…experience with unconditional friendliness, and our attempts at Yes might actually end up flooding us with fear. It would be better instead to find a way to alleviate the fear,…
Blog: The Practice of Saying, “Yes”
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Blog ~ Guided Reflection: Bringing RAIN to Difficulty (text and audio)
…current situation in which you feel stuck; one that elicits a difficult reaction such as anger or fear, shame or hopelessness. It may be a conflict with a family member,…
Blog: Opening the Gateway of Love
…they encounter a situation where the fear or distress or pain is so great that they just cannot arouse presence. They’re often left with feelings of deep discouragement and self-doubt,…
Part 1 – Healing Anxiety – How Meditation Frees Us
Anxiety and the fear of failure is a pervasive suffering around the world. It is also increasing—along with the pace of life, over-consuming, addiction, noise, polarization and fears for our…
Blog: Trance of “Unreal Other”
…unreal, two-dimensional cardboard figures, not humans with wants and fears and throbbing hearts. The more different someone seems from us, the more unreal they may feel to us. We can…
Blog: The Suffering of Rejecting Desire
“We have been raised to fear…our deepest cravings. And the fear of our deepest cravings keeps them suspect, keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, and leads us to settle…
Rejecting the Wanting Self
“We have been raised to fear…our deepest cravings. And the fear of our deepest cravings keeps them suspect, keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, and leads us to settle…
Transcript & Audio ~ Guided Meditation: The Practice of Vipassana (Mindfulness) (15:27 min.)
…to your primary place of resting attention – the breath, perhaps listening to sounds. In a similar way, when strong emotions arise – fear, sadness, happiness, excitement, grief – you…
Finding Your Querencia in the Pause
…his querencia. As long as the bull remains enraged and reactive, the matador is in charge. Yet when he finds querencia, he gathers his strength and loses his fear. From…
Blog: Suffering: The Call To Investigate Beliefs
…distorted view, described by the Buddha as a dream, fueled the cravings and fears that confined their lives. The Buddha also told an ancient teaching story that we still repeat…
Letting Life Live Through Us
…when the symptoms didn’t go away, I found myself caught in habitual stories and sinking into a funk of fear, shame and depression. “Something’s wrong with me … with the…
The Essence of Mindful Prayer: “May this Suffering Awaken Compassion”
…are no longer the beleaguered, suffering self. The fear, shame, grief and longing no longer feel like a mistake or an oppressive burden. We can begin to see their universal…
Blog: Soul Recovery: Healing the Shame of Trauma
…or flee what is attacking us, we freeze and disconnect or dissociate in a way that the unprocessed fear gets locked into our body. We become “stuck” in a biological…
Blog: Learning to Recognize Our Strategies
…3. We withdraw from our experience of the present moment We avoid our wildness and passion, our fear and shame, because we feel powerless in the face of their force….
Blog: Presence in the Face of Dying
…I suggested, “you might pause and recognize what you are feeling—the fear or anger or grief—and then inwardly whisper the phrase ‘I consent.’” I’d recently heard this phrase from Father…
Resources for Caregivers and Those Aging in Place
…I hope you will enjoy! Tara interviews Frank Ostaseski, founder of Zen Hospice, on a contemplative approach to death and dying. https://www.tarabrach.com/heavenly-messengers-audio/ Working with Fear – article originally published in…
Blog: Shifting from Blame to Love: 3 Practices for a Wise Heart
…on underneath here? What has driven me to behave in this way?” Perhaps you’ll see you were afraid to fall short, and that fear made you act exactly how you…
Reflection: Learning to Stay (4:41 min.)
We open the door to healing by bringing a mindful and kind attention to inner vulnerability and fear… “Learning to stay opens up the space that gives us our life….
Part 2: Vulnerability, Intimacy, & Spiritual Awakening
We each live with uncertainty and the fear of rejection and loss, and we each are conditioned to avoid feeling or expressing that vulnerability. Yet intimacy with this unlived life…
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…for Anxiety and Sleep ON-DEMAND Explore how to access inner resources of safety, strength and connection. Drawing on these resources, we can stay present when fear arises and meet the…
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