Tara Brach

A profound transformation can occur just by training your attention in awareness—a practice sweeping schools, workplaces, and institutions with its capacity to decrease stress, cultivate inner calm, and expand wisdom and creativity.

When life-threatening illness, family conflict, faltering relationships, old trauma, obsessive thinking, overwhelming emotion, or inevitable losses arise, we easily react with fear and confusion, falling back on timeworn strategies: anger, self-judgment, and addictive behaviors.

Despite our best intentions, we often have trouble dealing effectively with strong emotions. What if you had a conscious, skillful way to respond in times of anger, fear, jealousy, shame, and other powerful emotions?

In holding ourselves with compassion, we become free to love this living world.