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There's a day long that will be dealing with compulsive behaviors and that's happening this July 21st.

It will be in New York at New York Insight and that's on a Sunday from 10 to 4.

Then we have a retreat with myself and a wonderful teacher, Jessica Moray,

and that will be at Garrison Institute in, I believe, September 26 to 29 a weekend from a Thursday to a Sunday

a lot of hiking trails that retreat is on learning how to self-sooth and stress reduction. So do either

that one or we have one at the end of October at WAN-Darma.

So the info will be up on the Darma Punks

with an X NYC website.

So one of those if you're interested in getting away and doing some a spiritual retreat.

It's deeply baked in that if we understand how things work it should give us a degree of efficacy and an ability to change things

for the better.

You know the idea is if we understand the left hemisphere of the brain the dominant hemisphere of our brain is a causal mechanism that looks for the underlying causes for why things happen and the idea of the dominant hemisphere is that if we

figure out why bad things happen in life we can avoid what causes them and then we will be able to have less distress in our life.

This is certainly the same basic principle of early therapeutic modalities which certainly from psychoanalysis

and the work of Freud was based on the idea that if you could uncover the blocked memories of emotional wounds in childhood and you

understand or could understand what were the original abandonments, disappointments, lack of attuned

the feelings of being ashamed or, that in understanding what happened, it would allow you then

to essentially change.

Freud even noted that the return of the repress

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