Aaron Hartman, MD shares a three-minute gratitude practice to calm stress. List one to six good things or positive memories, which triggers physiological calming. He compares it to Harry Potter's patronus: a mental shield against anxiety.
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Three minute mental makeover but this basically is a kind of gratefulness or Thanksgiving type practice where you think about three minutes, you think about what's good in your life. You can journal it down, you can think of six good things in your life. Good events, happy events. Sometimes people just pick one single thing they focus on. It's actually kind of interesting. This is one of the things in Harry Potter that Harry had to think about in order to recall his patronus, right? It's kind of interesting the idea of having a good thought you focus on and changing your body's physiology, changing your power, your intellect, how you think having a calming effect is so powerful it's actually crept in to the moviemaking and story industry and we don't even realize that actually based on data and literature. So next time you think about the three minute mental makeover think about Harry trying to get in a place remember good thought that he can call his patronus.