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..
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. ♥️
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.
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!!
Why aren’t more therapists like you? The wounding for me was compounded every time I sought help. They just made it worse. I’m so encouraged by this. This is the first video of yours I’ve encountered and I feel like a piece of my soul was restored indeed.
I'm so grateful to have found you. You are the only safe space in this world that I have ever found, Few can know what it's like. I'm not speaking of having to live without a safe space. But to have lived 61 years and only now finding one. For those of use who have lost the ability to access faith, The absolute cherry is that you also have skin on.... ;-). Bending the knee for the smiles today as well.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
My past trauma started coming up when I went through a traumatic pregnancy in 2022, I feel like our identity falls apart so our true essense that was there all along can become free x
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.
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
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.
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.
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 ❤
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.
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.
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?
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
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
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.
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
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?
It would be really helpful if you would distinguish between PTSD and Developmental Trauma or Complex PTSD (particularly pre-verbal trauma). And while I really appreciate your message here, Tara, it would be particularly beneficial if you would stop saying that everyone has trauma. It's like saying everyone has depression. Or everybody has an anxiety disorder. Do most folks experience bouts of sadness? Sure. Do most folks experience bouts of nervousness and butterflies in their stomach? Sure. But that's not a clinical depression with suicidal ideation and that's not a crippling anxiety disorder that keeps you in bed for months at a time. You've made a very specific video here for people who are so traumatized that they are simply unable to find an ounce of safety anywhere. That is not the majority of the population and when you present it as though that is the majority of the population, then you've rendered this entire video is moot.
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.
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". 🙏♥️
And, sorry for the rant here, but this is what has been so maddening about the Buddhist and meditation advocates' limp response to severely traumatized individuals. You start the video by saying - correctly - that the hallmark of severe trauma is that there is no sense of safety left for that poor individual. Yet the guided visualization/meditation that you do in this video is exactly the same as you would do for someone with no trauma. You ask the individual that you have already acknowledged has no sense of safety to try to find a sense of safety. And then to (laughably) imagine some compassionate creature looking at us with love and care. Do you understand how that can feel like gaslighting? Do you understand the mixed messages that you're sending? We don't know what compassion looks like or feels like. We don't know what "care" looks like or feels like. We can't imagine anyone gazing at us with love or appreciation. You say you understand that because that's how you open your video, but then you offer the same old stale Buddhist instruction that I've been doing for the last 35 years - which, I realize now, has only made everything worse. It's like doing a video for folks who are color blind and acknowledging at the top of the video that there are certain colors that they can't see. And then adding that, heck, everyone has experienced difficulty with seeing colors at some point in their lives, right? I mean, that's just our world today -- (completely invalidating the experience of those with true color blindness). And then your solution is to ask them to try to imagine what it would be like to see the colors that they've never seen. Again, it's maddening, triggering and - though I know you are dearly trying to help - kind of abusive. Because you clearly have no personal experience with the depth of this kind of severe childhood trauma, you can't conceive a world in which an individual feels absolutely zero safety. And until you can actually begin to try to conceptualize that, your instructions are harmful.
Download your free guide to working with Trauma and PTSD at tarabrach.ac-page.com/trauma-pdf 💕
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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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.
♥️
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.
I just found the link to your website. Crying....thank you for lighting my path. From the bottom of my heart, thk u ❤ 😭🥺😢
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.
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!!
komplexe PTBS ist c-ptsd auf Englisch
"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.
❤
So beautiful ….the fairy story had me in tears, I felt recognised and acknowledged in this.
Why aren’t more therapists like you? The wounding for me was compounded every time I sought help. They just made it worse. I’m so encouraged by this. This is the first video of yours I’ve encountered and I feel like a piece of my soul was restored indeed.
I'm so grateful to have found you. You are the only safe space in this world that I have ever found, Few can know what it's like. I'm not speaking of having to live without a safe space. But to have lived 61 years and only now finding one. For those of use who have lost the ability to access faith, The absolute cherry is that you also have skin on.... ;-). Bending the knee for the smiles today as well.
My families dysfunctional ways caused too much damage to me I'm so blessed to have found you tara
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.
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
Thank you, Tara Brach!
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
You are a true blessing Tara ❤ love from a fellow colleague in norway
Thank you for this Tara. It was very much needed today. I often bring you to mind as a safe presence during those reflections.
Thank you very much!
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.
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.
Thanks!
My past trauma started coming up when I went through a traumatic pregnancy in 2022, I feel like our identity falls apart so our true essense that was there all along can become free x
Thank you, this talk helps.
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.
All the LOVE. Thank you
I don’t know you Tara, but I love you deeply. Thank you. ❤️🥰
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
Thank you Tara. That was hard but beautiful.
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.
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.
Thank you ❤
Thank you 💕🙏
Surprised to find this, wasn't consciously looking...but how true and serendipitous this message is
Powerful,empowering 🙏❤️
The most beautiful offering.
Thank you 🙏🏼 ❤
THANK YOU! THANK YOU!!!! THANK YOU, Tara!!!! Deep, Deep, Deep Gratitude for THIS SPECIFIC presentation…please continue your work, Tara…🙏🏼✨🙏🏼!
