Hi there, thanks for joining. I am Josh. If you're around New York City, on New Year's Eve,

we'll be having a gathering at center yoga.

And if you go to the darmaPunks NYC.com, you can get the link to find out all about it

and the registration.

I think it's from like 1030 to a little after midnight.

It'll be time to connect, meditation 2,500-year-old Buddhist ceremony, guided meditation, darmatoc, and sober toast. So that's about the size of it. Hope you can join. As a

Buddhist pastor, therapist, counselor, I don't charge for what I do. Everything I do is supported entirely by

donation in accordance with the Buddha's statements that the

darma should be given away without charge and simply supported by Donna or

donation. So if you'd like to support my work of

those darma punks with the next NYC on the website there's the

PayPal button and a Patreon link so thank you for your support.

Tonight talking about the types of thoughts that are associated with despair and depression.

And there's no better way to start out than to mention that in 2001 Shannon Sterman and James Panabaker famous psychologist did a study called word use in the poetry of suicidal and non-suicidal

poets.

And it was amazing study.

What they did is they developed an artificial intelligence text analysis program

that could analyze basically poems for words and

they examined some 300 poems written by 20 different poets.

Ten of the poets had committed suicide.

The other ten had actually lived pretty, even though they could write very dark poems,

not only didn't commit suicide but lived pretty happy emotionally regulated lives.

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