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While it might sound like a stretch at first, piles of new data suggest that colors often work in tandem with your mood. In fact, advertisers have been testing the connection for years. Ads for food often use yellow and red to increase appetite. Ads for outdoor clothing or all-terrain vehicles rely on dark greens…
Researcher Kristen Neff has discovered something life-changing about culturally predominant beliefs regarding success, self-improvement, and self-criticism: beating yourself up actually prevents you from doing your best and from doing the most. Chances are good that you were led to believe productivity meant comparing yourself to others and holding yourself to an ever-higher standard. Maybe you’ve…
It turns out there’s more to the relationship between happiness and food than calorie counts; the nutrients in the food you eat affect your emotional well-being too. Convincing research suggests a correlation between the experience of conditions like depression and anxiety and a lack of crucial vitamins, minerals, and fatty acids. It makes sense that…
Over the years, many different health trends have come and gone. From jazzercise to aerobics to Zumba, it can feel like there’s always some new thing your friends or coworkers are urging you to try. In some cases, the hype belies myth. For example, most scientists believe the payoff of the juice cleanse fad has…
When conversations turn to the subject of well-being, the focus often revolves around yoga, eating organic, or the latest juice cleanse. Maybe you’ve tried yoga and you eat organic, and yet you feel like you’re simply adding items to your to-do list instead of finding peace or feeling better. If you’re feeling even more burned…
Imagine you grew up in a strict home. You became intimately acquainted with early curfews, rigid dress codes, and the word “no.” You felt like you only had value when you succeeded—in sports, at school, and in your relationships. Criticisms were frequent and affected you deeply. Maybe someone told you or made you feel like…
Have you ever caught a glimpse of someone laughing and found that you were smiling yourself? Happiness is surprisingly easy to catch and spread. Perhaps even more surprisingly, the happiness you infuse into the world around you and give to others lives longer and stronger than contagious sadness. The reasons to spread happiness are more…
You’ve likely been through a few romantic relationships in your life; you probably had a friend or two who stuck with you through each of them. Research backs up conventional wisdom when it comes to good friends: having people in your life you can turn to whether things are good or bad is an important…
In the growing body of research about gratitude and happiness, there are many different definitions of gratitude; the gist of each is the same: gratitude is made up of expressions of appreciation, an awareness of the present moment, and finding joy and meaning in the world around you. Psychologists have found that practicing gratitude doesn’t…
Music, exercise, and hobbies are all great ways to boost your mood and improve your outlook on life, but what if you’ve tried it all and nothing seems to work? You want to feel happy but don’t know how to shake the blues. Patterns of depression and anxiety can be so tough to get rid…