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Feelings
Often, we try to push away difficult feelings and over time this creates resistance and further suffering.
Meditation Teacher Tara Brach created RAIN: an easy to remember tool to help you build a relationship with your feelings which you can practice anywhere.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
RAIN
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R - Recognise:
Ask yourself, "What is happening inside me right now?" (label the feeling or sensation)
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A - Allow:
Let the feeling be there without trying to fix or change it. Say silently, "It's okay, let me feel this"
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I - Investigate
Notice where the feeling lives in your body. Is it a tightness, a hollowness, heat?
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N - Nurture
What does this part of me need right now? A kind word, a deep breath, a hand on your heart?
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In therapy we can explore difficult feelings with mindful compassion, by bringing awareness to present moment experiences, and how they show up, you will find that a greater number of responses become available to you. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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