Trauma Sensitive Meditation: The Power of Self-Nurturing, with Tara Brach

Trauma Sensitive Meditation: The Power of Self-Nurturing, with Tara Brach [2023-01-25]
While we all need to customize meditation, this is particularly important for those living with PTSD or strong, potentially overwhelming emotions. This talk explores how trauma cuts us off from wholeness, and is accompanied by a deep and painful experience of shame. We look at the ways meditation can be adapted to cultivate sufficient safety for the full transformational healing of mindfulness to unfold. The gift of processing trauma is that the place of woundedness becomes a gateway into profound love, healing, and freedom.
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[@TaraBrach]

Download your free guide to working with Trauma and PTSD at tarabrach.ac-page.com/trauma-pdf 💕

[@xenasbottombitch5328]

Thank you so much. I finally cried and let go of alot of shame.. I love the way you explained neuroplasticity. I want to keep this up and see how it goes..

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[@the.kai.eros.experience]

I am about 12 minutes in. It’s been a long time since I’ve connected with your energy, Tara. Im in tears. I’ve been on a 18 month or so dark night of the soul, into the deepest darkest recesses of my and the collective psyche. A huge lightbulb I had this morning was how the things I’m most terrified of are the things I most want and need. Specifically this morning it was around physical touch and community. This video is helping me move through the deep fear and pain from being bullied and feeling unsafe around other humans, so I can go to an event today that I know will be extremely nourishing to my soul. And also just thank you for your kindness and heart in general. ♥️

[@bebobalula]

"In the broken places the light shines through". ~ Zen proverb. "There's a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." ~ Leonard Cohen.

[@motivationalspeaker-chanta1418]

❤

[@milaschon7209]

My dear Tara, you are my teacher since such a long time. I would wish you would have so much more people knowing you and listening to you. To be honest. Your teachings were always trauma sensitive oriented. You never had to name it as such (even you did it always) but your whole tender, catious, loving teachings, your own way you are sharing are always with us in your satsangs and teachings are trauma sensitive. What I can sign is, that ONLY mindfulness and self compassion meditations and RAIN and Radical Acceptance works for me in the past with a komplex PTBS in my past. The restlessness was the point I could "pick up better" by MBSR and radical acceptance, by observing an object instead meditating in silence. Thank you for you path and your heartwarming sharing your loving awareness and wisdom with us. I love you Tara.

[@Oshunsprite]

Many people know her. She is loved here in the UK as well. When I went to one of her talks in London, St James Church nr Picadilly Circus, several years ago, the place was packed!!

[@fj-fe7lw]

komplexe PTBS ist c-ptsd auf Englisch

[@amandaclark2340]

I just found the link to your website. Crying....thank you for lighting my path. From the bottom of my heart, thk u ❤ 😭🥺😢

[@Eschew_Obfuscation]

That woman’s short story made this 51 year old man cry. It was sad but ultimately beautiful and healing. So glad she chose to share it.

[@lildajao1]

You are a true blessing Tara ❤ love from a fellow colleague in norway

[@patriciaquaglia1795]

This Doctor UNDERSTANDS ME…What a Relief! I found her intuitively googling in the wee hours of the night how to properly deal with fear. I struggle with PTSD- but not as much your work, your meditations, (and my therapist) have brought me a long way Tara. Blessings upon Blessings to you. I made a small donation to your work. Once I get my money back up, I will donate more.

[@melissawilliams4936]

Thanks!

[@emmanate28]

I loved listening to this. Thank you. I struggle with non physical self regulation. I tend to use EFT or self soothing touch. I had my first ketamine treatment today and I could not physically self sooth. Need to practice more mantras and visionary comforts. “I’m ok. I’m safe” helped but it was a struggle. Thank you for making me feel hopeful. I cried a lot and learned so much about my own self avoidance. I’m on a mission to heal my chronic pain and depression.

