…fear, to a life lived from the realization of our collective belonging and the preciousness of all life. The talks examine the conditioning that inclines us toward dissociation and emotional…
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Blog: Growing Up Unworthy
…we think and feel, and everything that happens to us, as in some way belonging to or caused by a self. Our most habitual and compelling feelings and thoughts define…
Running Away Deepens the Trance
…a self that will attract others and secure our belonging. And yet, when we inevitably express our natural aggression or neediness or fear—parts of our emotional makeup that frequently are…
Blog: Self-Forgiveness and Making Amends
…external standard of morality. Rather, it is an expression of our belonging to the world and to our own hearts. The urge to make amends arises when we have had…
Blog: I’m Nothing, Yet I’m All I Can Think About
…not mean the space-suit self marks the end of our evolutionary journey. We have the capacity to realize our true belonging to something infinitely larger. If we fail to wake…
Blog: Attention – The Most Basic Form of Love
…are all connected to one another; our true nature is timeless, radiant, loving awareness. With this realization we feel our belonging with ants and redwoods, hawks and rivers. By deepening…
Trusting Our Secret Beauty
When caught in emotional suffering, we sense that we are living from a reactive, contracted place, and don’t trust or like ourselves. This talk explores the severed belonging that is…
Running Away Deepens the Trance
…a self that will attract others and secure our belonging. And yet, when we inevitably express our natural aggression or neediness or fear—parts of our emotional makeup that frequently are…
The Revolution of Tenderness – Part I
…evolutionary shift from a self-centered existence shaped by fear, to a life lived from the realization of our collective belonging and the preciousness of all life. The talks examine the…
Trusting Our Awakening Heart
…our sense of belonging and trust: direct presence with the pain of separation, and turning toward the loving presence that is increasingly manifesting through these human forms. ” … we…
Conscious Prayer – Finding Refuge in Loving Awareness (retreat talk)
…depth of our longing, and reaching toward our true belonging (from the 2016 IMCW Spring Retreat). How I yearn to belong to something, to be contained in an all-embracing mind…
Evolving Beyond “Unreal Othering”
…and reveal our intrinsic belonging. Finally, we apply this to our own lives in a reflection that helps us respond to someone we have turned into “unreal other” with compassion…
Transcript: Tonglen: Radical Compassion
…are some words that go with that: May you feel safe. May you know your belonging. May you realize the truth of who you are. May you be free of…
Spiritual Reparenting
…really want to understand each other.” Ruby Sales Enjoy a blog edited from the talk: Where Does It Hurt? Healing the Wounds of Severed Belonging Read the transcript: Spiritual Reparenting….
Tara Talks: Healing the Fear Body, Healing the World (4:50 min.)
When we are contracted in the fear body, we cannot be touched by the world around us. We lose our sense of belonging to this moment, to each other, to…
Tara Talks – Guided Reflection: Coming Home with Attend and Befriend (6:34 min.)
…kind presence to the life inside of us, we come home to the truth of our belonging. Listen and watch Tara’s full talk: Attend and Befriend: Healing the Fear Body…
Worrier Pose – Finding Freedom from the Body of Fear (retreat talk)
…and resourcing, or cultivating access to safety and belonging (from the 2018 IMCW Fall Retreat). How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of…
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 the suffering is the experience of severed belonging—of being imprisoned in…
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 the suffering is the experience of severed belonging—of being imprisoned in…
Resources: Gratitude and Generosity
…our mutual belonging and offering our care. When we are awake and whole, breathing in and out happens naturally. But these beautiful expressions of our heart become blocked when we…