It’s so easy to get caught up in life, so easy to forget the good moments and things, so easy to take for granted all that we already have and focus instead on what is lacking.

As humans we are predisposed towards the negative. It’s just part of our make up and survival mechanism.

Yet if we allow ourselves to always be in that survival mode, we’d be constantly operating out of fear and avoidance of risk.

One way to disconnect from being driven by our innate survival nature is to simply practice gratitude.

This does not mean ONLY saying that we’re grateful, it means learning to FEEL it.

Why is it so important to feel it? You might ask.

It’s because our bodies remember and that memory automatically triggers our brain with programmed reactions. So, when you say thank you, see if you can invoke that feeling of gratitude in your body. Think of someone or something you truly love and let that feeling resonate from your heart into your body. This will automatically relax you by engaging your parasympathetic nervous system. Taking you out of the fight of flight mode of the survivor mind and giving you a sense of groudedness and wholeness to take on whatever comes next!