Stephen Procter guides you in the insight meditation skill of cultivating gratitude to help your mind put down preoccupation with the future and abide in the present. When gratitude is not present, we lose sight of what is important within our life and start focusing on how we feel things should be. This creates a divide between reality and our desires causing suffering to arise within our life. Support articles and instructions for this guided meditation can be found in the Free Online MIDL Insight Meditation Course by checking Stephens Procter's teacher profile.