by Bryony Shaw | July, 2016 | Bryony Shaw, Positive Psychology, self-development
Positive Psychology is often criticised for focusing on happiness and ignoring the myriad of negative experiences and accompanying emotions that we all have. However this is an over simplification. While Positive Psychology does focus on moving people towards a...
by Bryony Shaw | June, 2016 | Bryony Shaw, Culture
The recently published Word Happiness Report 2016 reported that the top five happiest counties in the world were Denmark, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway and Finland. It also reported that when taking continents as a whole, there was a difference between the happiness...
by Bryony Shaw | May, 2016 | Bryony Shaw, Positive Psychology, self-development
While reading Adrianna Huffington’s book Thrive, she described a very simple, yet effective task that resonated with me. She wrote about the way we interpret the things that we have to do and suggested that instead of thinking about them as tasks that we have to...
by Bryony Shaw | April, 2016 | Bryony Shaw, Health, Nature
Like nature itself, the health benefits gain when experiencing nature are infinite and wondrous. In his renowned study, View through a window may influence recovery from surgery, Roger Ulrich compared the medical records of two groups of patients who undergone gall...
by Bryony Shaw | March, 2016 | Bryony Shaw, Nature, Positive Psychology
The challenges of winter Many people find the short, cold, dark days of January and February a challenge. This is hardly surprising as our body clocks are disrupted because our daily routines are not aligned with the natural daylight hours. Unlike our ancestors who...
