science Tag

by Belle Beth Cooper from news.com.au  EVERYONE has different ideas about happiness, what it is and how to get it. I'd love to be happier, as I'm sure most people would, so I've found 11 ways to achieve this that are actually backed by science. 1. EXERCISE FOR...

26 August, 2013

from Wildmind (HERE)  I’m a science geek as well as a Buddhist geek, and recently when I was leading a retreat on how to bring more joy into our lives I found myself making a lot of references to an article published in Yes magazine, which...

16 March, 2013

Last year’s most surprising, provocative, and inspiring findings on the science of living a meaningful life. by Jeremy Adam Smith (HERE)  The science we cover here on Greater Good—aka, “the science of a meaningful life”—has exploded over the past 10 years, with many more studies published each...

06 January, 2013

It won't surprise any of you to read that here at The Happiness Institute we're very interested in feelings...

17 January, 2012

From OnePowerfulWord In the last few years, psychologists and researchers have been digging up hard data on a question previously left to philosophers: What makes us happy? Researchers like the father-son team Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener, Stanford psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky, and ethicist Stephen Post have...

08 October, 2010

Scientist inspired by Dalai Lama studies happiness By RYAN J. FOLEY (AP) After hearing about his cutting-edge research on the brain and emotions through mutual friends, the Dalai Lama invited Richard Davidson to his home in India in 1992 to pose a question. Scientists often study depression,...

16 May, 2010

By Rob Silverblatt of USNEWS (click here for original article) Over the past several years, Richard Davidson has peered into the minds of monks, pored over brain scans, analyzed neural proc­esses, and maybe_ã”just maybe_ã”discovered some of the keys to manufacturing happiness. dblclick('xxlA'); Davidson, a professor at the University...

15 April, 2010

By understanding the science of happiness and applying the findings from happiness research, more people can enjoy greater life satisfaction. But, finding happiness is not just about feeling good or feeling positive emotions for the sake of pleasure. To find out more about happiness science and...

16 October, 2009

BY KENN L. CHUA, Junior Researcher The science of happiness ONE OF THE IRONIES in the Arroyo administration is the record public dissatisfaction with the government despite the relative strength of the economy. In most places, a sound economy is enough to make most people happy. In a...

25 September, 2009