Hi there, thanks for showing up.

I'm Josh. This is Darmapunx New York.

We'll have an interesting evening talking about stress management techniques.

For those of you who live somewhere in the Philadelphia region.

It looks like we'll be journeying down there

to do a day-long retreat in June.

The information will be posted pretty soon if you want to join us there.

And I should probably make a pitch for my livelihood. I'm entirely supported by Donna I don't charge anything for the

teaching and cancelling so it's entirely just up to you if you would like to donate the Venmo is

Darma, Punks NYC, that's Punks with an X, and the PayPal button is on the website and the podcast site, which is

DarmaPunks NYC. podbeam.com and there's also a Patreon page you can look up,

which is also the information on the website. So thanks for that. And tonight talking about

stress management. When we talk about stress there's obviously two kinds of

stress to use a very colloquial one would be stress that's

okay for the body physiologically and another kind of stress that certainly isn't.

I'll also be covering it from Buddhist perspectives as well as contemporary clinical insights into what we can do to manage stress and then we'll be doing a meditation

which hopefully will help us address stress as well.

So, yeah, let's see how this goes.

So when we talk about stress,

we're generally referring to an activation of the sympathetic nervous system,

where the brain perceives some kind of threat or challenge that

initiates a response and the first the response is a

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