Grateful Flow: From Depressed to Energized #37

Phil Stutz, co-creator of The Tools (and my spiritual father), offers a life-changing practice called Grateful Flow—the art of seeing all the things in your world you can be grateful for, right now.

Here’s what you need to know: It’s impossible to feel depressed and grateful at the same time. (Don’t believe me? Try it out!) Gratitude shifts your focus from what’s wrong to what’s right, lifting your energy and reconnecting you to the present moment.

But here’s the catch: Gratitude loses its power when we fall into gratitude kryptonite: entitlement.