Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN
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Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN
Men are only free when they are doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving. • D. H. Lawrence
Tara Brach • Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN
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If you are in a resilient state, communication is flowing between all parts of your brain. (Dr. Siegel calls this state “integration.”) Say someone cuts you off while you’re driving your child to school. Your limbic system and brain stem react so fast you step on the brakes before you’re fully aware of what’s happening. Then you feel the surge of f
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Super important - to link to resilience in the other book if included in the practicum
How can I tell when I’m outside my window of tolerance? I know there’s a danger of re-traumatization, but sometimes I wonder if I’m just avoiding discomfort. If you have a history of trauma and/or experience PTSD symptoms like nightmares, being easily startled, and strong anxiety or panic, it’s best to assume that emotional discomfort or feelings o
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Recall that our survival brain is geared to remember painful experiences more readily than pleasant ones; this is our negativity bias. Even when we can’t recall painful events in detail (which often happens with trauma), they remain deep in implicit memory, shaping our expectations, beliefs, and mood—the way we experience ourselves and the world. I
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this at home! Hold up your hand and make a fist with your thumb against your palm and your four other fingers folded tightly down over it. This is your brain. Your face is in front of the knuckles, and the back of your hand is the back of your head. Now open your fingers again for a moment. Your wrist represents your spinal cord. Your lower palm is
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have a favorite saying posted in my office: “To be kind, you must swerve regularly from your path.”
Tara Brach • Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN
And when I get stuck in painful emotions, it brings me to a repeating realization, an insight that has profoundly changed my life: I have to love myself into healing.
Tara Brach • Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN
Everything we most value—love, creativity, play, beauty, wisdom—can only be experienced here and now. Yet it’s so easy to race through life, forgetting that “we have just these precious moments.”