You can take your time and explore the RAIN meditation as a stand – alone practice or move through the steps in a more abbreviated way whenever challenging emotions arise. Source: Mindful.org When I was in college, I went off to the mountains for a weekend of hiking with an older, wiser friend of twenty-two. After setting up our tent, we sat by a stream, watching the water swirl around rocks, talking about our lives. At one point she described how she was learning to be “her own best friend.” A wave of sadness came over me, and I broke down sobbing. I was the furthest thing from my own […]