Have You Heard of Mindfulness?

Mindfulness is moment-by-moment awareness of thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment, characterized mainly by "acceptance" - attention to thoughts and feelings without judging whether they are right or wrong. Mindfulness focuses the human brain on what is being sensed at each moment. (The Greater Good Science Center)

There are many ways to practice mindfulness.  One way is represented by the acronym RAIN.  RAIN new mindfulness tool that offers support for working with intense and difficult emotions.  It emerged relatively recently amongst Buddhist teachers and has been introduced into therapeutic practice by individuals such Tara Brach.  It stands for:

R            Recognize what is happening
A            Allow life to be just as it is
I              Investigate inner experience with kindness
N            Non-Identification

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