Tag: Tara Brach

  • Stop holding your breath

    Stop holding your breath

    I didn’t realize I was holding my breath until I started to practice deep breathing. This was years ago, before meditation and yoga started to become so popular. Back then, I had not undergone the requisite training for having a baby, which included timed breathing. So I was more inclined to literally hold my breath…

  • Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing

    A couple of years ago, one of my New Years resolutions was to start meditating. Even back then, everyone seemed to be talking about the amazingly restorative powers of meditation. But how was I going to accomplish this? The first quarter is a very heavy travel season for me at work. Almost immediately after the…