The increasingly materialistic society we live in has led many of us to believe that happiness is something to be chased, to obtain. The ultimate end goal that leads to everlasting bliss and ...

When fifth-grade teacher Sharri Conklin first invited her students to lead a daily mindfulness moment, she didn’t expect it to spark a quiet revolution. What began as a single child asking to read a ...

“Try This” from The Washington Post is a series of audio courses designed to jump-start the parts of life where we could all use a few pointers — with pithy, snackable solutions you can easily use.

How can we feel more moments of joy? We explore the science of joy and how we can cultivate it in our everyday lives, with poet Ross Gay and psychologist Philip Watkins. Are joy and happiness the same ...

For years, mental health advice felt like it was either affirmations or crisis management. You were either drowning or manifesting. No in-between. But what if joy wasn’t some fleeting feeling you get ...

Positive emotions—such as feelings of gratitude, love, and confidence—can help strengthen the immune system, protect the heart against loss and trauma, build relationships, increase resilience, and ...

Given the state of the world, many of my clients and friends are struggling to find joy—or even hope. Take Jim, for example. He’d been feeling down and “blah,” so he decided to take matters into his ...

J amie Moore was angry. It was 2019, and students in her composition course at the College of the Sequoias, where she is a professor of English, had stopped handing in their assignments once they’d ...

RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Becoming an adult often seems to mean leaving play behind. The term “adulting” refers to doing ...