Meditation and Psychotherapy

A Professional Training Course for Integrating Mindfulness into Clinical Practice

Course objectives:

Apply the R.A.I.N. technique in your work with clients
• Utilize mindfulness meditation to clear blockages that prevent living fully
• Discuss basic concepts of Buddhist psychology
• Recognize aspirations and intentions that support awakening
• Practice a variety of different guided meditations
• Adapt specific mindfulness practices to individual client needs
• Integrate mindfulness into your personal and professional life
Learning How to Face Our Tangled Emotions and Release Our Limiting Beliefs

There are many skillful means that we can use to train ourselves and our clients to become aware, teaches Brach, a psychotherapist and meditator of more than 30 years. But they all lead to one essential question: Can I be here in this moment?

Using her R.A.I.N. technique, a four-part process that helps us learn how to stop running away from our tangled emotions and start to lovingly face them, we'll investigate and unblock the beliefs that cause suffering. Guiding us through meditations and practices on mindfulness, loving-kindness, forgiveness, allowing, and more, Brach shares key tools and expert insights for moving through this liberating process so that we can open and allow our lives to unfold, moment by moment.

"Mindfulness can strengthen our attention, awaken compassion and empathy, and expand our acceptance of our own inner states," teaches Brach. Meditation and Psychotherapy draws on the strengths of mindfulness meditation and the practice of modern therapeutic methods to help clear the emotional blocks holding us back.

Highlights:

R.A.I.N., a liberating four-step process for learning how to end the suffering caused by clinging to our emotions
• How we all can awaken from the trance of unworthiness using mindful awareness and lovingkindness
• The alchemy of self-compassion and how it can help in our relationships with others
• Why we don't have to believe our thoughts—the transformative power of self-inquiry
• "Touch and go," an approach for gently disarming the energy of trauma
• Tips for adapting practices for your individual client's needs
• A new model of psychotherapy that emphasizes the client/therapist relationship as an unfolding partnership
• More than eight hours of expert insights, practices, and tips for using mindfulness meditation and modern therapeutic methods to help untangle our difficult emotions

An amazing book, loved it

Loved it so much. Great book, awesome narrator. Was such a pleasure to listen and learn, I kept listening to it over and over again.

This body of work, has been (& continues to be) the answer to my prayers.

Looking for an authentically grounded in truth and loving compassion psychologist/spiritual coach who is Pure-Hearted, Warm, Wholesomely Funny & Kind, Emotionally & Spiritually Fit, in addition to being an Articulate Communicator with a Lovely-to-Listen-to Voice…In addition to being a Woman of Wisdom, Goodness, Truth and Grace who has left no stones unturned in becoming who she is today…AND, who walks the talk?
Look no further than this incredibly powerful and life changing (for me!) easy to understand, interesting, engaging, enlightening and fun (yes, I said fun:) to listen to.
In my humble opinion, at age 73 (truth seeker since 17) Tara is Thee Best of Thee Best!!

May You Be Blessed By Tara and this Audible offering like I have (beginning my third listen while following along with her many beautiful guided meditations - and - on my own - her suggested practical exercises.
Thank You from the bottom of my heart, Dear Tara! May You Be Blessed in Every Good and Important Way as You have Blessed Me!

Loved this book

So many truths. Waking up from the trance of unworthiness to our true sacred selves and to seeing and blessings that in others. Acceptance of grief and loss brings gratitude for here and now and for this and every sacred moment

Deceptive description

What disappointed you about Meditation and Psychotherapy?

It was mainly just suggestive speaking, no mediTation involved. Power of suggestion should be the title of this audio book, you love mornings, you love the sunshine in the mornings ect....

Very instructive

This really helped me to understand what mindfulness meditation is and to begin practicing it. Tara is delightful to listen to and her humorous stories made me laugh at myself.