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As we count the days down to November 3rd, anxiety grows. We feed that anxiety with Doomsday scenarios. We comfort ourselves with the dark camaraderie of misery and outrage, the delicious, toxic elixir of assumed superiority. These things fuel our electoral passions, no matter what party we are affiliated with.
But those passions can only foster more division. More mistrust. More rage.
It’s an unending cycle.
We can break this cycle.
But to do it, we have to give up one of our favorite security blankets: fear.
Drop your fear, in three steps.
If you don’t think that fear is a security blanket, I challenge you: drop your fear right now. In your mind, put the guy you’re NOT voting for in office for the coming four years. Now identify all the things you’re afraid will happen.
Do you have your list? Okay. Drop your fear of all those things.
No? Why not?
Do you think this fear keeps you safe?
That if you can predict the terrible things that will happen, you will be able to prevent them? That’s magical…
