The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

Tara Brock is a great meditator and she is a great meditator.

Times of pandemic, they really highlight both our primitive psyche, where we're identified as this

separate self that needs to fight and defend and conquer others and power over to this

full potential of heart where we can serve the greater good. We know our togetherness.

And if we take a moment right now and just sense ourselves and our society, we can see both.

And the inquiry tonight is really for each of us. When we're stressed,

are we going to return to our habits of reacting from fear, blaming ourselves, blaming others,

some way shutting down? Are can we learn to pause? Can we honor the experiences come up?

And here's the challenging part. Agree to feel it, feel the feelings.

And in some way, call on love. Because as we do, as we change our relationship to fear

and call on love, it reveals a larger truth. What we come to see, and this is really the key to the

whole transformation, this path we're on, is that the changing stories, the reactions,

the fears, the animal headed goddesses are not who you are. It's like they're waves in the ocean,

but you are the loving awareness that's holding all the experiences. And the more you take refuge

in presence and the more you relate with love, the more you'll trust that who you are is the loving

awareness. And then you can respond. You can respond to your own fears and you can respond to

other people who are vulnerable with a really intimate presence because you know how to stay,

you know how to be there. We're going to close with a, with the practice,

just taking these steps and putting it together. It's really one form of sheltering and love.

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