Day 2

Day Two
Mindfulness and managing emotions
with Tara Brach

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Mindfulness and managing emotions

with Tara Brach

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In this interview you’ll learn:

  • How mindfulness can support us in managing fear
  • A powerful technique to bring mindfulness and self compassion to difficult emotional moments
  • How mindfulness can support us in relationships with others
  • How mindfulness can reduce stress through transforming the way we think
Tara Brach

Tara Brach’s teachings blend Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practices, mindful attention to our inner life, and a full, compassionate engagement with our world. The result is a distinctive voice in Western Buddhism, one that offers a wise and caring approach to freeing ourselves and society from suffering.

As an undergraduate at Clark University, Tara pursued a double major in psychology and political science. During this time, while working as a grass roots organizer for tenants’ rights, she also began attending yoga classes and exploring Eastern approaches to inner transformation. After college, she lived for ten years in an ashram-a spiritual community-where she practiced and taught both yoga and concentrative meditation. When she left the ashram and attended her first Buddhist Insight Meditation retreat, led by Joseph Goldstein, she realized she was home. “I had found wisdom teachings and practices that train the heart and mind in unconditional and loving presence,” she explains. “I knew that this was a path of true freedom.”

#MINDFUL ACTION

Try out the R.A.I.N exercise that Tara shares in the interview the next time you experience a difficult emotion.

Here are the steps for you to remember:

R – Recognise
A – Allow
I – Investigate
N – Not-identified

You can practice R.A.I.N either in your own mind OR you can try actually writing reflections down retrospectively when you have been hit with an unpleasant emotion.

I really encourage you to try this throughout the week. Make a note in your journal or if easier on your phone and you’ll start to notice patterns around your emotional triggers.

Becoming more aware of your emotional triggers and taking the time to process difficult emotions are the steps required to become master of your emotions rather than slave to them.

Don’t forget to meditate today

MINDFULNESS OF SOUNDS

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