By Christopher Bergland — 2018
Loving-kindness meditation and compassion training boost empathic resilience.
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We are conditioned to avoid suffering – our own and others. By pulling away, we also contract our heart and disconnect from our innate capacity for compassion.
The acronym RAIN – Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture – guides us in bringing mindfulness and compassion to difficult emotions. With practice, we can find our way home to open-hearted presence in the midst of whatever arises.
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Clinical psychologist and mindfulness teacher Tara Brach leads a guided meditation to help you take a sacred pause and release tension.
This meditation guides us in collecting and quieting the mind with the breath, and then relaxing all effort, and simply resting in what is.
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Tara Brach is an in-the-trenches teacher whose work counters today's ever-increasing onslaught of news, conflict, demands, and anxieties—stresses that leave us rushing around on auto-pilot and cut off from the presence and creativity that give our lives meaning.