Think Happy!

The American Sociologist, Tony Campolo, once said,
“For 18 years, I thought I thought I was depressed. Then, I found out I was just tired!”
Though ‘Sleeping Better’ may seem like a strange topic for a Happiness blog, it’s importance could hardly be over-stated. If you are not sleeping well, you will struggle to maintain a happy [...]

If there’s one lesson I’ve learned – and need to keep learning – over the last 10 years, it’s simple: I NEED SLEEP!
The amount of sleep you get – and its quality – can radically change your life, for better or worse.
Researchers at the University of California found that people who live the longest are [...]

To be honest, I was toying with closing this blog done. Well, it’s been months since I posted anything and I wasn’t sure when I was going to get a chance to get back into the swing of blogging. You see, for the last year I’ve been studying to become a certified hypnotherapist and continuing [...]

This question could hardly be any more important. Almost any time I mention the topic of happiness to people, I encounter two extremes. There are those people who seem overcome by their own ego and are happy to tread on everyone in their way to make more money in the hope of finding more happiness. [...]

I’ve just come across a simple-but-useful article at realsimple.
You can read the full piece here, but I’ve included the main points below:

Turn your shower into a relaxing ritual
Knead away stress with a hand massage
Pause for a few soothing seconds
Take a nice, sleep-enhancing soak
Brush your way to relaxation
Chill with aromatherapy

Simple, to the point, but good advice [...]

It’s easy to blog about keeping your new year’s resolutions, but it seems like I should have resolved to blog more often. Perhaps then you’d see more of me!
Well, I can blame it on starting a new job, or on spending increasing amounts of time on my hypnosis practice. However, that wouldn’t really get us [...]

“How to keep your New Year’s Resolutions” has, unsurprisingly, been a popular topic on blogs and websites over the last couple of months. With only 20% of us managing to keep our resolutions throughout the year, I figure we could use all of the good tips we can get.
The good news is that three months [...]

As I announced on my anabaptist blog, I’m working my way back to full health and online presence.
I’m amazed that it’s taken so long to get over such a small thing, but I’m pretty pleased that I managed not to rush it. After all, I’d rather stay off line for a month than risk losing [...]

G. K. Chesterton, the famous Catholic journalist once wrote:
‘There are two ways to get enough: one is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.’
This strikes me as incredibly profound.
How much misery enters our lives through the desire for things – or circumstances – that we don’t have. Even if [...]

I’ve just come across a refreshing article over at The National.
It is not simply your mental health which benefits from a broad network of friends but your physical well-being. There is a big biological pay-off, it seems, to having a strong social circle.
Friends can boost your defences against disease, help you heal, lower your blood [...]