Hi there's

It's Josh and this is Darmapunk's New York.

Welcome.

Yeah, there's gonna be a bunch of retreats next year, but nothing's online yet.

If you're in New York, the first Tuesday of any month,

that's when we do our in-person events. So our in-person gatherings,

Grand Street Healing, 105 Grand Street by Domino Park by the river, so in Williamsburg.

So do stop by if that's ever available to you.

And everything I do is entirely supported entirely just by

donation. I don't charge for anything. The Buddhist pastoral work counseling and teaching is just

supported by donations only so if you would like to help keep this going if these talks are of any value.

The Venmo is Darmapunx with the next NYC and the website has the same name with it dot com at the end and the

PayPal and Patreon links are there so thanks thanks for that. And now tonight we're talking about the nervous system and we like to assume that our moods and behaviors are primarily governed by thoughts, but in reality, the nervous

system, specifically the autonomic nervous system which is automatic as it sounds plays a far greater

role in shaping our emotional states and our behaviors, our moves, then any of our thoughts it's far more influential in fact very old

regions of the brain the amygdala the hypothermus pituitary, insula, less ancient but the anterior

singular cortex as well play very very very, very important, influential, I would say even govern much of our emotional and behavioral

states. They operate largely outside of conscious awareness. They initiate fight,

flight, freeze and fawn responses. And quite frankly, and and engage with others, whether we become anxious or irritable, whether we shut down or become

servile, fawn, or whether we essentially hide and seek isolation, all of these are largely influenced by the settings of our autonomic nervous system.

The more you understand about your nervous system, the more you understand about yourself.

So let's jump right in.

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