Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach This meditation calls on the image and felt sense of a smile as we scan through the body, and invites a receptive and caring presence, as we open our attention to the changing flow of life. “Our freedom comes not from what is happening, but from how we…
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Tara Brach : Part 2: Healing Depression with Meditation
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Most people get depressed at times, and many suffer greatly from bouts of major depression. At the heart of the suffering is the experience of severed belonging—of being imprisoned in the pain of separation, unworthiness, unlovability and hopelessness….
Tara Brach : Meditation: Letting Go of Doing
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation becomes truly freeing in the moments when there is no controlling whatsoever; when nothing is resisted or grasped after. This guided meditation begins with a simple body scan, relaxing and awakening to sensations in the body and then includi…
Tara Brach : Part 1: Healing Depression with Meditation
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Most people get depressed at times, and many suffer greatly from bouts of major depression. At the heart of the suffering is the experience of severed belonging—of being imprisoned in the pain of separation, unworthiness, unlovability and hopelessness….
Tara Brach : Meditation: Refuge in Living Presence
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach We spend great swaths of time in a trance that removes us from awareness of our body and senses. This meditation reconnects us by scanning through the body, including sounds and then resting in the field of awareness and aliveness. We practice relaxing…
Tara Brach : “Getting Over Yourself”: A conversation with Tara Brach and Stephen Josephs
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Executive coach and author Stephen Josephs has worked with many top business leaders, guiding them in transcending the egoic conditioning that limit their impact on other people, and on societal change. In this conversation we look at what he’s learned…
Tara Brach : Meditation: A Welcoming Heartspace
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Our pathway to peace and happiness is through opening, with tenderness, to our moment-to-moment experience. This meditation guides us first to be awake in our body and senses, and then to include the changing flow of life in a spacious, kind heart. We …
Tara Brach : Letting Go of Controlling – Part 2: The Path of Freedom
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach While it’s natural to try to control our life experience, our chronic controlling cuts us off from presence and obscures the loving awareness that is our essence. This series of talks explores how we can let go in four key domains of controlling: clin…
Tara Brach : Guided Meditation: The Center of Now
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach This meditation awakens our senses, then guides us to rest in the changing flow of experience. When the mind drifts, we are invited to relax back into full living presence, into that Beingness that is the center of now. “Listening to and feeling, the …
Tara Brach : What is the Path to Peace? A conversation with Tara Brach and Assaf Katz
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach What is the Path to Peace? A conversation with Tara Brach and Assaf Katz – Assaf Katz is an activist and Buddhist teacher in Israel who opposes the Israeli governments’ devastating military action and long occupation in Palestine, and is dedicated to f…
Tara Brach : Meditation: Relaxed and Alert
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long, deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence, and widen to the awareness that includes sounds, sensations, feelings, breath, and all experience. Wh…
Tara Brach : Letting Go of Controlling – Part 1: The Path of Freedom
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Letting Go of Controlling – Part 1: The Path of Freedom – While it’s natural to try to control our life experience, our chronic controlling cuts us off from presence and obscures the loving awareness that is our essence. This series of talks explores h…
Tara Brach : Meditation: Letting Go… Letting Be
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Letting Go… Letting Be – This guided meditation invites us to imagine a clenched fist relaxing open, and explores this in releasing contractions in the body as well as the grip of thoughts. When we deeply let go and let be, our energy flow…
Tara Brach : Changing Unhealthy Habits of Eating – A Conversation between Tara and Judson Brewer
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Changing Unhealthy Habits of Eating – A Conversation between Tara and Judson Brewer – Countless people live with shame and distress about their eating. Dr. Judson Brewer, scientist, professor and author of “The Hunger Habit” (https://drjud.com/the-hun…
Tara Brach : Changing Unhealthy Habits of Eating – A Conversation between Tara and Judson Brewer
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Changing Unhealthy Habits of Eating – A Conversation between Tara and Judson Brewer – Countless people live with shame and distress about their eating. Dr. Judson Brewer, scientist, professor and author of “The Hunger Habit” (https://drjud.com/the-hun…
Tara Brach : Meditation: Listening to our Heart
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Listening to our Heart – True listening arouses an open receptive presence that can be truly healing. This meditation awakens a listening presence; first bringing that receptive awareness to sensations and sounds, and then offering that pre…
Tara Brach : Meditation: Listening to our Heart
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Listening to our Heart – True listening arouses an open receptive presence that can be truly healing. This meditation awakens a listening presence; first bringing that receptive awareness to sensations and sounds, and then offering that pre…
Tara Brach : How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 2
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 2 – The mature expression of hope includes three elements: the aspiration for manifesting our full potential, a trust that this is possible, and an energy that engages to serve this unfolding. In this talk, we explo…
Tara Brach : Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness – This meditation awakens a receptive attention to the senses, starting with physical sensations and opening to sound. Then we sense how open awake awareness is receiving the moment-to-moment arising…
Tara Brach : How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 1
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 1 – The mature expression of hope includes three elements: the aspiration for manifesting our full potential, a trust that this is possible, and an energy that engages to serve this unfolding. In this talk, we explo…