The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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This is a meditation using the acronym RAIN.

Recognize, allow, investigate, and nurture.

Bringing mindfulness and compassion to an area of difficulty in our life.

So invite you to begin by paying attention to the movement of the breath and sensing

the possibility of relaxing with the breath.

You might sense the in-breath being like a balloon that's inflating, just filling yourself,

receiving, healing, prana life.

And the out breath of releasing, letting go.

As you breathe, you might sense that there are areas in your body that are wanting to

let go, that naturally can release right now.

Just letting go in the shoulders, softening the hands, relaxing the belly, relaxing the

heart.

And you're knowing to relax with the movement of the breath.

The mind drifts with thoughts and you notice that just relaxing open.

Your senses be awake and gently landing, resting again with the breath.

It's from this wakeful presence that you can scan your life now and sense if there's

a place of difficulty that's bringing up challenging emotions.

Maybe an illness or something going on in a relationship, conflict, an addictive behavior,

something going on at work that is triggering feelings of fear, or hurt, or shame, sadness.

Bringing to mind a situation that in some way brings up reactive emotion that you'd

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