Here are 14 effective pictures that say I love you. Happy saint Valentine's day!

I hear many of my colleagues associate laughter with happiness. While I understand where they are coming from, I have a different perspective. But first let's review the definition of 4 different states of being (*) to see where happiness fits in there: 1. Pleasure: Is a "physiological" sensation rooted in the body. Examples of [...]

You know the basics: don’t smoke, drink in moderation, and go easy on the cheeseburgers. But there’s a lot more to longevity than that. Here are Six Surprising Ways Laughter Can Help You Live Longer.

Why you should get to know the people who sit/live next to you.

In philosophy, happiness translates the Greek concept of eudaimonia, and refers to the good life, or flourishing, rather than simply an emotion. Here is an infographic that looks at this topic more in-depth.

If crying is good for us, how can we bring about and shed our deeper tears? I do not yet have the full answer, but have come up with a partial answer.

Most of the communication travelling through the vagus nerve is body-mind, not mind-body. Essentially, the Vagus nerve reverses the flow of information.

Words are one of the essential tools we as humans use to communicate. We all know how important nice words, or positive words can be to an individual. Here is a list of the top 100 happy words according to research: word happiness_rank laughter 1 happiness 2 love 3 happy 4 laughed 5 laugh [...]

“Research shows that most people complain once a minute during a typical conversation. Complaining is tempting because it feels good, but like many other things that are enjoyable—such as smoking or eating a pound of bacon for breakfast—complaining isn’t good for you. Your brain loves efficiency and doesn’t like to work any harder than it [...]

Steven Wright is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and an Oscar-winning film producer. He is known for his distinctly lethargic voice and slow, deadpan delivery of ironic, philosophical, and sometimes nonsensical jokes, non sequiturs, anti-humor, and one-liners with contrived situations. He was ranked as the twenty-third greatest comedian by Comedy Central in a list [...]