This Thanksgiving, How to Make Gratitude More Than a Platitude | DaRa Williams

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<p><em>New episodes come out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for free, with early access for Wondery+ subscribers.</em></p> <p>---</p> <p>Can gratitude be more than just a platitude? Our guest today argues: yes. </p> <p><br /></p> <p>DaRa Williams is a longtime practitioner and teacher of meditation. She is one of the guiding teachers at Insight Meditation Society, a graduate of the Spirit Rock Insight Meditation Society Teacher Training Program, and also has a clinical mental health private practice in Manhattan. DaRa also says, only semi-facetiously, that she believes gratitude can be considered the fifth Brahma Vihara. </p> <p><br /></p> <p>In this conversation we talk about:</p> <ul> <li>How to start knitting gratitude into your everyday life</li> <li>Whether gratitude is possible when everything sucks</li> <li>How to avoid spiritual bypass</li> <li>The opportunity that suffering brings for happiness</li> <li>How to take our suffering less personally</li> <li>The power of reminding yourself that you are nature</li> <li>And our unconscious fascination with creating difficulty</li> </ul> <p><br /></p> <p><br /></p> <p><strong>Full Shownotes:</strong> <a href= "https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/dara-williams-295-rerun" rel="noopener noreferrer" target= "_blank">https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/dara-williams-295-rerun</a></p>