For anyone that's been around for a while, this isn't new. For everyone else, here's the basic history from when we started these threads years ago:
https://www.soberrecovery.com/forums...one-tried.html (100 Happy Days - anyone tried it?)
Originally Posted by
FireSprite 
I don't even remember how I found this info - it started with one google search that morphed & morphed with each click further from my original search phrase, so I have *no clue*.
But it's intriguing to me because it's as about approaching happiness from the simple side - just noticing something each day & taking a pic of that "thing" to share. A moment of gratitude captured visually.
This social program has it's own site at
100happydays challenge | Can you be happy 100 days in a row? .
Here's a news story that outlines how it originated etc:
#100happydays: The story behind the social phenomenon - News - TODAY.com
It appeals to me because it sounds like an easy way to "retrain" my brain to see things positively..... it sounds like for many, while it starts out as a bit of work to remember to notice happiness around you, eventually you notice a perspective shift & start to naturally incline yourself toward the positive more easily.
And I think it will be really cool to look back through 100 pics in a slideshow at the end & remember all the ways those little things brought happiness into my world in some way. I think it would make a great addition to my recovery work at this point.
I'm not interested in officially joining the site or posting my biz for the world to see (esp any pics of DD or my family, etc.) but I like the idea of being accountable to a photo-journal of sorts.
In the end, it was easier for us at SR to journal it all here to share our experiences and skip the pics or anything that would compromise our anonymity. We've had many generations of threads related to this topic but few people every REALLY hang for the full 100 days.... and I'm telling you - it matters. It takes time & repeated patterns to do all the synaptical rewiring needed to create lasting change.
A lot of people have had great experiences with this exercise in positive thinking & it literally takes NO effort.... the whole idea is to get used to seeing how positivity already does impact your life in ways that go unnoticed - once you raise your awareness to it, you'll start seeing it everywhere. (When I changed the way I looked at things, the things I looked at changed...)
Any takers?
