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Realizing True Well-Being, Part 2

Release Date: 04/10/2025

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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,...

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.

Introduction to Mindfulness: The Power of Heart Presence – Part 1

Tara Brach

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Buddhist psychology and the Western oriented field of positive psychology agree: How we pay attention determines whether we live primarily in fear and judgment, or happiness and peace. This two-part series explores the teachings, practices and attitudes that enable us to live a meaningful life with a heart that is “happy for no reason.”

In this talk, Tara explores:

how cultivating a grateful, devoted heart opens us to presence, peace, and joy beyond circumstance.
the "infinite field of possibility"—our capacity to incline the mind toward hope, love, and inner freedom.
how mindfulness and compassionate action form a virtuous cycle that nurtures deep well-being and belonging.
ways that serving others and savoring beauty reconnect us with the sacredness of life and the fullness of who we are.
awakening from the trance of unworthiness through practices like metta, gratitude, and receiving love with an open heart.

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