Awakening Your Fearless Heart: Tara Brach on Facing Fear (Part 1)

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Namaste friends welcome I saw a cartoon some years back I had a a parrot in a cage who was visibly frightened this distressed and shaking feathers falling off and the owners are saying maybe we shouldn't have lined her cage with newspaper and it just felt so relevant to today I mean how is the news

affecting your body and mind we know so in the in the current world fear anxiety is spiking there global instability and it's the endangerment of growing numbers of vulnerable beings so I don't know anyone who really was prepared for the speed and intensity of the destructive forces playing out and it's quite natural like that

powered in the cage the impact of aggression and hostility on our nervous system we get activated and what that means is we need ways to metabolize fear to process fear and anxiety because when fear dominates we get caught in fight flight freeze Fawn you know we get confused paralyzed and it cuts off our capacity

for open-heartedness for wisdom for wise action I've shared in recent talks uh personally that I'm giving more time to practice than I have in the past more time to quieting my mind relaxing my body reconnecting with presence and also time to intentionally befriending fear um I want to share a quote that's been guiding

me I was born when all I once feared I could love I was born when all I once feared I could love this is the Sufi Mystic Rabia of Basra a wonderful woman um who really was living from this feminist Spirit of uh loving ourselves into healing so what does she mean by