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Opening to Our Inner Radiance with the RAIN process - Tara Brach, Ph.D. - ND3694P

February 4, 2026·53 min·4 clips

Tara Brach walks the host through a RAIN practice to transform anger and frustration into feeling held.

The gap is the trouble. The program starts with a big frame: change begins in consciousness, then moves through mind, body, psyche, and spirit. Autopilot tightens the heart. The guest presents RAIN as a way to interrupt reactivity, fear, woundedness, self-judgment, and blame before they take over the room. The practice is repeatable. Even a light round can take about a minute, long enough to move back toward kindness and a steadier presence. Allowing gets the most careful treatment. The guest describes it as saying yes to what is actually happening, not approving anger or feeding it. Anger may swell for a moment. That is not failure. Emotion can peak and pass when thought stops throwing fuel on it. The host asks the practical question: what if allowing anger feels risky? The guest shifts attention away from the storyline and toward witnessing presence. Recognition comes before release. Notice what is here, let it be here, then stop rehearsing the negative loop. Practice lays down pathways. Repeated rounds make the shorter form easier to reach, with installation used as the image for that neural habit. The tone is patient and plainspoken. The exchange stays with what allow means inside frustration and anger. The promise is quiet but real: compassionate presence can become more familiar than the patterns that pull a person away from the heart.

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A calm, practical look at the RAIN process for meeting anger without feeding it.

Dr. Tara Brock's discussion of the RAIN process treats emotional reactivity as something to notice, not something to obey. It starts with the gap between what people hope for and the ways fear, self judgment, blame, and old hurt can throw them off balance.

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When your anger starts writing the story for you.

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