Tara Brach
Facing Fear: Awakening Your Fearless Heart, Part I - Tara Brach
updated
This guided meditation cultivates a gentle, wakeful presence in the body, with the “smile down” and then guides us to resting in a home base of sensations or the breath. We then open to whatever arises with a clear and inclusive attention, saying “Yes” to the life that is here.
Listen: tarabrach.com/meditation-home-moment-3
**********
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
We long for soul friends, and yet often engage with each other in reactive ways—caught inside the experience of a wanting, guarded, fearful self. This talk explores practices that release identification with these scales that confine us so we can remember the sacredness living through ourselves and all beings.
Listen: tarabrach.com/path-sacred-relatedness
**********
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear mindful attention to our moment to moment experience. We begin by relaxing through the body and then resting attention with the breath or some other sensory anchor, and allowing the mind to settle. Then we open to whatever is predominant or calling our attention—sensations, emotions, sounds—meeting each arising experience with a clear, kind attention. The gift of this process is discovering balance in the midst of the changing flow, and gaining deep insight into the nature of reality.
Listen: tarabrach.com/meditation-vipassana-seeing-clearly-3
**********
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
Most of us value honesty yet are not aware of how regularly we avoid facing what’s difficult inside us, and how we are less than truthful with others. This talk explores the practice of radical self-honesty as the grounds of being more honest with others, and bringing more love and freedom to our lives. We close with a quote from “What’s True Here,” by Danna Faulds.
**********
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
Healing trauma starts with self-compassion - realizing that it’s not our fault that we’ve been traumatized, and that we’ve adopted coping strategies to numb or avoid the unprocessed pain. This guided meditation offers a pathway to releasing self-blame and opening our hearts to our own suffering.
Download a FREE GUIDE to working with trauma in your meditation practice at: http://tarabrach.ac-page.com/trauma-pdf
**********
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
The capacity to witness what is happening inside us with a non-judging attention allows us to respond to life from our full intelligence and heart. This talk looks at the role of witnessing in spiritual practice, and how we can cultivate this superpower in a way that reveals the light or spirit that lives through all beings.
This talk was originally published on February 10, 2021.
**********
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
This guided meditation guides us to arouse mindfulness through attention to our senses, and to rest in that wakefulness with a receptive and tender presence.
Listen: tarabrach.com/meditation-openhearted-presence-4
**********
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
Prayer is a communing with our enlarged being. This talk examines less conscious forms of prayer, and how we can evolve the power of our prayers by opening into the depth of our longing, and reaching toward our true belonging. [This talk was originally given at the 2016 IMCW Spring Weeklong Retreat]
**********
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
In this short teaching from the Fall 2014 IMCW Weeklong Retreat, Tara gives brief instructions for walking and standing meditation practice.
Meditation is a practice of presence that you can bring alive in all settings and activities. The formal training in walking meditation can be particularly valuable for helping you to cultivate an awareness of your embodied experience in each moment, allowing you to bring your body, heart, and mind together as you move through life.
Additional guidance for persons with mobility impairments or disabilities is available at: tarabrach.com/walking-meditation-instructions-pdf-from-tara-2
**********
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
All true meditation guides us back to presence, and the mystery that is our source. In this guided meditation we awaken the senses, collect our attention with the breath and, when lost in thought, practice relaxing back into the aliveness and awareness that is always here.
Listen: tarabrach.com/meditation-relaxing-back-mystery-2
**********
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
The Buddha said, “I would not be teaching this (a path of awakening) if genuine happiness and freedom were not possible.” While this is our potential, we each have deep conditioning to get stuck in feelings of fear, deficiency and separation from others. These talks explore the two interdependent pathways of undoing the conditioning that blocks our potential. In Part I we will look at how we can intentionally arouse states of wellbeing, and with practice, develop them into ongoing traits that bring presence and joy to our lives. In Part II, we will investigate how to cultivate an unconditional presence, and the radical acceptance and love, that are the grounds of true happiness and inner freedom.
Please enjoy this remastered version of one of Tara's most popular talks, originally published on 2018-10-18.
**********
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
Our breath is always available as a pathway back to presence. This simple meditation guides us to relax and awaken in the body, and then establishes the breath as a home base for our attention. Our practice is to notice when the mind becomes distracted, and gently return to our breath and senses. This helps the mind to become increasingly settled, calm and clear. We close with a short heart blessing.
