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Being Generous Really Does Make You Happier

By Amanda MacMillan

Researchers say they’ve discovered that even thinking about doing something generous has real mood-boosting benefits in the brain.

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Richard Davidson: The Neuroscience of Happiness

Talk from Professor Richard Davidson at "Creating a Happier World: an afternoon with the Dalai Lama and friends" - organized by Action for Happiness in London on 21 Sept 2015

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Richard Davidson
2016
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Spontaneous Happiness: A New Path to Emotional Well-Being

Dr. Andrew Weil has proven that the best way to maintain optimum physical health is to draw on both conventional and alternative medicine. Now, in Spontaneous Happiness, he gives us the foundation for attaining and sustaining optimum emotional health. Rooted in Dr.

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Andrew Weil
2013
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Awakening Joy: 10 Steps to Happiness

Awakening Joy is more than just another book about happiness. More than simply offering suggested strategies to change our behavior, it uses time-tested practices to train the mind to learn new ways of thinking.

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James Baraz, Shoshana Alexander, Jack Kornfield (foreword), Ram Dass (preface)
2012
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Helping Others Makes Us Happier—But It Matters How We Do It | Elizabeth Dunn

Research shows that helping others makes us happier. But in her groundbreaking work on generosity and joy, social psychologist Elizabeth Dunn found that there’s a catch: it matters how we help.

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2019
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The Paradox of Generosity: Giving We Receive, Grasping We Lose

Determining why, when, and to whom people feel compelled to be generous affords invaluable insight into positive and problematic ways of life.

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Christian Smith, Hilary Davidson
2014
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How Can You Be Happy and Positive All the time? | Swami Mukundananda

In this video, Swami Mukundananda gives us the way through which we can feel Happy and Positive all the time. We need to realize that Happiness is not in the external things of the world, but in our own mind.

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Swami Mukundananda
2019
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The Unbelievable Happiness of What Is: Beyond Belief to Love, Fulfillment, and Spiritual Awakening

What do you really want—isn’t it happiness? And what keeps you from being happy? Could it be that your need to cling so tightly to what you believe—about yourself and life, about how things should be—is what’s holding you back? In The Unbelievable Happiness of What Is, a contemporary spiritual...

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Jon Bernie
2025
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How to Become Happy for No Reason—Marci Shimoff

David Laroche is interviewing Marci Shimoff, she is an incredible new author, the title of her book is «  Happy for no reason » . According to her, have an inner state of peace even if circumstances don’t allow it, so it doesn’t matter all the bad things -, it doesn’t mean nothing.

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Marci Shimoff
2016
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Marci Shimoff on the Today Show Jan 10 2008

Marci Shimoff appears on the Today Show with Meredith Vieira on January 10, 2008. Marci Shimoff is the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, including Chicken Soup for the Women’s Soul, Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul.

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Marci Shimoff
2009
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Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out

In Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out, transformational expert Marci Shimoff offers a breakthrough approach to being happy.

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Marci Shimoff, Carol Kline, Jack Canfield (foreword)
2009
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