[@BecKeen]

Tara, you are so wise. Thank you for putting my feelings and emotions so eloquently in to words. You have helped me beyond measure and beyond words. Thank you, sincerely. Bec

[@glenimoore1232]

So beautiful ….the fairy story had me in tears, I felt recognised and acknowledged in this.

[@JulieSmith-zp4ds]

Thank you, that was amazing. I have suffered trauma, studied trauma and counselled trauma. Thank you for thinking so deeply about it and customising trauma and meditation. You explained what it is so beautifully, namaste

[@clowngirl76]

I love the divine timing of this, I had this happen to me over the last few days and fell into full anxiety mode. Thank you for your work, you are very much appreciated.

[@Pashadog2]

"I want someone with skin on". Such direct wisdom from a child.

[@fiddler1252]

💖🥰💖

[@RosaDiaz-hb9js]

Thank you ❤

[@Beare.]

The most beautiful offering. Thank you 🙏🏼 ❤

[@maxsheerin8219]

I broke down when you said, if it helps, imagine someone I love telling me its not my fault. I dont think i will ever hear them words 😞

[@Mari-jv2mn]

What about an image of your older self telling it to you?

[@Yod12]

I've found it interesting that I have been able to meditate deeply, at times experiencing profound levels of peace and even ecstasy. Definitely beyond everyday intellectual understanding. And then when I 'come back to Earth', my life has generally been a nightmare. Now I'm beginning to understand that I need to put some conscious effort into healing some fairly heavy-duty trauma that I've been dealing with most of my life. It sounds easy to do, but can be very difficult, esp. living in a traumatic environment. Then there are other realms, such as paying back karmic debts, and what Li Hongzhi calls reverse cultivation. Life on this planet is continually blowing my mind when I realize there are deeper levels of reality and it can take some time to figure out how to juggle it all without going bananas.

[@amandaclark2340]

I have to keep pausing to absorb every minute n process what im hearing. This is exactly what i needed n absolutely applies to my situation. I wondered when the right tools and guidance would come. Ive looked everywhere under the sun. So many things have worked to soothe but this is what i needed. Im the type of person who needs to understand. Thank u so much tara. Im still only 1/4 of the way thru. This means so much to me. Thank you for all u do. 💛💫💚 amazing work, kind soul, gentle caring spirit thk u

[@melindatontz8244]

THANK YOU! THANK YOU!!!! THANK YOU, Tara!!!! Deep, Deep, Deep Gratitude for THIS SPECIFIC presentation…please continue your work, Tara…🙏🏼✨🙏🏼!

[@judeskingsbury5549]

I don’t know you Tara, but I love you deeply. Thank you. ❤️🥰

[@amalali7001]

Thank you 💕🙏

[@איריתאורבך]

Love you Tara Barak.* I am with .l isten to you I understand. I believe in you. Peac and love from Isreal.💜

[@paulbooth3116]

Thank you, this talk helps.

[@lynnfrontera7962]

I am grateful for you, Tara. Thank you.

[@theyogachic]

Vibing tara ❤

[@lucidityaudiofidelity7359]

Feeling your vibes

[@Austin_99162]

Surprised to find this, wasn't consciously looking...but how true and serendipitous this message is

[@daien4210]

Powerful,empowering 🙏❤️

[@jeremiahmiller6581]

Tara, thank you so much! May your words reach every human ear. Bless you.

[@MaxYAsrar]

wonderful

[@keinburton3809]

Thank you, Tara. It is so helpful to practice touching the edges and coming back to stability. This gives me permission to acknowledge the pain, but recognize the healing I've made.

[@dominictambuzzoayurvedamas9093]

Thank you for this very thoughtful & meaningful talk.

