The Three Steps of Letting Go, with Tara Brach

The Three Steps of Letting Go, with Tara Brach [2022-06-15]

A wonderful inquiry is, “What is between me and openhearted presence.” This talk explores the profound healing and transformation that arises when we release the blocks to our natural and loving awareness.

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With thanks and love, Tara

[madelinespooner]

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. -Rumi

[margotdarling]

In my experience, when the tears come, I know it’s happening. Tears of acceptance, self compassion, allowing the grief to come up and out. The relief I feel after crying is so deep. Even allowing myself to cry has been a process of acceptance. Thank you Tara and all the teachers who have brought me towards allowing myself to feel whatever Is there. This practice is simple but not easy. Lots of love to all the brave souls on this path ❤️‍🩹

[sole]

Yes obsessive thoughts make me feel ill and tired!!

[paige]

I let go. I let go of what I thought my life would look like and who I think I am. I let go of the idea of the "Pinterest life" I've always thought I would have. I let go of my dream. I let go of who I thought I was or who I thought I should've been. I let go of everything I wasn't meant to have and hold. The perfect marriage, the pretty house, the children, the great career, pretty clothes, and the white picket-fence dream. For years I've had way too firm of a grip on circumstances and I was clenching onto other people trying to chase them to love me and I am exhausted. I let go. I am free. I fully accept my reality. I am all I need. I love who I really am and who I'm really meant to be. I honor her.

I take it moment by moment and I only see what is right in front of me. Taking baby steps. Sending love to this world and to all ❤

[NessSantiago]

I’m going through a very hard breakup and I found this message just when I needed it most. I felt a crushing pain in my chest caused by the anxiety of loosing a person I love deeply. I listened to this talk all day long until I started feeling a decrease in the pressure. It is a life long journey just allowing life to happen with less attachment. Thank you Tara 🙏🌹

[buddhaway]

One thing I have to practice letting go of is my disappointment that Tara Brach's videos are not among the most watched on the internet! I mean, I love a good cat video as much as the next person, but the profound possibility for suffering-reducing life change through the practices that Tara shares, combined with the very high degree of user-friendliness of her presentation, would make these universally watched and used in a sane, non-delusional world, imo.
Thanks Tara!

[whitebirchtarot]

I struggle with issues of control constantly because I’m afraid. I lack trust in the world and in myself. Thank you so much for this video. I’m going to listen to it many times. I found it very helpful. Thank you. 💕

[redguru]

Letting go of control is the best thing you can ever do

[AmandaShawamieloushaw]

For anyone wanting to go to the letting go meditation time stamp is 29.12 😊 thank you Tara for this, truly very helpful wisdom 😊🙏

[ellenful]

Letting go is a selfless act of love. It is painful and beautiful at the same time.

[dianeschroeder]

Dear Tara, I just discovered you when this video popped up. Thank you for your gentle teaching as I continue letting go of a very hurtful breakup, which began in 1997 after 21 years of marriage. Your steps are very helpful. Now, at 68, I am appreciating more and more the peace of being in this moment, in this breath and in this heartbeat. 🙏 Namaste. ❤

[allanreyes]

Step 1-- the letting go of thoughts--
We will be wiser if we Let Go of thoughts of "should be this" and "should be that."
These thoughts keep us trapped because they negate what's true and real--
So, Release all the "shoulds" because those "shoulds" keep us trapped in mind-fueled fantasies and suffering.

Step 2--accept what is. The opening of "Let it be" gives us freedom to be with what is, let it be, live in reality of what is.

Step 3--meditate on Love. Practicing meditation on the goodness, kindness, love that inspires the virtues and actions of bodhisattvas.

❤thank you for the helpful advice 🙏

[annaska]

I pray that one day I will find in me this kindness, softness, gentleness that you have ❤️🙏

[margarettaylor]

Let go of the way you thought life would unfold and be open to presence-just let it be!

[suem]

I'm not sure how this came up on my feed, and it was almost an unconscious selection to watch this, but it was exactly the answer I needed to a question I recently had. Thank you for your calm and wise presence, your compassion, and for kindly sharing your insights. I feel they will be so helpful to enable healing, and a moving forward. Many blessings and much gratitude to you. 🧡

[catherinebridges]

Thank you. I suffer so much that my ego says celebrate drinking alcohol do drugs have sex I deserve to celebrate and suddenly I am not living at all at hate myself. So undoing instead of letting go really helps me know I can be human and I will feel like I can succeed and be in joy. 🙏

[sandylynn]

Your voice and words brought me so much peace today. Thank you

[Eeriekid]

I just love your spirit. You're like my spiritual mom. When I need comforting I play your videos and over time I've found myself using your phrases and tone of voice to speak to myself to calm myself.

[carolpridgeon]

My dear Lady, every time I listen to you I find myself grieving....watching your face, seeing your eyes fill with tender tears, is always so healing. Every time you tell these storeis of the healing of others you are so affected. Your tender heart sings out in compassion and it shows. Thank you, Dear One, for all that you have worked through to reflect the heart that has always been there. Namaste'

[elijahjude]

It’s ironic that I found this video today because I decided to let go of trying to hold onto somehow wanting to be a part of peoples lives that are not making me a priority in their lives and it was so painful and today I decided that I’m tired I’m exhausted and the love that I was giving them I’m gonna focus on my dogs and give it all to them and when I realized that I could do that and just shift the love keep the love that shifted in another way it madeIt made me happy and my friend told me yesterday she said go where you’re appreciated and go where you’re wanted and that really struck a chord