Hi there, thanks for stopping by and welcome. I'm Josh. And this is

Darmapunks New York, just a couple of very brief announcements if you're in the

Madu and available to join us in New York City on New Year's Eve.

We'll be having our event, which we used to have on an annual basis before the

pandemic, interceded.

It's a sober event.

I believe it will start at 1030 Century Yoga and 23rd Street off of Park Avenue, really central location.

There'll be a darma talk.

Time to share, connect, there'll be meditation, and there will be

a 2,500-year-old Buddhist refuge and tension setting so in the aftermath if you feel like saying I've become a

Buddhist you can you wind up with some strings with knots around your wrist if you like

representing some of the core principles of Buddhist spiritual practice. But again, that's all optional. So if you would

like to join us, you can find the information on DarmaPunks with an ex-nyc.com. If you're up at 8 o'clock in mornings,

Kathy Desert Daily Paws, and the information is on the website too, in accordance with early Buddhist teaching,

I do not charge anything for anything that I do for any of the counseling, for any of the

teaching, everything is by donation only.

If you would like to support my work, the event mow is Darmapunks with an ex-nyc.

And the paypows on the website.

So thank you for that and tonight I'm talking about both seasonal effective

disorder and the holiday blues and they do have symptoms in common but there also is some distinctions

between the two conditions or frequent visitors this time of year.

So I'm going to start first with seasonal effective disorder, which is a period of mood

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