Tag: happiness
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The Secret of Happiness Revealed
Happiness comes from choosing to be happy with whatever you do, strengthening your closest relationships and taking care of yourself physically, financially and emotionally. Thus revealed a recent survey of Harvard’s class of 1980. They compared responses between those “extremely happy” and the rest of the respondents. 2010 Survey An earlier survey of this same […]
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Living the Four Agreements: A life-changing Journey
In the best-selling book “The Four Agreements” Don Miguel Ruiz, based on ancient Toltec wisdom, gives four principles to practice in order to create love and happiness in your life. Adopting and committing to these agreements is simple. Upon reading Don Miguel’s wisdom many people have their eyes opened to a new possibility for living […]
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Feed your Happiness
For some people, food is happiness, the science explains why. Nervousness, weakness, bad mood and anxiety for chocolate answer a chemical phenomenon that occurs in the body due to a decrease of serotonin. This substance is also known as the hormone of happiness because in high levels it produces a feeling of satisfaction and general […]
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Achieving Happiness In A Globalized World
Before trying to reach happiness, we need to measure it. That’s why in July 2011, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution inviting member countries to measure the happiness of their people and to use the World Happiness Report to help guide their public. Bhutan was the first and so far only country to have […]
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Madhya Pradesh CM announces ministry of happiness
BHOPAL: On lines of Bhutan which measures prosperity by gauging citizens’ happiness quotient and not GDP, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday announced a ‘happiness ministry’ to measure the state’s progress. “We will make a ‘happiness ministry’ to track our growth,” said Shivraj Singh, while addressing a state BJP convention. […]
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Bhutan Dynasty Of Happiness
His Majesty, Jigme Singye Wangchuckthe, the 4th King of Bhutan was just a teenager when he took the throne. He changed history by imagining that Bhutan’s should pursue the path to Gross National Happiness, not a high GDP. The idea of Gross National Happiness (GNH) took modern shape in the 1970s under His Majesty the […]
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Is our online life ruining our happiness at home?
I’m Mandie Spooner, I’m a mother, a wife and a nutritional therapist, I run my own growing business and keep our busy home on track, which is full of rowdy growing boys and one quieter grown man. None of that makes me particularly unique by the way, there are many thousands of women just like […]
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Why Does Happiness Inequality Matter?
According to a new report, income inequality isn’t the only thing we should be concerned about According to the World Happiness Report 2016 Update, happiness inequality is on the rise. What is happiness inequality? It’s the psychological parallel to income inequality: how much individuals in a society differ in their self-reported happiness levels—or subjective well-being, […]
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10 Things Creative People Do (and make them happier)
Have you ever wondered why some people are more creative than others? Did you ever wish you had more of that particular gene? The good news is that research shows that happiness and creativity are not only related, they can be developed. Here are 10 ways to jumpstart your creativity, starting right now: Listen in: […]
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A lesson that could help build peace
Next week, Neal Keny-Guyer, Chief Executive Officer for the Mercy Corps since 1994, will join leaders from governments, the United Nations, business and civil society in Istanbul for the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit. The aim is to make the humanitarian system fit-for-purpose in a world where crises hit with increasing frequency, intensity and complexity, and […]