Awakening Your Fearless Heart: Tara Brach on Facing Fear (Part 2)
Release Date: 03/27/2025
Meditation: Awake Awareness is Our Home (19:08 min)
Tara Brach
This meditation guides us in awakening our awareness by opening to all our senses and recognizing the alert presence that is always, already here. By relaxing back into the presence over and over, we become familiar with the reality that is truly our home.
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Introduction to Mindfulness: The Power of Heart Presence, Part 5
Tara Brach
The final session of this series explores the most powerful strategies Tara knows to bring mindfulness alive in all facets of daily living. These informal practices help our entire life to become an expression of our awakening and wise heart. Whether you are new to meditation or an experienced practitioner, the foundational teachings of mindfulness—heart presence—offer a timeless medicine for navigating these challenging times. This fresh introductory series invites you to bring alive ancient practices in ways that are directly relevant to the emotions and reactivity arising in today’s...
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Meditation: Lighting Up Your Energy Body
Tara Brach
Our being has many frequencies of aliveness and as we attend to the more subtle, we discover a portal to the radiant awareness that is always here. This meditation guides us in using the breath and attention as we scan through the body and awaken an inner luminosity. We then open the attention to rest in the whole field of awake awareness.
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Introduction to Mindfulness: Mindfulness of Thoughts – Part 4
Tara Brach
This talk examines how the trance of thinking imprisons us, veiling our full aliveness, love, and spiritual essence. Through contemplative reflections and short guided practices, we’ll explore pathways to awaken from this trance and open to the light, awareness, and wholeness of who we truly are.
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Meditation: Cultivating a Mindful Awareness
Tara Brach
Mindfulness means paying attention on purpose to our moment-to-moment experience. This meditation invites us to collect our attention with the breath and use the breath as a home base for mindful presence. We then include whatever is predominant, recognizing and allowing the changing flow. The blessing of this practice is simple and beautiful: We are learning to be here for our life.
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Introduction to Mindfulness: The Power of Heart Presence – Part 3 (of a 5-week series)
Tara Brach
Whether you are new to meditation or an experienced practitioner, the foundational teachings of mindfulness—heart presence—offer a timeless medicine for navigating these challenging times. This fresh introductory series invites you to bring alive ancient practices in ways that are directly relevant to the emotions and reactivity arising in today’s world. You’ll be guided to discover an inner refuge—a way to meet your personal life and our collective world with greater presence and wisdom, courage and love. In this session, we explore how mindfulness and heartfulness can transform our...
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Meditation: Living Presence with Body Scan
Tara Brach
This meditation guides us to awaken to our senses through scanning through the body and then listening to sounds. When distracted by thoughts we relax open again and again, learning to rest in the formless awareness that includes sounds, sensations and all passing experience.
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Introduction to Mindfulness: Part 2 - The Power of Heart Presence
Tara Brach
NOTE - Tara offers a meditation you can use as a practice during this introduction series: . Whether you are new to meditation or an experienced practitioner, the foundational teachings of mindfulness—heart presence—offer a timeless medicine for navigating these challenging times. This fresh introductory series invites you to bring alive ancient practices in ways that are directly relevant to the emotions and reactivity arising in today’s world. You’ll be guided to discover an inner refuge—a way to meet your personal life and our collective world with greater presence and wisdom,...
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Meditation: Relaxed and Alert
Tara Brach
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, breath, and all experience. When the mind drifts from this open, awake awareness, we gently return, re-relaxing and resting in an easeful, alert presence. Recorded at Tara’s Wednesday night class, the meditation includes chanting of OM’s and ends with a sense of melting into community.
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Introduction to Mindfulness: The Power of Heart Presence – Part 1
Tara Brach
NOTE - Tara offers a meditation you can use as a practice during this introduction series: . Whether you are new to meditation or an experienced practitioner, the foundational teachings of mindfulness—heart presence—offer a timeless medicine for navigating these challenging times. This fresh introductory series invites you to bring alive ancient practices in ways that are directly relevant to the emotions and reactivity arising in today’s world. You’ll be guided to discover an inner refuge—a way to meet your personal life and our collective world with greater presence and wisdom,...
info_outlineFear is a universal human experience, but when it dominates our inner world, it can trap us in a sense of separation and suffering. In this profound talk, Tara Brach introduces how the transformative power of the RAIN meditation can help us face fear with courage and compassion. By bringing mindfulness and loving awareness to fear, we can move beyond its grip and reconnect with the boundless freedom of our true nature.
What You’ll Learn:
- Understanding Fear: How fear arises and creates a sense of separation.
- The Power of RAIN: A step-by-step guide to using RAIN meditation to work with fear.
- Awakening Awareness: Discovering the boundless love and presence that holds all emotions, including fear.
Highlights:
- Gain tools to transform fear into a gateway for healing and spiritual awakening.
- Explore the compassionate practices that lead to a fearless heart.
- Learn how to navigate fear with mindfulness and loving awareness.