Thank you so much for coming out.

April 13th on a Sunday,

Kathy and I will be teaching a,

I think it's a 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. day gathering on the Buddhist and contemporary insights to addiction.

The attic was known as the hungryry Ghost, which was a spectral being that they have very big

bellies, very long, thin, necks of a tiny mouth, so no matter how much they try to consume,

it's never enough.

I'll be covering a whole lot of new contemporary theories on the nature

of addiction. The Anseansian's ideas on self-medication, Flores' ideas on addiction as

attachment disorder, traditional Buddhist insights. Kathy will do a lot of the semantic practices to regulate and then also be doing visualization

meditations that are strategies for addressing attachment wounds and thus the addictive

behaviors they produce.

So if you're around, please stop by. On Memorial Day, we're having our

first retreat at Omega Institute, and you'll have to look there for the information, but that's

Kathy and I doing that, and that will that will be finally to keep us in the space

generally if it's possible if you can give ten dollars that's what basically maintains

us in the space but if you can't afford that don't worry just give what you can if you can't

afford to give anything dope,

but if you do have that or a little more, or whatever you can, just either put it in the

basket or the Venmo so that we can keep meeting in this really beautiful space. And thank you

for that. If you ever want to reach me, the emails, DBX, NYC at Gmail, or you can just come up to me afterwards. I'll give you my contact.

So today we're going to be talking about how to help regulate somebody's emotional states, their affect, their moods, when people are in a reactive, dysregulated, or

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