wellbeing Tag

How to improve psychological well-being by Joe Wilner Topics such as life-satisfaction and well-being are commonly considered in positive psychology and increasingly more in the mental health field. Measures of well-being offer the chance to uncover whether people are getting their overall needs met, and provide...

23 March, 2011

Here at The Happiness Institute we're obviously interested in happiness and positive psychology but we're also fascinated by the links between happiness and more traditional or physcial aspects of health. As the name suggests my first book, The Good Sleep Guide, addressed the relationship between...

18 February, 2011

Getting richer does not make a country happier in the long run, according to the largest-ever review of the links between a nation's wealth and the wellbeing of its citizens. The researchers looked at life satisfaction data from 37 countries collected over various time periods, from...

14 December, 2010

from the blog of Jeremy McCarthy In the last several years, psychology has been flipped on its head with the growth and popularity of positive psychology. While psychology traditionally has focused on studying things we want less of such as depression and mental illness, positive psychology...

08 December, 2010

By Erin Skarda for Time magazine If you need another reason to give thanks at the dinner table on Thursday, how's this: people who maintain an "attitude of gratitude" tend to be happier and healthier than those who don't, according to a lengthy and instructive article...

26 November, 2010

by Christopher Peterson for Psychology Today The premise of positive psychology is simple but important: the absence of distress and disorder is not the same thing as happiness and fulfillment. Can a similar premise be proposed with respect to physical well-being, namely that the absence of...

02 November, 2010

Happiness Related With Well Being of Others by Prakash Sharma on http://topnews.us A recent study conducted at Cambridge University has shown that happiness comes when your friends and families do well. A study into men's and women's contradictory attitudes to well-being has discovered that, people's happiness is...

16 April, 2010

Many of us realize the importance of a healthy diet and have started having 5 servings of fruits and vegetables per day. There is profound evidence about its benefits to our physical health. If I now tell you there are also 5 easy daily practices...

21 March, 2010

Inspiration, or more precisely the lack of it, strikes fear into the hearts of many students faced with an assignment or test, a blank sheet of paper and a ticking clock. I can remember countless times, sitting nervously in an exam hall, trying hard not...

28 February, 2010