Today I wish to offer something a bit different in our consideration of laughter as tool for stress relief. Beginning in 1995, laughter yoga has begun to make an impression worldwide. It is a form of exercise developed by Dr. Madan Kataria, a Physician from Mumbai, India designed to promote spiritual healing and a sense […]
How Humour Generates A Positive Mindset
April 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The Healing Power of Laughter series Part 2 of 2 How Humour Generates a Positive Mindset In the first post on Humour and Stress, I explained how the latest research has shown that laughter has powerful, positive physical effects on the body. However, that is not the only way that a good sense of […]
The Joke’s On Us – Laughter Reduces Stress
March 26, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The Healing Power of Laughter series Part 1 of 2 The Joke’s on Us – Laughter Reduces Stress While working on the Happiness Series recently I came across a quotation that made me grin and gave me pause, causing me to consider the role of laughter and humour in stress relief – and in […]
Our Happy Journey Together
February 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment
For the past couple of months we have been taking a journey together; a journey in pursuit of happiness. With this post that journey must come to a close though, as individuals, the pursuit of happiness continues – for all of us. My hope is that, by reading this series on happiness, you have discovered […]
Happiness Quotations
February 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
This month I would like to offer you a couple-of-dozen quotations about happiness from an array of authors, revered public figures, deep thinkers, and therapists. Some are deep, while others may seem a bit frivolous at first reading, yet I believe all have value, while many offer insight. These happiness quotations have been borrowed from […]
The Eightfold Path To Happiness – Mental Development
February 12, 2013 By Leave a Comment
And today our journey along The Eightfold Path to Happiness resumes, and comes to an end, with the proper development of the mind; or the movement toward Mental Development. The Path recognizes that, as human beings, we simply cannot live in conflict with the person we are – or with the person we wish to […]
The Eightfold Path To Happiness – Ethical Conduct
February 5, 2013 By Leave a Comment
And so we continue along The Eightfold Path to Happiness, which we began in my previous post, The Eightfold Path to Happiness – Wisdom. In that post we discovered that the path to Wisdom was critical to our pursuit of happiness, just as right-thinking and right-acting are critical to the pursuit of wisdom. Today we […]
The Eightfold Path To Happiness – Wisdom
January 29, 2013 By Leave a Comment
While it is never my intention to devalue or denigrate the belief system of anyone, I also realize that there are many schools of thought which can be helpful to many people; teachings which offer peace of mind and happiness regardless of the foundation upon which an individual’s world view might be built. That being […]
To Pursue Happiness, You Must Expect To Be Happy
January 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Expectation is a big word, and carries with it some risk. It is anticipation of the future, which can conflict with the idea that living in the moment is a key to happiness. Plus, when you expect something, it is easy to be disappointed; yet expectation need not conflict with living in the moment, or […]
12 Things Happy People Do
January 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
So far in this series of posts on Happiness, we’ve gotten pretty deep. We’ve looked at the mind and the heart; we’ve examined the tool of mediation; we’ve even examined the nature of reality. That’s some heavy stuff! In an effort to lighten things up a bit, and to help you with some practical tools, […]
