Hi there, thanks for joining. As usual, it's Josh,

who's the pastor, Darma teacher at Darma Funds, New York since 2005. Welcome.

We will be having our next in-person half-day

workshop at Center Yoga on May 21st. And then in June, we'll be doing a Philly day long to support my work.

Everything I do is entirely by donation and actually those of you that donate are what actually keep the

podcast and all this going. So if you would like to support knowing that any amount is also is welcome.

Benmo is Darmapunks with an ex-nyc.

PayPal buttons are on the website, Darmapunks NYC.com and also on the podcast site and there's a

patreon.com forward slash darmapunks NYC separately and tonight we are talking about practicing

contentment and going over the fundamental insights of positive psychology movement,

I'm going to talk a little bit about,

and then we're going to dive into the practices that are associated with cultivating contentment,

essentially spreading happiness and feelings of well-being,

boosting them, as it were.

So up until the 1950s, psychology was primarily broken down into certainly the tradition of Freudian psychoanalysis,

which focused on how emotional memories,

along with sexual and aggressive drives,

when repressed, led to anxiety disorders,

compulsions, and a whole host of other symptoms. And so the goal of psychoanalysis

was to sit in a room with on a couch,

the analyst behind you out of sight

and you'd free associate.

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