Is the Pursuit of Happiness Making Us Sad?

NEW YORK, November 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Happiness is the one thing we all desire in life - yet our very efforts to obtain it make it harder to achieve. You have merely to ask yourself whether you are happy, John Stuart Mill wrote, "and you cease to be so."

New Philosopher magazine's "Happiness" issue launches in the US and Canada Monday November 3. Can positive thinking be a fast track to misery and stress? Can affirmations - those peppy phrases you repeat to yourself in the mirror - make you feel worse? And is it possible that "positive visualization" techniques can actually make you less likely to succeed?

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New Philosopher magazine uses philosophy to analyze everyday life. Each issue aims to challenge, entertain and stimulate thinking; a 132-page, perfect bound magazine featuring leading thinkers such as philosopher of mind John Searle, psychology professor Howard Gardner, and Booker Prize winner Peter Carey.

"The result is an intellectual high for readers," notes editor of New Philosopher magazine Zan Boag. "New Philosopher magazine will make you see the world - and yourself - in a different light."

New Philosopher magazine is available from Monday November 3 in Barnes & Noble, Books A Million, Ubiquity and Kent bookstores in the US, and Chapters/Indigo and Independent bookstores in Canada. Visit www.newphilosopher.com for more details.

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