Radical Compassion

Name: Radical Compassion
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ISBN: 9780525522829

Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN

By Tara Brach

Tara Brach teaches the RAIN practice—Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture—as a four-step method for meeting difficult emotions, negative self-beliefs, shame, and fear with mindful attention rather than avoidance or reactivity. Each step is explained through stories from her students and clinical work, and later chapters extend the practice to forgiveness, seeing the goodness in others, and compassion in relationships. The approach is grounded in Buddhist teaching and designed for use in daily life, not just formal meditation.

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Simply put, RAIN awakens mindfulness and compassion, applies them to the places where we are stuck, and untangles emotional suffering.

Instead of avoiding your feelings, instead of lashing out in anger or turning on yourself with self-judgment, you are responding to life with more clarity and graciousness, kindness, and ease.

Most are rooted in interpretations of reality we formed in early childhood, and we rely on them for guidance and protection, They tell us who we are and what we can expect from ourselves, from others, and from the world.

Attachment will still arise; it just won't run our lives and block the flow of love. The more we can trust the loving inside ourselves, the more we can connect with others from a place of wholeness, spontaneity, and authentic care.

Imagine how we'd help each other live true to ourselves, how we'd comfort and accompany each other, how we're celebrate and create beauty together, how we'd awaken together and bring our collective care to our earth and to all beings everywhere.

Concepts

RAIN. Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture
Recognize. what is going on inside me, focus your attention on whatever thoughts, emotions, feelings, or sensations you are experiencing right now.
Allow. what was happening by breathing and letting be, asking you to "let be" whatever thoughts, emotions, feelings, or sensations you have just recognized,
Investigate. what felt most difficult, bring an interested and kind attention to your experience.
Nurture. send a gentle message inward, directly to the anxious part
Confirmation Bias. focus on information that matches or reienforces our existing beliefs.
Pause For Presence. Stop what you are doing, become still, take several deep breaths, take a moment to Recognize and Allow whatever emotions or thoughts are present.
Say Yes To What's Here. Being accepting of current discomfort and unpleasantness, meeting your edge, any sense of reactivitiy or inner conflict, and softening.
Turn Towards Love. Become aware of feeling lonely, depressed, anxious, then give yourself permission to reconnect with love, intentionally turn towards love, expressoing it and letting it in.
Rest In Awareness. Set your intention to rest in awareness at times when you are calm and quietly present, close your eyes, be still, notice thoughts, sensations, surrounding.
Trusting The Gold. Revere the gold within all beings, remmeber even when our lives seem most lonely, we're never on this path alone.

Chapters

Preface. Loving Ourselves into Healing
Part 1. How Attention Heals
Chapter 1. RAIN Creates a Clearing
Chapter 2. RAIN Says Yes to Life
Chapter 3. RAIN Reveals Your True Self
Part 2. Bringing RAIN to Your Inner Life
Chapter 4. Releasing Negative Self-Beliefs
Chapter 5. Freeing Yourself from Shame
Chapter 6. Awakening from the Grip of Fear
Chapter 7. Discovering Your Deepest Longing
Part 3. RAIN and Your Relationships
Chapter 8. A Forgiving RAIN
Chapter 9. Seeing the Goodness
Chapter 10. The RAIN of Compassion
Chapter 11. Four Remembrances
Appendix 1. Evolution of the Acronym RAIN
Appendix 2. RAIN Partners - Practicing with Others

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Topics

Radical Compassion, Mindfulness, Compassion, Meditation, Buddhism, RAIN, Wakefulness, Openness, Tenderness, Confirmation Bias, Forgiveness

Published

December 31, 2019

Publisher

Penguin

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