 Get happier in seven seconds by going for a gratitude walk, just like I am right now. I'm taking Buster for a little walk here in Abingdon in Oxfordshire in the United Kingdom. I'm here visiting my brother and my niece and nephew and I'm just going for a little walk. It's a Saturday. I've been in London for a week and the hustle and bustle of London with all the people there got me kind of like stuck in my head. I was a little bit overwhelmed and it was fun as hell because I got to, you know, catch up with friends and I got to have lots of social things but now I'm really enjoying just coming into a park, getting out in nature, getting out amongst the trees and on the grass. Sometimes I'm like taking my flip flops off here and just putting my feet on the ground so my bare feet touch the earth. Studies have shown that your bare feet touching the earth like this makes you appreciate nature even more because the earth has a magnetic pulse to it or an energetic pulse to it and some people think and studies have shown that you actually feel happier and feel healthier if you connect to the earth with bare feet. So give it a try. Take your shoes off and just put your bare feet on the ground. So what I'm doing right now is a gratitude walk which means I'm walking around and I'm just saying well I'm grateful for my health, I'm grateful for my family, I'm grateful that I get to walk out here in the blue sky, I'm grateful for the sun that's hitting my face, I'm grateful for my businesses, I'm grateful for my staff, I'm grateful for my friends, I'm grateful that I have amazing opportunities in life. Too many of us, me included we get into this mental rut where we sometimes are like oh man I don't make enough money or man I don't have a girlfriend or a boyfriend or man if only I could do this and get out of this job then I'd be happy oh if only I could lose 10 pounds then I'll be happy oh I just we wake up and we just we don't feel good about ourselves. It happens, the best way I have found, I've tested a lot of things, the best thing that I've found is gratitude. So you can either write in a gratitude journal, there's actually a friend of mine, Alex Icon and another friend of mine, UJ Rumbus have created this journal called Five Minute Journal if you go to fiveminutejournal.com you can get it and I write in this thing every day now and just the practice of writing in it and expressing what you're grateful for instantly takes you out of like a mental story of depression and into one of like oh wow there's lots to be grateful for. Now it doesn't make you like oh you're foric and super super happy it doesn't like oh now I'm just so happy but it makes you happier for sure. So if you're struggling by being you know depression or you're just a bit irritable and you're just like give that a try and go out for a walk with your dog or by yourself let your feet touch the ground, walk amongst nature like I am here in Abingdon and Oxfordshire the UK and just remind yourself of all the things that you're grateful for I promise you feel happier. It may not make you happy but it will definitely make you happier or it might make you happy. So give that a try sometimes you know the hustle and bustle of life gets a bit overwhelming it's good to just walk out in nature and chill out and be grateful for what we have. So remember to subscribe to my channel I do videos like these daily leave a comment down below what do you do what's your action step to get happy I want to hear from you I reply to every comment below so go ahead and leave a comment now and I will catch you on the next one. Hey I'm James Swanick thank you so much for watching this video if you want to watch my next video then click here if you want to subscribe to this channel to get new videos click here and if you want to follow me on social media like my snapchat right here you can see my snap click on the links down there go on do it now I'll wait for you snapchat snapchat me snapchat me