Happiness Habits

We all know that exercise is good for our physical health. It keeps some things low (blood pressure, weight, and risk of diabetes) and other things high (muscular strength and bone density). While your body benefits from exercise, some of the biggest advantages of getting active are for your brain. But why does exercise make you happy? To find the answers, we turn to science …Continue Reading

It’s that time again — International Day of Happiness and the anticipated release of the 2019 World Happiness Report. Are you as pumped as we are? Okay, maybe you haven’t been ticking the days off the calendar, but you still might be interested in what is the happiest country in the world, what this year’s report tells us about joy around the globe, and whether the US stepped …Continue Reading

In honor of Giving Tuesday and as the last in our gratitude series for the month, we wanted to give you, readers, a chance to tell us what you're grateful for right now. Because we know that gratitude is a big part of happiness (so does science, conveniently enough). We know how to invoke the feeling of gratitude in our lives, and we also know some creative ways to express …Continue Reading

Saying thank you when someone passes the salt this holiday season? That’s one way to define gratitude. But it’s a pretty narrow one. Dig a little deeper and you’ll find there are so many ways to feel and express gratitude that you might not have tried yet. Thankfully (see what we did), that's what we're here for. We're about to make expressing gratitude so much easier and more …Continue Reading

Part two in our series on gratitude is all about feeling grateful, i.e., how to cultivate the feeling of gratitude before you set out to practice it. Need the gratitude basics? Check out part one for a quick crash course.  Are you feeling grateful that another year has just about flown by? Possibly not. Gratitude doesn’t always come easily, we get it. Especially when the …Continue Reading