Happiness

Psychological therapy could be 32 times more cost effective at making you happy than simply obtaining more money, according to a new study. The research has obvious implications for large compensation awards in law courts but also has wider implications for general public health.

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Oh...I just love when the UPS guy delivers a box of beautiful fabrics!Last week while browsing the Gorgeous Fabrics site, I just could not resist..and treated myself to some new goodies. The 2 striped pieces that you see are Japanese novelty knits that have a wonderful ribbed texture. And since…

An IBM employee claims her medical leave was cut short based on the insurance company's assessment of her Facebook activities.

Bucheke has added a photo to the pool: is contagious.. I've been asked some questions on my last 2 posts, I'm going to answer it here: Q. Composition is hard for street photography. You've got to take what you can get! What do you do? Pick out a spot and just wait for someone to walk into…

This week, I finished the audiobook for The Happiness Project. As I’d expected, it made me very happy to learn to do something new and to get a glimpse into the unfamiliar world of sound recording. It was also thrilling to learn that none other than Jim Dale had sat in the very same seat that…

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Several weeks ago, my now 15-month-old son developed a fever to 103.5 F. Usually a champion……led him to ask this most fundamental question: how can we achieve any kind of meaningful, lasting happiness when every person and every thing to which we ever become attached will…

Most of us have a lovely vision of Thanksgiving: Driving along the road to Grandma's house on a familiar road, graced by autumn leaves. We imagine being greeted by warmth and family, feeling grateful and eating our familiar favorites. The kids have made turkey drawings by tracing around their…

From time to time, I post short interviews with interesting people about their insights on happiness. During my study of happiness, I’ve noticed that I often learn more from one person’s highly idiosyncratic experiences than I do from sources that detail universal principles or cite…

Filed under: Entertainment, Sports, Happy Hour Hero Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. Sports fans enjoy victory more when they believed their team was in jeopardy of losing. The Michigan-Ohio State football game in 2006 pitted the top two college football teams in the…

With virality continuing to be all the rage, whether it’s swine flu, happiness, or Internet services, it’s worth considering whether many things that seem viral actually are. Here is a 2008 BMJ paper on the subject that deserves wider attention: Detecting implausible social network…

• Look! A movie where Robert Pattinson doesn't play a vampire but instead a lost guy going through a quarterlife crisis who finds his happiness through a quirky girl who eats her dessert...

Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom (Paperback)By Rick Hanson Ph.D. Buy new: $12.2122 used and new from $10.76 Customer Rating: First tagged "meditation" by Larry Underwood "Author, 'Life Under the Corporate Microscope'" …

The single major cause of emotional suffering and stress in our lives comes from the accumulated habitual emotional reactions to life events that we acquire through unconscious learning. We become victims of recurrent negative thoughts and patterns of emotional reactivity that operate…