Hi there, welcome.

New DomaPunks, NYC.

My name is Josh.

I'm a Buddhist pastor and I've been the teacher since 2005.

Just before I jump in... since 2005.

Just before I jump into tonight's talk,

if you'd like to support my work,

PayPal is on the darmopunks NYC.com site and the

Benmo is darmopunks with an ex-nyc so thanks for that. Tonight I'm going to be talking about what some people call the

fourth trauma response or the fourth survival reaction along with fight-flight freeze. There's also

the fawn response, fawning.

The autonomic nervous system responds

to cues of safety, danger and threat in the world around us and in our bodies and from our

connection with other people via what we could call three pathways of response.

There's three neurological pathways that activate different behaviors in us.

The most ancient pathway is the old

parasympathetic, which is more commonly known as

the mobilization or freeze tendency to stop dissociate to essentially almost play dead in the face in when

confronted with imminent physical overwhelm the possibility of death.

This ancient system, this ancient parasympathetic system is what kicks in not only when we're confronted with overwhelming threats, but also when we're healing from sickness or when we're struck with intense grief over a loss of an attachment figure or

significant abandonment, we grieve and when we grieve we're largely in this ancient parasympathetic setting.

In this setting this ancient freeze shut down while it allows us to heal from physiological injuries

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