Happiness/Joy
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The Connection Between Health and Happiness
Want to live a happy, healthy life? Take a look at what brings us happiness, as well as ways to eat, train, and live happily.
8 Ways to Laugh More
Why laughter really is the best medicine — plus tips to laugh more!
5 Ways to Enjoy a Spa Day at Home
Practice some much-needed self-care with these DIY tips and recipes that call for items you likely already have in your pantry.
The Joy of Home Gatherings: 6 Uplifting Reasons to Get Your Friends Together
The social equivalent of soul food, cozy home gatherings and small-group entertainments are drawing us closer — to simple pleasures and to each other.
12 Ways to Experience Holiday Joy
Rediscover the real source of the holiday season’s magic.
How to Practice Gratitude
What does appreciation really mean, and why is there so little of it to go around these days? Discover how you can put gratitude into action.
The Aesthetics of Joy
Ingrid Fetell Lee on design principles that spark positivity and help us to find moments joy of happiness.
The Happiness Curve
Feeling gloomy in your middle years? Award-winning journalist Jonathan Rauch tells us why life gets better after 50.
How to Overcome “The Wanting Mind” and Find True Happiness
Whether we’re yearning for another cup of coffee or a better job, we spend a lot of time and energy just wanting. Here’s how to observe — and calm — the endless tide of want that can catch us in its undertow.
Designing Happiness
Best-selling author Dan Buettner shares insights from the world’s happiest people that can boost the well-being of communities and their citizens.
5 Ways to Practice Happiness
When it comes to the quest for greater happiness, waiting and hoping are out. Learning and practicing are in. Here’s how to create your own happy reality — starting now.
6 Keys to a Happy and Healthy Life
A functional-medicine pioneer explains how to make small choices that build lasting well-being.
How to Be Happy
New York Times best-selling author Dan Buettner’s new book offers lessons from experts and the world’s happiest people for boosting the well-being of communities and the people who live in them.
Giving Brings Happiness
Why even tiny acts of generosity can bring you joy.
The Pursuit of Happiness
A skeptical journalist sets out to discover the keys to a happy life — and finds herself changed in the process.
Unhappy Pills
Women taking oral contraceptives suffer a higher incidence of depression, a new study finds.
May You Be Happy
Senior editor Jill Patton shares how a simple meditation practice lifted her spirits and helped her feel more connected on a recent visit to her hometown.
Why Taking Time Off is Essential for Your Health and Happiness
Think time off is a waste of time? For the sake of your health and happiness, you just might want to reconsider.
Broadcasting Happiness
A shift in mindset can improve your life — and the lives of others. Positive-psychology expert Michelle Gielan explains how to spread your joy around.
The Real Joy of Cooking
To find true pleasure in the kitchen, focus first on the dishes that make you happy.
True Joy: Kathryn Budig
Kathryn Budig empowers her yoga students to find authentic pleasure and meaning in what matters to them.