[@alpinestar5496]

Thank you for this. I now finally have a tangible understanding of how trauma is processed❤

[@lucidityaudiofidelity7359]

I think about my grandmother too

[@bettyannsouthard959]

Deeply grateful for you and your presentations. 🙏🏽your tenderness and teachings provide Devine guidance. This lesson on trauma healing ❤️‍🩹 is so valuable-bringing light to me and my self-healing. Thank you from my heart to yours ❤

[@history2relations]

All the LOVE. Thank you

[@victoriajensen4099]

Thank you so very much 🙏🏼💕🪷

[@mainaolbertzkaram7106]

I love to hear you! Thanks ❤

[@susansacco7583]

Thank you💕 Namaste 🙏

[@susannaschulten168]

Thank you Tara.

[@ellenthompson3950]

Thank you Tara. Bless you.

[@zishaan7550]

Helped me connect to compassion for myself and others and to find a fundamental ok-ness to experience.

[@cle5050]

Thank you, I daily tolerate a gas furnace & its revolutions and others needs for constant TV news and TV shows. It is definitely been an extreme adaptation when they need it. Thank you so much for an hour of meditative reminders of how to endure others' life choices. My feelings are considered not relevant by some here. However, I try to stay out of the way. My mom regularly reminds me that since they are elderly w arthritic complaints that I need to keep out of their way. Full tilt somatic anticipatory grief because one individual is in renal failure, the other person has COPD. It is causing extreme angst and loss of autonomy. It's put me into retreat aka withdrawal vs action & interdependence. Although yesterday I drove safely alone to a medical appointment and updated all my vaccinations so feeling fairly relieved as disabled woman.

[@Larry21924]

This is a game-changer. I had the pleasure of reading something similar, and it was a game-changer. "Your Body Your Temple" by Sophia Wintergreen

[@patriciaquaglia1795]

Wow thank you for the recipe for gradually processing and healing my fear ❤🎉

[@thomaslow3696]

Thanks!

[@leonachanning]

Absolutely love this wow

[@markonahleyes2701]

You're such a blessing. Thank you ;)

[@nooooooooope3809]

I'm only 3 minutes in and I can't stop crying. I always have to explain this stuff to the people who are trying to help me and none of them understand it. There are so few people who understand this and it's so hard. Holy fuck, you really know your shit. Thank you so much.

[@katecherieandreallo8874]

Thankyou Tara ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🦋🦋

[@cw-ji8vs]

Thank you, Tara. I hope my dear friend, FNT hears this...

[@Jvlzq]

Thank you for this

[@a.e.r.7745]

Beautiful. I have needed to find this. You're a blessing. ❤❤❤❤❤

[@leonachanning]

I have no one i can think of to feel loved and safe

[@leonachanning]

Thankyou you are an angel ❤️ how can we feel safe around people who have gave us trauma

[@ellenthompson3950]

Excellent lecture Tara.

[@jenniferwolf545]

🙏💗🌸🍃Thank You so much

[@monica_.]

Thank you for this Tara. It was very much needed today. I often bring you to mind as a safe presence during those reflections.

[@fitwomancoach23]

Thank you for this much needed moment.

[@gelasat]

Thanks

[@leonachanning]

For me I've had some trauma from my grandmother I can no longer think of her to comfort myself 😔

[@summerbardia7290]

This is such a wonderful talk. Thank you! How do you know, for yourself and for clients, whether it's safe to lean in or if soothing and nurturing is needed 1st during a traumatic experience?

[@lizrogers4127]

Trigger warning omg!! Excited to have found your work! But how long til the meditation starts….

[@ocrodger]

Any advice for a 66-year old man who was diagnosed with Parkinson's?

[@larryvazeos3025]

Love your meditations. You’d get a bigger laugh on your joke by not punching the word me. You could put a slight emphasis on for but even that’s not necessary. It’s a funny joke just trust that.

[@FreeSpeechWilderness]

❤🙏

[@Krista-388]

do you have any guided meditations that dont focus so much on breathing (maybe only once or twice checking in with it) and that offer external examples that I can then connect with my body. am I making sense? Its kind of hard to articulate. Ive got one guided meditation for sleep that took me 30+ years to find, except i dont know what that would be called so that I can find more. I listen to it every night for 4 months. Would like to try more

[@MusicaErika]

Will this also apply for flash back of traumatic experience from the past? Thank you 🙏

[@felipelealvalentim7975]

You know what self is in the mind? A contraction that creates perception in body, along with sensations, volition and so forth. Why some people only have a contraction in relation to others without breaking truth and true happinnes?

