The Dance with Pain - Tara Brach

Tara Brach - The Dance with Pain - 07/08/2015
“Pain is inevitable and suffering is optional.” In this talk, Tara explores the difference between pain and suffering and examines the most common, yet often unconscious, ways we resist pain. She then shares practices that help us find balance, equanimity and awakening in the midst.
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Пікірлер: 43

  • @anitazuck
    @anitazuck2 ай бұрын

    Tara’s video on Radical Acceptance of Pain is a great companion piece to this.

  • @RobinTurner
    @RobinTurner4 жыл бұрын

    I wake up with a splitting headache and think "Oh, I'll watch that Tara Brach talk about pain in a bit." Then I spill boiling water on my leg and I'm like "OK, OK, I'M WATCHING IT NOW!"

  • @dianeibsen5994

    @dianeibsen5994

    3 жыл бұрын

    Aww..sorry💗

  • @CataM1988
    @CataM19884 жыл бұрын

    Currently feeling physical pain, and this talk is bringing me peace. Thank you Tara!

  • @casario2808
    @casario28084 жыл бұрын

    I have episodic cluster headache, which is considered one of the most painful ailments known to humans (not to brag LOL). For decades I fought it, and each episode just became harder and harder. Eventually I came across mindfulness and also Tara's teaching etc (through my therapist after a major depression/anxiety episode) and not only did it help me through depression, when my next cluster episode came I applied the same basic ideas. And while of course it didnt stop the pain, but eliminating that 2nd arrow helped a lot. Less resistance. Less suffering. And a sense at least that I was doing what I could out of presence and compassion. Its not like one can meditate or really apply direct mindfulness on the attacks, but there was some space between the pain and my own self-identity, if that makes any sense.

  • @danieldavidson2387

    @danieldavidson2387

    2 жыл бұрын

    From one migraine sufferer to another, it makes perfect sense.

  • @gillianmeadow3932

    @gillianmeadow3932

    Жыл бұрын

    B

  • @TaylorQuince19493

    @TaylorQuince19493

    Жыл бұрын

    How are you doing?

  • @TheWendable
    @TheWendable5 жыл бұрын

    My therapist introduced me to Tara Brach and I’m really glad she did, thank you Maggie W and thank you Tarra

  • @dianeibsen5994
    @dianeibsen59943 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Tara!💗You I and this talk/meditation was beautiful⚘hearing about your child birth experience was very helpful. You really said many wonderful things💖

  • @shirleysheridan3947
    @shirleysheridan3947 Жыл бұрын

    So helpful this morning. Thank you for sharing your wisdom

  • @marlenesmith6097
    @marlenesmith60979 жыл бұрын

    Tara Brach is so full of wonderful info..especially for us that have lived a life with a strong healthy body that is in its mid 60s difficult to navigate..i wish i would have found her many years ago instead of only a year ago. Love you Tara..thank you.

  • @lucefleurylevi4078

    @lucefleurylevi4078

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Marlene Smith Yes Its true! We need to encourage each other! Much love, sister lucy

  • @hopevalmadid3298

    @hopevalmadid3298

    8 жыл бұрын

    very well said💟

  • @tomato33
    @tomato338 жыл бұрын

    Namaste🙏🏼🌱🌺

  • @konstantinNeo
    @konstantinNeo2 жыл бұрын

    "We add "something" to it" I believe the term is: JUDGEMENT

  • @srikishankandakatla4183
    @srikishankandakatla41838 жыл бұрын

    Tara you are wonderful.. Your insights into life situations are so enlightening. Mr. Eck _ hart Tolle should watch ur videos.

  • @heatherbrown1880
    @heatherbrown18807 жыл бұрын

    thankyou.exellent

  • @lesleym3327
    @lesleym33279 жыл бұрын

    Pain x resistance = suffering. I get it, but how do I avoid resistance? I'm 45 with two young children, and I have terminal cancer. I have some physical pain (and I'm likely to have more in the future) and tons of emotional/mental pain. Tara, can you give a talk that speaks directly to my situation?

  • @BarbierNicholas

    @BarbierNicholas

    8 жыл бұрын

    Lesley M The emotional pain resides in the body. You explore the sensations there.

  • @lesleym3327

    @lesleym3327

    8 жыл бұрын

    nicb I don't know how to do that.

  • @BarbierNicholas

    @BarbierNicholas

    8 жыл бұрын

    Lesley M There's pain...where does it hurt? Go there...it has to be in the body. If you feel really disconnected from your body sensations, maybe try yoga or Qigong. Otherwise, body scanning, breathing into tension, etc.

  • @jcmrush

    @jcmrush

    8 жыл бұрын

    Stephen Levine's work is excellent and may be helpful. You may try Healing into Life and Death or his pain chapter/meditation in Who Dies. Both are wonderful books that helped me a lot with severe chronic pain and illness. Much of his work was with people with terminal cancer or AIDS. Blessings and good luck to you.

