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From Head to Heart

TARA BRACH
About this episode

If we are suffering, we are believing an interpretation of reality that is limiting and untrue. At these times we are imprisoned in a painful looping of fear-driven thoughts and feelings. This talk explores the ways our practices of mindfulness, compassion and loving presence can guide us from addictive thinking to perceiving life with a wise heart.

In this talk, Tara explores:

* how fear-based thoughts create suffering and keep us locked in cycles of insecurity and separation.
* the pathway of moving from the prison of looping thoughts to the freedom of open-hearted presence.
* Ihow recognizing thoughts as “real but not true” opens the door to compassion and release.
* three pathways—returning to presence, awakening the heart, and resting in awareness—that guide us from head to heart.
* how mindfulness and loving awareness reconnect us with our wholeness and the joy of simply being.

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