our...

17 July, 2014