| Similar Articles |
|---|
 |
Wired
February 2006
John Geirland |
Buddha on the Brain A neuroscientist published studies on the brain activity of Tibetan Buddhist monks during meditation, shedding light on the ability to change brain function through training.   |
Psychology Today
Sep/Oct 2006
Katherine Ellison |
Mastering Your Own Mind Distracted? Angry? Envious? There's growing evidence that attention, emotion regulation -- even love -- are skills that can be trained through the practice of meditation. Perhaps it's time for you to become a high-performance user of your own brain. |
Salon.com
November 28, 2000
Chris Colin |
The Dalai Lama China hates him, the West wants to hug him. The spiritual leader of Tibet isn't just the bodhisattva of compassion -- he's one heck of a marketer... |
Salon.com
September 30, 2002
Janelle Brown |
My past life as a dog For 12 years, Buddhist nun Tenzin Palmo meditated alone in a tiny cave in Tibet. Now she wants to elevate the status of other Buddhist women, believed to be reincarnated as females as punishment for past mistakes. |
Salon.com
August 1, 2000
Andreas Killen |
Happiness is back Now that Eli Lilly has put it in a pill, psychologists, neuroscientists and other researchers are probing the causes and properties of feeling good. |
Psychology Today
Jan/Feb 2009
Carlin Flora |
The Pursuit of Happiness Has the happiness frenzy of the past few years left you sad and anxious? Herein we report the surest ways to find well-being. |
Salon.com
February 26, 2001
Stephen Prothero |
Boomer Buddhism American converts are taking a 2,500-year-old faith and making it over in their own image -- self-absorbed... |
CIO
October 15, 2003 |
Old Questions, Fresh Answers In today's economy, innovation and happiness in the workplace might be viewed as completely irrelevant notions. Here are two books that, refreshingly, beg to differ. |
BusinessWeek
May 7, 2007
Catherine Arnst |
Brave New Brain We'll need to remold our minds. Fortunately, it's possible. Two books point to the benefits of trying to reorder our thinking. |
Financial Advisor
April 2007
Jeff Schlegel |
Don't Worry, Be Happy The relationship between money and happiness has been debated by philosophers, studied by psychologists and increasingly considered by financial advisors when it comes to handling clients. |
Job Journal
September 9, 2007
Penelope Trunk |
Brazen Careerist: Work and the Pursuit of Happiness Most of us think of our careers in terms of happiness -- that is, we look for work that makes us happy and then look elsewhere for happiness. |
Scientific American
April 2007
Marina Krakovsky |
The Science of Lasting Happiness Through controlled tests, experimental psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky explores ways to beat the genetic set point for happiness. Staying in high spirits, she finds, is hard work. |
Outside
June 2006
Stephanie Pearson |
Cosmic Whiplash Strap in for a road trip through the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan with Robert Thurman (Uma's dad and one of the planet's most magnetic Buddha boosters) and get set for stunning scenery, harrowing S-curves, and face time with the wild side of your soul |
AskMen.com
May 29, 2015
Eric Barker |
4 Rituals To Keep You Happy All The Time Gratitude has one of the strongest links to mental health and satisfaction with life of any personality trait -- more so than even optimism, hope, or compassion. |
Fast Company
Courtney Seiter |
How Our Brains Decide What We Share Online Google's Abigail Posner says we can't underestimate the importance of understanding the science of emotion in marketing. |
AskMen.com
Alexander Kjerulf |
Career Success & Happiness If you like what you do, you are much more likely to be successful at it and have a great career. |
Wired
April 24, 2007
David Ewing Duncan |
Down With Happiness Drugs. Implants. Virtual reality. Do we really want joy 24/7? |
AskMen.com
Eddie Chandler |
12 Questions To Ask Yourself About Happiness How do we know if we are happy? And if we aren't, how can we know what's required in order to be so? Honest answers to these twelve questions can put you on the right track. |
Salon.com
July 11, 2002
Douglas Cruickshank |
"Zig Zag Zen," by Allan Hunt Badiner, ed. A book about Buddhism and psychedelic drugs asks whether it's best, when seeking higher consciousness, to take the stairs or the elevator. |
Reason
February 2006
Will Wilkinson |
Happiness Is...Higher Taxes The book Happiness: Lessons From a New Science, by Richard Layard, embraces the idea that that nothing has value -- not excellence, not knowledge, not self-creation, not dignity, not community with God -- unless it produces the warm glow of happy feelings. |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2012
John J. Bowen, Jr. |
C'mon, Get Happy!: Advisors See Link Between Happiness and Success Think success brings happiness? That s not the way it works. In fact, it s the other way around for financial advisors. |
Salon.com
April 18, 2001
Laura Miller |
"Buddha" by Karen Armstrong A former Catholic nun's short biography of the Buddha explains the elusive Eastern sage in terms that even drama-hungry Westerners can understand... |
Psychology Today
Mar/Apr 2006
Kathleen McGowan |
The Hidden Side of Happiness Pleasure only gets you so far. A rich, rewarding life often requires a messy battle with adversity. The capacity to simultaneously embrace both loss and growth is an ordinary part of life -- a complex, poignant emotional state that is perhaps the greatest reward of maturity. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2012
Yano et al. |
Can Technology Make You Happy? Yes, and it can make your office a better place to work, too |
Scientific American
June 2006
George Johnson |
Favored by the Gods Three recent books, two by scientists and one by a historian, take on the quest for the good life, in which common sense and the received wisdom of the ages is increasingly confronted by findings from psychology, neuroscience and genetics. |
Registered Rep.
September 9, 2013
Charles Douglas |
Living and Leaving a Happy Legacy While having enough money to take care of our basic needs (for example, food, shelter, clothing) does increase happiness, more money doesn't necessarily make us any happier. |
Scientific American
March 2007
Michael Shermer |
(Can't Get No) Satisfaction The new science of happiness needs some historical perspective. |
Salon.com
February 4, 2002
Terence Clarke |
Tibet: Lost in the Himalayas An American photographer who brought three children out of Tibet talks about how the country's legendary spiritual tradition is vanishing... |
Reason
May 2003
Jesse Walker |
Inside the Spiritual Jacuzzi What JewBus, Unitarian Pagans, and the Hot Tub Mystery Religion tell us about traditional faiths |
Fast Company
February 2011
Nancy Cook |
The Corporate Pursuit of Happiness A Stanford marketing professor is teaching her students - along with AOL, Facebook, and Adobe - how to find and export joy. |
Fast Company
April 2006
Ian Wylie |
Prophet Among Pinstripes James Montier is a financial heretic. And among London's banking set, he's winning plenty of converts. |
Real Travel Adventures
June 2008
Antonio Graceffo |
Vassa, The Buddhist Lent A look into the three month period of abstinence, sobriety, and meditation for Buddhist monks. |
HBS Working Knowledge
June 2, 2008
Sarah Jane Gilbert |
Spending on Happiness How and why spending money on others promotes happiness. |
