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Breast cancer survivors win Ashburton dragon boat regatta
by Joyce Elwood-Smith
To the Wellington CanSurvive Dragon Boat team, getting the gold medal at the National Breast Cancer dragon boat regatta was a thrilling and exhilarating end to an exceptional season, a dream come true! The …
Opinion: Windmills are things of beauty
By David Suzuki
I have a cabin on Quadra Island off the British Columbia coast that’s as close to my heart as you can imagine. From my porch you can see clear across the waters of …
From corporate to therapist – How one Happyzine reader took the leap
Happyzine reader Halina Smolski has followed her dreams and set up a brand new Light Therapy business in Petone. This is the story of her journey from corporate to therapist …
I spent many years working in …
How to beat the back to work blues
Back to Work – Kiwi life coach Nicala Smyth
Even for those of us that are lucky enough to love our jobs, most of us drag the chain a bit when it comes to heading back to work …
Goodspiracy theory comes true: The $5 black huia rug
I have this very pleasing theory that at any given time all number of people can be conspiring to make our dreams come true, and it was recently proven correct.
I wrote a blog about my …
Making Peace – by Grace Deathridge
MAKING PEACE
By Grace Deathridge
Auckland is currently hosting a peace exhibition ‘Lest We Forget Hiroshima & Nagasaki’ daily from now until 12thDecember 2013. The exhibition aims “to convey the true extent of the damage caused by …
Jandals and sleigh bells – Christmas wisdom from a Happyzine reader!
Joyce Elwood-Smith
I hope you are ready for this wonderful season. I don’t mean ready in the sense that you have all your Christmas shopping done and all the presents wrapped, or that you have baked and iced …
Blog: Kind parenting pays off
Every parent has different goals for their kid. Some go for notable academic achievement, some for incredibly polite children who do as they’re told. Me, I go for happiness in my boy.
Someone once said to …
Where’s your special place in Aoteroa?
By Charlotte Squire
I love to take time out the Waikoropupu Springs, at home here in Golden Bay. As soon as I get near those waters I feel space clear in my mind. As I wander …
Blog: The goodspiracy
by Charlotte Squire
Sometimes I like to ponderously consider that in every moment, life is conspiring to make my dreams come true.
It’s a lovely thought isn’t it? That right now, as you sit here at your …
Calming down the process of birth, in Nelson
By Anna Wilde
Pregnant women in Nelson are learning new relaxation skills that help them to resolve anxiety and stay calm during labour. By working with Birth-skills specialist Anna Wilde, couples find they can easily build …
The power of visualisation for a healthy planet, community and life
By Charlotte Squire
I’d found it, the house we were going to begin our family in. It was just as I’d visualised six months earlier – surrounded in well established trees, close to the beach, and …
How to buy Happiness
By Jill Hayhurst
The saying goes that money can’t buy happiness. For the most part, I tend to agree. I’m a wee bit biased though since I’ve committed myself to a life of non-profit work and …
Blog: Listening in rather than out
I have this quiet inner voice I’ve learnt to pay close attention to. There’s generally nothing exciting about it. It says unremarkable things like ‘go for a walk’ or ‘go to bed’. I’ve tried ignoring …
Remembering to meditate during busy times
I’m organising a wedding. My own, to be little more precise.
Yesterday I felt about as mentally precise as a … wrecking ball. There were so many things on going on in my grey matter (including …
Study confirms turmeric a natural anti-depressant
A recent study further confirms the effectiveness of turmeric (curcumin) as an anti-depressive. The researchers even go as far to say that it may be more effective than some of the common drugs currently being …
Sincere smiles lead to good health
Is smiling healthy for you?
By Jill Hayhurst
Recently it feels like there has been a flurry of research exploring the links between emotions and health, resulting in an outbreak of sometimes contradictory and confusing advice. This …
A light exists in spring – by Joyce Elwood Smith
A light exists in spring
Not present on the year
At any other period
When March (August in the Southern hemisphere) is scarcely here …
Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886 renowned American poet.
The lifting of spirits, the joy of spring … …
Lumsden Primary School creates NZ’s first food forest
From Robert Guyton’s blog
Lumsden Primary School lost a sizable chunk of its playground this week, but in its place gained the country’s first-ever school food-forest.
Where for years and years only grass grew, there now grows …
Recipe for leaping with faith into the great unknown
By Charlotte Squire
Ingredients
An irresistibly strong, joyful sense of buzz, excitement, and wonder about a possible future scenario. When you imagine yourself in that possible scenario you experience sheer happiness, the kind that seems to burst …
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