Hi there. Thanks for joining tonight and the only real big upcoming event. We have our upcoming

Labor Day retreat, which is happening at Garrison Institute. It's always a joy to connect and sit

with people for a couple of days in a beautiful

area that's very easy to get to from New York. So if you're interested, please look at our website

or look at Garrison Institute. And there's also for people, there are scholarships that Garrison makes available.

Finally, there's also the daily pause meditation every Monday through Friday at eight.

Kathy leads a wonderful half hour guided meditation.

It's a great way to develop a practice.

I highly recommend it.

And then finally, if you would like to support my work,

everything I do is entirely by donation.

I don't charge for anything.

I just offer it.

And in the Buddhist tradition,

I subsist on just donations.

So the Venmo is Dharma Punks with an XNYC.

And on the Dharma Punks with an XNYC website,

you can find both PayPal and Patreon.

Tonight, I'm going to be talking about healing rituals, why they work.

We're going to do a survey of them.

I hope to stock is a benefit.

And without further ado, I'm just going to jump right in.

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