Article Archive for Practicing Happiness

Overall I consider myself a fairly optimistic person, albeit one with your garden-variety streak of fatalism. As I see it, one...

It’s early January — do you know where your resolution is? At this early stage in the New Year, you probably have a good sense of...

You'll drink champagne, you'll kiss your honey at midnight, and you'll wake up on January 1 with a pounding headache and lots of...

The wisest of words never become dated. When Gaiam sponsored and filmed a 1997 talk by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama at New...

Neale Donald Walsch had been getting offers for nearly a decade to turn his series of bestselling books into a film. He turned...

Gain some support around the early stages of meditation with these helpful tips

Gaiam: In your second book Moving Toward Balance, you highlight two meditation poses: hero pose and seated crossed-legs pose. Why...

Instruction on how to shift from unconscious reactions to mindful responses

In his second book, Moving Toward Balance: 8 Weeks of Yoga with Rodney Yee, the author devotes one day's instruction in each...

How can we find positive, sustainable comfort in this age of anxiety? A comfort that connects us to ourselves, and the Divine,...

Picture this: Sixty seconds of inner quiet. Of not trying to multi-task a thousand responsibilities. Of not projecting yourself...

Barefoot hiking might sound hard on the feet. But people who like to trek without shoes insist that it's good for your mind, body...