Hi there. Thanks for stopping by and welcome. This is Darmopunks New York.

September 12th we're having another Tuesday evening in-person gathering.

And that class, like the previous one, will be also zooming out for people that are not in the New York Tri-State region,

but if you're around here and you want to connect in person, please join us.

So that will be on September 12th.

And if you'd like to support your friendly local

Buddhist teacher in the Taravitan tradition who does everything entirely by donation,

never charging, that would be me. The Venmo is DarmaPunks with an X NYC and other ways to support the work

are on the website, PayPal and Patreon.

So thanks for any, even the smallest amount of support

makes a big difference.

So tonight, I going to be talking about exciting developments in clinical

psychology and one that has many ramifications in both treatment and recovery and all kinds of therapeutic modalities can also be done in a meditation practice.

Memory, Reconcaldation, what is it, how does it work, and how can we practice it ourselves?

Our brains prefer to optimize behaviors by relying on what's called automaticity, as often as possible.

Automaticity or automatic behaviors are fast ingrain actions that require no conscious oversight.

And when we have routines that we don't have to consciously guide, it saves a lot of energy,

reduces the expenditure of calories, glutamate, dopamine.

Automatic behaviors are mundane rituals that we can stop paying attention to

after they're initiated.

For instance, people go into the shower,

and the next thing they know, they're toweling off.

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