When we’re awake in our bodies and sense, the world comes alive. Wisdom, creativity, and love are discovered as we relax and awaken through our bodies.
TARA BRACHWhen we’re awake in our bodies and sense, the world comes alive. Wisdom, creativity, and love are discovered as we relax and awaken through our bodies.
TARA BRACHThe muscles used to make a smile actually send a biochemical message to our nervous system that it is safe to relax the flight of freeze response.
TARA BRACHWhere desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
TARA BRACHWhen we relax about imperfection, we no longer lose our life moments in the pursuit of being different and in the fear of what is wrong.
TARA BRACHExtend an act of kindness each day. No one has to know. It can be a smile, reassuring words, a small favor – without expecting something in return.
TARA BRACHImperfection is not our personal problem – it is a natural part of existing.
TARA BRACHStopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.
TARA BRACHPeople don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
TARA BRACHThere is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.
TARA BRACHAs we free ourselves from the suffering of ‘something is wrong with me, ‘we trust and express the fullness of who we are.’
TARA BRACHMeditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.
TARA BRACHBut this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.
TARA BRACHTelling each other the truth and being who we are, and having space for the other person’s vulnerability in being who they are, allows us to move in a kind of dance together that’s very fluid and graceful.
TARA BRACHPain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.
TARA BRACHLonging, felt fully, carries us to belonging.
TARA BRACHThrough the sacred art of pausing, we develop the capacity to stop hiding, to stop running away from our experience. We begin to trust in our natural intelligence, in our naturally wise heart, in our capacity to open to whatever arises.
TARA BRACH