Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness - The Power of Self-Nurturing

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness - The Power of Self-Nurturing - While we all need to customize meditation, this is particularly important for those living with PTSD or strong, potentially overwhelming emotions. This talk explores how trauma cuts us off from wholeness, and is accompanied by a deep and painful experience of shame. We look at the ways meditation can be adapted to cultivate sufficient safety for the full transformational healing of mindfulness to unfold. The gift of processing trauma is that the place of woundedness becomes a gateway into profound love, healing, and freedom.

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:05.3	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:10.4	To make a donation please visit tarbrock.com.
0:32.2	Greetings.
0:33.2	Namaste friends.
0:35.2	I am glad to be with you.
0:38.7	There was a cartoon that came out right after Christmas.
0:42.9	It was Caption's Treetrama.
0:47.1	And you see this very disturbed Christmas tree lying on the psychiatrist's couch.
0:54.8	And the tree saying, well, it turns out that all those gifts weren't for me.
1:03.0	And I loved it.
1:04.3	And I thought I'd share it with you as a bit of a lead in for our theme.
1:09.0	We're going to be exploring what's called trauma-sensitive mindfulness.
1:15.8	And I'd like to begin by saying that in my early days of meditation practice, the uniform
1:24.7	mindfulness guidance was if something strong comes up, be with it.
1:31.3	As you hear, lean into the fear, bring a gentle, clear, mindful attention to whatever arises.
1:40.1	And that worked pretty well for me.
1:43.2	But I found out later that for people that had a lot of fear, had trauma, it could amplify
1:51.3	the fear in ways that sometimes felt overwhelming.
1:55.9	And some people experience panic, some stop meditating.
2:01.9	What we didn't understand, what we're calling trauma-sensitive mindfulness, is that
2:08.9	mindfulness needs to be adapted with flexibility, with sensitivity, with care, to best serve
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