Thanks for dropping by. This is Darmopunks, New York. What have we got going on?

We have an upcoming retreat Labor Day, September 1 to 5, and that's up in Garrison.

And all the information for these retreats are on our website,

Darmapunks NYC.com.

I am a Buddhist pastor.

Everything I do from the teaching to counseling

is entirely by donation.

And so if you like to consider supporting my work,

the Venmo is Darmapunks, NYC, the PayPal. The paypal button is on the website and there's even a Patreon page for those of

you like the idea of supporting a Buddhist pastor.

And tonight processing rejection and loss,

boy, I really come up with one fun uplifting talk after another, don't I? Tonight we'll talk about the nature of grief. We'll go into a bit of understanding the processes of grieving and why grieving is essential to healing

and then practices to grieve in a way that doesn't feel overwhelming.

Some Buddhist insights into grieving,

all mished and mashed together into one lovely package of darma presentation. So sit back, why don't we settle in, relax, and here we go.

Feelings are the way we disrupt the normal psycho-biological states being and feelings the role or their job is to orient us to a change in the world around us that demands some kind of adaptation.

So feelings at their roots are ways of essentially both orienting us to some change threat opportunity and also the ways we

start the processing of those changes.

So for example, let's look at some feelings

and emotions that derive from them, shall we?

Positive connections are relax the autonomic nervous system and they induce a release of dopamine, especially dopamine,

especially D2, and engages us to smile,

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