Question and Response: Heart Practices - (2016-11-05)
Tara Brach
Tara Brach
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🗓️ 27 December 2016
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Question and Response: Heart Practices - (2016-11-05) - follow-up to the guided heart practice: Taking in the Goodness.
Tara replies to questions from retreatants.
~ from the IMCW Fall retreat
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| 0:00.0 | To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit tarabrock.com. |
| 0:28.8 | I'm going to leave a couple of minutes in case anyone had questions about the heart practices. |
| 0:37.8 | And also to say that you can weave in as much of the metter, loving kindness, compassion practices as |
| 0:47.8 | we'll seem to be alive in your practice, whatever supports. |
| 0:52.2 | So feel free to experiment and bring in through the day. |
| 0:57.8 | Does anybody have any questions about the heart practices? |
| 1:02.8 | The story that you told with the man holding the baby close to him. |
| 1:06.8 | What's the practice that we would do as you feel your heart sort of getting harder? |
| 1:10.8 | You mean instead of going out to a hospital nearby and holding an internet, it's what you imagine. |
| 1:16.8 | So you would imagine a being that you'd like to offer tenderness to somebody that you've seen |
| 1:24.8 | that could really use that tenderness. |
| 1:27.8 | Some people imagine a small child or an adult that is having trouble. |
| 1:33.8 | And then just to imagine that you're in some way offering something that's comforting, soothing and helpful. |
| 1:41.8 | And in the moment of offering comfort that starts warming up our hearts. |
| 1:45.8 | So you just do it in your mind. |
| 1:48.8 | It found it very easy to speak to those that I love and that practice was really easy. |
| 1:56.8 | But what I found afterwards were there were a couple of people that I feel like I have to heal my heart. |
| 2:05.8 | And I found them coming up and that was surprising. |
| 2:10.8 | And trying to feel how I'm going to fix it. |
| 2:15.8 | So this is a really important inquiry, which is when the love is flowing and simple and uncomplexed, |
| 2:24.8 | it's not so hard to see the goodness and offer our care. |
| 2:27.8 | But what happens when it's complex and when there's some woundedness in there? |
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