Tag: culture
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Yoga Poses You Can Do at Your Work Desk to Relieve Stress
Seated Backbend While seated with a straight spine take a deep breath and reach all the way up to the ceiling with your arms open wide. As you exhale, let your gaze slowly draw behind you and bend slightly from your upper back and chest. Hold this for a few seconds, release arms to your […]
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The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want
The How of Happiness is a comprehensive guide to understanding the elements of happiness based on years of groundbreaking scientific research. It is also a practical, empowering, and easy-to-follow workbook, incorporating happiness strategies, exercises in new ways of thinking, and quizzes for understanding our individuality, all in an effort to help us realize our innate […]
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The Happy Planet Index
Statistician Nic Marks asks why we measure a nation’s success by its productivity — instead of by the happiness and well-being of its people. He introduces the Happy Planet Index, which tracks national well-being against resource use (because a happy life doesn’t have to cost the earth). Which countries rank highest in the HPI? You […]
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Helping Others Makes Us Happier At Work, Research Finds
Here’s a good reason to help your coworkers with an upcoming project or presentation: Altruists in the office are more likely to be committed to their work and are less likely to quit their jobs, according to a new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But beyond all that, researchers found perhaps the biggest benefit […]
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Simple Tips for Sustainable Travel
Be kind to the Earth we’re all exploring. Being able to travel as a student is a wonderful privilege and opportunity to take advantage of; however, it can have an enormous impact on the environment and the communities you find yourself in. Some environmental negatives of traveling might be obvious, but are often overlooked if […]
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A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill
“Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill” is a book wrote by Matthieu Ricard that will help you to understand happiness as the deep sense of flourishing that arises from a healthy mind as well as a way of interpreting the world. Happiness in the West is still seen in material terms, as […]
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Six-year-old boy’s letter offering injured Syrian child a home
A six-year-old boy has moved President Obama and other world leaders with his offer of a home for a Syrian child who was pictured stunned and bloodied after a bombing. Alex, from New York, wrote a letter to President Obama after seeing the shell-shocked photograph of Omran Daqneesh. Omran’s image made global headlines last month […]
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Daniel Goleman Introduces Emotional Intelligence
Daniel Goleman, leading expert on emotional intelligence, gives a great introduction to the concept and practice. He starts by outline EI’s four domains, 1) self-awareness, 2) self-management, 3) empathy and reading others, and 4) synthesis and relationship building. After discussing the benefits of EI, Goleman remarks on the current growth of EI practice, gender disparity, […]
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Morning Yoga For A Perfect Day
Most of us don’t have the luxury of starting our days with the easy-going, sunrise-watching, coffee-sipping routines depicted in commercials. It’s usually more about hoping the caffeine kicks in quickly as you juggle getting yourself ready with responding to the demands of your household and buzzing phone. That’s why we recommend five minutes of yoga […]
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Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth
“Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth” shares the results of three decades of research on our notions of happiness covers the most important advances in our understanding of happiness. The book offers readers unparalleled access to the world’s leading experts on happiness as it provides “real world” examples that will resonate with general readers. […]