  • @kritikasharma6402

    @kritikasharma6402

    2 жыл бұрын

    Do check out Dr Joe Dispenza's work . Hope that helps

  • @clarkrector
    @clarkrector8 жыл бұрын

    Tara, the method of pendulation (sic?) may have overlap with the Pain Gate Theory - basically, when we physically touch the area around something that hurts, it makes it hurt less.

  • @rosanneweeks2415

    @rosanneweeks2415

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'd like to know more about pendulation and the theory you mention. Who can I read?

  • @juannunez5514
    @juannunez55148 жыл бұрын

    Went You Laugh You unbeliever Pretty ,,,Great Class" LADY "

  • @tishguerrero
    @tishguerrero2 жыл бұрын

    💕🌺🙏🏽

  • @lizxxx5543
    @lizxxx55437 жыл бұрын

    What about if suffering isnt optional for example in dosorders like depression or biological anxiety. I tried meditations & hypnosis but after a while my anxiety comes back. Its like already wired in me & i dont know how to cure it. I tried hard.

  • @berenicesansone482

    @berenicesansone482

    5 жыл бұрын

    My family is living something similar like you are living. Eckhart Tolle's interview with Larry King about unconsciousness and suffering as well as causing suffering to others help me a lot to snap out great sense of despair and anxiety. I didn't know how to get out even when I was accepting it. I was accepting the pain but unconscious at the same time. May loving presence Stay always with us! Namaste

  • @blueskies1237

    @blueskies1237

    2 жыл бұрын

    You say you tried it. Did you not stick with it? They may take years. Have you done any retreats? Have you tried a SSRI?

  • @lizxxx5543
    @lizxxx55437 жыл бұрын

    And what about ignorance? Like you know how most simply ignore stuff that make them angry or pain? I guess ignorance can work too?

  • @lanadelqueen9155

    @lanadelqueen9155

    3 жыл бұрын

    If you just forget about it its fine . the problem is when u force to ignore it , it just become stronger its like your fighting and not accepting it which'll create more suffering.

  • @margomiller1892
    @margomiller18927 жыл бұрын

    G

  • @selmo6376
    @selmo63768 жыл бұрын

    What does it mean "pandjalate " ( at 34:37 more or less ), how do you spell it ? thanks !

  • @Jen.K

    @Jen.K

    8 жыл бұрын

    +selmo gliksman Pendulation - the movement between regulation and dysregulation

  • @selmo6376

    @selmo6376

    8 жыл бұрын

    thanks a lot Jenna

  • @jackinthebox6143
    @jackinthebox61437 жыл бұрын

    This is a crock. Suffering is not an attitude. Here we go with the New Agers blaming the victim again. Suffering=pain + time. Suffering is not a choice. How can one not feel oppressed when one is in pain day in day out, month in month out and year in and year out? The second arrow happens by itself. You know it's wrong and no amount of mindfulness will change that.

  • @jackinthebox6143

    @jackinthebox6143

    7 жыл бұрын

    and to call it a 'dance' is really insulting to those whose lives have been ruined by it.

  • @marketingbureau

    @marketingbureau

    6 жыл бұрын

    She is saying the opposite of what you say. She says pain is inevitable. That means it`s not a choice, it`s legit to be a victim. What she is saying is to invite pain in, and being with it. Acknowleding it. Actually what you are asking for. When you invite it, you can dance with it. Who says dancing is only beautiful ? You can cry and hurt, and dance. The dancing is metaphor for staying close to the pain. Just as you want. That`s actually true love. Staying close to yourself in pain, instead of escaping. Suffering means that the source of the pain / a heartbreak for example) has stopped, but you will stay in the pain for ever, in stead of diving down in the pain, and figure out what it`s truely about: fear of loneliness and so on. I suffer too. It`s human to suffer. But I am trying to get out of suffering, by staying in the pain, dancing with it. Suffering can be a way of escaping the true pain.

  • @lanadelqueen9155

    @lanadelqueen9155

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@marketingbureau also by escaping it the thoughts comes back to the mind and you will always try to ignore it . The thoughts starts controling you and ruining so many life moments and u may start fearing those thoughts to comeback and u will fall victim with nothing to do against them all that can lead to start doubting yourself ur never sure if you can do this or that in the future bc of that anxiety that leads to more suffering and it grows with time you became more vulnerable. One of the best cures be present in this moment

  • @lauracahill6278

    @lauracahill6278

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jackinthebox6143 What she is talking about might be a difference between one person suffering, and another living well with the exact same diagnosis, MRI scan, pain.

  • @noonespecial4171

    @noonespecial4171

    4 ай бұрын

    This is Buddhism 2567 years old. New Age means instant gratification. You are angry because you want instant gratification