Election Day Centering Meditation

I offered this meditation on the evening of Election Day, before we knew the devastating result. People – myself included – were hopeful but nervous, in need of a grounding, centering presence. It helped in the moment. It would be dishonest to claim that it helped on Wednesday.

But we can’t stay in despair. I think this meditation is still useful. We need to be centered and grounded more than ever. We’re still here. We may “go back,” temporarily, but we’re not going away.

The Tuesday Meditations are guided meditations. We simply sit (and walk or move) in the presence of what is alive in and around us. They are not a Sensory Awareness class, though the approach is similar, a Sensory Awareness approach to insight meditation, usually a spontaneous improvisation on a theme requested by the participants.