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Realizing Our Undefended and Awakened Heart (retreat talk)

Tara Brach

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The Negativity Bias

We have a negativity bius. They say that our brains are vilcro for bad stuff and teflon teflon for all the good stuff. So we have this, this bias, and it comes from hundreds of thousands of years of needing to have that bias. And you can see it in daily life. Especially the more tromatized we are in our personal lives, the more that negativity bias holds. It's like we're stealing ourselves. Togam trana said, its lik were a bunch of tense muscles, like tensing against our existence.

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