Tara Brach

The podcast discusses the RAIN technique for cultivating mindfulness and interrupting emotional reactivity. It explores the power of RAIN in recognizing and exploring difficult emotions, investigating thoughts and feelings with mindfulness, and bringing attention to challenging situations. The hosts emphasize the importance of kindness, recognition, and genuine interest in understanding our experiences.

2014-04-16 - Guided Meditation: Breath as Homebase

2014-02-05-Guided Meditation: Metta (Lovingkindness)

2014-04-09 - Loving and Losing - The way that we relate to impermanence and loss shapes our capacity to live and love fully. This talk, drawing on Mary Oliver’s poem “In Blackwater Woods,” explores three elements in our response to this fleeting, precious life that are integral to our healing and freedom.

2014-04-09 - Guided Meditation: Living Presence

2010-08-04 - Guided Meditation - Arriving in Presence

2014-04-02 - Stress and Our Evolving Consciousness - The universal experience of stress (in Buddhism, called dukkha) is a message that we are not realizing, trusting and living from our true nature. Our habitual reactions to stress - grasping, aversion, resistance - deepen emotional pain and lock us in a limiting sense of egoic-self. This talk explores how, with conscious intention and deepened attention, the stressful difficulties we encounter can become the very grounds of healing and spiritual awakening.

2014-04-02 - Guided Meditation: Connecting with Aliveness and Openness

2014-03-26 - Planting Ourselves in the Universe - When we are lost in the trance of thinking, we disconnect from the aliveness, awareness and love that is our source. Mindfulness, a key capacity of our evolving consciousness, awakens us from an identification with thinking and enables us to inhabit a wider realm of Being. This talk explores the confines of conceptual mind and the simple yet powerful practices that cultivate mindful awareness.

2014-03-26 - Guided Meditation: Relaxing into Presence