The Grateful 3 method interrupts negative thoughts by naming three things you're grateful for. When emptiness or overwhelm hits, pause and list specifics: your wife, kids, house, water, food, clothing. Repeat this enough times and your mind rewires itself toward gratitude instead of negativity.
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So this is something that I learned years back, and the Grateful 3 is anytime that you have a thought that is negative or one that says, I can't do this, I can't do that, something that's overwhelming, think of 3 things you're grateful for. That's it, 3 things you're grateful for. Well, I'm grateful for my wife, I'm grateful for my kids, I'm grateful for this house I live in, someone might say. But what I'm not grateful for is how the political world— and I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, stop right there. Say 3 more things you're grateful for. Well, I'm grateful for water, I'm grateful for food, and I'm grateful that I'm able to have clothes to wear. And so what we're doing is that we are retraining the mind. 'Cause if you wanna change your attitude, change your gratitude. We are adding gratitude in there. And some people who have just been in their mindset, and people can call it negative, some people call it comfort zone, whatever it is for you, we are just starting to drip more in there than the bad side. So we're trying to drip gratitude more.