#25: Meditation is like a controlled burn that lowers the risk of wildfires

I didn’t grow up religious, but I’ve recently fallen in love with saying a little prayer before meals. Not a prayer, really. Some words of gratitude. Here's how it's transforming my friendships.

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If you’re like me, you might believe that you must earn love by what you do, produce, accomplish. So you always feel burned-out. Or maybe you believe you’ll lose yourself by getting too close to someone. So you avoid deep relationships. Here's how to flip the script.

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When I’m really burned out from my work taking on billionaires and private prison executives, a meditation retreat really recharges me. Here's what I've learned from doing retreats.

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This talk was recorded in the fall of 2020. But very little has changed since then, considering we live in a precarious, alienating, often violent capitalist society.

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This talk was recorded just before the election. But what I talk about in it can be applied to any political crisis. Even white supremacists storming the U.S. Capitol.

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The air freezing. Wind gusting. Tumbleweeds rolling down my street. That’s what winter during a pandemic looks like in my mind.

I’ve read all the lists to prepare for a likely second wave of COVID-19. My workout routine is solid. Therapy is going well.

But none of it feels like enough. Part of me is terrified about being even more isolated. Another part of me is in denial, like that meme with the dog saying, “This is fine,” as the house burns around him.

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It really does feel like half the country likes having a racist, misogynist reality TV show star as president. Or they’re willing to tolerate him to “own the libs.” But are Trump supporters really all that different from me?

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I recently heard someone tell a story that made me feel less powerless about the country's political situation — at least at first.

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I often find myself wanting to punch Trump supporters in the face. I want to hold them down and force feed them the awareness that the rich and powerful are swindling them.

But that feels shitty. Not because it’s wrong of me to want to do those things.

Because hate burns. It tenses up my shoulders and my gut. It makes me forget to breathe, to feel my feet on the ground. Hating ends up hurting me.

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One of my favorite recent movies is the documentary “Free Solo” (2018), in which Alex Honnold climbs the 3,000-foot El Capitan rock wall without a rope.

But my favorite scene isn’t when he summits. Or when he shows off the van he lives in so he can focus on climbing. Or any of the times he nearly falls.

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