Hi there, thanks so much for showing up. I so appreciate it. It's so nice to have friends out there.

And welcome to Darma Punk's New York weekly class and I'm Josh.

What have I got to talk about before tonight's talk?

Well, if you would like to go on a retreat

and the Labor Day weekend at the labor day weekend at the end of August, upstate New York in a really beautiful location at a retreat center that's actually affordable, which seems almost impossible these days.

We're having our three day retreat at Garrison Institute on August 31st.

So if you would like to find out information about that, look at our website, Darmapunks with an ex-nyc.com,

and you'll also find information about how to join Kathy's

Monday through Friday 8 a.m.

morning meditation, daily pause.

And any other information that we've got going on.

And if you would like to... that we've got going on.

And if you would like to support my work,

if it's any value in your life,

if it's of any benefit.

The Benmo is Darmapunz with an ex-nyc

and the PayPal and Patreon information is on the website.

Tonight, what if, if only, could-a-shita thoughts. only could I should have thoughts, which are known as counterfactual thinking.

Counterfactual thinking is the clinical term for thoughts that are contrary to the facts.

And they refer to our capability of imagining how events could have turned out differently than they did. Our minds can create entire hypothetical

realities that contradict the world that we actually perceive.

For instance, in February, I very often imagine

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