Reconnect With The Moment
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 14.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Psychologist and meditation teacher Tara Brach felt too stressed and busy to spend time with her elderly mother - until she had a lightning moment of realisation. Why couldn't she enjoy living in the moment with her beloved parent? What fears and insecurities were preventing her from devoting time to her mom?
Tara tells Dr Laurie Santos how she created RAIN - a mindfulness practise that allows us to Recognise, Allow, Investigate and Nurture our emotions. Once we consciously engage with those emotions, Tara argues, we can decide what is really important to us and our happiness.
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| 0:44.6 | Many of us have come to this particular new year with some pretty high hopes. |
| 0:48.5 | But in this episode of our New Year series, I want to introduce you to a really important idea |
| 0:53.4 | that maybe some of those grand New Year's plans, like finally losing the way achieving that perfect |
| 0:58.6 | beach body, filling that calendar and getting that promotion, maybe just maybe those things |
| 1:04.3 | aren't going to make you as happy as you think. Maybe they're even obstacles to truly finding happiness. |
| 1:10.9 | Our lying minds often lead us in the wrong direction, and a really common tendency is to fixate |
| 1:16.3 | on rigid improvement goals that actually end up compounding the real well-being problems we're facing. |
| 1:22.0 | Fortunately, there is a quick and simple practice to restore the balance, |
| 1:26.0 | and as we keep seeing in this mini-season, a better strategy probably involves being a little nicer |
| 1:31.6 | to ourselves and to others. So if you're ready to learn how to be happier through kindness, |
| 1:37.5 | then join me, Dr. Laurie Santos, as the Happiness Lab takes you out in the rain. |
| 1:52.9 | Rain. R-A-I-N. It stands for Recognize, Allow, Investigate, and Nurture. |
| 1:59.8 | It's a short acronym, but as you'll learn in this episode, it's a really powerful concept. |
| 2:04.2 | All year round, we try to cram our lives with things to do, goals to achieve, deadlines to meet, |
| 2:10.6 | places to be, accolades to win, and points to prove. And around the new year, these normal urges |
| 2:16.4 | often get a supercharge. If we're not careful, this flurry of activity and striving will not only |
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