Awakening through Difficult Emotions

Tara Brach

Buddhism, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Awakening through Difficult Emotions: "The Poison is the Medicine" - Most of us know the pain of getting stuck in fear, anxiety, anger or shame. This exploration looks at how the emotion that takes over, when we attend with mindfulness and care, can become a place of deep transformation and freedom. Included in the talk is a guided RAIN meditation.

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:03.7	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:08.8	To make a donation please visit tarbrock.com.
0:30.8	Namaste and welcome, friends.
0:34.1	Glad to be with you.
0:35.5	It's been a while.
0:36.7	I just spent two weeks with my family including a two-year-old and a four-year-old granddaughter.
0:46.8	It was wonderful.
0:47.7	It was exhausting.
0:49.2	I am amazed.
0:50.5	My body can do this non-stop playing without major injury.
0:56.9	A friend was telling me about touring a hotel to book for an event and he was with the
1:03.6	representative and he commented to this representative that the hotel was kind of aging.
1:09.5	It looked pretty old and the representative said to him, we don't use the word old.
1:15.5	We use the word seasoned.
1:18.9	I'm trying to think of myself as having this seasoned body that can go with it with grandchildren.
1:27.9	I was talking to a friend about the intensity of being with young children.
1:35.0	He reminded me of this study that was done, this is decades ago, of Harvard football players
1:42.1	who spent a day in a nearby nursery taking care of the children and then they were interviewed
1:48.0	and 100% of them said it was way more stressful and tense and demanding than a day of practice,
1:59.0	a day of training.
2:01.0	It's hard.
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