The Politics of Emotional Elegance: Cultivating Honor in Times of Gains and Losses

The Mid-Term Elections are over, and like any other civilized society, there are winners and losers. One of the ways to avoid toxic emotions that cause immune system suppression is to practice what I call emotional elegance in times of turbulence. This does not mean agreeing with the opposition, but rather removing from the experience, the elements that can make you sick.

The Path of Emotional Elegance begins when you recognize you are engaging in an act of self-caring during a time when resentment, hatred, and hostility, can consume you if you enter the path of intolerance.

1. Sit quietly, pay attention to your breathing, drop your shoulders, unclench your teeth, and close your eyes allowing your eyelids to cover your sight with gentle darkness.
2. Bring to awareness the gains of your political party. Embody the feeling (sense where it manifests in your mindbody), allow celebration with gratitude to enter your consciousness, and experience the joy.
3. Bring to your awareness the loses of your political party. Embody the feeling (sense where it manifests in your mindbody), allow celebration with dignity for your opponents gains to enter your consciousness, and experience the serenity.
4. If objections to celebrate…