I love to hear you! Thanks ❤
"I want someone with skin on". Such direct wisdom from a child.
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I am grateful for you, Tara. Thank you.
Love you Tara Barak.*
I am with .l isten to you I understand.
I believe in you.
Peac and love from Isreal.💜
Thank you💕 Namaste 🙏
Thank you for this very thoughtful & meaningful talk.
Thank you so very much 🙏🏼💕🪷
You're such a blessing. Thank you ;)
Thank you for this
Wow thank you for the recipe for gradually processing and healing my fear ❤🎉
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 ❤
wonderful
Thanks!
Thank you for this. I now finally have a tangible understanding of how trauma is processed❤
Thank you. 🙏
Tara, thank you so much! May your words reach every human ear. Bless you.
Thank you from the deepest parts of me 🙏🤍
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.
Thanks
Absolutely love this wow
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
Tara you are such a gift. Thank you for nurturing us with your wisdom, words and heart.
Helped me connect to compassion for myself and others and to find a fundamental ok-ness to experience.
Thank you Tara. Bless you.
Thank you Tara ❤
I think about my grandmother too
20:14 Trauma response, being cut off, window of tolerance and how it relates to meditation..
Thankyou you are an angel ❤️ how can we feel safe around people who have gave us trauma
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.
Thankyou Tara ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🦋🦋
Thank you, Tara. I hope my dear friend, FNT hears this...
I have no one i can think of to feel loved and safe
Thank you for this much needed moment.
🙏💗🌸🍃Thank You so much
Excellent lecture Tara.
Beautiful. I have needed to find this. You're a blessing. ❤❤❤❤❤
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?
For me I've had some trauma from my grandmother I can no longer think of her to comfort myself 😔
Thank you! ❤ I have a question about why you call it PTSD vs C - PTSD?
Wow! So well put💥❤️
Trigger warning omg!! Excited to have found your work! But how long til the meditation starts….
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
Any advice for a 66-year old man who was diagnosed with Parkinson's?
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
Will this also apply for flash back of traumatic experience from the past? Thank you 🙏
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.
How can I identify any shame
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
Does anyone kno if this is transcribed?
And if this sophisticared, well~founded approach is not accessible and or comprehensive to victims of trauma/cptsd, try initializing microdosing mdma
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?
Self nurturing is not selfish
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Lecture from 7 years ago
Isn't truth and compassion an inherent characteristic of the universe?
Why would we necessarily need an external source?
I thought she was going to say the kids were delighted for frozen pizza
Weeping.
Very painful.
Same
Who doesn't have trauma. Living is traumatic. It's ridiculous.
It would be really helpful if you would distinguish between PTSD and Developmental Trauma or Complex PTSD (particularly pre-verbal trauma). And while I really appreciate your message here, Tara, it would be particularly beneficial if you would stop saying that everyone has trauma. It's like saying everyone has depression. Or everybody has an anxiety disorder. Do most folks experience bouts of sadness? Sure. Do most folks experience bouts of nervousness and butterflies in their stomach? Sure. But that's not a clinical depression with suicidal ideation and that's not a crippling anxiety disorder that keeps you in bed for months at a time. You've made a very specific video here for people who are so traumatized that they are simply unable to find an ounce of safety anywhere. That is not the majority of the population and when you present it as though that is the majority of the population, then you've rendered this entire video is moot.
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.
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". 🙏♥️
And, sorry for the rant here, but this is what has been so maddening about the Buddhist and meditation advocates' limp response to severely traumatized individuals. You start the video by saying - correctly - that the hallmark of severe trauma is that there is no sense of safety left for that poor individual. Yet the guided visualization/meditation that you do in this video is exactly the same as you would do for someone with no trauma. You ask the individual that you have already acknowledged has no sense of safety to try to find a sense of safety. And then to (laughably) imagine some compassionate creature looking at us with love and care. Do you understand how that can feel like gaslighting? Do you understand the mixed messages that you're sending? We don't know what compassion looks like or feels like. We don't know what "care" looks like or feels like. We can't imagine anyone gazing at us with love or appreciation. You say you understand that because that's how you open your video, but then you offer the same old stale Buddhist instruction that I've been doing for the last 35 years - which, I realize now, has only made everything worse. It's like doing a video for folks who are color blind and acknowledging at the top of the video that there are certain colors that they can't see. And then adding that, heck, everyone has experienced difficulty with seeing colors at some point in their lives, right? I mean, that's just our world today -- (completely invalidating the experience of those with true color blindness). And then your solution is to ask them to try to imagine what it would be like to see the colors that they've never seen. Again, it's maddening, triggering and - though I know you are dearly trying to help - kind of abusive. Because you clearly have no personal experience with the depth of this kind of severe childhood trauma, you can't conceive a world in which an individual feels absolutely zero safety. And until you can actually begin to try to conceptualize that, your instructions are harmful.
Climate always changes and please know that engineering is taking place unfortunately
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Yea, Nah…too close to the bone without anaesthetic.