This place is happy 24 hours a day and 365 days a year!
A friend of Jill’s has an app that is called BeHppy!
It is a stream of pictures, taken by anonymous people that have downloaded it, that then post pictures that make them happy. The viewer can then click a smiley face to show the poster that their picture made them happy.
People have posted pictures all over the world and of many different things and events.
Jill and I have been posting pictures of our travels and people seem to enjoy them.
One of person that posts always finds pictures of things that are “smiling” even though they aren’t people or animals. It is quite fun to see how people can interpret smiling and happiness in their own way.
Jill’s friend, Aline, is the owner and founder and a wonderful person. Do her a favor and download it and start using it. It is really fun and easy and just click the link below:
I like this app a lot since I’m a firm believer in behavioral interventions allowing people to change their thoughts and emotions. There are studies that show that by simply looking in a mirror and smiling for 5 minutes, you can change a person’s emotion. I’ve tried it before and actually prescribed this as a technique and I know that it works. If you are interested in reading more about this, this is a good primer: One Smile (Only One) Can Lift A Mood.
It quotes Daniel Goleman and Paul Ekman. Both are very noted researchers and scientists. Dr. Ekman actually had a tv show called “Lie To Me” about his theory of the facial recognition of micro-emotions that was interesting and fun. I’ve read a few of his books and taken his micro-emotion recognition tests.
Most people score about 3 out of 15.
I scored an average of 13 out of 15.
I think this is because I tend to focus on people’s faces and study their emotions as a behavioral therapist. I want to know exactly when something changes and how that shows up. I look for the tiniest trace of a change and then try to call my client’s attention to it so they can see that emotions can be changed in an instant and that nothing is permanent. A large part of my behavioral therapy practice is using empathy constructively and helping people learn acceptance of themselves, their choices and of others.
As for happiness, I’ve often found that people want to be happy without really defining what that term means to them. To me, happiness is finding contentment.
I’ve noticed that when I’m content, I’m happy. I find it hard to find happiness first or believe that it is a constant.
Without happiness, how could we know sadness?
Without sadness, how could we know happiness?
Or any emotion in between.
As Jill and I have traveled, we’ve searched for pictures to post on BeHppy of words or images that have the word “Happy” in them.
Here are just a few.
I hope you enjoy them and find happiness, contentment or whatever emotion would benefit you in this moment.