RAIN Tara Brach Audio: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices
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About 2 minutes
Try it here: two minutes with the feeling
After you listen, spend two minutes with one feeling without trying to fix it.
Pick one feeling from what you heard, then start the timer.
Practices that may help
- 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. - 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 - 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. - N — Nurture with self-compassion
Offer the part that is suffering what it most needs — care, acknowledgment, reassurance — as you would a dear friend.
RAIN Meditation: Tara Brach’s Four-Step Practice - 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 - I — Investigate with gentle, curious attention
Bring kind curiosity to the emotion: Where is it in the body? What does it most need?
RAIN Meditation: Tara Brach’s Four-Step Practice - Gathas — using brief verses to sustain walking mindfulness
Silently recite a short verse synchronized with your steps to anchor present-moment attention throughout the walk.
Walking Meditation, Made Practical - Noticing the inner voice
Recognize the constant mental narrator — and the fact that you are the one hearing it.
The Untethered Soul, In Practice - Quieting the commentary track
Notice the layer of continuous inner commentary on experience and practise resting in the experience itself.
Pu: Taoist Simplicity and the Uncarved Block - Lectio: reading slowly and receptively
Read a short passage slowly, listening for a word or phrase that strikes you.
Lectio Divina: Sacred Reading
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
- Whatever I’m feeling, I pile on top of it
- 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
- There’s this feeling sitting in me and I can feel it in my body, but I don’t really get what it’s about or what it wants from me, and I want to get curious about it instead of just analyzing myself.
- Watching my breath on a walk feels too thin to hold my attention and my thoughts just talk right over it
Related concerns
- What Does Rain Stand For Tara Brach
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.
- Light Rain Meditation Tara Brach
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 Method Tara
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 Method Tara Brach
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 Practice Tara Brach
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 Recognize Accept Investigate
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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