Coaching practices for After Rain Meditation Rest
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- When I finally work through a hard feeling I rush straight back into doing and it all snaps shut again
- Something just got to me in the middle of my day and I can feel myself reacting, but I’ve only got a couple of minutes before I have to keep going
- After I’ve read and reflected and prayed, I jump straight back into the noise of the day because just sitting in silence feels like doing nothing
- Every time I sit quietly and let my body relax I just drift off and fall asleep
- A few minutes into sitting and I’m fogged-over and heavy, my head nodding, fighting to stay awake
Practices that may help
- After RAIN: resting in natural, open awareness
After the four steps, rest in the open awareness that remains — not returning immediately to doing.
RAIN Meditation: Tara Brach’s Four-Step Practice - RAIN Meditation: Tara Brach’s Four-Step Practice
RAIN is a four-step mindfulness practice developed by Tara Brach that stands for Recognize, Allow, Investigate, and Nurture. It is designed to meet difficult emotions — fear, shame, grief, anger — with mindful awareness rather than avoidance or overwhelm. The steps draw on mechanisms shared with acceptance-based therapies (ACT, MSC, MBCT); the RAIN sequence itself is practitioner-developed and not yet independently trialed as a protocol. - Mini-RAIN: a 2-minute version for mid-day use
Apply the four steps rapidly in 2 minutes to break emotional reactivity in the middle of a difficult moment.
RAIN Meditation: Tara Brach’s Four-Step Practice - Contemplatio: resting in wordless presence
Release words and rest in simple, open presence — the fruit and culmination of the practice.
Lectio Divina: Sacred Reading - Settling into restful alertness
Allow the body to reach deep rest while the mind stays quietly awake.
Transcendental Meditation (TM) - Working with sloth-and-torpor (thina-middha)
Dullness and sleepiness in meditation require energising antidotes, not more settling.
The Five Hindrances: Diagnosing and Working with Meditation Obstacles - Balance torpor and agitation
When the mind dulls, energise it; when it races, settle it.
Shamatha: The Buddhist Practice of Calm Abiding - Seek both green and blue space
Include water settings, not only greenery, in your restorative time.
Attention Restoration in Nature - Continuous noting — extending the practice into daily activity
Maintain a running background note on mental events throughout ordinary tasks, sustaining the observer stance informally.
Noting Practice, Made Practical - Silent mantra repetition
Silently repeat an assigned mantra, letting it become faint and effortless rather than forcing focus.
Transcendental Meditation (TM)
Related concerns
- Mini Rain Meditation
Apply the four steps rapidly in 2 minutes to break emotional reactivity in the middle of a difficult moment.
Mini-RAIN: a 2-minute version for mid-day use
- Alert Resting State Meditation
Dullness and sleepiness in meditation require energising antidotes, not more settling.
Working with sloth-and-torpor (thina-middha)
- How To Prepare For Meditation Retreat
Understand the role of structured retreat periods in deepening breath counting beyond what daily practice alone achieves.
Group and retreats — the Zen sesshin context
- How To Recover In Meditation
Treat losing count not as failure but as the most useful moment in the practice — the instant you catch mind-wandering.
The restart — losing count as the practice
- Rain Meditation
RAIN is a four-step mindfulness practice developed by Tara Brach that stands for Recognize, Allow, Investigate, and Nurture. It is designed to meet difficult emotions — fear, shame, grief, anger — with mindful awareness rather than avoidance or overwhelm. The steps draw on mechanisms shared with acceptance-based therapies (ACT, MSC, MBCT); the RAIN sequence itself is practitioner-developed and not yet independently trialed as a protocol.
- Rain Meditation Steps
RAIN is a four-step mindfulness practice developed by Tara Brach that stands for Recognize, Allow, Investigate, and Nurture. It is designed to meet difficult emotions — fear, shame, grief, anger — with mindful awareness rather than avoidance or overwhelm. The steps draw on mechanisms shared with acceptance-based therapies (ACT, MSC, MBCT); the RAIN sequence itself is practitioner-developed and not yet independently trialed as a protocol.
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