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Greetings, welcome, friends.

I've been in touch with a lot of people in these last weeks, as you can imagine, there's

a huge range of reactions to the elections here in the United States, some angry and

blaming looking for who's at fault and some shock and disbelief, some demeaning towards

the perceived enemy, some despairing, some fearful.

Some people saying they realized that they were in denial.

One sent a cartoon with two dinosaurs talking and there's this asteroid hurtling at them and one's kind of reassuring the other, well, maybe it won't be so bad.

So one friend wrote to me this, she said, we're going through the 48 stages of grief and I think we're only up to 14.

This takes time and it's natural to have whatever unfolding range of

reactions, whether this is to do with the elections, the world, what's going on else

in the world, difficult changes in your personal life. And in the midst of reactivity, if we want

to find our way to inner clarity, to resilience, to presence, the key is to keep pausing,

keep checking in. Many of you are familiar with that wonderful phrase from

Rumi, do you make regular visits to yourself? You can check in and ask very simply,

what's true right now? And be the witness, you can do it right now. What's true? What's going on inside

me? And be the witness, sense the reality of the moment. But it's important to acknowledge

how it is, honestly. There's a simple phrase I use that really helps.

Once I've noticed and named what's going on, the phrase is, it's like this right now.

Just that.

It's like this right now.

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