…fear, scared of fear, is fighting fear to the awareness that’s relating to fear. From fight-flight-freeze to attend and befriend. So this is what we are going to be exploring…
All of us live with fear. Whenever fear takes over, we’re caught in what I call the trance of fear. As we tense in anticipation of what may go wrong,…
Most of us spend a lot of our lives tensed up in fear, or pushing against fear. The fear might be fear of: Something going wrong Not being good enough…
Most of us spend a lot of our lives tensed up in fear, or pushing against fear. The fear might be fear of: – something going wrong – not being…
…fear, but how do we make peace with it? Can we find a way to wisely relate to fear, so that it doesn’t take over and prevent us from living…
…fear, but how do we make peace with it? Can we find a way to wisely relate to fear, so that it doesn’t take over and prevent us from living…
…fear into a gateway for healing and spiritual awakening. Explore the compassionate practices that lead to a fearless heart. Learn how to navigate fear with mindfulness and loving awareness. Why…
…fear into a gateway for healing and spiritual awakening. Explore the compassionate practices that lead to a fearless heart. Learn how to navigate fear with mindfulness and loving awareness. Why…
…to explore tonight is how we work with a more painful kind of trance that occurs when it is being driven by strong fear or trauma. It feels like a…
…become trapped in workaholism—an endless striving to accomplish—and we overconsume to numb the persistent presence of fear. In the most fundamental way, the fear of deficiency prevents us from being…
…RAIN meditation can help us face fear, and discover the boundless loving awareness that includes but is not contracted by currents of fear. How did the rose ever open up…
…RAIN meditation can help us face fear, and discover the boundless loving awareness that includes but is not contracted by currents of fear. Life’s water flows from darkness. Search the…
…experience a vast range of emotions—some quite pleasant and others quite challenging. You can bring the two wings of mindfulness—sincere interest and kind attention—to fear; recognize and name it “fear,…
…resources to help you explore your relationship with fear: Talks on Working with Fear and Trauma Meditations on Working with Fear and Trauma Other Resources on Working with Fear and…
These talks investigate how fear, nature’s protector, proliferates and becomes a trance of fear and the cause of deep suffering. We look at the “body of fear”- the thoughts, physicality,…
These talks investigate how fear, nature’s protector, proliferates and becomes a trance of fear and the cause of deep suffering. We look at the “body of fear”- the thoughts, physicality,…
…with a lot of fear right now and it is even easier to react out of that fear was well. When we react out of fear we tend to create…
…grip of these beliefs by training ourselves to recognize the fear-thinking in our minds. In the moments of mindfully noting fear thoughts (you can mentally whisper “fear-thinking”) there is a…
View or download a print-friendly PDF version. For More Resources on Fear, See Working with Fear There are a number of mindfulness-based strategies that can temporarily calm us when fear…
…RAIN meditation can help us face fear, and discover the boundless loving awareness that includes but is not contracted by currents of fear. In the deeps are the violence and…
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