Meditation: Nourishing Happiness with RAIN

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 22 July 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Meditation: Nourishing Happiness with RAIN - While RAIN is regularly used for untangling suffering, it is also a powerful tool for deepening our access to positive states like happiness, gratitude, wonder and love. This meditation guides us in nourishing the goodness that is an intrinsic part of living and essential in realizing our full aliveness. The practice ends with a poem by Naomi Shahib Nye.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:05.8	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:35.8	It's just as important to open to the moments of goodness in your life as the moments of
0:49.8	suffering.
0:51.8	Tick-n-a-dhan was many of you know Vietnamese meditation master.
0:57.2	He said, it's not enough to suffer.
0:59.8	You also have to touch peace and happiness and inner youth.
1:05.5	So that's all to say that we're going to be doing a short meditation that's really
1:12.2	how to nourish happiness, nourish our hearts with rain.
1:18.3	Please find a comfortable position and you may already be in it, but do whatever adjustments
1:25.2	allow you to feel perhaps that you're sitting in a way that's alert, you're upright.
1:32.1	But there's also some ease, you're comfortable.
1:41.1	You might let your attention go inward.
1:50.3	Take some moments to settle with the breath.
1:54.5	You might sense as the breath comes in that you're receiving this life breath opening to
2:03.5	receive.
2:04.9	Just feel it, enter your body, enter the cells, nourishing.
2:13.4	And then with the out breath, the sense of releasing, letting go, whatever's not needed.
2:19.3	It's kind of like a balloon opening to receive, expanding.
2:27.8	And then the deflating releasing, letting go.
2:35.0	And notice that you can really relax with the breath.
2:38.2	It's a relaxing open and a relaxing as you release.
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