The 2020 World Happiness Report was just released, ranking the happiness levels of 153 countries. It may not seem like a banner moment to release the report, given the mass global misery from coronavirus, but it’s actually an especially important moment to analyze why the happiest nations are happy (and the Nordic nations, as usual, grabbed 4 out of 5 of the top spots) and…
In the midst of the global coronavirus outbreak, fear about the unknown—and the suffering a global health crisis is causing and could cause—surrounds us. John Wood, founder of Room to Read, an organization that has brought the gift of education to 16.6 million children in 16 countries, and a keynote speaker at the 2019 Global Wellness Summit in Singapore, explains why remaining an optimist can…
A major 2019 analysis of 15 studies (229,391 participants) found that people ranking high in optimism were much less likely to have a heart attack or other cardiovascular event and had a lower mortality rate from any cause than did pessimistic participants. Across all data, there was a strong relationship between optimism and a lower risk of disease, with optimists having a 35 percent lower…
The GWI’s The Wellness Moonshot: A World Free of Preventable Disease just announced new, strategic partnerships in China, India and Israel to bring its mission of fighting preventable disease to millions more worldwide. The partnerships include China’s Tianren Culture, a next-generation social platform that supports social enterprises; India’s Smart Group, responsible for introducing mobile phones and electric cars to the country and who sees wellness…
According to the UN, global real estate contributes up to 30 percent of annual greenhouse gas emissions and consumes around 40 percent of the world’s energy. This is why the next big trend in the industry will be to combine its wellness and sustainability components. Moving forward, the fast-growing business of wellness lifestyle real estate will have no choice but to take into consideration all…
MONTHLY BAROMETER – WELLNESS EDITION Two key developments in workplace wellness: 1) Unwellness at work is becoming one of the big elephants in the corporate boardroom. As a revealing example, in 2017–2018 in the UK, stress, depression and anxiety accounted for more than half (57 percent) of total working days lost due to ill health. The issue of mental health in the workplace seems to…
