Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Relaxed and Alert – This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence, and widen to the awareness that includes sounds, sensations, feelings,…
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Tara Brach : Meditation: Relaxed and Alert (2019-10-09)
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Relaxed and Alert – This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence, and widen to the awareness that includes sounds, sensations, feelings,…
Tara Brach : Meditation: Relaxing into Awake Awareness (2019-10-02)
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Relaxing into Awake Awareness – We realize our true nature by relaxing back into what is always, already here. Starting by scanning and opening through the body, we explore resting in the awareness that includes sounds, sensations and all o…
Tara Brach : Reflection: Pausing and Deepening Attention in the Face of Attachment
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Reflection: Pausing and Deepening Attention in the Face of Attachment – In this short reflection, we explore how we can bring mindfulness and self-compassion to the habits of obsessing, over-consuming and hurting ourselves and others that keep us from …
Tara Brach : The Gift of Silence: Quieting the Mind
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach The Gift of Silence: Quieting the Mind – Through all spiritual traditions, there is a valuing of silence and stillness. When the mind has quieted, it becomes possible to see into the truth of what we are. Yet quieting can turn into a battle with the pr…
Tara Brach : Meditation: Discovering Inner Space
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Discovering Inner Space – By imagining the space inside the body, we discover the continuous space of awareness that is the source and essence of all aliveness. This meditation is adapted from Open Focus Meditations led by Les Fehmi, Ph.D. …
Tara Brach : Good Othering – Helping Each Other Trust the Gold (2019-08-21)
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Good Othering – Helping Each Other Trust the Gold (2019-08-21) – One of the great gifts we can offer is being a mirror of goodness, reminding one another that we can trust our essential awareness, light and love. Because our conditioning is to fixate o…
Tara Brach : Meditation: The Sea of Awareness (2019-08-21)
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: The Sea of Awareness (2019-08-21) – We begin this meditation with awakening to the aliveness in our body, using the imagery of a smile, and a body scan. Then we are guided to sense the vastness of awareness and to rest in that open wakefuln…
The Mindset Mentor : Don’t Mess This Up
The Mindset Mentor https://art19.com/shows/the-mindset-mentor by Kast Media
Episode 634 –Β The words you use indicate what you are thinking in your head. What you are thinking in your head creates your reality. Therefore, do not meet this very important phrase up! Follow me on Instagram for a change to win FREE headph…
Tara Brach : Meditation: Everything Belongs (2019-08-14)
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Everything Belongs (2019-08-14) – This guided meditation awakens an embodied presence through a body scan, and invites us to rest in the breath, while allowing the different waves of sensations, feelings and sounds to come and go. When diff…
Tara Brach : Part 1 – The Answer is Love: Evolving out of “Bad Other” (2019-08-07)
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Part 1 – The Answer is Love: Evolving out of “Bad Other”(2019-08-07) – These two talks address the inquiry: How do we awaken from the contempt and hatred that causes so much suffering in our world? The first talk looks at how we can use the practices o…
The Mindset Mentor : Does Your Education Suck?
The Mindset Mentor https://art19.com/shows/the-mindset-mentor by Kast Media
Episode 630 – How much did you pay for your education? Was it worth it? What if I told you that right now there is a wealth of knowledge that will make you happier, more successful and more peaceful and it’s either cheap or free? Well in this …
Tara Brach : Meditation: Cultivating a Kind Attention (2019-08-07)
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Cultivating a Kind Attention (2019-08-07) – Using the image and felt sense of a smile, we scan through the body, and awaken a sense of aliveness, presence and tenderness. The practice then extends to mindfully include all sounds, sensations…
Tara Brach : The Path of Spiritual Surrender: Part 2 (2017-07-24)
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach The Path of Spiritual Surrender: Part 2 (2017-07-24) – Cultivating a surrendering presence allows us to release the identity of a small, separate self, and open to the truth and fullness of who we are. These two talks explore misunderstandings about su…
Tara Brach : Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life (2019-07-10)
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life (2019-07-10) – This meditation establishes a gentle and caring presence through bringing the image and felt sense of a smile to various domains in the body. We then settle with the breath, and practice relaxing w…
Tara Brach : How Hope Can Heal and Free Us β Part 2
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 2 – The mature expression of hope includes three elements: the aspiration for manifesting our full potential, a trust that this is possible, and an energy that engages to serve this unfolding. In this talk, we explo…
Tara Brach : Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness – This meditation awakens a receptive attention to the senses, starting with physical sensations and opening to sound. Then we sense how open awake awareness is receiving the moment to moment arising …
Tara Brach : How Hope Can Heal and Free Us β Part 1
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach How Hope Can Heal and Free Us β Part 1 – The mature expression of hope includes three elements: the aspiration for manifesting our full potential, a trust that this is possible, and an energy that engages to serve this unfolding. In this talk, we explo…
Tara Brach : Meditation: Awakening Our Full Aliveness
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Awakening Our Full Aliveness – We cut off from our aliveness when we are lost in thoughts and on auto pilot. This meditation arouses a receptivity to sensation from βthe inside out,β opens the awareness to sound, and then invites a full res…
Tara Brach : The Courage to Love – Part 2 (2019-06-19)
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach The Courage to Love – Part 2 (2019-06-19) – The gateway to full intimacy and love is our capacity to open to vulnerability. These two talks look at our ways of avoiding vulnerability, and offer guidance in learning to contact and transform our fears in…
Tara Brach : Meditation: Wakeful, Open Awareness (2019-06-19)
Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Wakeful, Open Awareness (2019-06-19) – When we awaken our senses, we can sense in the background a wakeful openness that is our true home. This meditation guides us by first attending to the space, aliveness and awareness that fills the bod…