By Toni Bernhard — 2015
Toni Bernhard has a mindfulness exercise for bringing compassion to feelings of loneliness.
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CLEAR ALL
To be without a reference point is the ultimate loneliness. It is also called enlightenment.
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At a weekend workshop I led, one of the participants, Marian, shared her story about the shame and guilt that had tortured her.
Through the acronym RAIN (Recognize-Allow-Investigate-Nurture) we can awaken the qualities of mature compassion—an embodied, mindful presence, active caring, and an all-inclusive heart.
Tara Brach discusses RAIN, a technique she frequently teaches to her students and also uses in her own life.
RAIN is a Buddhist mindfulness tool that offers support for working with intense and difficult emotions.
In order to flower, self-compassion depends on honest, direct contact with our own vulnerability. Compassion fully blossoms when we actively offer care to ourselves.
One of the great blocks to realizing the gold of who we are is our conviction that something is wrong with me.
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