Talk on evolutionary priming and how it creates evolutionary mismatches, where our behaviors no longer fit our world nor contribute to well-being.
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Rewiring Our Old Circuitry: Overriding Outdated Behavioral Traits
July 8th, 2020 · Comments
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Understanding and Addressing the State of Being Overwhelmed
July 3rd, 2020 · Comments
Being overwhelmed can be a normal reaction to an overload of daily stresses, obligations or especially difficult circumstances, such as being a doctor during a pandemic. However, underlying, psychological causes can make challenging situations appear far more paralyzing than they really are.
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Understanding and Connecting with the Inner Child in Mindfulness Meditation
June 26th, 2020 · Comments
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How Minds and Bodies Interact in the Healing of Emotional Wounds
June 17th, 2020 · Comments
How to process and release emotional experiences through embodied awareness. Please consider supporting my Buddhist Pastoral work, which is sustained entirely by your donations.
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Pandemic Talk 9: Understanding and Addressing Situational Depression
May 27th, 2020 · Comments
Talk on zoom May 19, 2020. If you'd like to support my Buddhist pastoral work in New York, please use the paypal button to the right or Venmo: dharmapunxnyc.
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Pandemic Talk 8: Taking Care of the Nervous System During Times of Stress
May 20th, 2020 · Comments
Talk on zoom May 19, 2020. If you'd like to support my Buddhist pastoral work in New York, please use the paypal button to the right or Venmo: dharmapunxnyc.
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Pandemic Talk 7: A Spiritual Practice for These Times
May 13th, 2020 · Comments
Talk on zoom May 12, 2020. If you'd like to support my Buddhist pastoral work in New York, please use the paypal button to the right or Venmo: dharmapunxnyc.
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Pandemic Talk 6—Communicating During the Pandemic: Stating Needs. Setting Boundaries. Working Through Conflict.
May 6th, 2020 · Comments
Talk on zoom May 5, 2020. If you'd like to support my Buddhist pastoral work in New York, please use the paypal button to the right or Venmo: dharmapunxnyc.
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Pandemic Talk 5—Practices to Support Emotion Stability During Social Distancing
April 29th, 2020 · Comments
Talk on zoom April 28, 2020. If you'd like to support my Buddhist pastoral work in New York, please use the paypal button to the right or Venmo: dharmapunxnyc.
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Pandemic Talk 4: Coming to Terms With Difficult Experiences
April 23rd, 2020 · Comments
Talk on zoom April 21, 2020. If you'd like to support my Buddhist pastoral work in New York City, please use the paypal button to the right or Venmo: dharmapunxnyc.
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Pandemic Talk# 3: Tools for Self-Acceptance and Internal Integration
April 16th, 2020 · Comments
Talk on zoom April 14, 2020. If you'd like to support my Buddhist pastoral work in New York, please use the paypal button to the right or Venmo: dharmapunxnyc. Thank you!
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Pandemic Talk 2—Adapting to the New Normal Through Titration, Portioning and Mindfulness
April 9th, 2020 · Comments
Talk on zoom April 7, 2020. If you can support my Buddhist pastoral work in New York, please use the paypal button to the right or
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Pandemic Talk 1 — Some Tools for the Times
April 9th, 2020 · Comments
Talk given on zoom March 29, 2020. If you'd like to support my Buddhist pastoral work in New York, please use the paypal button to the right or Venmo: dharmapunxnyc. Thank you!
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a meaningful life with significant experiences
March 16th, 2020 · Comments
live talk from march 9, before we closed down live meetings due to the coronavirus outbreak.
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The Felt Sense of Security: Why Some People Respond to Challenges, While Others React
March 4th, 2020 · Comments
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Terror Management: How We Accept Or Deny the Most Significant Truth of Existence
February 4th, 2020 · Comments
Talk and guided meditation on the beneficial practices and outcomes of mortality awareness.
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Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts: Understanding Why They’re So Sticky, And How To Alleviate Them
January 29th, 2020 · Comments
Talk and guided meditation covering both modern and ancient perspectives into the ‘ironic process’ that makes certain thoughts so sticky and repetitive, and how to stem the flow of such obsessive ideations.
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Mindful Communication During Conflict: The Process of Building Trust and Mutuality Amidst Tension
January 22nd, 2020 · Comments
A dharma talk on the theories behind and practices employed in developing interacting skillfully in relationships.
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A Healthy Balance: Love Versus Codependency and Enmeshment
January 15th, 2020 · Comments
In secure attachment and love, a relationship is flexible, balancing times of deep intimacy and attunement, with times where partners can be separate without preoccupied anxiety over the moods and impulses of their partner; each partner has a healthy sense of self and supportive friends outside of their core relationship; in co-dependency, the bond is often rooted in feelings insecurity, a damaged sense of self, inflexibility and separation anxiety. This episode dives into the distinctions, then leads to a meditation that explores some of the talk's tehems.
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Relax & Unwind: How to Slow Down and Recuperate
January 8th, 2020 · Comments
Dharma talk and guided meditation on the theme.
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Skillful Intentions for a New Decade of Well Being (with New Year’s Eve Ceremony)
January 1st, 2020 · Comments
Talk given at our annual New Year's Eve Event in Brooklyn NYC, Dec 31, 2019. Recording includes the 2,500 year old refuges and precepts chant in english.
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Inclining the Mind Toward Secure Attachment
December 17th, 2019 · Comments
Talk on how physiological states associated with early relational events influence our choices and behaviors in adult attachments and friendships, as well as ways to change our attachment patterns.
Guided visualization follows exploring the theme.
