By James Gimian — 2016
Mindfulness is available to us in every moment, not just the special or precious ones. We just have to tune into it throughout the day.
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Our mindfulness practice is not about vanquishing our thoughts. It’s about becoming aware of the process of thinking so that we are not in a trance—lost inside our thoughts.
Whether it’s the communicating between different tribes or religions, ethnicities, racial groups or different generations, we need to listen. The more we understand, the less we fear—the less we fear, the more we trust and the more we trust, the more love can flow.
Tara Brach discusses RAIN, a technique she frequently teaches to her students and also uses in her own life.
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It’s hard to hang out with the truth of what we’re feeling. We may sincerely intend to pause and be mindful whenever a crisis arises or whenever we feel stuck and confused, but our conditioning to react, escape, or become possessed by emotion is very strong.
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RAIN is a Buddhist mindfulness tool that offers support for working with intense and difficult emotions.