Dive into the transformative power of a gratitude practice or journal 📝
It's gonna be like 90 degrees here in Minneapolis. We have a new theme of harvest. Hope everyone is enjoying the weather because it is literally 90.
Rick Steves had struggled with mental health for a long time, depression mostly. A mentor told him to start gratitude journaling. When he practiced that every day, it was like switching his. My from autopilot onto a new level. It gave him new circuitry, new openness, more aliveness.
Are you guys still here? Can someone tell me if you're still here?! Round two. Oh, you are still here.
Foreign. It's Friday. It's October. We have a new theme of harvest. And I'm loving it. Hope everyone is enjoying the weather because it is literally 90. It's gonna be like 90 degrees here in Minneapolis. So pretty wild stuff. But today I wanted to talk about gratitude and how I. How gratitude changed me. How. Hey, Rick. How's it going? Dream big. Nice to see you. And I really had an aha moment. And it was actually around this time of year about 10 or 11 years ago, and I had struggled with mental health for a really long time, depression mostly.
And I had a mentor say, you need to start gratitude journaling. You need to write 10 things you're grateful for every single day and why. And the big part for me was the. And why. And I would really just write the most silly things because, like, I'd be like, I'm so grateful for the wall because it protects me, or it's a pretty color. Just really random stuff. But I kid you not, that practice, I was really adamant about it. I even got. Hey, Rachel. I even got a whole new set of pens. I got a really fun gratitude journal thing that I loved looking at and, or just like a pretty journal.
I made it memorable and, and cutesy. And when I practiced that every day and wrote it down, it was like switching my. My from autopilot onto like, this new level. Like, it. It auto tuned me to this higher frequency that I had never experienced before. And over time, as I got used to that, I, I, that's like, what became my norm. And I honestly outgrew my depression in a way, like depressive tendencies. And I'm not saying, like, that can work for everybody, like, please consult your doctor, that type of thing.
Like, that's not what I'm here to say. I'm just saying for me, it gave me new circuitry, new openness, more aliveness by being connected to all the little things in the world that we miss. I feel like our. I don't feel. It is pretty known that, you know, we're bombarded with the news, the division, the negativity and pessimism and things like that. It. It weighs on us. It takes a toll on our brains and on our nervous system. And I know that, like, if I'm not. When I don't do a grateful gratitude practice, or if I'm not doing my wellness practices or routines, it can.
I can get into a pretty, like, dark spot again. And when I have shared this practice with some friends that were struggling or some clients of mine that were struggling the ones that did pick it up were like, oh, man, this. This is great. And I still read my gratitude journal every day. And I really wish I. Rachel's like, I don't watch the news for that reason. Yeah, I. I had to take a really long time, a really big break from the news because of that. Like, I was just tired of feeling that way, and it just seemed like, really.
There's some books. Sorry, should I have this prepared before? But it's. Shoot. Said the connection was lost. Are you guys still here? Can someone tell me if you're still here? Yep. Round two. Oh, you are still here.
