Compassion starts with contact, not fixing.
RAIN works because it interrupts the reflex to analyze, avoid, or improve pain before it has been felt.
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Radical Compassion
7 memorable lines from Radical Compassion by Tara Brach, each with the idea behind it.
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Recognition loosens the trance.
Naming an emotion creates a small space between awareness and the story that emotion is telling.
Allowing is not approval.
You can let an experience be present for a breath without agreeing with the situation that triggered it.
Inquiry must be gentle to be useful.
Investigation becomes healing when it asks what is vulnerable, not what is defective.
Nurturing gives the nervous system a new option.
A warm sentence, hand on the body, or image of care can make compassion concrete enough to register.
Self-judgment often guards old pain.
The harsh inner voice may be a protective strategy that needs understanding before it can soften.
Presence widens responsibility.
Compassion does not remove accountability; it makes response less fused with shame or threat.
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