So how many of you feel more stressed than usual?

Just honestly, just, and keep your hands up if you don't mind.

And if somebody next to you has their hand raised comfort that now I'm like,

thank you, thank you.

How many is it the sense of the economy?

Can I see my hands so many of, yeah.

So that's definitely rippling through.

I ask because I talk to a lot of people and get emails and so on and it is a really,

it's in the psyche of our country and it's all over.

There's a sense of trouble and trouble equals stress.

And as we know when it gets personal, it really grips our bodies.

So if it's not somebody in another country who's potentially going to lose their

eye, but it's, you know, us or, you know, if it's something that happens to my body or my child,

it's all of a sudden the stress is like a real grip in us.

And in Buddhism, if you study Buddhism, there's the four noble truths.

What they really come down to is that stress is universal,

that it's part of the package of being alive.

For, you know, we have different bodies and some of us experience more and less in different circumstances,

but stress is a universal and the difference between being caught in the trans of suffering

and having a sense of freedom is really how we respond to it.

You know, the glib phrases that pain is inevitable and suffering is optional.

That's the way it's put.

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