Rain Meditation

Rain

A PRACTICE OF RADICAL COMPASSION

Recognise

Recognising means consciously acknowledging, in any given moment, the thoughts, feelings and behaviours that are affecting us.

Allow

Allowing means letting the thoughts, emotions, sensations, or feelings we have recognised simply be there, without trying to fix or avoid anything.

Investigate

To investigate, call on your natural curiosity-the desire to know the truth- and direct a more focused attention to your present experience.

Nurture

Nurture by sensing what the hurting place inside you most needs, and then offering some gesture of active care that might address this need.

After the rain

When you have completed the active steps of RAIN, it’s important to just notice your own presence and rest in that wakeful, tender space of awareness, no longer imprisoned in any limiting sense of self.