Gratitude can pull you out of stress and depression by resetting your mind to baseline. Some people feel it naturally, but most need to practice it deliberately using conscious thought. It's a skill you build, not just a feeling you have.
It's easy to lose our way and succumb to the toxicity of stress and even depression. That can start a very bad spiral. In the kinds of situations that we're in now, we need to be supportive of our environment inside and out. And one of the best ways to balance the scale and to return to homeostasis is to cultivate the attitude of gratitude. Now, there are many people who are blessed, blessed because they automatically feel gratitude for many things every day. But for the rest of us, it's important that we use our higher mind to cultivate the skill of gratitude. I mean our prefrontal cortex.
