The following reflection is led by Tara Brock.

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We practice, and when thinking sticky, which it often is, you keep getting sucked back into the same narrative, your top 10 hits, you know, it goes.

When it's sticky, how we can use the acronym RAIN to reestablish an embodied presence.

And as a reminder, that means you just recognize what's going on.

Okay, worrying, worrying, allowed.

You have space for the life that's here. Just give space. Don't judge yourself for thinking.

Then investigate RAI, investigate, investigate in the body.

And just to say again, I like to keep repeating this.

Investigate for some people means think about it. That's not what it means in this.

In rain, it means investigate in an embodied way.

Find out where do you feel it in your body?

Is it pressure? Is there a sense of squeeze? Is there a sense of flow?

What is it like in your body?

Investigate the end of rain, and the version that I've been teaching much more recently, is to nourish with kindness, with compassion, which means whatever you find.

And often it's vulnerable or raw to bring a quality of kindness to that.

After you've done the steps of rain, recognizing and allowing and investigating, which means really contacting and nourishing,

then just to rest in your immediate experience.

And there's in that resting, you'll notice what's called non-identification.

That after doing rain, you're not so identified with what's going on.

More there's a resting in a awakefulness, an openness that's free.

It can be a matter of degree, but that's the fruit of rain.

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