Articles about Enhancing Happiness And Joy
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Try This Meditation: Loving-Kindness for Self-Love
Research shows that practicing for as little as 7 weeks reduces stress, improves cognitive function, and increases positivity.
An Audacious Dream: Putting India on the World Football Map
I firmly believe India has the potential to become a global sports powerhouse and RoundGlass Sports is on its way to achieve this goal.
4 Social Media Habits That Boost Self-Worth
If you find yourself ruminating on negative thoughts or comparisons, try these exercises to pull you back into reality.
Ayurvedic Program in India: My Therapies
These Panchakarma therapies helped improve blood circulation in my body, reduce stress and anxiety, and enhance my overall wellbeing.
How to Make Meditation a Habit
Bringing the quality of mindfulness into any activity is a good way to start your meditation practice.
SIP: The Soothing Ritual of Loose Leaf Tea
Could a more fulfilling way to drink tea also help to save the planet?
The Stories We Tell: Love Yourself Enough to Struggle
The Stories We Tell: Letting Go of Control
The Stories We Tell: What If You're Already a Success?
The Stories We Tell: Make Fun a Priority
The Stories We Tell: The Power of Using Your Voice
Advocating for yourself can be a can be difficult, even scary sometimes, especially when many of us are taught not to rock the boat.
The Stories We Tell: A Meditation on Effortlessness
Yoga for Life: My 5 Favorite Poses
Yoga makes me feel alive. This International Day of Yoga, try out the practice to better help you interconnect your mind, body, and soul.
The Stories We Tell: Befriend Your Ego
Welcome to 'The Stories We Tell'
The Stories We Tell: Find Purpose Through Service
What’s on Your Plate: Embrace a Balanced Diet
To live a long, healthy life, we need to prioritize food that is whole, healthy, and responsibly sourced
Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is
The next time you want to invest in a new product, app, or company, ask yourself if the venture compels you on an emotional level.
Let’s Prioritize Women’s Wellbeing
For a healthy and equitable world, we need to ensure Wholistic Wellbeing of women at the workplace, in society, and, most importantly, at home.
Mindful Eating: Get a Taste of Wellbeing
Do you recollect what you ate for breakfast or lunch today? Did you eat it well? Did you savour your food?
PRACTICE: The Food Sabbath
Feeling stressed and stretched too thin? You just might find an antidote to the anxiety by bringing your loved ones together for the weekly ritual of a food sabbath
Wellbeing Programs Your Employees Need, But Don’t Ask For
The ideal employee wellbeing program must include doctor consultations, lifestyle disease management, stress management and one-on-one counselling sessions.
Best Ways to Give Feedback to Your Employees
The best way to provide feedback to your employees is by being constructive, listening to them, gauging their reaction and asking for their feedback as well.
What Has Remote Working Taught Us?
Make remote working more productive through flexible schedules, creating an organized workspace, socializing and maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
Creating a Stress-free Environment
By building trust, listening to your employees, and encouraging collaboration and work-life balance, leaders can create a stress-free environment at work.
Improving Mental Health for Remote Workers
By offering flexible working hours, expressing gratitude and spreading awareness about mental wellbeing services, leaders can improve the collective mental health of their organization.
Burnout Signs Managers Need to Notice
Managers need an empathetic eye for detail to identify early signs of burnout. This can help them customize well-being programs for employees to prevent or decrease the effects of burnout, significantly.
How to Avoid Workplace Loneliness
Workplace loneliness is a rising problem, however, it’s never too late to address it. Organizations and individuals need to be more aware of their initiatives towards offering support.
Destigmatizing Mental Health at Work
The RoundGlass Wellbeing at Work Survey 2019-20 suggests a majority of organizations are not doing enough to promote mental wellbeing at work. Here’s how your organization can destigmatize mental wellbeing.
Role of Wellbeing Champions in Wellbeing Programs
Wellness champions in the workplace are integral to understanding the needs of your employees and ensure the success of your wellbeing program.
Happiness Quotient Boosts Employee Productivity
Happy employees are the most productive. By taking small steps to create workplace happiness, conflicts can be prevented and absenteeism reduced. This can lead to increased engagement and output.
Impact of Physical Workspaces on Workplace Wellbeing
It’s important to create a workspace that’s well-ventilated, has ample natural light, spacious, offers fun zones to unwind and reflects the company culture.
Think you have work life balance? Answer these questions
How is your work-life balance? Answer these questions to see for yourself.
