Your Nervous System Is Being Hijacked. Here's How To Get It Back. | Tara Brach
6/3/202659 min
The world is insane. You don't have to be. These Buddhist practices can help you handle it without succumbing to fear, anxiety, hatred, and apathy.
Tara Brach is a legendary meditation teacher and psychologist. She is the founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington and has been active in bringing meditation into schools, prisons and underserved populations. Her latest book is The Courageous Heart Workbook: Choosing to Love in Perilous Times.
In this episode we talk about:
- What "spiritual audacity" means — and where the term comes from
- Why shutting down emotionally feels like self-protection but isn't
- How caring is a more effective fuel than rage
- What lovingkindness meditation is — and how to do it
- The RAIN practice — and how to use it on difficult emotions
- Why small, local acts of service count as activism
- How to use your imagination to feel compassion for people you can't stand
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First 90 secondsDan Harris· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Hello, everybody. I'm Dan Harris. Welcome to the Ten Percent Happier podcast. Uh, o- one of my little taglines is, uh, "The world is insane, but you don't have to be." I get it. Uh, it is tough out there, and, uh, given all the chaos and, and cruelty and uncertainty, it is natural to want to resort to despair or hostility or denial, but none of those things actually feel good, and more importantly, none of those things actually help the overall situation. So today, we're gonna talk in great detail about how to feel better about everything that's happening in the world, and more importantly, how to engage so that you can make things better, which, by the way, will make you feel better. Uh, my guest today is the legendary meditation teacher Tara Brach. She has written such books as, uh, Radical Acceptance and Radical Compassion, and she's out now with something called The Courageous Heart Workbook. We're gonna talk all about it. Tara Brach after this quick break. [air whooshes] A few things before we hear from our sponsors. If you haven't already checked out my new-ish meditation app, Ten Percent with Dan Harris, I would love for you to do so. Many people fall prey to the myth that taking care of yourself is somehow self-indulgent. One of the big aims of this app is to disprove that, to make the argument that actually taking care of yourself is a public service.