Standing in the Snow (The RAIN Method)
I’m finishing How to Master Yourself by Master Shi Heng Yi this weekend, sitting at home, watching the snow fall.
Another record snowfall.
Quiet. Covered. Still.
And it hit me, sometimes the world has to be completely covered before we can see clearly again.
Why now?
Why the discomfort?
Because discomfort forces awareness.
When everything slows… when routines break… when the noise gets muted, that’s when grace shows up in the little things. Fresh starts don’t always arrive with sunshine. Sometimes they arrive buried under snow.
Master Shi Heng Yi talks about the RAIN method:
- Recognize what’s happening
- Accept it without resistance
- Investigate what it’s revealing
- Non-identify — don’t let it own you
I realized I want the rain.
I want the sun to clean this all up.
But before that happens, I have to stand in it.
Accept it.
Observe it.
Learn from it, without becoming it.
This is where growth actually happens.
Breaking old routines.
Moving the mind.
Overcoming mental resistance, not by force, but by awareness.
Writing notes after each chapter has shown me something important:
I’m recognizing patterns.
Investigating myself more honestly.
And slowly building that next distraction-free second, one moment at a time.
Not perfection.
Just progress.
Sometimes the snow isn’t the problem.
It’s the pause we didn’t know we needed.