mindfulness Tag

Here at The Happiness Institute our goal is to promote positivity and to help as many people as possible live their best lives.  It's pretty well agreed these days that for flourishing and thriving to be possible, self-awareness and mindfulness are necessary.  Which is why we think...

27 November, 2013

by Dr. Happy NB: this is taken from The Happiness Institute's free, weekly eNewsletter (to which you can subscribe, FOR FREE - HERE)  ..did you know that mindfulness is positively correlated with self-regulatory behaviour and positive emotional states. That is, when we're mindful we're more likely to...

16 March, 2013

by Shauna Shapiro via Greater Good I attended my first meditation retreat in Thailand 17 years ago. When I arrived, I didn’t know very much about mindfulness and I certainly didn’t speak any Thai. At the monastery, I vaguely understood the teachings of the beautiful Thai monk...

07 March, 2013

I talk and write about mindfulness quite often in the context of happiness and positive psychology which is why I thought you might enjoy this weekend reading...

19 January, 2013

from The Happiness Diet's blog (HERE)  In one of his less well known novels, "The Island", Aldous Huxley describes his version of the ideal, utopian society. One in which divisive politics and religion are replaced by acceptance and tolerance; where education involves real skills for living...

20 November, 2012

More and more mindfulness is being used beyond the realm of spiritual practice and as a powerful strategy for productivity and performance in the workplace...

06 November, 2012

Chris Peterson, one of the founders and leading lights in the positive psychology or science of happiness movement was once famously quoted as saying that in short, when it comes to happiness...

12 March, 2012