Pathways to Trusting the Gold
Tara Brach

Pathways to Trusting the Gold

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 24, 20261 hr 5 min
  • One speaker
  • Relationships & psychology

What would it mean to truly trust the goodness that lives within you? In this talk, Tara Brach explores what she calls "trusting the gold"—awakening from the stories of deficiency, fear and separation that keep us from recognizing our deepest nature. We may spend much of our lives trying to improve ourselves, earn approval or finally become "enough," while overlooking the loving awareness that is already here. Tara explores how our early experiences of nurturing and belonging shape our capacity to trust ourselves, and how mindfulness and compassion can help heal the places that fe...

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Welcome, friends, to the Tara Brock Podcast. I'm so glad you're here. Each week I share teachings and guided meditations to help us awaken our hearts and bring healing to our world. You can learn more or support this offering by visiting TaraBrock.com where you can also join our email list. Now let's explore together the many ways we can live

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from the love and presence that's our deepest essence. Namaste. Namaste. Welcome friends. One of my favorite metaphors is that we all develop spacesuits they merge through our development, through life, and the spacesuit is what you might call our

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ego structure, our defenses, our aggressions, our beliefs. It's all the strategies we develop to get love and approval, to feel safe, to protect ourselves, to have some control over what happens. And to some degree we need these spacesuits to navigate our world. It's not an easy world. The deep suffering is that we come to believe we are the spacesuits and we forget who is

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