Our suffering arises from fear-based stories that are often outside our awareness. These include stories of our deficiency or importance, of being a victim, of being unseen or unloved, of…
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Stories That Imprison Our Heart – Part 2
Our suffering arises from fear-based stories that are often outside our awareness. These include stories of our deficiency or importance, of being a victim, of being unseen or unloved, of…
Pandemic Care Resources
Pandemic Care Resources Dear Friends ~ During this global crisis we all need pathways to calm, clarity and openheartedness. While it’s natural to feel fear during times of great…
Blog: The Opportunity of “The Magic Quarter Second”
…more the impulse to ask for help becomes paired with the belief that she will be refused and the accompanying feelings (fear or hurt, anger or shame). Years later, she…
Blog: The Space Between the Logs
…things off the list and tie up all loose ends. It’s really physically uncomfortable to pause! We each have an existential hum of fear that is in the background of…
Unfolding the Wings of Acceptance
…happening in our moment-to-moment experience. When we are mindful of fear, for instance, we are aware that our thoughts are racing, that our body feels tight and shaky, that we…
When We Don’t Make Anything “Wrong”
…what allowed him to be so accepting. He responded, “It doesn’t feel like anything is wrong. I feel grief and some fear about it all going, but it feels like…
Beyond the Defended Self
…An inner voice asked, “What would happen if, in this moment, I didn’t try to do anything, to make anything different?” I immediately felt the visceral grip of fear and…
Radical Compassion
…times: the RAIN meditation, which awakens our courage and heart. Blog: Turning Toward Fear with RAIN (Adapted from Radical Compassion) Download your FREE Radical Compassion Study Guide. Tara Brach is…
Réflexion guidée : amener RAIN à la peur
…pour pratiquer la Pleine Conscience et la compassion) nous libère de l’emprise de la peur. Ceci est un extrait du discours “Facing pandemic fears with an Awake Heart.” Cette méditation…
Translations: Other Languages
…REGENs (PDF) (Working With Difficulties: The Blessings of RAIN) Dranbleiben und Freundschaft schließen – Die Heilung des Angstkörpers (PDF) (Attend and Befriend – Healing the Fear Body) Veränderung, Verlust und…
From Head to Heart
If we are suffering, we are believing an interpretation of reality that is limiting and untrue. At these times we are imprisoned in a painful looping of fear-driven thoughts and…
Part 2 – 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: Looking Through the Eyes of Another – Transforming Separation into Shared Consciousness
…I call an unreal other. Rather than a living, feeling Being with wants, needs and fears, another person has become an idea in our mind and is not subjectively alive…
Blog: Imperfection Is Not Our Personal Problem
…imperfection is not our personal problem—it is a natural part of existing. We all get caught in wants and fears, we all act unconsciously, we all get diseased and deteriorate….
Blog: Living Life No Matter What
…The yearning for such refuge is not mine, personally; it’s universal. It’s what lies beneath all our wants and fears. We long to know we can handle what’s coming. We…
Choosing to Love: Thank You Page
…to pause, turn toward your own heart, and explore how you can meet fear, stress, and self-judgment with a kinder, more spacious presence. You will be guided through a brief…
Choosing to Love: Opt-in Page
…turn against ourselves and feel more separate from each other and from our world. In this short video, Tara shares how we can meet fear, judgment, and overwhelm with a…
Healing Trauma: The Light Shines Through the Broken Places
…invaluable and these practices are not considered as a substitute.) See also: Resources: Working with Fear and Trauma See also: Mindfulness Strategies for Working with Trauma and Strong Fear https://www.youtube.com/live/OutVsV6xZsU?si=0xEyi0mKJPLX5yA9…
Presence and Compassion in a Violent World
As our societies unravel in fear and reactivity, we are called to live from our most awake and wise heart. This talk and meditation was first offered to Satyam, a…

