02/06/2025
🌧 RAIN: A Gentle Practice for Big Feelings 🌧
When emotions feel overwhelming, the RAIN practice can offer a path through, rather than around, the storm. Developed in mindfulness traditions, RAIN is a simple yet powerful tool for turning toward your experience with curiosity and care.
✨ R – Recognize
Pause and name what you're feeling. Sadness? Anger? Shame? Anxiety? You don’t need to fix it — just see it. Naming the emotion helps loosen its grip.
✨ A – Allow
Let it be there. This doesn’t mean you like it or want it to stay — just that you're not fighting it. Emotions, like waves, pass more easily when we stop resisting.
✨ I – Investigate
With kindness, explore where the feeling lives in your body. Is there tightness? Heat? Numbness? Ask: What is this emotion asking for? What might it need right now?
✨ N – Nurture (or Non-identification)
Offer yourself compassion. You are not your emotion. This is a passing experience, not a permanent truth. You can say, “This is hard, and I’m doing the best I can.”
RAIN isn’t about fixing feelings — it’s about befriending them.
A moment of pause. A breath of space. A practice in being human.