Listen: tarabrach.com/meditation-coming-home-breath-3-2
**********
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
The Buddha said, “I would not be teaching this (a path of awakening) if genuine happiness and freedom were not possible.” While this is our potential, we each have deep conditioning to get stuck in feelings of fear, deficiency and separation from others. These talks explore the two interdependent pathways of undoing the conditioning that blocks our potential. In Part I we will look at how we can intentionally arouse states of wellbeing, and with practice, develop them into ongoing traits that bring presence and joy to our lives.
Please enjoy this remastered version of one of Tara's most popular talks, originally published on 2018-10-10. To access the full library of Tara's archived talks, go to: tarabrach.com
Listen: tarabrach.com/part-1-rewiring-happiness-freedom-2
**********************************************************************
You can now order Tara's new book, Radical Compassion, at the following link: tarabrach.com/radical-compassion
Subscribe to Tara's podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tara-brach/id265264862?mt=2
Join Tara's email community to receive exclusive updates, events, meditations: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
Your support will enable us to continue to offer these talks freely. If you value them, I hope you will consider offering a donation at this time: tarabrach.com/donation
With thanks and love,
Tara
The meditation begins with a body scan, filling the body with aliveness. Then we widen attention, becoming aware of the sounds that are happening moment-to-moment, aware of the sensations, feelings, or emotions that are here. Again and again, the invitation is to relax back into presence, intimate with the life living through you. In allowing life to be just as it is, we inhabit pure Beingness, at home in the dynamic and tender awareness that is our shared essence.
Listen: tarabrach.com/meditation-intimacy-with-the-flow-of-life-2
**********
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
Zen master Dogen teaches that enlightenment is intimacy with all things. These two talks explore teachings and practices that cultivate intimacy—a liberating experience of relatedness and oneness with our living world.
Watch part 1 at: youtube.com/live/esnn9MnxAJs?feature=share
**********
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
August 19, 2023 | 10:00 am - 1:00 pm Eastern Time/US
The RAIN meditation is a powerful tool for cultivating openheartedness with others. In this workshop you’ll have the opportunity to tend to a relationship where you feel stuck in emotional reactivity, and explore the inner work that can create the grounds for more understanding and love. This workshop is appropriate for beginning meditators as well as seasoned practitioners. Everyone is welcome!
Register at this link: https://healing-relationships-with-RAIN.eventbrite.com
**********
For Tara's complete event schedule and other resources, visit her website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
This guided meditation invites us to identify a situation where we habitually become anxious or fearful, and then to explore bringing mindfulness and self-compassion to where we feel most vulnerable. By engaging fear with an embodied and caring presence, we discover the fearless heart that includes but is not contracted by fear.
Listen to full talk - Awakening from the Trance of Fear: tarabrach.com/awakening-trance-fear
**********
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
When we are stressed, our body and mind contract, and energetically we resist the life in the present moment. This meditation helps de-condition the stress reaction by guiding us to relax open from thoughts, relax physical tension, and gently relax back over and over into living presence.
Photo: Gary Hillesland
**********
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
Zen master Dogen teaches that enlightenment is intimacy with all things. These two talks explore teachings and practices that cultivate intimacy—a liberating experience of relatedness and oneness with our living world.
Watch part 2: youtube.com/live/nnX7ckQwiVs?feature=share
**********
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
Our deep intention to embody love, to awaken and free our heart, is what energizes the spiritual path. In this short meditation, Tara explores the Bodhisattva Aspiration and invites us to consider for ourselves how this prayer to awaken through all circumstances might shift our relationship to the challenges we encounter.
Listen to the full talk: tarabrach.com/winds-homecoming-intention-frees-heart
**********
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
In this short talk and guided meditation, Tara explores the Ocean of Awareness - the wakeful, tender awareness that is more truly who we are than any story we’ve been generating about ourselves. Rather than a human on a spiritual path, we are spirit discovering itself through a human incarnation. As we come to understand and trust this, our life fills with increasing grace.
Listen to the full talk: tarabrach.com/seeking-whats-true-pt2
**********
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
We awaken a present heart by relaxing with the breath, and bringing the kindness of a smile into our bodily experience. This meditation ends with an offering of blessings to our inner life and all beings.
