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Guided Meditation: The Practice of RAIN with Tara Brach
Recognise. Allow. Investigate. Nurture. Four steps for when a feeling is too big to ignore and too heavy to carry alone. 🌧️
Who it's for
RAIN gives a step-by-step way to turn toward a difficult emotion rather than avoid it.
Feelings it meets
What it is
A guided meditation led by Tara Brach that takes the listener through RAIN (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture), a practice for meeting difficult emotions with mindfulness and compassion. It encourages staying open to challenging experiences instead of avoiding them, as a path back to presence. The version on tarabrach.com runs about 20 minutes.
Where to find it
YouTube, Tara Brach's official channel (free). A meditation with the same title is on her free podcast.
Before you start
Heads up: May surface painful emotions.
Age: Ages 14+
I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel;Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H., Canto 5
