Transforming Two Fears: FOF and FOMO (2015-08-19)

Tara Brach

Buddhism, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Transforming Two Fears: FOF and FOMO (2015-08-19) - There are two common fears that can block us from our full potential - fear of failure (FOF), and fear of missing out (FOMO). This talk explores how to meet these fears with mindful presence, and discover within them the essence energies of loving awareness and full aliveness.

Note - This talk is dedicated to Tim Ferriss, who turned me on to the phrase FOMO. Tim exemplifies the creative aliveness of FOMO energy when it’s living through someone who’s dedicated to being awake, caring and real. (check out his podcasts, http://fourhourworkweek.com/podcast/)

Free download of Tara’s new 10 min meditation:
“Mindful Breathing: Finding Calm and Ease”
when you join her email list.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Greetings. I'm Tara Brock and I'd like to welcome you to these podcasts. While the
0:08.0	talks and meditations are offered freely, we'd very much appreciate your support. To
0:13.7	make a donation or learn more about my schedule, please visit tarabrock.com and our IMCW.org.
0:22.5	Thank you.
0:30.0	I'd like to start with a poem from the poet Rumi. This is how a human being can change. There's a
0:52.0	worm addicted to eating grape leaves. Suddenly he wakes up, call it grace, whatever, something wakes
0:59.0	him and he's no longer a worm. He's the entire vineyard and the orchard too, the fruit, the
1:06.8	trunks, the growing wisdom and joy that doesn't need to devour. This is how a human being can change.
1:15.2	This is a verse or poem about really the evolution of consciousness and this shifting from a separate
1:30.3	self that out of fear and grasping is kind of addicted, habitual. And to that realization of
1:39.2	connection and oneness that allows us to really live from a place of love and wisdom.
1:46.5	What I'd like to do during this class is first ask you the question really what is between me
1:58.4	and that sense of that wholeness, that growing wisdom and joy? Just a sense what is between me and
2:07.3	that experience? And then to really look at two areas that many of us land on that seem to run
2:16.0	interference, two areas of a fear where we might say we're stuck as that worm that's kind of addicted to
2:22.9	the grape leaves. And then just to explore how meditation can be this evolutionary strategy that
2:31.6	allows for grace, that allows us to wake up. And to begin with just to say it's totally natural
2:40.5	that we go through a phase of being the worm eating grape leaves. I mean that's just part of evolution too.
2:46.5	And I don't know how many of you either had the hungry caterpillar read to you or read it to your
2:52.6	children or reading it to your grandchildren. How many? Hungry caterpillar. So that's like a good
2:57.3	90% of us, which is a story of a hungry caterpillar that each day is eating more and more food and
3:03.9	the food's beautiful, like all these different kinds of fruits and vegetation. And there's nothing wrong
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Tara Brach, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Tara Brach and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.