Photo: Tara Brach
**********
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
Grief is our natural way of expressing loss for what we love, and learning to open to grief serves the deepening and widening of our loving. This event includes short meditations and talks by Frank and Tara, and a powerful session of questions and responses.
**********
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
The RAIN meditation is one of the most powerful tools I know for working with difficult emotions and discovering the freedom of an awake, compassionate presence. In this short practice, we'll explore how to befriend difficult emotions with the practice of RAIN.
********************
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
The Buddha taught that our suffering arises from forgetting who we are. In this short talk, Tara explores the trance of identifying as a separate-self, and the compassionate witnessing that allows us to discover the freedom of our natural being...
To view the full talk, visit: tarabrach.com/awakening-from-landlocked-self
**********
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
We leave presence by contracting into thoughts and resisting the changing flow of life. This guided meditation guides us in gently releasing thoughts and opening to this mysterious life, just as it is.
**********
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
Tara responds to your questions about mindfulness, meditation and inner-healing, with Jonathan Foust, her husband and known meditation teacher, as interviewer.
Watch Part 1: youtube.com/live/oHgpghH5qK4?feature=share
*******************************
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
Our capacity for love grows as we practice deepening the truths we share with each other. This short meditation offers guidance in how to bring your presence and heart to truth telling.
View the full talk at: tarabrach.com/seeking-whats-true-pt3
**********
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
Anger, judgment and blame create separation—from our inner life and our world. In this short talk, we’ll explore how, by releasing chronic blame and judgment, we can free our hearts to truly give and receive love.
To listen to the full talk: tarabrach.com/three-blessing-pt1-forgiveness
*****
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
While we might not directly love what is, there is a pathway to this inner freedom. As we explore in this meditation, we begin with allowing the changing sensations and emotions to move through us, just as they are. As this allowing presence deepens, it becomes suffused with the tenderness of love.
**********
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
This talk explores three powerful ways you can direct your attention when you find yourself emotionally stuck: wake up from thoughts; feel your feelings; and remember love. We explore both the habits blocking these basic movements toward freedom, and what nourishes them. Together they can serve to open your mind, awaken aliveness and heal your heart.
Please enjoy this remastered version of one of Tara's most popular talks, originally published on 2021-07-07.
*******************************
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
To watch the full series, visit: tbrach.com/Free-Video-Series-2023
Intentionally turning towards joy cultivates a pathway that uplifts our minds and undoes the negativity-bias. It creates a kind of an inner atmosphere that allows true happiness to unfold itself. Whatever you practice grows stronger. If we practice judgment and anxious worrying, those grow stronger. Likewise, when we practice gratitude or sending well wishes to others, then those are the pathways that deepen and flourish.
**********
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
We evolve our consciousness by bringing a clear and kind presence to the tangles of suffering. In this brief teaching, we explore the transformative power of meeting every moment with an open, honest, and friendly attention.
**********
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
This meditation guides us to receptive, kind presence by starting with listening, and moving through a body scan. We then rest in open awareness, responding to whatever arises with a gentle attention.
**********
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
Tara responds to your questions about mindfulness, meditation and inner-healing, with Jonathan Foust, her husband and known meditation teacher, as interviewer.
Watch part 2: youtube.com/live/yMQhglC149A?feature=share
*******************************
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
When we are caught in reactivity and stress, that’s when we most need to pause. But really, pausing is part of the healthy rhythm of our lives. This brief [5 min] guided meditation can support you in pausing and arriving again in the life that’s right here...
**********
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
Join Tara and Dr. Vikas Shah of Thought Economics as they discuss the question: What is the antidote to suffering?
Thought Economics is a journal of intellectual capital, now read in over 120 countries. To read the full interview, visit: thoughteconomics.com/tara-brach
This meditation invites us to collect our attention with a calming breath, and then with the senses as a home base, settle into presence. The reminders encourage a letting go of thoughts, shifting from virtual reality into the aliveness of moment-to-moment experience. In that letting go into life we find the stillness, wakefulness and openness of our true nature.
**********
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
Anxiety is spiking around the world and we need the radical medicine of awareness to unwind it. In this two part conversation, Tara and Judson Brewer look at how anxiety is a habit that can be unlearned as we cultivate a curious and kind mindful presence. Jud offers the scientific grounds for this “unwinding”, drawing on his experience as a pioneer and leading researcher in the field of mindfulness and addiction. Together they explore the power of particular mindfulness-based strategies, including noting what is happening, recognizing our habit loops, arousing curiosity and cultivating self-care. They shine a light on the genesis of worrying, how it perpetuates anxiety and ways we can become disenchanted with the habit.
