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Feelings
Often, we try to push away difficult feelings and over time this creates resistance and further suffering. You may have heard the phrase "what we resist persists". Feelings are to be experienced, rising and falling into the background of our lives.
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?
RAIN: a practice of radical compassion and other meditations and talks to support your wellbeing
Feelings are to be experienced, rising and falling into the background of our lives. Feelings can also offer us a source of information and guidance in how to live a more authentic and fulfilling life which can be made sense of in therapy.
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