Uprooting Limiting Beliefs with RAIN: a Meditation with Tara Brach

So reminders this that the petri dish for fear beliefs is feeling separate, disconnected, isolated, and not belonging.

To heal, to remember our intrinsic worth, we need to reconnect, we need to find our way back into a sense of belonging to ourselves and to each other and to our Earth.

We need to reconnect in love, in the moments that we feel, as I mentioned, inferior, our superior. We've lost touch with that sense of worth of that sacredness, our judgment of ourselves of each other, it obscures the goodness, the goal.

So the prayer here is that will deepen dedication, to honoring our own intrinsic worth. Because that allows us to widen the circles so that we can realize the sacredness of all life everywhere. And this is absolutely needed for the healing of our world.

So let's practice. Let's take a few moments if you'd like to shift your position so that you're comfortable. Take a few full breaths.

Now scanning your life. You might bring to mind a repeated experience. And a relationship that brings up suffering. Could be with a partner, somebody else in your family, friend, somebody at work.

When you've identified an experience, where you end up feeling hurt or angry or distanced. Ask yourself, what am I believing about myself? See if you can recognize, are you believing that you're not lovable, that you're not worthy? Do you're not able to handle things well, that you're going to be rejected?

What's the deepest belief about yourself?

So recognizing whatever you can that you're believing, and for a moment, allowing and allowing doesn't mean you're agreeing with what you believe it means that you're pausing here. So that you can begin to shine the light of awareness and begin to investigate.

And you might ask yourself, Is it true? Is that true about me? Is it really true? See if you can sense the possibility of real but not true.

You might ask yourself, how long have I been believing this about myself? There may be some image that comes some feelings. And then asking yourself what does it been like to live with this belief?

This limiting negative belief How has it affected my relationships Work, moments at leisure, how's it affected my body, my heart? And from the place in you that's most caring and wise that's witnessing this.

You might sense what's most needed? What is this part of you most need? How does it want you to be with it? What's the message that you might offer right now?

What might you ask yourself to trust sir to remember if it helps to call on a spiritual figure, friend, part of the natural world to help you offer care, just feel that you might have your hand on your heart right now that you could offer care through your hand to your heart, care and the wish or prayer to trust your goodness, to trust love, to turn towards love, to take refuge in love. Learn to take some moments to notice the presence that's here. The shift from the beginning of feeling or a self that's in some way limited. The negative beliefs about yourself to justice presence.

There might be just as few degrees of more open and tender are very profoundly so when you might ask yourself, what would your life be like? If you weren't believing something was wrong with you? Perhaps you can feel it in your body increased freedom. Who would you be if you didn't believe something is wrong with you? And a few in the depth of your heart, that longing, and that dedication to waking up to the truth of who you are.

And we all are to that sacred presence that lives through this life. When you're ready, please take a few full breaths. opening your eyes. And thank you friends for exploring this with me. Thank you for your presence and I look forward to when we next are together. Namaste and blessings.

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