A YouTube video (creator: James Laughlin) presenting a simple daily habit called “five by five gratitude”: each morning name five internal and five external things you’re grateful for. The speaker argues this practice lowers stress and anxiety and helps rewire attention to notice positive things automatically, also supporting self-confidence.
I do something called five by five gratitude, which is when I wake up in the morning and I think of five things internally that I'm grateful for and five things externally, because internally is really good at, like, building that self confidence, which can also get damaged from stress when we're under high stress and externally looking in the outside world. And although, you know, people hear about gratitude all the time, for example, that, you know, gratitude, again, you hear it online. There's a reason for it. It's because it's proven to lower your stress and anxiety. But it's also when we rewire the brain to look for the good, that's what it helps it go into that automatic mode. More to look for, more you having to tell it to. So.
