Dallas Bragg argues that gratitude lists don't work because the nervous system responds to emotion, not words. Real gratitude means feeling appreciation in your body, not just writing it down or posting it online. That felt emotion can reset your baseline state and help you build the life you want.
Hey, stop making gratitude lists, and especially stop posting them on social media. I used to make gratitude lists every day, and I always thought the longer the list, the greater day I'm going to have. Have you noticed in others or yourself the propensity to make a gratitude list and then by midday you're just as hateful as ever? The practice of gratitude is to create in your nervous system a prolonged and elevated new state of being. It's that elevated state of being that actually manifests the life that you want. You see, the nervous system doesn't speak English. It doesn't speak any oral language. So making a list and reciting it out loud is actually a waste of your time. The nervous system speaks in emotion. So it's in the evoking of the emotion caused by what you're grateful for that really makes the difference. This practice resets your baseline of
