By Diane Dreher — 2019
How compassion can help you relieve stress.
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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.
Our mindfulness practice is not about vanquishing our thoughts. It’s about becoming aware of the process of thinking so that we are not in a trance—lost inside our thoughts.
Tara Brach discusses RAIN, a technique she frequently teaches to her students and also uses in her own life.
RAIN is a Buddhist mindfulness tool that offers support for working with intense and difficult emotions.
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.
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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