Happy Valentine’s Day to you.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
May TODAY be a day in which every individual, and the whole wide world, chooses love over fear, love over hate, and love over attack.
Below is a poem I wrote, called “To Love Someone” when I was putting together the vision for a workshop called “Love and Fear.” Continue Reading
The DAILY EXPRESS published an article today, “10 Steps to Happiness“, that outlines my ten tips for facing blue Monday, the economic recession, and for rediscovering your joyful side. Here is the article in full. Enjoy.
UNTIL recently psychologists dismissed happiness as a “pleasurable emotion with no evolutionary value”. The theory was happiness feels good but it isn’t useful. However research reveals happiness has a powerful effect on the brain that helps you to think broadly, to come up with creative solutions and makes you generally more resilient.
In short happiness helps you to bring out the best in yourself. Follow my tips below to rediscover your joyful side.
Real, enduring happiness cannot be bought. Research confirms that money is important for basic needs like food, rent and clothes. However the link between higher income and increased happiness has been described in one study as “surprisingly weak” and “virtually negligible”. In fact a third of all millionaires are less happy than the national average.
On January 1st 2009 I made my first entry in a journal called 365 Gratitudes.
One of my new year’s resolutions to myself was to make a daily entry of “one-gratitude-per-day” for a calendar year. Why? Because I wanted to experience the power of gratitude and how it might affect my life, my relationships, and my ideas about happiness, success, and abundance.
Just now, with a few hours to go before mid-night on December 31st, I made my final entry for the year.
365 Gratitudes, as I like to call it, has been a challenging and enlightening experiment. Continue Reading
Happy Christmas to You! I wish you and your family an enchanting Christmas and glad tidings for the new year ahead. With that in mind I offer you the following poem, The Angel of Forgiveness.
Forgiveness is an Angel you pray to
when you need a miracle to
save you.
On Friday this week I will wrap up another Be Happy 8-week happiness course, held in London, UK. The end of the program always feels bittersweet to me. I am already grieving and I am so grateful for the journey we have been on. And it’s not over yet!
For the last eight weeks a group of fifty people have participated in a deep inquiry into life’s #1 goal: happiness. The theme for this year has been, giving up the search for happiness. Continue Reading