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It was interesting reflecting on what do I want to talk about tonight, being the date that

it is right after a major election and not knowing what emotion would be up whether it

would be grief or relief or whatever it was.

I was unsure.

It's interesting a couple of weeks ago we had a post reporter here who interviewed a number

of people that were here at this class and myself.

And his big conclusion was, this is the grand conclusion from all the interviews is that

the meditators are stressed like everybody else about the season, about what's going

on.

And if you add Sandy and the weather extremes and that this part of the year is always

that very intense beating up on the way to the holidays, it's stressful.

So, no matter what state of mind we are in post-election, there's still something about

sensing the undercurrents and the speed and the intensity of the season that's really

caught my attention.

So, I was thinking about Gandhi who was asked what he thought of Western civilization.

And his response was, it would be a good idea.

And yeah, it feels like these are intense times and when we're caught inside the feeling

of being stressed, whether it's excited, stressed or anxious, stressed, that intensity,

which will be the theme tonight, we're going to be exploring our stress reaction.

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