Tara Brach

Can I let myself feel it to the extent I can?

And nurture means to hold whatever vulnerability is there with real kindness, and it's a whole training to how to

I'm putting my hand on my heart right now, but how to really bring care to the fear.

Because ultimately, if we can love the fear, we become the loving presence that's holding the fear and we're not so caught, identified with the wave of fear.

And that is the radical shift in healing that actually frees us.

Yeah.

Um,

It's a really important question because there are a lot of ways that we're conditioned to try not to feel.

In other words, one of my key inquiries for myself is, what am I unwilling to feel right now?

And there are many practices that are meant to transcend, including sometimes using non-dual practices like, well, what's aware of the fear?

I mean, you're not the fear, you're what's aware of it.

which is very powerful and very helpful if

This is the if.

There's already been a willingness to allow just what's here to be here.

But because we're so habituated to get away from it, to avoid in any way, any of those moves to transcend actually disconnect us from our bodies and our hearts.

So the emptiness or the spaciousness we feel is actually quite dry.

It's dry.

It's not rich with embodiment.

The Tibetans describe emotions as the juice.

They're forms of life, loving life.