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Embracing Uncertainty: Sheltering in Love - Part 9 (2020-05-20)

Tara Brach

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The Power of Predicting

We're much more comfortable thinking we know what will happen than being uncertain. The mind does not like to rest in uncertainty, so we can see our attachment to certainty from an evolutionary lens. Recent brain science refers to the brain as an advanced predicting machine. We need to predict to be able to navigate and survive but there's a limit to what we can predict. In other words, not just survive, but to flourish and keep evolving to wake up.

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