How to Live a Happier Life: Do THIS Gratitude Practice Today

The Mel Robbins Podcast

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🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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In today’s episode, you’ll learn a simple tool you can use to feel happier and more connected to your loved ones. Mel is teaching you a few simple gratitude practices, ones you can do with your family, your partner, or even in a group text, that are proven to lower stress and make any relationship better. Mel used to cringe at the word gratitude. The fake smiles. The toxic positivity. The pressure to be “thankful” while your life is falling apart. But then she uncovered the real science – and what it does to your brain and body is shocking. This episode is not about keeping a journal or faking a smile. This is about rewiring your brain, resetting your nervous system, and reclaiming control of your emotional state using simple, proven tools backed by cutting-edge research. You’ll learn: -How gratitude shifts your brain out of survival mode and into clarity and calm -The surprising link between gratitude and inflammation, heart health, and sleep -How one group text a day can make gratitude stick (and make it contagious) Want to be happier? Want to feel more grounded, more emotionally in control, and less hijacked by your stress? Start here. These tools are simple enough to try with your partner. They’re powerful enough to shift the tone in your home. And they’re easy enough to send in your favorite group text. By the end of this episode, you’ll walk away with 3 science-backed practices that change how you think, how you feel, and how you move through your day – starting today. For more resources related to today’s episode, click here for the podcast episode page. If you liked this episode, check out these ones next, with the experts featured in this episode: Dr. Tara Swart: The #1 Neuroscientist: After Listening to This, Your Brain Will Not Be the Same Dr. Aditi Nerurkar: #1 Stress Doctor: 5 Tools to Protect Your Brain From Stress & Feel Calmer Now If you liked the episode, check out this one next: How to Deal with Difficult People & Not Get Stressed Out Connect with Mel: Get Mel’s newsletter, packed with tools, coaching, and inspiration. Get Mel’s #1 bestselling book, The Let Them Theory Watch the episodes on YouTube Follow Mel on Instagram The Mel Robbins Podcast Instagram Mel's TikTok Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes ad-free Disclaimer

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0:00.0	Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins podcast.
0:08.8	Today, you and I are talking about a word that is so overused. It barely means anything anymore.
0:16.3	The word, gratitude. And before you roll your eyes, I used to do the same. I just want you to hear me out.
0:24.0	Because I want to approach the idea of gratitude from a very different angle. Not your corny,
0:32.2	just be thankful for everything kind of episode. Because there's no way I'm going to tell you
0:36.4	to ignore the madness that is
0:38.7	happening in the world and probably even in your own life. Because peace isn't about ignoring the
0:45.7	madness. It's about finding stillness and power within the chaos. And that's what gratitude is. Whether you realize it or not, the madness in the
0:59.7	world is rewiring your mind and your body for negativity. Gratitude is how you fight back.
1:07.2	Gratitude is what you need to rewire your mind because when you practice gratitude as an intentional
1:15.1	mindset you are teaching your mind to spot what's okay right now to spot the goodness to spot the
1:24.2	things that are going well to lift yourself up so that you don't get gaslit by the
1:29.9	negativity. It's not just a feel-good thing. It's about intentionally changing the settings in your
1:37.6	mind. Gratitude is going to help you calm down faster when you get upset. It will help you think
1:43.8	clearer. It will help you get better upset. It will help you think clearer. It will help you get better
1:45.6	sleep. It will help you see that what you have is enough, which brings you even more. It trains
1:53.8	your mind to focus on what's going right. Because where you point your attention, that's exactly where your emotions and your actions go.
2:04.5	Gratitude is an act of defiance in a world that's trying to gaslight you into thinking you have
2:10.7	no power and that there's nothing in the world that's good. It's simply not true. And so we're
2:17.4	going to talk about it as an intentional
2:19.5	act of changing the settings in your mind. And then I'm going to give you three very simple tools,
2:25.7	ways that you can retrain your mind for gratitude, back by research, and it will immediately help you
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