How to Stay Calm through the Election

Plus: How mindfulness can help

Note: I’ll be hosting a Zoom call for NZN members this Wednesday at 8 pm US Eastern Time to discuss the results of Tuesday’s election. The Zoom link is at the bottom of this email (located strategically below the paywall). Hope to see you there!

Hi! Since just about everyone I know is suffering from pre-election anxiety, I thought I’d whip up a couple of soothing sermonettes and offer them to NZN readers.

OK, “soothing” may be too strong a word—I’ll let you be the judge of that. But I hope these riffs—available in both video and transcript form—can help you get through the next couple of days with some measure of equanimity.

By the way, this is an experiment. So let us know, in the comments section below, whether you think this genre—me talking semi-coherently in front of a camera—has potential, and what kinds of changes you’d like to see in format or substance or whatever. (“Do better” is acceptable feedback, though I’d prefer something more specific…)   

Below the video you’ll find a transcript of it as well as a second, shorter sermonette connecting the first one to mindfulness and Buddhist philosophy.

--Bob