Awakening Your Fearless Heart: Tara Brach on Facing Fear (Part 1)

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🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Fear is a universal human experience, but when it dominates our inner world, it can trap us in a sense of separation and suffering. In this profound talk, Tara Brach introduces how the transformative power of the RAIN meditation can help us face fear with courage and compassion. By bringing mindfulness and loving awareness to fear, we can move beyond its grip and reconnect with the boundless freedom of our true nature.

What You’ll Learn:

Understanding Fear: How fear arises and creates a sense of separation.
The Power of RAIN: A step-by-step guide to using RAIN meditation to work with fear.
Awakening Awareness: Discovering the boundless love and presence that holds all emotions, including fear.

Highlights:

Gain tools to transform fear into a gateway for healing and spiritual awakening.
Explore the compassionate practices that lead to a fearless heart.
Learn how to navigate fear with mindfulness and loving awareness.

Why Listen? This talk is an invitation to step out of fear’s grip and into the freedom of open-hearted living. Whether you’re dealing with personal fears or navigating collective challenges, Tara’s guidance offers a powerful path toward inner peace and resilience.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Greetings. We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:06.0	To make a donation, please visit tarabrock.com. Namaste friends, welcome.
0:30.8	I saw a cartoon some years back.
0:34.8	I had a parrot in a cage who was visibly frightened, distressed and shaking,
0:42.2	feathers falling off. And the owners are saying, maybe we shouldn't have lined her cage
0:48.4	with newspaper. It just felt so relevant to today.
0:55.0	I mean, how is the news affecting your body and mind?
0:59.0	We know.
1:01.0	So in the current world, fear, anxiety is spiking, this global instability, and it's the
1:09.0	endangerment of growing numbers of vulnerable beings.
1:13.3	So I don't know anyone who really was prepared for the speed and intensity of the destructive forces playing out.
1:23.9	And it's quite natural like that, powered in the cage, the impact of aggression and hostility
1:31.9	on our nervous system, we get activated.
1:35.7	And what that means is we need ways to metabolize fear, to process fear and anxiety.
1:43.8	Because when fear dominates, we get caught in fight, flight,
1:48.7	freeze, fawn.
1:50.1	You know, we get confused, paralyzed and it cuts off our capacity for open-heartedness, for
1:57.0	wisdom, for wise action.
2:11.0	I've shared in recent talks personally that I'm giving more time to practice than I have in the past, more time to quieting my mind, relaxing my body, reconnecting with presence,
2:16.2	and also time to intentionally befriending fear.
2:23.5	I want to share a quote that's been guiding me.
2:28.3	I was born when all I once feared I could love. I was born when all I once feared I could love.
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