Hey, thanks for stopping by.

Labor Day, we have a three day retreat from August 30th to September 2nd,

and it's on the Garrison website and it's also on our website.

There's a Venmo, which is DarmaPunks with an XNYC,

what works for you, or just know that like in 12-step we treasure you not your money so

thanks for coming tonight talking about obsessive intrusive thoughts and wanted thoughts,

rumen nations.

I found in doing 20 years of Buddhist counseling

that would really helps people work and alleviate obsessive

thoughts is to understand why we have obsessive thoughts, what's going on?

And once we understand, then it becomes easier to gain distance,

detach and actually undertake the practices that alleviate obsessive rumination.

Before we get into those specific tools, which there will be. Trust me there's going to be

both Buddhist and other tools but before we get to that I am going to take a

little time to explain to you why certain thoughts ensnare us.

We're going to be talking about the kinds of thoughts that keep us up at night repeating.

To understand obsessive intrusive thoughts, we first have to understand that our brains have different memory systems.

One of the easiest to describe is the procedural memory system,

which is just actions that you can do without thinking about them too much.

You can tie your shoes, you can drive a car,

you can probably walk and be lost in thought

and not have to guide your fee left,, you know, you can probably walk to work or to some location you've done a million times without thinking about it too much. You can drive sometimes lose, just go on automatic pilot and kind of get lost in thought.

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