Guided Reflection: The RAIN of Compassion – What Is It Like to Be You

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Guided Reflection: The RAIN of Compassion – What Is It Like to Be You - Compassion is hard wired in our organism, and can be cultivated. We have the capacity for affiliative care, to tune into each other and to hold each other in our hearts. Developing this innate potential is the hope of our world.

Using the acronym R-A-I-N (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture), this meditation offers guidance in mindfully attuning to the emotional experience of others and awakening our natural tenderness and care.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:06.7	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:30.0	So, I invite you to close your eyes for a moment.
0:47.3	And I'm going to be guiding you in a very brief taste of a meditation I call the reign of
0:56.4	compassion.
0:58.7	And I invite you to, on your own, take the time to drop into it more fully.
1:12.3	Sitting away that allows you to be relaxed and alert.
1:16.2	And scan your body, see if you can let go of any habitual tension you might be carrying.
1:29.3	Take a few full breaths and let your mind settle.
1:48.6	I'd like to invite you to scan through family members or friends who are close to you and
1:55.3	choose someone you know who's having a difficult time.
2:09.9	Connect with your intention to awaken compassion toward this person.
2:34.4	The beginning of reign is to simply recognize what most calls your attention about their challenges.
2:44.8	You might be remembering a mood that they're infrequently or some way they appear or tone
2:51.8	and a recent communications.
2:56.4	Just begin by letting yourself recognize, oh, this person's having a hard time.
3:02.5	This is how I know it.
3:13.3	And with that recognizing allow.
3:15.3	Just allow that experience to be just as it is.
3:22.0	It's like you're willingly pausing with the situation.
3:36.0	We begin to investigate what's it like being you with real gentleness.
3:44.9	So bring your curiosity and your interest as you attend more closely to what this person might be experiencing.
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