Tara Brach, Ph.D is an internationally known meditation teacher and author of bestselling Radical Acceptance and True Refuge. Tara shares a weekly guided meditation and talk that blend Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practices. The podcast addresses the value of mindfulness meditation and self-compassion in relieving emotional suffering, serving spiritual awakening and bringing healing to our world.
What this show covers
mindfulnessguided meditationself-compassionmeditationemotional healingcompassionpresencespiritual imaginationself-judgmenthealingRAINbody scanrelationshipsbelongingawareness
What listeners will find here
Can mindful imagination loosen fear and open a more loving way to live?
Spiritual imagination is the focus here, as Tara explores how presence can transform fear-based thinking into healing, hope, and possibility. This episode looks at mindfulness, prayer, and guided reflection as ways to soften self-judgment, trust basic goodness, and imagine more compassionate relationships.
A guided meditation on relaxing back into alert, spacious awareness
This meditation explores alert inner stillness beneath changing sounds, sensations, feelings, and thoughts. It begins with the receptivity of a smile, moves through body and sensory awakening, and returns again and again to non-doing when distraction arises.
A 20-minute loving-kindness meditation grounded in the body
This episode is a guided embodied metta meditation led by Tara Brach. It uses the image of a smile and gentle attention through the body to cultivate warmth, self-compassion, healing, and a shared sense of loving awareness.
Can imagination become a spiritual practice for healing and hope?
Spiritual imagination is the focus of this first installment, exploring how presence can shift imagination from fear and limitation toward healing, possibility, and awakening. Tara connects mindfulness, prayer, and guided reflection to self-trust, resilience, and more loving ways of relating.
A gentle guide to self-trust, healing, and intrinsic goodness
This episode explores Tara Brach’s idea of “trusting the gold” by examining how fear, deficiency, and separation obscure our deepest nature. It centers on mindfulness, compassion, RAIN, and a “U-turn” toward vulnerability as pathways to self-trust and loving awareness.
Episodes
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