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RAIN provides a way out of trance through what I call a “U-turn” in attention. We are taking a U-turn whenever we shift our attention from an outward fixation—another person, our thoughts, or our emotionally driven stories about what’s going on—to the real, living experience in our body.
Tara Brach • Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN
Innate Goodness Practice › Close your eyes. Seating yourself in a comfortable position, place your hands in your lap or high on your thighs. Take a few deep belly breaths inhaling and exhaling as thoroughly as possible. Feel your feet on the ground while noticing the support of the floor in the building you are in. See if you can feel the support o
... See moreStephen Snyder • Demystifying Awakening: A Buddhist Path of Realization, Embodiment, and Freedom
Although the trance of feeling separate and unworthy is an inherent part of our conditioning as humans, so too is our capacity to awaken. We free ourselves from the prison of the trance as we stop the war against ourselves and, instead, learn to relate to our lives with a wise and compassionate heart. This book is about the process of embracing our
... See moreTara Brach • Radical Acceptance
You are in a state of presence (above the line) when you’re aware of the blaming thoughts and physical experience of anger. During these moments, in addition to the anger, there’s a sense of witnessing the anger and some choice in how you respond. In contrast, you’re in trance if you’re lost inside the cycling thoughts and feelings of blame, with n
... See moreTara Brach • Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN
The way out of our cage begins with accepting absolutely everything about ourselves and our lives, by embracing with wakefulness and care our moment-to-moment experience. By accepting absolutely everything, what I mean is that we are aware of what is happening within our body and mind in any given moment, without trying to control or judge or pull
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For example, doing any practice is an act of kindness toward yourself; you’re treating yourself like you matter—which is especially important and healing if you have felt as a child or an adult that others haven’t respected or cared about you. Further, you’re being active rather than passive—which increases optimism, resilience, and happiness, and
... See moreRick Hanson • Just One Thing: Developing a Buddha Brain One Simple Practice at a Time
As your old emotional reactivity recedes, your attention becomes more stable. Instead of flitting away into endless reactions, it stays more easily in the present. Without a thousand unintentional side trips, all of life becomes easier. This stabilizing of attention is immensely valuable — in fact, it is the goal of many meditation and attention pr
... See moreSteven Kessler • The 5 Personality Patterns: Your Guide to Understanding Yourself and Others and Developing Emotional Maturity
Too often so-called insights into the nature of our illness or a reconstruction of childhood trauma may simply be a crutch that confirm a belief in our intrinsic infirmity rather than give rise to the strength to trust our own resiliency in the face of our life as it is. Zen offers us a counterbalancing insight into our essential wholeness, a whole
... See moreBarry Magid • Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Guide
When I talk about the suffering of unworthiness in my meditation classes, I frequently notice students nodding their heads, some of them in tears. They may be realizing for the first time that the shame they feel is not their own personal burden, that it is felt by many.