Hi there. Thank you for showing up. Welcome to you all. And this is Josh of Jarma Punk's New York.

We have a hungry ghosts day long, which really means 10 to 4 p.m. retreat Sunday, April 13th, focusing on addictive behaviors

of any kind, the roots, the psychology, different practices to address. So, yeah, stop by that.

And then on Memorial Day weekend, we have inner vision outer calm i have no idea

we came up with that title uh such a generic buddhist title but anyway uh inner vision outercom

at omega and so uh but it'll be good It's a beautiful location and a great opportunity to connect.

So next time I'll try to come up with a better title than that. That just sounds like every

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stop by the 8 a.m. morning meditations Monday through Friday.

So tonight's talk, understanding anger.

When you have big topics like this, it's always a challenge to know how to just start.

What to start with?

Survive at all costs impulses.

Those are the classic instinctive innate withdrawal impulses that help us to survive threats.

These are kind of universal impulses.

And then we also have relax and approach impulses, which are all activated by the ventral vagal system, which is different from your sympathetic nervous system.

And those are behaviors that encourage us to rest and connect with other people. So those are positive approach

impulses to a certain degree discussed, wired into us. But, you know, the impulses are trans-personal,

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