Mere Mortals Book Reviews Buddhist Meditation Practices For Healing | Radical Acceptance (Tara Brach) BOOK REVIEW
Apr 3, 2025
A lively look at Buddhist-rooted meditation techniques for meeting emotional pain with compassion. The review unpacks the RAIN method and links it to practices like loving-kindness and body scans. Cautions about overdoing compassion and pitfalls of endless self-investigation get attention. Personal stories and practical applications round out the conversation.
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Accept Present Experience Without Fighting
- Radical Acceptance asks you to clearly see thoughts, emotions, and body sensations and accept them without fighting or hiding.
- Tara Brach presents meditation and Buddhist framing as tools to sit with pain and reduce added self-suffering.
Practice The RAIN Skill
- Use the RAIN sequence: Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture to work with difficult feelings in the moment.
- Pause, label the feeling, explore bodily sensations, and offer yourself compassionate words to soothe it.
Watch For Mindfulness Pitfalls
- Tara Brach warns that excessive acceptance can become self-pity or endless rumination if taken too far.
- The book identifies pitfalls of overdoing mindfulness and when investigation becomes avoidance.
