R.A.I.N With Clay
- cwilli480
- Aug 12, 2022
- 1 min read
While open awareness serves as a wonderful way to engage in meditation with clay, using clay as an extension of guided meditation can also be deeply meaningful. The R.A.I.N method (Brach, 2019) is a good match for guidance and being present with clay. R is to recognize what is happening. Clay affords us the opportunity to explore our sense doors and recognize how we are responding to the clay. A is to allow life to be just as it is. We need not strive to force the clay or wish for it to be different, rather accept it just as it is. It is to investigate experience with gentle and curious attention. Instead of cognitive or mental exploration, instead opening to our embodied experience in connecting and responding to the clay with touch, breath, and movement. N is for nurturing, with the clay we can move our energy, visualize our vulnerability, (and here as well) and work to send compassion and love to ourselves. R.A.I.N. helps us to transform thoughts with a healing presence by de-conditioning habits and limiting self-beliefs. Using the R.A.I.N. method while holding and manipulating clay can help us cultivate compassion with the opening of our interoceptors through sensorimotor work.
R.A.I.N resource from Tara Brach
Reference:
Brach, T. (2019). Radical compassion: Learning to love yourself and your world with the practice of RAIN. Penguin Life.
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