July 2008
2 posts
Giving up Smoking →
Our latest author, Laura, is going to begin publishing a series of posts on giving up smoking.
This will be a three-part series, consisting of:
1 - preparation
2 - the actual quitting
3 - the…
I've never met a shy monkey! →
I’m not sure I’ve ever met a shy monkey! Nevertheless, research recently carried out on young rhesus monkeys may hold the clue to a deeper understanding of anxiety, stress and shyness is human…
June 2008
1 post
We’re Back! →
Well, after a fairly prolonged absence - for which my wife should be held responsible due to the birth of our third child! - we’re now officially back.
In the coming days you can expect further…
March 2008
2 posts
How NOT to stop grinding your teeth! →
I’ve been meaning to post more on how to stop grinding your teeth, along with pointers to tactics that I’ve found helpful. However, the truth is that not much has worked so far! Hence, not much…
How to Develop Good Luck →
I’ve got a couple of posts in the pipe-line on teeth-grinding (or “bruxism”, to use the medical term), but in the meantime…
Who couldn’t use a little bit more good luck?
Richard…
February 2008
3 posts
Do you Grind your Teeth? →
I don’t like Dentists!
Due to the excess of Cola that I used to drink, I’ve made more than my fair share of visits to the Dentist’s surgery. My experiences haven’t always been great, so it’s not an experience that I exactly look forward to.
There was a time a couple of years ago when I was so anxious about the state of my teeth - and the dental work required - that I would lose sleep worrying...
Change your thoughts and change your life →
There’s an excellent post over at the Urban Monk that gets straight to the point of what I’ve been waffling around for ages: Change your thoughts and change your life – The Art of Cognitive Reframing.
We never, ever, see the world as it is. Our awareness – our beliefs, past conditionings, upbringing, the list goes on – these distort everything we see. They creep into every interpretation and...
3 Stesp to Keeping your Cool in a Crazy World →
I recently came across an interesting guest post over at Zen Habits.
Murder! Ringing phones, broken equipment, lost data, rude customers, unreasonable deadlines, demanding bosses. A sure-fire recipe for a 187.
The author, Albert Foong, goes on to note that the days we are living in require emotional intelligence and psychologically tested methods ‘to handle anything that happens in a mature and...
January 2008
3 posts
Home remedies (to preserve your sanity!) →
JollyBlogger recently posted some Amazingly Simple Home Remedies:
If you’re choking on an ice cube simply pour a cup of boiling water down your throat. Presto! The blockage will instantly remove itself.
Avoid cutting yourself when slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold while you chop.
Avoid arguments with the Mrs. about lifting the toilet seat by using the sink.
For high blood...
Ben Pridmore is a Mentalist →
and Tony Buzan is, apparently, a Guru!
Did anyone see Channel 5’s documentary, The Mentalists? The show followed Ben and other Memorists (including Ed Cooke and Gunther Karsten) as they travelled to Bahrain to compete in the World Memory Championships.
You can read Ben’s reaction to the programme here. However, if you don’t know who won, be warned that Ben gives it away!
From my perspective,...
How to Get Rid of Anxiety →
I’ve know it’s been an absolute age since I last posted, but Christmas and family sickness had other plans. Nevertheless, let’s get back into it with a look at a topic that seems to be on the increase everywhere you look: Anxiety.
Anxiety Attacks
Having experienced my own fair number of ‘anxiety attacks’, I’m hoping to post a fair ideas and tips for dealing with them. For now, to ease myself...
December 2007
1 post
Can Aikido make you a better person? →
Over at the Aikiweb forums, there was a discussion in October, prompted by the question: ‘What does your Aikido practice teach you that your religious/spiritual/philosophical practice teaches you that makes you a better person?’
Some of the answers were so enlightening that I thought they merited discussion on this blog. The question that they provoke for me is, would the answers be the same if...
November 2007
3 posts
Jack Handey will make you Happy! →
At some point, I will write a post on the value of laughter. However, I’m suspect that such a view is intuitive enough to need little defence. So, for now, I will simply leave you with these wonderful sayings from the unmatched Jack Handey:
“I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.”
“If a kid...
How to lower high blood pressure naturally using... →
How To Use Slow Breathing To Lower Your Blood Pressure Without Leaving The Comfort Of Your Armchair (and it won’t even cost you a dime!)
Top 10 Stress Busters →
November 7th is National Stress Awareness Day, so it seems like a good day to get back into the habit of posting here. I loved the slogan of NSAD this year, that fits well with the purpose of this blog: “Smile Away Stress“.
I take this opportunity to post the top 10 stress-busters recommended by the International Stress Management Association:
1. Smile
Smiling is the first line of defence...
October 2007
6 posts
What advice would you give yourself?
There’s a question that I’m sure many of us have pondered a number of times. Sometimes it comes out of a sense of frustration. Sometimes it’s a wonderful means of brain-storming. This afternoon, it opened up a whole series of new questions for me: If you could go back in time 10 years and give yourself 1 piece of advice, what would it be? There’s a whole host of things I’d want to say to myself,...
“Do you find yourself getting angry while driving? Is that an understatement?...”
– How to Cure your Road Rage - Dumb Little Man
How to Use Mini-Meditations to Relax and Find... →
How to Be Happier with What You Have - from... →
Free Burma!
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September 2007
15 posts
“Depression is a more disabling condition than angina, arthritis, asthma and...”
– BBC NEWS | Health | Depression leads to worst health
“According to one study, a bad night’s sleep was one of the top two factors that...”
– The Happiness Project
Sinus Headaches May Actually Be Migraines →
“There is a mistake being perpetuated throughout the country, but particularly...”
– A Potentially Fatal Mistake : A Miracle A Day
“# Unwind the Mind. This can be done before you leave work or first thing when...”
– How to Transition from Work to Play - Dumb Little Man
Winding Down from Work
I should probably be putting this in the aggregator, but it is so good I wanted to share it with all of you: How to Transition from Work to Play
I particularly appreciated this point:
Unwind the Mind. This can be done before you leave work or first thing when you arrive home. Take 5-15 minutes to do a light meditation. Take some deep breaths where you hold and release on an approximate count...
Follow the example of these three readers, and... →
‘Three readers of the Happiness Project have started their own Happiness Project blog…’
Get Introduced to and Learn a Foreign Language for... →
Learning a foreign language can be far easier than you think. At some point I hope to add some memory tips to employ, but you can start by hunting out the 500 most common words in your desired language and committing them to memory. You’ll soon find that the simple act of trying to use them in a sentence will teach you far more about that language’s grammar than endlessly repeating ...
10 All Natural Ways to Stop Feeling Depressed -... →
How to Avoid Being Enslaved by Consumerism -... →
Even More Ways To Save Water Inside Your House →
10 unusually fun ways of using a stress ball →
Top 10 Reasons to Exercise →
Everywhere you turn, people are telling you to exercise. You doctor tells you to exercise, George Bush tells you to exercise, now even McDonalds is telling you to exercise. Why should you do it? Here are the top 10 reasons.
The Think Happy Tumble-log is Up and Running!
After toying with a number of different options for an aggregator of happiness posts throughout the web, I have finally decided on a tumblr approach.
You can find the new Think Happy Aggregator here: http://thinkhappy.tumblr.com/
Many thanks to those of you who agreed to take part in the aggregator. I hope this is a solution that will prove agreeable to the contributors, as well as helpful to...
A Top 20 list of Personal Development Sites →
A handy list of 20 personal development sites from I will change your life . com
August 2007
1 post
Think Happy on Speed Reading →