As many people have experienced, spending the day outside in nature just makes people feel better and improves a person’s mental health! A study done in the United States and of ...

Tips on Happiness From People Over 85 Everyone wants to be happy. It’s only natural. After all, it’s in America’s Declaration of Independence. “...life, liberty and the pur...

Scientists Show Gratitude Improves Our Lives A neuroscientist at Northeastern University in Boston says scientific evidence proves feeling thankful and expressing gratitude improve...

The Pursuit of Happiness Happiness is something humans pursue. It’s just in our nature. It’s so much a part of our species, especially Americans, that the founding fathers incl...

How to Create a Life that Honors Your Best Self Being happy, satisfied, content, joyful, optimistic, loving, emotionally and physically healthy - all the ways of “being” that s...

Self-Imposed Stress Students at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut have a lot going for them. For some students at the Ivy League college, they may also have some things goi...

“It’s not having what you want. It’s wanting what you’ve got.” Sheryl Crow may or may not have been singing the praises of gratitude with this line, but it sums up the na...

You Can Increase Your Baseline Happiness I recently attended a superb seminar titled, Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness and Well-being, presented by Jonah Paquette, Ph....

4 Ways to Add More Happiness to Your Life Feeling satisfied and happy with life takes more than just reducing worry, anxiety and stress - that’s the perspective of positive psych...

Pushing through Depression toward Happiness A close-up struggle through decades of depression eventually arrives at “nearly happy” in Daphne Merkin’s personal story of her tr...