By Eve Ekman — 2020
A Q&A with Tara Brach about offering radical compassion to yourself and others.
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At a weekend workshop I led, one of the participants, Marian, shared her story about the shame and guilt that had tortured her.
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Through the acronym RAIN (Recognize-Allow-Investigate-Nurture) we can awaken the qualities of mature compassion—an embodied, mindful presence, active caring, and an all-inclusive heart.
By paying attention, we let ourselves be touched by life, and our hearts naturally become more open and engaged.
In order to flower, self-compassion depends on honest, direct contact with our own vulnerability. Compassion fully blossoms when we actively offer care to ourselves.
Many years ago, I read a moving article by a hospice caregiver who had accompanied thousands of people during their final weeks. One phrase, in particular, has stayed with me.
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One of the great blocks to realizing the gold of who we are is our conviction that something is wrong with me.
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