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  • Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN
  • Written by: Tara Brach
  • Narrated by: Tara Brach
  • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (63 ratings)

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Radical Compassion

Written by: Tara Brach
Narrated by: Tara Brach
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Publisher's Summary

One of the most beloved and trusted mindfulness teachers in America offers a lifeline for difficult times: the RAIN meditation, which awakens our courage and heart.

Tara Brach is an in-the-trenches teacher whose work counters today's ever-increasing onslaught of news, conflict, demands, and anxieties - stresses that leave us rushing around on auto-pilot and cut off from the presence and creativity that give our lives meaning. 

In this heartfelt and deeply practical audiobook, she offers an antidote: an easy-to-learn four-step meditation that quickly loosens the grip of difficult emotions and limiting beliefs. Each step in the meditation practice (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) is brought to life by memorable stories shared by Tara and her students as they deal with feelings of overwhelm, loss, and self-aversion, with painful relationships, and past trauma - and as they discover step-by-step the sources of love, forgiveness, compassion, and deep wisdom alive within all of us.

©2019 Tara Brach (P)2019 Penguin Audio

What the critics say

“Illuminating.... Anyone hoping to gain a deeper understanding of themselves and advice for easing the burden of negative emotions will find this to be a helpful resource.” (Publishers Weekly)

"Tara Brach’s four-step RAIN meditation can be an integral part of anyone’s mindfulness practice. RAIN helps us uncover the states of love, self-care, forgiveness, compassion, and tenderness we each are capable of. It is a useful and elegant system, and Radical Compassion is a beautifully written book." (Sharon Salzberg, New York Times best-selling author of Real Happiness and Lovingkindness

"Radical Compassion lays out a path of straightforward, accessible practices grounded in both modern brain science and ancient wisdom - with the soul and depth you’d expect from a world-class meditation teacher and psychologist. A masterpiece." (Rick Hanson, PhD, author of Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness

"A powerful book that will free you from shame, fear, and negative self-beliefs. You will feel wiser, happier, and kinder after reading it." (Haemin Sunim, author of Love for Imperfect Things and The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down

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Inspiring

I found the teaching combined with the stories and the meditations throughout the book very useful. Tara’s voice was gentle, calming and more useful than simply reading the words on a a page. The pace and pauses were perfect.

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Very calming to listen to with anxiety and guilt

Helped me be more compassionate and change my view towards emotions and others in my life.

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Priceless

I am permanently more self aware and compassionate after reading this book and implementing RAIN daily. I will come back it over and over again. I love that Tara is the narrator; her voice radiates loving awareness. A brilliant and immeasurably impactful book.

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Listening again just as soon as I finished!

Useful and genuine. Tara knows how to break her advice into practical pieces to be most relevant.

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Another Amazing Book by Tara Brach

I love all of Tara's books. I enjoyed all of the opportunities for practicing RAIN and that it was narrated by her. She does it so naturally.

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