Hi, thanks for coming. Welcome. My name is Josh. This is DarmaPunks New York.

I've been the Buddhist pastor giving the talks for the last 16 years going on 17.

Good time to give a talk on capitalism, stress, and self-soothing.

As I was in the supermarket today,

and already they're playing Christmas music. It's a horror show and on top of that when I wasn't

looking somehow Black Friday,

which is a catastrophe in and of itself,

has somehow metastasized into Cyber Monday.

Pretty soon, every day will be a shopping day throughout the year with Christmas music being

blasted everywhere we go.

With that, rather cynical introduction, before we dive into tonight's talk, reminding you if you would like to support my work as a Buddhist pastor, everything I do is by donation.

So the Venmo is Darma Punk's with an X NYC and the PayPal button is on the podcast site which is

darma punks with an ex NYC. podbean.com then that's it that's our pitch that's our

our spiel and now settle in find a comfortable chair

uh... put on your seatbelts. Here we go. Just as my kind of it seems weekly

reminder our nervous systems have three basic overall settings.

There is the very ancient immobilization freeze states. Immobilization Freese States which is governed by the brainstem.

That's when we're in a state of shock or shutdown. And then there is the more recent sympathetic nervous system,

which is when we're fidgety, anxious, on guard, a feel we have to act to survive a mobilization state.

That's when a heartbeats are racing, when it stops

releases cortisol and that's when we have very very repetitive survival-based thoughts and the third setting by far the healthiest the one you

want to spend as much of your life not all of your, you do need to get exercise and be in the sympathetic and also sleep when you're in the ancient shutdown.

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