Dharmapunx NYC

Terror Management: How We Accept Or Deny the Most Significant Truth of Existence

Talk and guided meditation on the beneficial practices and outcomes of mortality awareness.

Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts: Understanding Why They're So Sticky, And How To Alleviate Them

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

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

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.

Relax & Unwind: How to Slow Down and Recuperate

Dharma talk and guided meditation on the theme.

Skillful Intentions for a New Decade of Well Being (with New Year's Eve Ceremony)

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.

Inclining the Mind Toward Secure Attachment

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Interacting Skillfully with Irrational People

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

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

Talk, meditation and guided reflection on the theme.
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Orienting Practice: Locating Safety Cues in Stressful Situations, Talk and Guided Visualization

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Stop Making Sense: Retrieving the Felt Experience Before All Conceptualization and Meaning Making

Talk and guided meditation on the theme.
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Addressing Learned Helplessness, Fatalism, Resignation

31 minute talk followed by 29 minute guided meditation.
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Resilience, Bouncing Back From Setbacks and Going with the Flow

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

33 minute talk, 27 minute guided meditation on the theme

Killing the Buddha: Infatuation with Big Ideas and the Fetishization of "The One Who Knows"

39 minute talk and 28 minute guided meditation

A Balanced Nervous System: Stress vs Shut Down vs Wellbeing

34 minute talk, 30 minute guided meditation addressing both stress and tiredness

Preoccupation: Addressing the fixation on unreliable relationships that distract attention from embracing our life and moving forward.

33 minute talk on preoccupation followed by 27 minute guided meditation on the theme

Making Sense of Life: Processing Emotional Events & Attachment Wounds Through Storytelling

30 minute talk + 30 minute guided meditation on the theme.

Taking Inventory: Reviewing the Quality of Our Actions Without Beating Ourselves Up

32 minute talk, 27 minute meditation on the theme

Repetition Compulsion: The Tendency to Wind Up in Unhealthy Interpersonal Dynamics, and How to Address These Patterns with Somatic Mindfulness

33 minute talk and 28 minute guided meditation on the theme

Attaining Trascendent & Altered States of Consciousness

Talk and guided meditation on the psychology of transcendent states and how to attain them without using psychoactive substances.

Emotions: How Are They Made & Can They Be Changed?

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.

managers, firefighters and exiles—Different Parts of the Self

32 minute talk + 27 minute guided meditation on the theme

Upgrading Your Mind's Operating System

35 minute talk • 25 minute guided meditation on the theme

Unseen Costs: How Social Media & Text Based Communication Contribute to Emotional Isolation

talk and guided meditation on the theme

Self-Transcendence

31 minute talk + 29 minute guided meditation on the theme

Alleviating Loneliness

Dharma talk and guided meditation on the theme.

Getting Unhooked • How To Uncover the Nonconscious Complexes Underlying Current Struggles

Dharma talk + meditation exploring the theme.

Dharma 101: Understanding the Four Noble Truths

Celebrating 2,500,000 downloads of dharmapunxnyc talks with a focus on a foundational insight of the Buddha's teachings.

Connecting with Our Unmet Needs & Deepest Longings

Talk and guided meditation on the theme.

The Four Foundations of Love

Talk and guided meditation on the theme.

hungry ghosts & angry demons: recovery retreat talk 1

talk on the damaged relational patterns that underlie addictive and compulsive behaviors, along with a guided meditation that addresses these wounds to the human psyche. 

hungry ghosts & angry demons: recovery retreat talk 2

talk on relationship between core shame and addiction and building self-esteem in recovery

Balancing the Bilateral Brain

30 minute talk followed by 30 minute guided meditation.

Soothing Guided Meditation (with relaxing ambient music)

30 minute guided meditation with relaxing ambient music

Fulfillment in Life

Talk and guided meditation. (Recorded at the last meeting at 302 Bowery; Tuesday evening meeting moving to Williamsburg Brooklyn.)

Self-Soothing in Triggering Social Settings

Talk and guided meditation exploring self-soothing techniques.

Relationships: Tools For Establishing a Secure Bond

Talk and guided meditation on the theme.

Entering the Bardos: The Hidden Wisdom of Buddhist Mysticism

Note: Due to a recording malfunction only an abridged version of the meditation's was recorded. 

hacking your brain: neurotransmitters, hormones and using meditation to cultivate states of well-being

34 minute talk + 25 minute meditation

On Releasing Resentments and Processing Anger

Talk exploring the underlying two keys to address frustration and outrage, taking adaptive actions, and finally starting the process of forgiveness.