Here’s an interesting article on happiness, parenting, political views and all sorts of other fascinating findings from the happiness research.
Click here to read more from The Economist
There’s little doubt that those who meditate regulalry experience more happiness and better health that others.
Well here’s some good news for those of you wanting more happiness and health - you can learn to meditate on love and compassion and as a result, benefit considerable.
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As many regular readers would well know, at The Happiness Institute we believe that happiness involves others (that is, my happiness is not just about me but also about my family and friends and colleagues etc).
Accordingly, we often say that happiness is not just feeling good but it’s also about doing good (to and […]
An interview I filmed for Chanel 7’s Today Tonight show aired this evening and below you can read the transcript.
Affluenza: an unhealthy desire
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Reporter: Bryan Seymour
Broadcast Date: March 27, 2008
New research says Australians have a very bad case of ‘affluenza’ - a desire for luxuries that comes at the expense of other things.
Jana […]
Now here’s a fascinating study.
At The Happiness Institute we’ve long argued that happiness is not simply the absence of depression or misery.
This interesting research points to a more complicated relationship between happiness and depression.
To read a nice, succinct summary - click here
A new happiness survey in New Zealand has revealed some interesting results.
To read more about, among other things, which regions report more happiness - click here
Money does not buy happiness…
There’s been a great deal of media coverage recently about whether or not money can make you happy, much of it inconsistent or unclear. This article in the UK’s Telegraph on March 22, entitled “Money does not buy happiness” quotes research presented at the recent Royal Economic Society’s 2008 annual conference. […]
These two quotes need no happiness interpretation:
To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us. – William Hazlitt, 1778-1830, English Writer and Literary Critic
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in […]
I stumbled across this story on reality and happiness in India’s economic times and began reading with interest…when I discovered that although they’d spelled my name incorrectly I was actually quoted!
They seem to have taken a few quotes and ideas from my Body + Soul happiness column which is fine by me; the more people […]
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