Tara Brach

They both are, but I just start with the older and I'll actually see her close up and I'll feel my love for her and then I will kiss her on the brow and I actually...

I actually do the expression of a kiss.

I feel like I'm kissing her on the brow, and then I feel like she's doing the same to me, and I just dissolve into a field of who we are, our loving together.

So I do it, and I'll start with some of the easier, close-in people, and then the ones that are a little harder.

And then I open it to those I'm going to be with.

So you were in my meditation today.

And it was very sweet.

I felt, you know, as soon as I saw you, I felt more openness because I had already, you know, in a very visceral way, felt our connection.

And I sandwich the day, Tammy.

I start with that, with reflecting on aspiration and imagining through the day.

And at the end, I'll look back and just notice where I went into trance.

But it's not judging.

It's just almost like it's informing me to be more alert for the next round.

Yeah, where I got so caught up in what I need to do and what's going to go wrong and anything where I am really taken unnecessarily from a more open presence.

I sense their goodness.

Like I brought you to mind and I sensed your love for truth and your love for love and your aliveness and how much I can feel your aspiration to really be real and embody truth.

And I did do a kiss on the brow.

I mean, I imagine that with you also.

In fact, I've done it with strangers.

I've been at retreats and seen people and just imagined it.