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How to Go Through Life with Love in Your Heart

By Eve Ekman — 2020

A Q&A with Tara Brach about offering radical compassion to yourself and others.

Read on greatergood.berkeley.edu

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Reaching Out for Compassion

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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Tara Brach’s Non-Radical Approach to ‘Radical Compassion’

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.

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Attention: The Most Basic Form of Love

By paying attention, we let ourselves be touched by life, and our hearts naturally become more open and engaged.

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Feeling Overwhelmed? Remember RAIN: Four Steps to Stop Being So Hard on Ourselves

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.

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Radical Self-Compassion: Loving Ourselves into Healing with the Practice of RAIN

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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RAIN Dissolves Limiting Beliefs

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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