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Facing Fear (Part 2) – Awakening Your Fearless Heart
…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…
Mindfulness Strategies for Working with Trauma and Strong Fear
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…
Facing Fear (Part 1) – Awakening Your Fearless Heart
…RAIN meditation can help us face fear, and discover the boundless loving awareness that includes but is not contracted by currents of fear. It’s the heart that begins to sense…
The Trance of Fear 2
Meditation: Meeting Fear with a Healing Breath (22:59 min.)
This meditation guides us through a relaxing body scan and then explores how we can allow the breath to calm our body and bring peace to our heart. https://youtu.be/Iho4zA5a_Fk Photo:…
The Trance of Fear 1
Meditation: Meeting Fear with a Healing Breath (22:59 min.)
This meditation guides us through a relaxing body scan and then explores how we can allow the breath to calm our body and bring peace to our heart….
Awakening Compassion in a Fearful World: The Practice of Tonglen
As anxiety, division, and digital distance numb our hearts, we risk losing our ability to truly feel the lives of others. In this talk, we’ll explore how compassion arises when…
Blog: Taking Refuge in the Buddha
…fear with his full attention, the Buddha discovered fearlessness — the open, clear awareness that recognizes the arising and passing of fear without contracting nor identifying with it. Taking refuge…
Blog: Turning Toward Fear with RAIN
…Learning to directly face anxiety and fear with the RAIN meditation—Recognize, Allow, Investigate, and Nurture—gives you a pathway to inner transformation and a fearless heart. Recognizing the Trance After a…
Blog: Can You Medicate Meditation?
…worthless.” When Seth began taking anti-depressants his fear level dropped significantly. The familiar stories and self-judgments would still arise, but because the fear was less intense, he was able to…
Article: The Power of Radical Acceptance: Healing Trauma through the Integration of Buddhist Meditation and Psychotherapy
…wide range of situations, many non-threatening, may activate the alarmingly high levels of pain and fear stored in our body. Our partner might raise her voice in irritation, and the…
Awakening from the Trance of Fear – Part 2
While fear is a natural and intelligent emotion, when fear goes on overdrive, we are in a trance of fear that contracts our body, heart and mind. Our resistance to…
Awakening from the Trance of Fear – Part 1
While fear is a natural and intelligent emotion, when fear goes on overdrive, we are in a trance of fear that contracts our body, heart and mind. Our resistance to…
Blog: Pain Is Not Wrong
…pain of fear. In fact, the fear of pain is often the most unpleasant part of a painful experience. When we assess physical sensations as something to be feared, pain…
Finding the Juice Inside of Fear
…fear, and how the two wings of presence–clear recognition and open-heartedness–can free us. This process of facing unmet fears is necessary not only for our own healing, but for any…
Freedom In the Midst of Fear – Part II
One understanding of the spiritual path is relating wisely to fear. Our conditioned reaction is to feel aversion to fear and do anything but simply experience it. We discover freedom…
Transcript: Darkness of the Womb: Four Key Steps in Transforming Suffering
…thoughts. The negativity-bias that really comes from our more primitive fear ends up creating fear-thoughts and fear-beliefs that usually take the shape of something is wrong with me or something…
Freedom In the Midst of Fear – Part I
One understanding of the spiritual path is relating wisely to fear. Our conditioned reaction is to feel aversion to fear and do anything but simply experience it. We discover freedom…
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