Resources: Beliefs and Thoughts - Tara Brach

Resources: Beliefs and Thoughts

Freedom from Othering - Beliefs

Beliefs and thoughts are navigational maps that are not inherently true. Rather, some serve us and others cause feelings of separation, self-aversion and/or blame of others. We can free ourselves from harmful beliefs by investigating them with a dedicated, mindful and courageous presence.

Below are some resources that you might find helpful in working with beliefs and thoughts:

Three Core Reminders
Three Core Reminders for Spiritual Practice

This talk explores three powerful ways you can direct your attention when you find yourself emotionally stuck: Wake up...

Trusting the Gold
Trusting the Gold – A Celebration of Tara’s New Book, with special guest, Rick Hanson

The essence of the spiritual path is realizing, trusting and living from our natural awareness and love. This talk...

Meditation: Uprooting Limiting Beliefs with RAIN
Meditation: Uprooting Limiting Beliefs with RAIN (9:21 min.)

This short meditation guides us in using RAIN (recognize-allow-investigate-nurture) when we discover we are caught in a limiting belief...

Freedom from thePrison of Limiting Beliefs
Freedom from the Prison of Limiting Beliefs

We suffer when we are caught in beliefs of our own or other’s badness, unworthiness, or lack of value....

Sheltering in Love – Part 8: Finding Freedom in the Midst of Failure
Sheltering in Love – Part 8: Finding Freedom in the Midst of Failure

Everyone faces personal failure, and it’s an extremely raw and painful feeling. If we have the courage to stay...

Spiritual Hope: Trusting Your Awakening Heart
Spiritual Hope: Trusting Your Awakening Heart

Our beliefs and understandings about reality directly impact our moment to moment experience of living. If we believe we...

Wise Investigation: Dissolving the Trance
Wise Investigation: Dissolving the Trance

If we are suffering, it is because we are believing something that is not true and caught in emotional...

Trusting the Gold - Retreat Talk
Trusting the Gold (retreat talk)

This talk looks at how our upbringing and culture lead us to mistrust who we are and become identified...

Living with Courageous Presence
Living with Courageous Presence

~ The essence of courage is to willingly feel our vulnerability; this is what allows us to respond...

Meditation: Letting Go... Letting Be
Meditation: Letting Go… Letting Be (16:57 min.)

This guided meditation invites us to imagine a clenched fist relaxing open, and explores this in releasing contractions in...

Three Attitudes that Nourish a Liberating Practice
Three Attitudes that Nourish a Liberating Practice

CC ~ A key spiritual inquiry is, “In this moment, what most serves awakening?” Rather than a particular style...

Healing Depression with Meditation - Part 2
Part 2: Healing Depression with Meditation

Most people get depressed at times, and many suffer greatly from bouts of major depression. At the heart of...

Healing Depression with Meditation - Part 1
Part 1: Healing Depression with Meditation

Most people get depressed at times, and many suffer greatly from bouts of major depression. At the heart of...

From Human Doing to Human Being - Part 1
From Human Doing to Human Being – Part 2

Like Sisyphus eternally pushing the boulder up the hill, we can spend many moments busily trying to manage our...

Blog: Looking Through the Eyes of Another
Blog: Looking Through the Eyes of Another – Transforming Separation into Shared Consciousness

Looking Through the Eyes of Another: Transforming Separation into Shared Consciousness I often talk about how suffering arises from...

Evolving Beyond "Unreal Othering"
Evolving Beyond “Unreal Othering”

What motivates us – as individuals and as a society – to build walls and knowingly hurt others? This...

Landlocked in Fur – Three Domains of Formless Presence
Three Domains of Formless Presence – Landlocked in Fur (retreat talk)

While we have evolved to experience a defining sense of separate self, our potential is to awaken to the...

From Human Doing to Human Being
From Human Doing to Human Being – Part 1

Like Sisyphus eternally pushing the boulder up the hill, we can spend many moments busily trying to manage our...

From Head to Heart
From Head to Heart

If we are suffering, we are believing an interpretation of reality that is limiting and untrue. At these times...

Namaste - Seeing the Truth of Who We Are
Namaste: Seeing the Truth of Who We Are

A gift of evolving consciousness is the capacity to recognize and honor the sacred awareness that lives through our...