Identifying the positive things that happen each day, however small, and being grateful for them, can help us to focus less on the negative things that happen and the negative emotions that we feel. Much in the same way that we can alter the way that our bodies work, and develop the muscles necessary to perform new skills, we can also alter the ways that our brain works, through a process called neuroplasticity, where we train the brain to form new connections and pathways and change how its circuits are wired.