[@wendywilson-x6v]

Self nurturing is not selfish

[@alexandrugheorghe5610]

Lecture from 7 years ago

[@Yod12]

Isn't truth and compassion an inherent characteristic of the universe? Why would we necessarily need an external source?

[@amandaclark2340]

Does anyone kno if this is transcribed?

[@cacampbell3654]

Weeping.

[@leonachanning]

How can I identify any shame

[@leonachanning]

I have finally found it I have shame from my family the treatment I received from them and the emotional abuse it was so cold made me feel so worthless that I actually started to believe especially as I was so vulnerable at the time and already traumatised from bad health problems I had no choice but to depend on them at the time and I have finally realised now how much shame i was carrying my mind must of been blocking it out because I could understand where the shame was coming from for a while😔 I've had a few different situations which have caused me great suffering and trauma

[@corynnelson7469]

I thought she was going to say the kids were delighted for frozen pizza

[@Sereneis]

Very painful.

[@seahorsesalt4386]

Same

[@1pepem]

Who doesn't have trauma. Living is traumatic. It's ridiculous.

[@PhenomenalWorld]

Tara Brach, I love you to bits but every time you use that Leonard Cohen quote, you mangle it more, until, by now, it is an unrecognizable and much diluted string of words, victim of a game of telephone with oneself. The actual quote is "There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in". 🙏♥️

[@breathpresent53]

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[@yogachittammclauchlan6806]

Climate always changes and please know that engineering is taking place unfortunately

[@lindalasley1192]

Sorry...call me whatever but, I disagree with this

[@UrbanomicInteriors]

What parts specifically do you disagree with?

[@melatomic]

Yea, Nah…too close to the bone without anaesthetic.

[@ellenthompson3950]

Bless you Trara.e mail me please

[@studiolife1776]

Thank you ❤️

[@thomaslow3696]

Thank you Tara ❤

[@wanderkind0]

Thanks!

[@cindyschnell4193]

Thank you Tara. That was hard but beautiful.

[@shoshashosha9257]

Thank you.

[@fiddler1252]

Dear Tara, Big metta for your gift of tools for understanding and healing. I was recently diagnosed with CPTSD and am working with a women's trauma counselor, doing regular yoga, and slowly getting back into my Vipassna practice. This morning I found this teaching and had tears of relief during the closing meditation. I also found my grandmother as a comforting, loving, safe, person to be with; to go to and breathe when feelings are deeply felt. Namaste kind Teacher, and I will share this video with my counselor as we work with somatic body work and imagery.

[@smithusa321]

How do you deal with PTSD when you don’t feel shame and know it’s not your fault? I don’t feel those things, yet keep reliving things and get stuck in paralyzing fear. My trauma nearly led to my death and so every trigger feels like I am back on that place, the verge of death. To say I feel unsafe is an understatement. But I do not feel guilty, I do not feel shame, I do not feel worthless, etc

[@nancyhutchings2748]

Well, if I wasn't traumatized before hearing this talk, I am now. Way too much talk of all the trauma going on with the world. It is like watching the evening news.

[@ellenfarias4518]

Thank you. 🙏

[@arnovandijken3262]

And if this sophisticared, well~founded approach is not accessible and or comprehensive to victims of trauma/cptsd, try initializing microdosing mdma

[@UrbanomicInteriors]

Tara you are such a gift. Thank you for nurturing us with your wisdom, words and heart.

[@kendalklark7099]

Thank you from the deepest parts of me 🙏🤍

[@arnovandijken3262]

Wow! So well put💥❤️

[@RCRB444]

Thanks!