Anger – vent it out or treat it with tenderness?
Thich Nhat Hanh teaches us that when anger comes up in us, we should begin to practice mindful breathing right [...]
The wandering mind…
"A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind." Matt Killingsworth, behavioral scientist. Research suggests that actually being present with what we’re [...]
Mindfulness revisited.
On my happiness journey, I am revisiting mindfulness this week. This is the 6th limb of Patanjali's Ashtanga yoga: Dharana [...]
The Science of awe and its connection to happiness
The school bus encounter! I can never forget the expression of our then 2 year old when she stood next [...]
Gratitude for experiential vz material purchase
Why is gratitude so powerful? It’s hard to feel like the world is terrible when we notice all the things [...]
Grateful people are happy people, research shows.
Our 6 y/o's gratitude diary entry for 30 March 2015: I am happy that we have 3 bathrooms. Positive psychologists [...]
Mental habits of happiness
The sheer exhaustion of modern life, really tax our happiness. Given how much stimulus and information we take in everyday, [...]
Self-Compassion
This week, my journey of the Science of happiness takes me to Self-Compassion and its role in happiness. In this [...]
Mindfulness
Over the past few months I have been working on happiness; that journey lead me to mindfulness this week. What [...]
Kindness fosters happiness
It is a tough subject to think about these days especially with the world events unfolding in front of us [...]