Happiness
Friday, December 05, 2008
Happiness Can Spread Among People Like a Contagion, Study Indicates
Happiness is contagious, spreading among friends, neighbors, siblings and spouses like the flu, according to a large study that for the first time shows how emotion can ripple through clusters of people who may not even know each other.
Thursday, May 08, 2008
HeartMath Webinar - The Power of Positive Emotions with guest Marci Shimoff - July 9
Marci Shimoff is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Happy for No Reason and coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul. Ms. Shimoff is also a featured teacher in the Secret. Join us as we discuss the power of positive emotions and how you can bring more of them into your life.
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Sunday, April 20, 2008
The oldest Americans are also the happiest, research finds
It turns out the golden years really are golden. Eye-opening new research finds the happiest Americans are the oldest, and older adults are more socially active than the stereotype of the lonely senior suggests. The two go hand-in-hand: Being social can help keep away the blues. “The good news is that with age comes happiness,” said study author Yang Yang, a University of Chicago sociologist. “Life gets better in one’s perception as one ages.”
Monday, April 07, 2008
New Study Finds Anticipating A Laugh Reduces Stress
In 2006 researchers investigating the interaction between the brain, behavior, and the immune system found that simply anticipating a mirthful laughter experience boosted health-protecting hormones. Now, two years later, the same researchers have found that the anticipation of a positive humorous laughter experience also reduces potentially detrimental stress hormones.
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Saturday, February 23, 2008
Can You Predict Happiness?
If you think you can predict what you will like, think again. When people try to estimate how much they will enjoy a future experience, they are dependably wrong, according to research by Harvard psychologists — and the reason is something they call “attentional collapse.”
Friday, February 22, 2008
The Keys to Happiness
Which is the happiest country in the world? According to a scientific study by Leicester University in England, it’s Denmark. And that’s despite having one of the highest tax rates in the world! Morley Safer explores why it’s so great to be a Dane, and talks with a Harvard psychology lecturer who has some tips on being happy, no matter where you live!
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Study Reveals How the Brain Generates the Human Tendency for Optimism
A neural network that may generate the human tendency to be optimistic has been identified by researchers at New York University. As humans, we expect to live longer and be more successful than average, and we underestimate our likelihood of getting a divorce or having cancer. The results, reported in the most recent issue of Nature, link the optimism bias to the same brain regions that show irregularities in depression.
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Friday, October 19, 2007
Why Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness
The nonlinear nature of how much happiness money can buy—lots more happiness when it moves you out of penury and into middle-class comfort, hardly any more when it lifts you from millionaire to decamillionaire—comes through clearly in global surveys that ask people how content they feel with their lives.
Monday, August 20, 2007
Poll: Family Ties Key to Youth Happiness
So you’re between the ages of 13 and 24. What makes you happy? A worried, weary parent might imagine the answer to sound something like this: Sex, drugs, a little rock ‘n’ roll. Maybe some cash, or at least the car keys. Turns out the real answer is quite different. Spending time with family was the top answer to that open-ended question.
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Friday, August 03, 2007
This is your brain on love
Science is just beginning to parse the inner workings of the brain in love, examining the blissful or ruinous fall from a medley of perspectives: neural systems, chemical messengers and the biology of reward.
Monday, July 30, 2007
American Institute of Stress Honors HeartMath’s emWave Personal Stress Reliever
HeartMath® is honored to have their handheld emWave Personal Stress Reliever® technology be the first recipient of the American Institute of Stress Award for Distinction and Innovation. This award is granted to products and services that have been formally evaluated and validated by the American Institute of Stress.
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Biofeedback Reinvented - New Discoveries Show that the Heart Pulses Messages that Reveal Feelings
HeartMath essentially reinvented biofeedback in 1999 when they introduced the first affordable consumer stress-reduction product using their patented heart rhythm feedback. Their focus on heart rhythm feedback provided a refreshing departure from conventional biofeedback practices, and has since been adopted by more than ten thousand health professionals worldwide as an effective and invaluable tool for patients suffering from stress-related issues. Internationally respected for their research-based stress solutions, HeartMath peer-reviewed studies have demonstrated the critical link between emotions, heart function, and cognitive performance.
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Saturday, May 05, 2007
Doing good can make you feel good
There’s a new incentive to doing good things for others: It makes you happier, according to a new study. The more people participated in meaningful activities, the happier they were and the more purposeful their lives felt. Pleasure-seeking behaviors, on the other hand, did not make people happier.
Sunday, April 22, 2007
HeartMath’s emWave Personal Stress Reliever
Our emWave Personal Stress Reliever is on sale until the end of the April for $20.00 off. If you’re interested in realtime stress reduction and peak performance, please take a look at the two-minute demo.
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007
The Science of Lasting Happiness
Through controlled experiments, Sonja Lyubomirsky explores ways to beat the genetic set point for happiness. Staying in high spirits, she finds, is hard work.
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