Stay cool. Don't stress. Tokyo is totally safe.

1. Ignore the media hype.

News loves to focus on the highly improbably worst-case scenarios because it drives ratings and generates ad dollars, and because people are emotional and love to obsess on that information. It's not smart or fair to only consider the worst-case.

2. Try to be rational and probabilistic.

The reactors are more than 150 miles away. They are designed in extreme situations (i.e. meltdowns) to contain material, not disperse it. Even Chernobyl only accounted for 4000 deaths if you consider those who were at higher risk for cancer (this is less than those affected by the tsunami). The probability of anything disastrous happening is very low; my friends in San Francisco and New York are more likely to get stabbed than I am likely to be harmed by nuclear reactors in Tokyo.

If you can rationalize your commute to work where you are at higher risk to have a traffic accident than I am to be harmed in an earthquake, then I can rationalize feeling safe here.

3. Emotionally and philosophically, it's better to feel happy, calm and collected than worried and anxious.

As there are more aftershocks, I want my mind to be in a state where I am capable of dealing with the situation appropriately and I'm not just fearful.

I keep thinking of the FDR quote: "The only thing to fear is fear itself." It's ugly to watch people's panic wash over one another. You have a powerful ability to affect the mood of those around you. Choose to ignore the media and not obsess over it. Choose to spread calm and not fear.

4. Everything will be OK.

Really.