RAIN For Rest

Welcome to this meditation on rest using the RAIN practice. The RAIN practice encourages us to turn inward softly, to allow whatever is present with us to be. I have recently been inspired by listening to David White's book, Consolations, in which he takes one word and writes a brief essay or prose. I was just recently listening to his piece on Rest. He says, "To rest is not self-indulgent. To rest is to prepare to give the best of ourselves, and to arrive fully into the conversation of life."

I invite you into this practice to find a kind, gentle entrance toward rest in a way that allows you, reciprocally, to be fully alive.