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object constancy and the psychology of protective spirits and persecutory delusions
December 11th, 2019 · Comments
Object constancy is not just the ability to believe that core relationships are stable despite conflicts, but also the ability to internalize the soothing attributes of a secure attachment figure. In this talk will discuss how the mind can create agents as compensations during times of isolation and loneliness; we'll employ the early Buddhist practice of devanusati, or conjuring the felt sense of protective entities.
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Chronic Stress: Causes and Relief
December 4th, 2019 · Comments
33 minute talk exploring some physiological and psychological perspectives, along with classic contemplative and mindfulness tools to alleviate chronic stress.
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Addressing the Fear of Social Rejection
November 27th, 2019 · Comments
Talk and guided meditation on the theme.
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Peak Experiences, Ego Transcendence and Self-Actualization: Some Tools and Insights from Transpersonal Psychology and the Human Potential Movement
November 20th, 2019 · Comments
Talk and guided meditation about Transpersonal Psychology integrated the spiritual and transcendent aspects of buddhist practice within the framework of therapy.
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Self Integration: Understanding the separate states of the psyche
November 14th, 2019 · Comments
Although our sense of is that we inhabit a singular, unified self that changes little across time, in fact all humans experience a wide multiplicity of self-states, ie traits, capabilities, perceptions and behaviors that differ from one situation to the next. This talk explores the origins of self-states and how to gain a greater sense of self-acceptance through connecting with these states in meditation practice.
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Alleviating Distress: Buddhist and Contemporary Insights Into the Two Kinds of Suffering in Life
November 6th, 2019 · Comments
Dharma talk on the difference between inevitable pain and avoidable suffering, along with a guided meditation on the theme.
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Repairing Attachment Wounds in Adults: A Summary of Five Practices
October 30th, 2019 · Comments
An overview of attachment patterns in adults, followed by a review of ways to address damaging relational issues.
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Contemplation of One’s Mortality Meditation to Clarify Our Purpose in Life
October 30th, 2019 · Comments
The mindfulness of mortality, Maraṇasati in Pali, is a 2,500 year old Buddhist meditation that provides a manner in which we can usefully and serenly contemplate the inevitabilities of old age, sickness, death and loss; the practice employs these reflections to discern our most authentic purpose in life, condusive to establishing one's highest sense of self-worth.
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Interacting Skillfully with Irrational People
October 24th, 2019 · Comments
Dharma talk on a variety tools to emotionally regulate angry, depressed, triggered, shut down individuals. Meditation follows that explores some of the talk's themes.
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Addressing Work Related Anxiety
October 17th, 2019 · Comments
Dharma talk on the underlying psychological structures resulting in chronic work related anxiety and guided meditation on the theme.
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Thoughts on Setting Boundaries and Stating Needs
October 9th, 2019 · Comments
Talk, meditation and guided reflection on the theme.
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Orienting Practice: Locating Safety Cues in Stressful Situations, Talk and Guided Visualization
October 2nd, 2019 · Comments
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Stop Making Sense: Retrieving the Felt Experience Before All Conceptualization and Meaning Making
September 19th, 2019 · Comments
Talk and guided meditation on the theme.
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Addressing Learned Helplessness, Fatalism, Resignation
September 11th, 2019 · Comments
31 minute talk followed by 29 minute guided meditation.
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Resilience, Bouncing Back From Setbacks and Going with the Flow
September 4th, 2019 · Comments
Dharma talks and guided meditation on the theme.
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Procrastination, Perfectionism & Avoidance Coping: What Makes Us Drag Our Feet And How To Move Forward
August 21st, 2019 · Comments
33 minute talk, 27 minute guided meditation on the theme
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Killing the Buddha: Infatuation with Big Ideas and the Fetishization of “The One Who Knows”
August 14th, 2019 · Comments
39 minute talk and 28 minute guided meditation
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A Balanced Nervous System: Stress vs Shut Down vs Wellbeing
August 8th, 2019 · Comments
34 minute talk, 30 minute guided meditation addressing both stress and tiredness
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Preoccupation: Addressing the fixation on unreliable relationships that distract attention from embracing our life and moving forward.
July 31st, 2019 · Comments
33 minute talk on preoccupation followed by 27 minute guided meditation on the theme
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Making Sense of Life: Processing Emotional Events & Attachment Wounds Through Storytelling
July 24th, 2019 · Comments
30 minute talk + 30 minute guided meditation on the theme.
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Taking Inventory: Reviewing the Quality of Our Actions Without Beating Ourselves Up
July 17th, 2019 · Comments
32 minute talk, 27 minute meditation on the theme
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Repetition Compulsion: The Tendency to Wind Up in Unhealthy Interpersonal Dynamics, and How to Address These Patterns with Somatic Mindfulness
July 10th, 2019 · Comments
33 minute talk and 28 minute guided meditation on the theme
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Attaining Trascendent & Altered States of Consciousness
July 4th, 2019 · Comments
Talk and guided meditation on the psychology of transcendent states and how to attain them without using psychoactive substances.
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Emotions: How Are They Made & Can They Be Changed?
June 28th, 2019 · Comments
A talk giving an overview of some fascinating new insights regarding the theory of emotions and affect regulation, focusing on the work of Lisa Feldman Barrett. The talk explores how these ideas fit into the core teachings of the Buddha, followed by a meditation exploring new techniques in regulating emotions.
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managers, firefighters and exiles—Different Parts of the Self
June 19th, 2019 · Comments
32 minute talk + 27 minute guided meditation on the theme
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Upgrading Your Mind’s Operating System
June 15th, 2019 · Comments
35 minute talk • 25 minute guided meditation on the theme
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Unseen Costs: How Social Media & Text Based Communication Contribute to Emotional Isolation
June 4th, 2019 · Comments
talk and guided meditation on the theme
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Self-Transcendence
May 29th, 2019 · Comments
31 minute talk + 29 minute guided meditation on the theme
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