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Finding True Refuge

Meditation, emotional healing, spiritual awakening

Meditation
Please, May I Be Kind?

Tara Brach Ph.D. on August 5, 2021

When we are caught up in the busyness of our lives, how can we remember what truly matters?

When we are caught up in the busyness of our lives, how can we remember what truly matters?

Trust
Being a Mirror of Goodness

Tara Brach Ph.D. on December 28, 2020

The medicine for our hurting world is love. Our loving becomes deeply healing when we see and reflect back the innate goodness of other beings.

The medicine for our hurting world is love. Our loving becomes deeply healing when we see and reflect back the innate goodness of other beings.

Fear
Our World's Fear

Tara Brach Ph.D. on April 10, 2020

Before the pandemic, we felt the reality of pain and loss, and we will continue to do so when this crisis has passed. What is the secret to transforming this suffering?

Before the pandemic, we felt the reality of pain and loss, and we will continue to do so when this crisis has passed. What is the secret to transforming this suffering?

Fear
Radical Compassion in Challenging Times

Tara Brach Ph.D. on March 30, 2020

This unfolding global crisis is toppling every routine, small and large, so it's been interesting in the last few days to ask, What really matters?

This unfolding global crisis is toppling every routine, small and large, so it's been interesting in the last few days to ask, What really matters?

Anxiety
Radical Self-Compassion

Tara Brach Ph.D. on January 4, 2020

What does it mean to live true to yourself? Do you feel that your life is aligned with what matters to your heart? Are you living true to yourself—today? Right now?

What does it mean to live true to yourself? Do you feel that your life is aligned with what matters to your heart? Are you living true to yourself—today? Right now?

Relationships
Shifting from Blame to Love

Tara Brach Ph.D. on December 9, 2018

When our conditioned negativity bias takes over, there are three ways of paying attention that help us awaken our full potential for natural presence and caring...

When our conditioned negativity bias takes over, there are three ways of paying attention that help us awaken our full potential for natural presence and caring...

Relationships
Nourishing Heartwood

Tara Brach Ph.D. on August 6, 2018

A relationships can be a place of healing and awakening, a sacred refuge. What if we slowed down to look more deeply into each other’s hearts and mirror the goodness we find there?

A relationships can be a place of healing and awakening, a sacred refuge. What if we slowed down to look more deeply into each other’s hearts and mirror the goodness we find there?

Bias
What We Practice Grows Stronger

Tara Brach Ph.D. on May 26, 2018

It is said that where attention goes, energy flows. Intentionally turning towards joy cultivates a pathway that uplifts our minds and undoes the evolutionary negativity bias...

It is said that where attention goes, energy flows. Intentionally turning towards joy cultivates a pathway that uplifts our minds and undoes the evolutionary negativity bias...

Spirituality
When the News Makes Us Miserable

Tara Brach Ph.D. on January 25, 2018

People all over the globe share the same longing for a more loving, just, and peaceful world. People everywhere are opening to the sense of our true belonging with all of life...

People all over the globe share the same longing for a more loving, just, and peaceful world. People everywhere are opening to the sense of our true belonging with all of life...

Embarrassment
Soul Sadness

Tara Brach Ph.D. on January 8, 2018

Our soul sadness is fully revealed when we directly and mindfully contact our pain. In such moments, we discover a natural upwelling of compassion and tenderness for our own heart.

Our soul sadness is fully revealed when we directly and mindfully contact our pain. In such moments, we discover a natural upwelling of compassion and tenderness for our own heart.

Attention
Darkness of the Womb

Tara Brach Ph.D. on October 9, 2017

In challenging times, there are four key ways of paying attention that can allow for suffering to be transformative.

In challenging times, there are four key ways of paying attention that can allow for suffering to be transformative.

Mindfulness
De-Conditioning the Hungry Ghosts

Tara Brach Ph.D. on September 5, 2017

To the degree that our basic needs are unmet, desire contracts and we become fixated on substitutes. But, no matter how we are caught, mindfulness and compassion can free us.

To the degree that our basic needs are unmet, desire contracts and we become fixated on substitutes. But, no matter how we are caught, mindfulness and compassion can free us.

Trust
Trusting Our Hearts

Tara Brach Ph.D. on July 5, 2017

When we bring mindfulness and compassion to our own doubt and fear and notice the goodness in ourselves and others, we begin to trust the intrinsic love that is our deepest nature.

When we bring mindfulness and compassion to our own doubt and fear and notice the goodness in ourselves and others, we begin to trust the intrinsic love that is our deepest nature.

Identity
Relaxing the Over-Controller

Tara Brach Ph.D. on June 21, 2017

How do we shift from the identity of a controlling, wanting, fearing self into a compassionate witness that can see what is going on and knows how to rest and just be?

How do we shift from the identity of a controlling, wanting, fearing self into a compassionate witness that can see what is going on and knows how to rest and just be?

Wisdom
The Wisdom of "It's Not My Fault"

Tara Brach Ph.D. on May 21, 2017

When we are not caught in self-blame, we are free to love this life. Opening to the possibility of "It’s not my fault" creates space for deep inner freedom.

When we are not caught in self-blame, we are free to love this life. Opening to the possibility of "It’s not my fault" creates space for deep inner freedom.

Trauma
Soul Recovery

Tara Brach Ph.D. on March 28, 2017

When the path is illuminated by loving awareness, even the most broken heart will find its way home.

When the path is illuminated by loving awareness, even the most broken heart will find its way home.

Pessimism
Radical Self-Honesty

Tara Brach Ph.D. on March 20, 2017

We can see in our society how dishonesty poisons our world with cynicism and mistrust. This suffering calls for a deepening commitment to being real with ourselves and each other.

We can see in our society how dishonesty poisons our world with cynicism and mistrust. This suffering calls for a deepening commitment to being real with ourselves and each other.

Relationships
Looking Through the Eyes of Another

Tara Brach Ph.D. on March 17, 2017

What would it be like, in this moment, to look through another’s eyes? To widen the circles of compassion and be part of the healing of our world?

What would it be like, in this moment, to look through another’s eyes? To widen the circles of compassion and be part of the healing of our world?

Mindfulness
Discovering the Gold

Tara Brach Ph.D. on February 25, 2017

When we lock into a sense of falling short and the fear of failure, mindfulness and compassion practices help us to wake from this trance and remember who we really are.

When we lock into a sense of falling short and the fear of failure, mindfulness and compassion practices help us to wake from this trance and remember who we really are.