The following talk is given by Tara Brock, meditation teacher, psychologist and author.

I'm a stay and welcome.

This is the second class two-part series.

And again, if you didn't hear the first, you can catch up on it.

And hopefully, it'll stand alone.

The title is Beyond the Fear Body.

So if you were at part one last week, I kind of expected not as many people to show up.

Fear is not the most popular sometimes.

I was putting together my notes on Monday night, those in the DC area know there was a pretty

fierce thunderstorm.

And it reminded me of a story it her years ago about a mom describes her young son's

very upset during a thunderstorm.

So she spent some time in his room with him, trying to calm him down.

And finally, she kisses him good night and he kind of an trembling voice says, you know,

won't you stay with me?

And she goes, oh no, honey, I need to sleep with your daddy.

At which point he says, the big, scary cat.

So as I mentioned in the last class, if we look underneath any of our emotions at the core,

we're going to find fear.

It's really kind of at the heart of everything.

It's this sense that around the corner something can and will go wrong.

And it's our perception of mortality.

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