Emmett Miller MDPersonal Coach/Physician Mind-Body Medicine/Psychotherapist/

Take a breath, reflect, and give thanks.

Name: Take a breath, reflect, and give thanks.
Uploaded: 2026-01-23T18:07:25+00:00
Duration: 45 s
Channel: Emmett Miller MD
Description: In this motivational monologue, the speaker highlights how stress and depression can lead to a harmful spiral, emphasizing the need for both internal and…

23 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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In this motivational monologue, the speaker highlights how stress and depression can lead to a harmful spiral, emphasizing the need for both internal and external support. The central recommendation is to cultivate an attitude of gratitude as a means to restore balance and achieve homeostasis. While some people naturally feel gratitude, the speaker argues that most must deliberately engage their higher mind—specifically the prefrontal cortex—to develop gratitude as a skill.

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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.