Watch part 1: youtube.com/live/q1gUtrM5Wnw?feature=share
*******************************
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
This RAIN meditation guides us in bringing mindfulness and self-compassion to a part of our lives where we have been caught in painful emotions. The gift of RAIN is remembering or reconnecting to the awareness and love that might be temporarily hidden, but is always here.
Spend time practicing RAIN with others. A sense of belonging and true connection are key to maintaining our practice and fostering wellbeing and awakening. Explore Cloud Sangha’s RAIN groups at: bit.ly/43r1kjR
**********
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
Each of us has the longing to manifest our full potential–to realize and live from loving, awake awareness. In this short talk, Tara reflects on the longing of inner fire, and how it energizes the spiritual path.
*****
To listen to the full talk: youtube.com/live/gV5oO6MwOwY
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
In this meditation we engage a relaxed and alert attention by scanning through the body, opening to sound, and resting in the awareness that includes all the senses. This presence is stabilized with the use of a home base, for many the breath, and reminders to “relax back” when the mind naturally drifts.
Anxiety is spiking around the world and we need the radical medicine of awareness to unwind it. In this two part conversation, Tara and Judson Brewer look at how anxiety is a habit that can be unlearned as we cultivate a curious and kind mindful presence. Jud offers the scientific grounds for this “unwinding”, drawing on his experience as a pioneer and leading researcher in the field of mindfulness and addiction. Together they explore the power of particular mindfulness-based strategies, including noting what is happening, recognizing our habit loops, arousing curiosity and cultivating self-care. They shine a light on the genesis of worrying, how it perpetuates anxiety and ways we can become disenchanted with the habit.
Watch Part 2: youtube.com/live/GAVMTRkFkBE
*******************************
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
This heart practice from the IMCW 2019 Fall Retreat guides us in how to cultivate a deep quality of friendliness in relating to our inner life and each other. The gift of this practice is a direct sense of belonging – knowing that we can never be alone.
**********
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
This short talk and guided meditation introduces the domain of “heart practice” and then guides us in how to cultivate a deep quality of friendliness in relating to our inner life and each other. The gift of heart practice is a direct sense of belonging – knowing that we can never be alone.
**********
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
When we see the secret suffering of another, compassion naturally arises. In this short talk and reflection, Tara explores how authentic connection happens when we take the time to notice and bring care to the suffering of our own hearts, and then offer the same care outward into the world.
*****
Watch full talk: youtube.com/live/3Rvrh1xZXQY
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
Join Tara and Dr. Vikas Shah of Thought Economics as they ponder the questions: What is the role of spirit in spirituality?
Thought Economics is a journal of intellectual capital, now read in over 120 countries. To read the full interview, visit: thoughteconomics.com/tara-brach
**********
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
This meditation begins with a body scan, and then we practice opening to and relaxing with our changing experience. The sitting closes with a beautiful poem by Danna Faulds, “Just for Now.”
Find more poems from Danna Faulds at: dannafaulds.com
**********
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
Fear is a natural and universal part of our incarnation, and, when it goes on overdrive, we get imprisoned in the suffering of separation. These two talks explore how the RAIN meditation can help us face fear, and discover the boundless loving awareness that includes but is not contracted by currents of fear.
Please enjoy this remastered version of one of Tara's most popular talks, originally published on 2020-02-26. To access the full library of Tara's archived talks, go to: tarabrach.com
Watch Part 1: youtu.be/yNjFU6BYLCA
**********
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list
Addictive behaviors are a sign of disconnection and an essential element in any real healing is our relationships with others. As we open to each other with honesty and vulnerability, we realize our shared belonging and enter a pathway of true recovery.
Would you like the support of others in working with unhealthy habits? Cloud Sangha has a Mindful Friends Group forming now that can help!
Learn more about Mindful Friends Groups at Cloud Sangha at: tbrach.com/Unhealthy-Habits-CS
**********
Watch the full talk: youtube.com/live/o4dLHaYSiGY
These free offerings are made possible by your generosity. To make a donation, visit: tarabrach.com/donation
For more talks, guided meditations, books and other resources, visit Tara’s website at: tarabrach.com
Join Tara's email community: tarabrach.com/join-email-list