How to Use a Gratitude Practice in a Stressful Life

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Life is stressful. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either selling something or living on an island somewhere. But just because a stressful life is the reality for many of us, doesn’t mean that life’s not good too. It can absolutely be both. Identifying the good part is a key element of practicing gratitude. This week, episode 237 of the Positively LivingⓇ Podcast is about how to use a gratitude practice in a stressful life.

In this episode of the Positively LivingⓇ Podcast, I’m sharing how a regular gratitude practice can shift our perspective, improve resilience, and reduce stress and I give you actionable steps to take right now to design a gratitude practice in a way that works best for you.
I cover the following topics:

• A review of stress—how it can be helpful and harmful.
• Using gratitude to choose the direction of our thoughts, focusing on the positive.
• Actionable ways to practice gratitude for stress management and a few methods to try for yourself.
• Sample questions to use as a prompt when you’re getting started.

I encourage you to embrace the power of gratitude and use it as a guiding light to navigate the stresses of life, empowering yourself to live with more positivity, resilience, and joy.

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1. How to Use a Gratitude Practice in a Stressful Life (00:00:00)

2. Reviewing the 2 types of stress: eustress and distress. (00:03:25)

3. The benefits of having a daily gratitude practice. (00:06:08)

4. Practicing gratitude does not mean you ignore the tough reality but instead, find balance in it. (00:08:35)

5. Practical ways to incorporate a gratitude practice into your routine. (00:10:13)

6. Prompts you can use as a starting point in your gratitude practice. (00:16:37)