Can gratitude be more than just a platitude? Our guest today argues: yes.&nbsp;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.&nbsp;In this conversation we talk about:<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>Full Shownotes: <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>See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.

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

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