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    Do Spirituality and Religion Increase Happiness and Well-Being?

    January 25, 2024

    Is it better for your happiness and health to belong to an organized religion or to be more generically “spiritual”? Does it matter? Being religious generally refers to believing in a specific deity (or group of deities) and the regulations of a particular religion and tends to take place in a relatively formal, organized context. […]

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    Do Spirituality and Religion Increase Happiness and Well-Being?

    January 25, 2024

    Is it better for your happiness and health to belong to an organized religion or to be more generically “spiritual”? Does it matter? Being religious generally refers to believing in a specific deity (or group of deities) and the regulations of a particular religion and tends to take place in a relatively formal, organized context. […]

    Filed Under: General, Happiness, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Self-Compassion Tagged With: happiness, Higher Power, religion, religious, spiritual, spirituality, well-being

    26 Characteristics of Truly Happy People

    October 20, 2023

    How can you tell when you meet a truly happy person? What signs do you look for? What indicates to you that someone is truly content with their life and themselves? Genuinely happy people: Feel gratitude. Happy people appreciate all of the good things in their lives, rather than focusing on what they perceive they lack. […]

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    26 Characteristics of Truly Happy People

    October 20, 2023

    How can you tell when you meet a truly happy person? What signs do you look for? What indicates to you that someone is truly content with their life and themselves? Genuinely happy people: Feel gratitude. Happy people appreciate all of the good things in their lives, rather than focusing on what they perceive they lack. […]

    Filed Under: General, Happiness, Mindfulness, Personal Growth Tagged With: gratitude, happiness, happy people, humor, optimistic, purpose, smile, spiritual

    9 Principles of Stoicism Which Promote Happiness

    October 13, 2023

    For many of us, there comes a time when it becomes clear to us that our pursuit of happiness through amassing material wealth and power does not do the trick. Whether or not we’ve attained some level of external security, that inner peace and contentment we’ve sought feels tenuous and overly reliance on situations that […]

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    9 Principles of Stoicism Which Promote Happiness

    October 13, 2023

    For many of us, there comes a time when it becomes clear to us that our pursuit of happiness through amassing material wealth and power does not do the trick. Whether or not we’ve attained some level of external security, that inner peace and contentment we’ve sought feels tenuous and overly reliance on situations that […]

    Filed Under: Emotion Regulation, General, Happiness, Mental Health, Peace, Personal Growth, Words of Wisdom Tagged With: attitude, Epictetus, focus, happiness, Marcus Aurelius, right actions, Seneca, Stoic, stoicism, values, viktor frankl

    30 Ways To Increase Your Happiness In The New Year

    January 2, 2019

    Whether or not you set resolutions for the New Year, you probably would like to maintain or increase your happiness quotient. If so, the following tips may prove to be helpful: Write down three positive things that happened to you each day and think about how and why they occurred. Maybe they seemed to happen […]

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    30 Ways To Increase Your Happiness In The New Year

    January 2, 2019

    Whether or not you set resolutions for the New Year, you probably would like to maintain or increase your happiness quotient. If so, the following tips may prove to be helpful: Write down three positive things that happened to you each day and think about how and why they occurred. Maybe they seemed to happen […]

    Filed Under: Emotion Regulation, General, Goal Setting, Happiness, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Personal Growth, Relationships Tagged With: exercise, forgive, gratitude, happiness, mindfulness

    Seven Truths About Happiness

    September 6, 2017

    When asked to name their number one priority, people tend to list personal relationships, good physical health, meaningful employment, wealth, a comfortable home, sufficient leisure time… the list goes on and on. However, just about everyone would agree that they want to be happy. At the same time, many of us are concerned that we […]

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    Seven Truths About Happiness

    September 6, 2017

    When asked to name their number one priority, people tend to list personal relationships, good physical health, meaningful employment, wealth, a comfortable home, sufficient leisure time… the list goes on and on. However, just about everyone would agree that they want to be happy. At the same time, many of us are concerned that we […]

    Filed Under: Emotion Regulation, General, Happiness, Mindfulness, Relationships Tagged With: happiness

    What You May Be Getting Wrong About Happiness

    August 10, 2017

    So many definitions and opinions exist about what constitutes happiness. Is it a feeling? A mood? An attitude? A way of life? Let’s turn to the definition of happiness from Sonia Lyubomirsky, researcher and author of The How of Happiness and The Myths of Happiness. Lyubomirsky states that happiness is “the experience of joy, contentment, […]

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    What You May Be Getting Wrong About Happiness

    August 10, 2017

    So many definitions and opinions exist about what constitutes happiness. Is it a feeling? A mood? An attitude? A way of life? Let’s turn to the definition of happiness from Sonia Lyubomirsky, researcher and author of The How of Happiness and The Myths of Happiness. Lyubomirsky states that happiness is “the experience of joy, contentment, […]

    Filed Under: General, Happiness Tagged With: happiness

    How Our Relationships Affect Our Health and Happiness

    June 14, 2017

    Whether you consider yourself a social butterfly, more inclined to one-on-one interactions, or prefer solitude, there’s no denying that the quality of your personal relationships affect your levels of happiness, well-being, and physical health. We are wired for connection. As the saying goes, “No man is an island”. Consider research done on over 200 undergraduate […]

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    How Our Relationships Affect Our Health and Happiness

    June 14, 2017

    Whether you consider yourself a social butterfly, more inclined to one-on-one interactions, or prefer solitude, there’s no denying that the quality of your personal relationships affect your levels of happiness, well-being, and physical health. We are wired for connection. As the saying goes, “No man is an island”. Consider research done on over 200 undergraduate […]

    Filed Under: General, Happiness, Relationships Tagged With: communication, happiness, health, relationships

    Five Minutes A Day To Greater Happiness

    October 4, 2016

    What if you could increase your happiness by doing a simple daily five-minute exercise? And if all you needed was a piece of paper and pen or your laptop computer? And what if you could feel the benefits of this exercise within a week or two? Research by Dr. Martin Seligman, the renowned psychologist known […]

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    Five Minutes A Day To Greater Happiness

    October 4, 2016

    What if you could increase your happiness by doing a simple daily five-minute exercise? And if all you needed was a piece of paper and pen or your laptop computer? And what if you could feel the benefits of this exercise within a week or two? Research by Dr. Martin Seligman, the renowned psychologist known […]

    Filed Under: Depression, Emotion Regulation, General, Happiness, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Personal Growth Tagged With: happiness, positive, positive psychology, writing

    The Healthy and Dangerous Types of Happiness

    March 8, 2015

    “I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.” (Albert Schweitzer) It turns out that those who serve are a whole lot more likely to be physically healthy, too, down to […]

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    The Healthy and Dangerous Types of Happiness

    March 8, 2015

    “I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.” (Albert Schweitzer) It turns out that those who serve are a whole lot more likely to be physically healthy, too, down to […]

    Filed Under: General, Goal Setting, Happiness, Relationships Tagged With: happiness, meaning, service, viktor frankl

    Happiness: Why Fear Can Actually Be Part of the Answer

    January 13, 2015

    “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face… You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”  Eleanor Roosevelt Stress has been getting a bad name. Almost daily, we read about another research study demonstrating the destructive effects of stress on our […]

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    Happiness: Why Fear Can Actually Be Part of the Answer

    January 13, 2015

    “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face… You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”  Eleanor Roosevelt Stress has been getting a bad name. Almost daily, we read about another research study demonstrating the destructive effects of stress on our […]

    Filed Under: Anxiety, Courage, General, Happiness Tagged With: fear, happiness, Stress

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