Think Happy!

I know it’s hard to believe, but we are still here. The reason for our silence is that we’ve just moved house and have only just recovered internet access.
However, we’ll be back before you know it with tips on moving house, more on teeth grinding, the next installment in our series on giving up cigarettes [...]

There’s a great post over at Dumb Little Man, entitled, 7 How-to-be-happy Lessons That Kids Can Teach Us. I wanted to link to it, because as the father of 3 – yes, three! – girls, I can vouch for every word.
Here are DLM’s points, with some commentary from me at the bottom:

Living in the present
Single [...]

Over at my anabaptist spirituality blog, Leaving Münster, I wrote a birthday reflection on what lessons I encountered last year. It was an act of self-discipline, as much as anything, because I tend to get fairly melancholy around my birthday. So, I thought it would do me be good to intentionally – and publicly – [...]

Smoking cessation is the big topic right now and seems like it has been for an incredibly long time. I’m guessing that by reading this you have an interest in giving up, wanting to help someone give up, or have already given up. Whatever one it may be, I can’t promise instant 100% success; I’m [...]

Our latest author, Claire, is going to begin publishing a series of posts on giving up smoking.
This will be a three-part series, consisting of:
1 – preparation
2 – the actual quitting
3 – the aftermath
I’ve had a sneak peek and it’s good stuff. More importantly, it works!

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Well, after a fairly prolonged absence – for which my wife should be held responsible due to the birth of our third child! – we’re now officially back.
In the coming days you can expect further posts on quitting Cola and reducing tooth grinding. However, our newest author, Claire, will also be starting a new series [...]

I’ve been meaning to post more on how to stop grinding your teeth, along with pointers to tactics that I’ve found helpful. However, the truth is that not much has worked so far! Hence, not much posting!
So, in the spirit of full disclosure, over the next few of posts I will discuss ‘how not to [...]

I’ve got a couple of posts in the pipe-line on teeth-grinding (or “bruxism”, to use the medical term), but in the meantime…

Who couldn’t use a little bit more good luck?
Richard Wiseman, professor at University of Hertfordshire has made a study of lucky people. Why are some people lucky and others not? Can you learn [...]

Over at the Aikiweb forums, there was a discussion in October, prompted by the question: ‘What does your Aikido practice teach you that your religious/spiritual/philosophical practice teaches you that makes you a better person?’
Some of the answers were so enlightening that I thought they merited discussion on this blog. The question that they provoke for [...]

At some point, I will write a post on the value of laughter. However, I’m suspect that such a view is intuitive enough to need little defence. So, for now, I will simply leave you with these wonderful sayings from the unmatched Jack Handey:
“I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world [...]