Sometime in life you get to realise the slow lane is not only a safer bet, you can go a longer distance. As a fast lane hogger I got speeding tickets and shortened my life in the bursts of adrenalin required, before an Athlone guard made me cop...

Is it money, health, love or ? People are just working day and night for what ? I would say if we program our mind properly we can get all the happiness.

Life is indeed beautiful, I tell him everyday. Yet on somedays the gloom doesn’t lift. Allergic eyes, dyslexia problems, aggressive classmates, expensive bike that he cannot have, introvert nature, short height - almost everything sometimes...

Being happy and staying happy isn’t up to your genetic makeup or your life circumstances alone, says happiness researcher Sonja Lyubomirsky of the University of California, Riverside, who told an audience at the American Psychological...

Scientists at Yale University found that regular exercise stimulates the hippocampus which is an area of the brain responsible for mood. Their study of mice showed that exercise activated a gene in the hippocampus called VGF. VGF is linked to a...

The focus on what America’s Founding Fathers called “the pursuit of happiness”—coupled with the Industrial Revolution in the 19th Century and the rise of consumerism in the 20th—has produced a landscape of options as dizzying...

One can experiment with activities to try out the three kinds of happiness. For the first type, design a beautiful day for yourself. Plan and experience a “perfect” day. Enjoy the good feelings that come and notice how long they last....

HAPPINESS is the new black. It’s difficult not to have noticed the increasing attention and interest the topic of happiness has been receiving. A new discipline in psychology — positive psychology — has emerged, which has already resulted...

When I look back on my years of hardship and celebrate the blessings of love and family, friends and comforts that it’s my privilege to enjoy now, I need to express my sense of being blessed also by trying to share God’s gifts with...

It doesn’t cost money to be happy. In this day of rising costs, here are reminders to keep us sane, contented and peaceful: