Three Core Reminders for Spiritual Practice

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 9 July 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Three Core Reminders for Spiritual Practice - This talk explores three powerful ways you can direct your attention when you find yourself emotionally stuck: Wake up from thoughts; feel your feelings and remember love. We explore both the habits blocking these basic movements toward freedom, and what nourishes them. Together they can serve to open your mind, awaken aliveness and heal your heart.

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:03.8	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:08.9	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:25.4	Namaste, friends, and welcome.
0:29.2	So I'm recording here from Cape Cod where it's drizzling and I send all my heartfelt
0:38.6	best wishes to those that have been going through these incredible heat waves.
0:45.1	What I wanted to talk about for this class is something I've discovered over the decades
0:53.0	of spiritual practice.
0:55.9	And that is that there are three particular reminders about practice that come up over
1:04.2	and over again and that I'd say most guided my practice and many others I've talked to
1:11.0	have felt the same, but these three are the kind of key remembrances.
1:16.9	And the first one is wake up from thoughts, move from that space of being lost in thought
1:27.1	to witnessing the fact of thoughts so that we can release the grip of judgments and stories
1:35.3	and beliefs that are keeping us small wake up from thoughts.
1:40.6	One elderly woman recently spoke very whisperally to me about how this gift of learning to see
1:49.0	oh, it's just a thought.
1:51.8	How much not having to believe her thoughts has made a difference in her life and how
1:58.3	many years went by that she really felt imprisoned by the circling stories and judgments.
2:05.2	So that's the first wake up from thoughts.
2:09.3	By the way, that doesn't mean get rid of the thoughts.
2:11.3	It just means no, they're going on.
2:14.1	The second is feel the feelings that are here.
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