Hello there. This is Josh of Donropunks, New York, our Tuesday evening gathering Labor Day weekend.

I hope you'll consider joining us at our retreat at Garrison Institute from August 31st to the second.

Just such a beautiful place to do a retreat and always such a really lovely crowd, great food, hiking trails,

times to meditate, times to connect, lots of teaching, so you can just jump on the metro north to get right there.

Please join us. The information is on our website darma puns with an ex NYC.com.

And if you would like to meditate in the morning,

Monday through Fridays at 8 a.m. Eastern Standard time,

Kathy has her daily pause also information is on the website.

If you'd like to support my work everything I do is supported entirely by donation. I don't charge for teaching or counseling.

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Tonight, as presidential elections near, there's very often an uptick in doom scrolling, the mindless and prolonged

intake of negative information online kind of

catastrophizing about what the future may bring and using media to heighten our distress, fill us up with enraging content that induces

both fatalistic hopelessness and heightened states of anxiety.

And yet, instead of turning off the screens, we continue to scroll looking for information that will inflame, create a kind of

nail-biting ongoing state of being.

What are the reasons why anxiety producing or provoking content

is so addictive.

So I'm gonna approach this from a variety of angles,

see which one you think is in some way interesting or thought-provoking.

And then we'll talk about solutions and ways to disconnect from this kind of addiction.

So from the very beginning,

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