Intentional focus on positive experiences acts as a tool for cognitive reframing, physically rewiring the brain to counter the default tendency to fixate on negativity.

“Gratitude is how you intentionally rewire your mind.”

Psychiatric illnesses like depression can be treated by identifying and recalibrating dysfunctional neural circuits rather than viewing patients as chronically broken.

“it refocuses the story on something that's highly correctable and it's it's basically electrphysiology and it's basically kind of recalibrating a circuit that is re-calibratable instead of I have something missing”

Practicing gratitude helps silence the inner critic by reducing the amygdala's activity in the background.

“It also silences your inner critic because it dials down the volume of the amydala in the background.”