Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN
One of the most beloved and trusted mindfulness teachers in America offers a lifeline for difficult times: the RAIN meditation, which awakens our courage and heart
Tara Brach is an in-the-trenches teacher whose work counters today's ever-increasing onslaught of news, conflict, demands, and anxieties--stresses that leave us rushing around on auto-pilot and cut off from the presence and creativity that give our lives meaning.
In this heartfelt and deeply practical book, she offers an antidote: an easy-to-learn four-step meditation that quickly loosens the grip of difficult emotions and limiting beliefs. Each step in the meditation practice (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) is brought to life by memorable stories shared by Tara and her students as they deal with feelings of overwhelm, loss, and self-aversion, with painful relationships, and past trauma--and as they discover step-by-step the sources of love, forgiveness, compassion, and deep wisdom alive within all of us.
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Tara Brach is an in-the-trenches teacher whose work counters today's ever-increasing onslaught of news, conflict, demands, and anxieties--stresses that leave us rushing around on auto-pilot and cut off from the presence and creativity that give our lives meaning.
In this heartfelt and deeply practical book, she offers an antidote: an easy-to-learn four-step meditation that quickly loosens the grip of difficult emotions and limiting beliefs. Each step in the meditation practice (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) is brought to life by memorable stories shared by Tara and her students as they deal with feelings of overwhelm, loss, and self-aversion, with painful relationships, and past trauma--and as they discover step-by-step the sources of love, forgiveness, compassion, and deep wisdom alive within all of us.
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So this book is about a meditation/mindfulness practice that (following its acronym) is four steps. The author lightly backs up the practice with some proven neuroscience (I wanted more... GIVE ME MORE SCIENCE!!!!) and quite a few anecdotes about her own practice and students she's taught/mentored.
The layout of the book seems to be all over the place. With just four steps, I understand you can't really bury the lead, so you get them right of the bat. And this is some potentially heavy emotional stuff that's being dealt with. You get the steps so fast, that if you are trying to practice along, it can be infuriating. Tying the whole system together doesn't actually happen until the end of the second part.
For me, I felt like the author could have spent more time on helping readers get through some of the stages who might not have a strong background in meditation. OH! Yeah, this book IS NOT FOR BEGINNERS. You need to have a comprehension of mindfulness practice prior, otherwise the jargon alone will have you wondering what is going on.
The book is great. Chapter 10, for me, the most applicable and equally heart wrenching. Outside of the practice, she has wonderful insights on compassion and empathy. I'm definitely glad that I've read it.
I rate rounding up (would be a 3.5).
The layout of the book seems to be all over the place. With just four steps, I understand you can't really bury the lead, so you get them right of the bat. And this is some potentially heavy emotional stuff that's being dealt with. You get the steps so fast, that if you are trying to practice along, it can be infuriating. Tying the whole system together doesn't actually happen until the end of the second part.
For me, I felt like the author could have spent more time on helping readers get through some of the stages who might not have a strong background in meditation. OH! Yeah, this book IS NOT FOR BEGINNERS. You need to have a comprehension of mindfulness practice prior, otherwise the jargon alone will have you wondering what is going on.
The book is great. Chapter 10, for me, the most applicable and equally heart wrenching. Outside of the practice, she has wonderful insights on compassion and empathy. I'm definitely glad that I've read it.
I rate rounding up (would be a 3.5).
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