This Thanksgiving, How to Make Gratitude More Than a Platitude

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

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

Nov 23, 2022

Can gratitude be more than just a platitude? Our guest today argues: yes.

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.

In this conversation we talk about:

How to start knitting gratitude into your everyday life
Whether gratitude is possible when everything sucks
How to avoid spiritual bypass
The opportunity that suffering brings for happiness
How to take our suffering less personally
The power of reminding yourself that you are nature
And our unconscious fascination with creating difficulty

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