By Paul Gilbert, Hannah Gilbert — 2020
Acting compassionately isn’t just about kindness, but about wanting to halt suffering. Right now, we must be wise—and set a template for the future.
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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.
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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