I read: Can ‘micro-acts of joy’ make you happier? I tried them for seven days
The premise is that we can work out what makes us feel good and do more of it. “Micro-acts of joy focus us on what is good about the life in front of us, and how we can make it better,” says Elissa Epel, a psychiatry professor at the University of California, San Francisco and author of The Seven-Day Stress Prescription, who is a collaborator on the Big JOY project. “This is critical during these dark times; these are ways we bring in the light.”
Big Joy is a citizen science project based at the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley. You can try it here. It’s just seven minutes a day for seven days.
I’m giving it a try right now and I’ll let you know how it goes.
Also worth reading: The New York Times on Tiny Little Joys.