How Leaders Can Manage Remote Teams Effectively
Leading a remote team can be tricky. Make empathy the cornerstone of your leadership by checking in on your employees frequently and being patient at work.
Creating a Healthy Virtual Work Culture
Have you evaluated your company’s virtual work culture? Here are the things you should be focusing on.
Hybrid Workplace Model — Good or Bad For Work Culture?
We are trying to decode the new hybrid workplace in the best way possible — a list of its pros and cons!
New year, new relationships
It’s not necessarily about broadening our friendship group, but about re-examining our present relationships to make them more worthwhile.
Bringing joy to your life brings joy to the world
Find your passion to improve your Financial Wellbeing
We often shy away from pursuing our passion professionally in favor of a job that offers financial security. But done right, we can unite Financial Wellbeing with professional fulfilment.
Exploring a New Creative Activity
Welcoming New Beginnings in 2022
Doshas and Meditation: Finding the Right Combination
A central theme of the practice is to create a balanced lifestyle that supports energy flow in the body for wholistic health.
Tapping Into the Vitality of Nature
Walks in nature come with obvious physical and emotional benefits. But they are equally essential to our Planetary Wellbeing.
Wholistic Wellbeing and the Joy of Giving
Interspecies Friendships: How Can Pets Facilitate Wholistic Wellbeing?
Seeking Wholistic Wellbeing through our elders
From Hedonism to Eudaimonia: finding the true sense of lasting happiness
Winter Solstice: Meaning, Rituals, and Wellbeing
Winter solstice reminds us to honor taking time to slow down, and release what is no longer serving us.
Why your Company Needs a Robust Wholistic Wellbeing Plan
Redefining workplace needs in the post-pandemic workplace
From Practical Meditations to the Practice of Meditation
We shouldn't think of meditation as something to do in our spare time, but as a constant state of being that gives us more spare time.
Bring Mindfulness to Your Daily Meals
To move away from habits and compulsions, and toward awareness, we must chart our body’s day-to-day requirements.
Empowering women to reclaim Wholistic Wellbeing
Let’s empower women to embrace their interests and passions in a safe environment
Why We Need Wholistic Wellbeing
The Benefits of Eating Like a Yogi
The need to keep your body in a state of calm involves focusing on the timings and quality of food.
Invest in Inclusivity for Wholistic Growth
How can technology assist Wholistic Wellbeing in creating a more inclusive workplace?
Milestones, millions, and making a difference.
Putting the theory of Wholistic Wellbeing in practice, the RoundGlass Foundation has touched one million lives in over one thousand villages of Punjab.
The Wisdom of Grief
The Joy of Connecting with Children
How can learning from those younger than ourselves improve our Wholistic Wellbeing?
What's Your Meditation Style?
Some prefer guided-meditation, and for teachers or individuals with an advanced practice, self-meditation may work better.
How can we measure our lives in wellbeing rather than in numbers?
How Parents can Impart Wholistic Wellbeing to their Children
We need to teach our children to meditate: to travel to a quiet place in their mind where they become the master of their emotions and thoughts
Yoga for Positive Energy
What we put out into the world, we receive back from it, so it’s important to consciously work to keep negativity at bay.
Why Businesses should Embrace Corporate Wellbeing
Why I Created the RoundGlass Foundation
Wholistic Wellbeing has been an inspiration to give back to the communities that shaped me.
How to Meditate for Beginners
Let go of what you think meditation is, what you believe meditating looks like, and if you're doing it 'right.'
Buddhism Helped Me Heal from Addiction
When I brought awareness to my dark parts and understood the chaos they were causing, my true healing began.
Feeling Dull and Disconnected? Try These Practices to Connect to the Present Moment
Feeling dull or disconnected is a byproduct of the overdrive and hyperactive states we often find ourselves in.
3 Questions to Move You From Loneliness to Connection
Like a stomach rumbling, the feeling of loneliness is an alarm bell. In this case, it’s telling us that we need connection.
Find Deep Healing Through Whirling
Whirling doesn't cause anything to happen, necessarily, but it does allow energy to shift, bringing us into a healthy balance.
Give This Mindful Gift to Mom
If you have a mother figure in your life, invite her to join you for a guided RoundGlass live meditation.
3 Essential Qualities That Benefit Humankind
As you cultivate these virtues, you’ll find you’re giving a gift not only to yourself, but to the world around you.
