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Tara Brach, Ph.D is an internationally known meditation teacher and author of bestselling Radical Acceptance and True Refuge. Tara shares a weekly guided meditation and talk that blend Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practices. The podcast addresses the value of mindfulness meditation and self-compassion in relieving emotional suffering, serving spiritual awakening and bringing healing to our world.

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    • Religion & Spirituality
    • 4.7 • 113 Ratings

Tara Brach, Ph.D is an internationally known meditation teacher and author of bestselling Radical Acceptance and True Refuge. Tara shares a weekly guided meditation and talk that blend Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practices. The podcast addresses the value of mindfulness meditation and self-compassion in relieving emotional suffering, serving spiritual awakening and bringing healing to our world.

    A Generous Heart

    A Generous Heart

    A Generous Heart - Our deep potential is to live from an awake, loving heart. This talk looks at how, with a kind and mindful attention, we can decondition habitual tendencies toward grasping and self-centeredness, and nourish the sense of connectedness and care that gives rise to generosity. As we bring these heart practices alive in our most immediate relationships, they have the power to evolve consciousness in widening circles across the world.

    • 55 min
    Meditation: The Space of Loving Awareness

    Meditation: The Space of Loving Awareness

    Meditation: The Space of Loving Awareness - This meditation begins by guiding us through a scan: opening to inner space and aliveness, then to outer space, and then continuous space, filled with the light of awareness. We explore how every experience belongs to this infinite awake space of our Being, and can be held with tenderness and love.

    • 19 min
    Conversation with Tara Brach and Arthur Brooks: Becoming Happier

    Conversation with Tara Brach and Arthur Brooks: Becoming Happier

    Becoming Happier: Conversation with Tara Brach and Arthur Brooks - The Dalai Lama regularly says that everyone wants to be happy, nobody wants to suffer. Arthur Brooks, in his new book on getting happier (co-authored with Oprah Winfrey) digs into the practical and science-based approaches that increase deep well-being. In this conversation Tara and Arthur discuss the ingredients of happiness, the role of unhappiness in our lives, how to work with core ego-fears, the power of metacognition, the necessity of transcendence of small self and the love that is the grounds of true happiness. 
    Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

    • 1 hr 18 min
    Meditation: Refuge of Living Presence

    Meditation: Refuge of Living Presence

    Meditation: Refuge of Living Presence - Our thoughts keep us removed from this living world. This guided practice invites us to open and relax with the moment-to-moment experience of our senses. It includes a poem by Ingrid Goff-Maidoff, “Wherever you are, Find a Trail.”

    • 13 min
    The Wise Heart of Radical Acceptance

    The Wise Heart of Radical Acceptance

    The Wise Heart of Radical Acceptance - When we are caught in self-judgment, we forget the truth of who we are – our wholeness, awareness and love. This talk examines how we take the imperfect waves of our being personally, and become imprisoned in the trance of unworthiness, a limited and distorted reality. We then look at how the practice of Radical Acceptance enables us to come home to a fullness of being, and live from a growing sense of loving connectedness with all beings.

    • 1 hr 8 min
    Meditation: Relaxing Back and Saying Yes to the Moment

    Meditation: Relaxing Back and Saying Yes to the Moment

    Meditation: Relaxing Back and Saying Yes to the Moment - 
    When we are stressed, our conditioning is to tighten our body. We tense against our moment-to-moment experience. This meditation is a powerful practice of de-conditioning this reactivity by learning to relax back into presence, and to respond to difficulty by saying “yes.” Through relaxing back and saying “yes,” we discover our heart’s capacity for unconditional love.
    …Exploring what it means to unconditionally say “yes” to the life that’s here… In the moment when that “yes” becomes full, our hearts awaken in love. ~ Tara

    • 18 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
113 Ratings

113 Ratings

HRH Mike ,

Gratitude

Love Tara’s insights, practicality, manner & wisdom. She’s helped me to improve my thinking, feeling & life. Lots of love

AliceLecis ,

One of my favorite podcast!

Thanks Tara for your sharing. You open my mind under so many aspect. I feel lighter, I feel more in peace and I’m back to love myself and others, to be compassionate to myself and others. You are unique! Really thanks ❤️

Mel R NZ ,

Nurturing

I find these pod casts informative and instructive in how to live my life authentically. But mostly I find them so soothing and comforting. Thank you.

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