Tara Brach

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.

And there's something about it that just works for me.