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Roshi Joan Halifax, you may remember her. She closed out our election sanity series on Monday.

And today she's here with an acronym designed to keep us sane. The acronym is

GRACE Grace. Not the simple elegance that typically comes to mind when we hear that word, although

possibly Grace will be the result or at least one of the results of this meditation.

But instead, the acronym is a pneumonic that Roshi Joan came up with to support us when things

are getting dicey as they often become these days. She recorded this meditation at her monastery,

Upaya in New Mexico, and here we go with Roshi Joan.

Welcome. I'm Joan Halifax. I'm grateful we can be together right now.

There's a very interesting times and times when we can actualize compassion,

when we can be really grounded in the midst of a lot of polarization.

So one of the ways of doing this is the practice of grace. In grace is the tool I created to help

cultivate compassion when we're interacting with someone or some being extremely suffering.

So let's do it. I invite you to imagine someone where there's a great deal of difference in how you

view the current situation and how he or she views it.

And they're making their views known to you in a way that feels kind of threatening.

G, gather your attention. So take a breath, deep in breath,

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