Coaching practices for Rain Meditation Tara Brach S Four Step Practice at Work

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  • 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
  • My calm only lasts as long as the cushion
  • I calm down for a minute with my eyes closed, but the second I open them and step back into the room I snap right back into the same tight, tunnel-visioned reactivity
  • I can never find a separate block of time to practice, but I walk to the car and the train and to lunch every day on total autopilot

Practices that may help

  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Radical Acceptance, Made Practical
    Radical acceptance, taught by Tara Brach and rooted in dialectical behavior therapy, means fully acknowledging reality as it is — including pain you cannot change — instead of fighting it. The point is not approval or giving up; it is to stop the extra suffering that resistance adds on top of the original pain. Acceptance-based skills are well-established in clinical practice (DBT, ACT); RAIN is a practitioner framework for applying them.
  5. Work as practice (samu)
    Bring full, wholehearted attention to ordinary tasks, treating activity itself as meditation.
    Zen Practice (Zazen and Beyond)
  6. Expand: widen awareness back to body and situation
    After the breath anchor, expand attention outward to include the whole body and the surrounding moment.
    The Three-Minute Breathing Space
  7. Everyday integration — using commute and errand walks as practice
    Transform a portion of routine walking into meditation by choosing one formal practice element to maintain for the duration.
    Walking Meditation, Made Practical
  8. Mantra in motion — using repetition during walking and exercise
    Carry a mantra into movement — synchronized with footsteps or the rhythm of exercise — to sustain meditative quality outside formal sits.
    Mantra Meditation, Made Practical
  9. Effortlessness (the “no concentration” principle)
    Let the technique be passive and easy — TM’s central claim is that effort is counterproductive.
    Transcendental Meditation (TM)
  10. The three-minute breathing space
    A short, three-step mini-practice to step out of autopilot in the middle of a stressful day.
    Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

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