Welcome, friends, to the Tara Brock podcast. I'm so glad you're here.

Each week, I share teachings and guided meditations to help us awaken our hearts and bring healing

to our world.

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Now, let's explore together

the many ways we can live

from the love and presence that's our deepest

essence.

Namaste, welcome, friends. Thank you so much for being here.

There's a classic story of Mr. Optimist who falls off a 20-story building and as he's passing

by the 12th floor, somebody sticks their head out the window and says,

hey, you okay? And the response is so far so good. The threats we experience in our lives,

both personally and collectively, are often quite real.

And for many, the world feels scarier than ever really.

And so a key inquiry for us all is how do we live in these times with fear?

How do we honor that this is completely natural? It's a completely natural reaction from our nervous systems and not get hijacked. Because friends, you know, as we can sense, human generated threats

are only going to continue. It's just part of the world. And so we're all facing

existentially aging, sickness, death. There's going to be fear. So again, this question,

how do we live in this living, dying world, and have fear as a current in our being, but inhabit

a larger space?

And there's a saying that I find real helpful which is if you trust the ocean, you're

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