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Recording of rest practice for caregivers, activists and those in service

Keiji Uematsu

A chara,

This is a sixty-minute guided deep rest practice in which we call on the land, the ancestors and the alchemy of self-compassion to hand ourselves over to love with abandon.

Includes a guided meditation based on the acronym RAIN (as masterfully taught by Tara Brach) to de-condition suffering, a sequence of lovingkindness expansion, and a yoga nidra journey.

We open with The Serenity Prayer which has been saving my life over and over again since it found its way to me through the work of Al Anon in 2016. Here, it’s shared as Gaeilge:

An Paidir Suaimhneas/ The Serenity Prayer

A Dhia, tabhair dom an suaimhneas/ God, grant me the serenity
chun glacadh na rudaí nach feidir liom a athrú/ to accept the things I cannot change,
an misneach chun rudaí a athrú nuair is feidir/ the courage to change the things I can,
agus gaois chun an difríocht a aithint/ and the wisdom to know the difference.

Thank you for your presence. Thank you for showing up. Thank you for not looking away.

Le grá mór

Cathy x

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