Hi, thanks for stopping by. Welcome. My name is Josh,

DarmaPunks weekly podcast.

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So I hope that these talks worthy of your support.

And with that, I'm kind of eager to jump into tonight's topic,

our tendency to try to be light,

manage what other people think about us.

And also the idea that beneath all of those tendencies there's a true

authentic self waiting to be discovered and we'll be talking about all of that and more.

Sit back, relax. So we're born completely dependent on care as I'm sure you're where babies don't fare very well without adults providing them security, food, shelter.

So we're born completely dependent.

An evolution installed an attachment system

to maintain proximity to the people who take care of us when we're

babies and infants.

And this system is deeply rooted in the midbrain, including regions like the amygdala,

the brain stem, the peri aqueductual gray,

and also in more frontal regions,

or at least more evolved regions

like the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex.

And all this provides a very profoundly,

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