Addressing the Underlying Causes of Addiction - Josh Korda with Dr. Stephen Dansiger

Dharmapunx NYC

josh korda

Buddhism, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:buddhism

4.8 • 938 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Listen in to special, widely attended evening at Dharma Punx New York, during which old friends Dr. Stephen Dansiger, clinical director of Refuge Recovery and Josh Korda, guiding teacher of DPxNYC, discussed and unpacked the underlying causes of addiction from the perspectives of attachment disorders and trauma; the talks then moved on to a review of available treatments, wherein the 12 step, refuge recovery, therapeutic and EMDR approaches were discussed. Steve and Josh field a number of questions from the floor as well on this subject.

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0:00.0	I met this character over 30 years ago, suitably across the street beating up the guitarist in his own band.
0:10.0	They had just played at Cebes in his style I wasn't too much of a fan of either.
0:16.3	So they got into a fist fight.
0:18.7	I immediately admired his sterling character from that.
0:24.0	We've over the years been in each other's lives in so many different ways from playing.
0:30.0	We actually are a rhythm section at one point. I play bass. Steve's an amazing drummer.
0:37.0	We played in punk bands and children's bands.
0:40.0	We have. We played around the city at children's hospitals and after school programs.
0:47.0	We both got sober well over 20 years ago.
0:49.0	Actually, Steve's got nearly 30 years now.
0:51.0	27.
0:52.0	I got 21, so he's still leading me by those six years. I have
0:56.4	no idea why I'm not catching up but I'm doing something wrong. And when I was fortunate enough to be here at the beginning of Darma Punks and I dragged
1:10.4	Steve to introduce him to Noah and now Steve is the medical director of refuge recovery
1:16.0	and is just an amazing darma teacher and
1:22.0	guru around town.
1:23.7	I don't know what to say.
1:24.8	I just started that sentence and had no way to.
1:27.7	So I was just throwing anything that came into my mind.
1:30.3	So let's get started. The mind is not a single entity. As you probably are aware by now you have a conscious mind and you have an emotional unconscious mind.
1:42.0	Your conscious mind is... an emotional unconscious mind.
1:42.6	Your conscious mind is narrowly focused
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