A pioneering new scheme which helps to improve the lives of the nations older generation is to be rolled out across the country. Southwark circle started in the London borough of Southwark back in 2009, with a primary aim of bringing older people together to do things they enjoy as well as providing them with read more »

Four great ways to boost your energy levels throughout the day: Lighten up According to neurological director of the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago, Alan Hirsch, M.D., exposing yourself to two minutes of bright light immediately after you have woken up will halt the production of melatonin. Melatonin is the body’s read more »

According to a recent study conducted by the Everyman Campaign, the average Brit spends 36 minutes worrying everyday, amounting to 9 days each year. The survey of 2,000 adults aged between 18 and 65 found that the cost of living, feeling like you’re stuck in a rut and gaining weight were the top three worries, read more »

We all know that doing something for others boosts our own happiness in the process so why not get involved with ITV Daybreaks ‘Donate-a-day’ scheme and pledge to give some of your time to helping others? Last time we checked 1,715 Daybreak viewers had pledged to give a day of their own time to helping read more »

We all know that picking our partner up when they are down is a given in relationships, but research from the University of California has revealed that what you say and do when your partner is happy is even more vital to your long term contentment as a couple. According to study author Shelly Gable, read more »

Isolated elderly individuals could find solace in a new service which helps them to utilise the world wide web. In today’s society a huge number of us could not imagine a day going by without access to the internet. From working online to staying in touch with friends and internet shopping, the world wide web read more »

Staring into a beautiful painting can create the same level of pleasure as gazing into the eyes of someone you love, say researchers. The study in question involved Professor Semir Zeki scanning the brains of volunteers as they looked at art such as paintings by Claude Monet. The brain scans actually showed that staring into read more »

According to the research paper ‘Bored George Helps Others: A Pragmatic Meaning-Regulation Hypothesis on Boredom and Prosocial Behaviour’, being bored can actually trigger people to seek out and participate in more meaningful behaviour. The paper, which was co-authored by Wijnand van Tilburg and Dr Eric Igou, set out to investigate the link between boredom and read more »

According to a recent study, reminiscing about days gone by could help the current and future ones to go well. Experts from San Francisco State University examined the personality traits of 750 individuals using a series of tests. The researchers then looked at how each of the volunteers rated for what psychologist’s considered to be read more »

Research has revealed that happiness takes the form of a U shaped curve throughout life, dropping in a persons late 20′s and not recovering again until after the 50 years mark. Bert van Landeghem, an economist based at Maastricht University in Belgium has found that whilst young adults are care free and hopeful about life read more »