by Alan Heeks | May 1, 2018 | Natural Happiness Blog
The Book of Joy: Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu Lasting Happiness in a Changing World This deep and delightful book, first published in 2016, became an immediate best-seller worldwide. The wisdom of these two great men, then in their eighties, is surprisingly...
by Alan Heeks | Apr 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
It’s not about the money! The Happy Planet Index for 2016 again puts countries in Latin America and the Asia Pacific region at the top of the list, ahead of more ‘developed’ Western states. Unlike some other rankings, the HPI includes such factors as ecological...
by Alan Heeks | Apr 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
Cosy friendship in all its forms: including tea, cake, candles! Many surveys show the Danes to be the happiest people in Europe and the world, and the quality of hygge seems to be one reason. Hygge, pronounced hoo-guh, is hard to define or translate: friendly cosiness...
by Alan Heeks | Feb 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
A Realistic and Positive Book on Ageing: Also helpful for the ‘young-old’ The warmth of the heart prevents your body from rusting: Marie de Hennezel. This is the best book on ageing I have read: well-informed, realistic, as well as warm-hearted and inspiring. Marie...
by Alan Heeks | Feb 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
Two score and ten – fifty years and growing It is said that you know you are getting old when doctors and policemen look impossibly young. I had this experience about a year ago when I encountered an orthopaedic consultant who told me bluntly that ‘at my age’...
