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About the Course

If we are suffering, we’re believing something that is limiting and untrue. 

Many of us have a cluster of core beliefs that bind us in fear and feelings of deficiency. These beliefs lead to harmful habits—addictive behaviors, conflicts, avoiding risks—that get in the way of our productivity, our ability to enjoy intimacy with others and a creative, happy life. 

This course shows how you can shine a light of mindful awareness on limiting beliefs, and taste the freedom that’s possible when you loosen their grip. 

Whether you believe deep inside that you are unlovable or unworthy, unseen or misunderstood, your beliefs disconnect you from your own being and from the world.

Suffering is a call to attention, your call to investigate the truth of your beliefs.  For a parent, the call might be the stranglehold of worry about a child’s welfare. For a business leader, it might be stress about a volatile market (or workplace). For a musician, it might be the disabling terror that accompanies performance. For a social activist, it might be despair in the face of seemingly endless injustice. 

Wherever we feel most endangered, most separate, most ashamed or stuck: That’s where we need to shine the light of mindfulness to become more free.

Releasing Negative Beliefs & Thought Patterns: 

  • Contains 22 video lessons of 5–15 minutes each. 
  • All videos are closed captioned and transcripts provided.
  • An online, self-paced course, you will retain lifetime access.


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Releasing Negative Beliefs & Thought-Patterns: Using Mindfulness to Break Out of the Trance

Tara Brach

Tara Brach is a meditation teacher, psychologist and author of several books including international bestselling Radical Acceptance, Radical Compassion and Trusting the Gold. Her popular weekly podcast on emotional healing and spiritual awakening is downloaded 3 million times a month. Tara is founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington and has been active in bringing meditation into schools, prisons and underserved populations. Together with Jack Kornfield, she has co-founded Cloud Sangha and the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program, which serves participants from 74 countries around the world. Tara’s teachings blend Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practices, mindful attention to our inner life, and a full, compassionate engagement with our world.

Course Curriculum

    1. Getting Started

    2. Introduction and Overview

    1. Lecture 1 - Thought-Trances

    2. Lecture 2 - Why We Hold Beliefs Which Cause Suffering

    3. Lecture 3 - Practice Exercise: Getting Curious About Beliefs

    4. Lecture 4 - Hanging On to Beliefs Is Alienating

    1. Lecture 1 – Mental Maps

    2. Lecture 2 – Loosening the Grip

    3. Lecture 3 – Freeing Up Creativity

    4. Lecture 4 – What Stops Us from Letting Go?

    5. Lecture 5 – Practice Exercise: Free of That Fist

    1. Lecture 1 – Storytelling Mind

    2. Lecture 2 – Fearfulness

    3. Lecture 3 – Unconsciousness

    4. Lecture 4 – Shining a Light

    5. Lecture 5 – Practice Exercise: Awareness of the Self-Story

    1. Lecture 1 – Bringing Deeply-Embedded Stories “Above the Line”

    2. Lecture 2 – Case Study #1: Matthew Finds the Strength

    3. Lecture 3 – Case Study #2: A Troubled Marriage

    4. Lecture 4 – Practice Exercise: The Blessing of the Path

    1. Lecture 1 – Anxious World

    2. Lecture 2 – Deep Grooves in the Brain

    3. Lecture 3 - Case Study #3: Tara

    4. Lecture 4 – Case Study #4: “I’ll Never Be Happy”

About this course

  • $49.99
  • 28 lessons
  • 2.5 hours of video content

Releasing Negative Beliefs & Thought-Patterns

Using Mindfulness to Break Out of the Trance

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