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Essays, interviews, and policy analysis from the World Happiness Foundation ecosystem — 15% by guest voices from the Conscious Catalysts network.
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Essays
The Shamed World
Shame is the hidden currency of our age, and revenge its most common exchange rate. Why our institutions are called to become shameless, and what that truly means.
October 13, 2026
Cities of Happiness
Jaipur, City of Happiness
Two days in the Pink City advanced the science and practice of happiness and wellbeing: a Governor lighting the lamp, a Mayor releasing books, students dancing on stage, and the launch of a musical about the light within each of us.
October 13, 2026
Mindful Diving
Mindfulness, Diving, and the Sacred Meaning of Water
Water, sacred scripture, and the art of attention: what the Mahabharata and other traditions can teach us about mindful diving, care, and belonging.
October 12, 2026
Essays
Counting the Silence: Why We Are Taking the Unmeasured Pain of Women and Girls to the United Nations
Ahead of the seventy-first session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, the World Happiness Foundation argues that what is not counted is not funded, and what is not funded is not healed — and sets out six ways to count, hear and answer the women and girls our measures of progress leave out.
October 7, 2026
Mindful Diving
The Diving Mind: the Human Layer of Well-Being
Three connected books explore presence, breathing and psychology—and what they can teach us about fear, belonging and a culture of care.
October 4, 2026
leadership
Lead with Heart: Building New Paradigms for Human Happiness
Reflections from the first Duke Happiness Fest on Happytalism, Fundamental Peace, and the everyday leadership practices that help people flourish.
October 4, 2026
Mindful Diving
The Ocean as a Teacher of Presence: Why Diving Is the Oldest Meditation
Why diving may be the oldest meditation: the regulator breath, weightlessness and Separation, the research, and the 4B arc of Mindful Diving™ for presence.
September 29, 2026
Mindful Diving
Breathing Underwater: What Science Says About Breathwork
What science says about breathwork: slow breathing and vagal tone, CO2 tolerance, the exhale, the 4-4-4-4 square breath and the Never List for safe practice.
September 29, 2026
Mindful Diving
The First Dive Is a Breath
On our new books and music, the senses as doorways to presence, and why Mindful Diving™ was born.
September 28, 2026
Announcements
Measuring What Matters? A New Paper Reads Fourteen Years of the World Happiness Report — with Special Reference to India
The second publication of the World Happiness Foundation Research Lab reviews every edition of the World Happiness Report from 2012 to 2026 and asks how much of a country's rank reflects lived welfare — and how much reflects the instrument doing the measuring. Open access, CC BY 4.0.
September 14, 2026
Announcements
The Mind That Makes the World: a new book on the Supreme Yoga, the healing trance, and the path to Fundamental Peace
A new book from World Happiness Press. Eighteen chapters that walk from the story-worlds of the Yoga Vāsiṣṭha, through what a trance actually is, into a path anyone can practise — and into the YVH Integrative Model published in our Research Lab.
September 10, 2026
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Essays, field reports, invitations. One story a week — from abundance, never urgency.