Chase Peace of Mind, Not Happiness
I believe we should set our sights on peace of mind, because when our mind is calm, it doesn’t matter if you’re happy.
I Found Happiness When I Stopped Chasing After It
I noticed how everyone – myself included – constantly chased after these ephemeral pleasures of life, never quite satisfied.
How to Cultivate Self-Love for Your Body
Our culture supports being critical of our bodies, but if we can love them instead, we can change our lives.
How to Manage Stress by Turning It Into a Force for Good
You'll experience stress as a way to spur you on to an accomplishment.
4 Ways Self-Compassion Will Improve Your Life
As I learn to be more compassionate with myself, I've noticed I seek out others all the time for assistance.
How Meditation Retrains Innate Self-Kindness
Our common humanity is that we all wish to contribute, and we are all made of love.
How to Handle Change When We Don't Choose It
Not all change that chooses us is negative — but generally, it's hard to adapt when we don't see the change coming.
Feather Your Nest: Finding a Comfy Meditation Seat
I believe if the ancient yogis had sofas in their Himalayan caves, they would have meditated on them!
I Presented Research to the Dalai Lama — Here’s What He Said
'I will watch you, whether you are really helping to build a happy, peaceful world or not [...]'
In Discovering Meditation, I Discovered My Mind
I learned my current reality was one-dimensional and shaped by various habits and emotions.
How Feeling Empty at Work Led Me to Meditation
A coach suggested that I needed to connect my mind, body, and heart so I could feel more fulfilled at work.
Why Mindfulness Belongs in Middle Schools
The students learned to be better citizens and I learned to be a better educator.
How My Relationship with Meditation Changed Over Time
Start small; that was the biggest thing for me — if you can do something every day, you'll see the benefits of this practice.
Does Meditation Ever Get Easier?
As we get more experienced with meditation, it allows us to reap more of the benefits, outweighing the discomfort.
How I Get Ready to Meditate
The best preparation for meditation is cultivating joy, which leads to openness and receptivity.
How Meditation Complements My Life as an Artist
The benefit of steadiness created a Miriam that's not that affected by the shifts around me.
How Existential Questioning Led Me to Meditation
Through open awareness meditation, one rests in the intrinsic nature of our minds.
I Hated Meditating — Until It Began to Work
After 22 challenging years of life, I was desperate for some solution. And then, Tibetan Buddhism began to work.
Why I Approach Meditation with a Playful Attitude
A playful attitude keeps us going given the repetitive nature of meditation.
Why Meditation Is a Lot Like Cleaning House
We are effectively cleaning and clearing our internal houses, the subconscious mind.
I Found Emotional Sobriety Through Meditation
Through meditation, wellness mentor Ceasar Barajas has learned to better life with grace, and is helping others.
How Meditation Helped Me Find My True Home
I remain profoundly human but suffer so much less now; the experience of liberation is real for me.
Vipassana Meditation: Why It’s the Right Fit for Me
When I found myself at home caring for my young children, I realized in a painful way that I could not just 'be.'
The Meditation Practice That Got Me Through a Ph.D
It took a long time to recover my mental health after getting my degree, and meditation was the one thing that stayed.
The Natural, Effortless Meditation Style That Works for Me
It was like coming home, noticing that the safest, most peaceful, joyful, most loving place was inside of me.
Why Tibetan Buddhism Speaks to Me
Abandon this idea of a quick fix to one's problems — it's about patience and perseverance.
We Can’t Predict the Future — and Meditation Helped Me Accept That
We can build resilience and faith to ride the waves of our experience, with more peace and ease.
How to Develop Appropriate Concentration
We tend to have a fixed and solid sense of self, which is not an accurate view and may also cause suffering in the long run.
Taking Care of Your Emotional Digestive System
Become aware of your internal communication system when someone enters your sacred space.
That Daydreaming Child Might Just Be Meditating
We do not have to teach our kids to meditate, especially if they are shy, passive and creative. They do this well on their own.
What Ants Can Teach Us About Generosity
The rewards flow back in many beautiful ways when you do things out of goodness and without condition.
How to Use the 5 Elements to Balance Your Emotions
Knowing a bit about each element and its properties can support you in staying present and balanced in life.
5 Ways to Use Your Senses to Cultivate Conscious Presence
Like our senses help us tune to the external world, they help us tune into our inner world during meditation.
Everything You Need to Know About the Healing Powers of Mantra Meditation
The mystical language of Sanskrit was mostly designed for the creation and spiritual use of mantras.