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Dharmapunx NYC

Understanding and Relieving Social Anxiety & Inhibition

Dharmapunx NYC

josh korda

Buddhism, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:buddhism

4.8938 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2014

⏱️ 39 minutes

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0:00.0

Social anxiety and inhibition.

0:04.0

It's actually a talk I've been looking forward to giving.

0:07.0

I love the sort of, I love the dark difficult topic.

0:14.0

Talking about... difficult topic. talking about fear, misery, compression, anxiety, inhibition,

0:22.0

it's also great for a darmouthician.

0:26.0

So, I'm just going to start out. human beings have different needs, groups of needs that need to be met for us and

0:41.1

need to be met.

0:42.1

Needs that we, I can't figure out a way to put this

0:47.7

sense without using the word need again. We have needs that need to be met.

0:51.2

Oh that's awful. That's awful. That's awful.

0:54.0

Tragedy.

0:57.0

We have needs that seek fulfillment.

1:00.0

That's good of worked on that one more.

1:05.0

All right, so we have needs.

1:08.6

The most basic is of course physical survival.

1:13.0

And the brainstem,

1:18.0

autonomic nervous system, the basic core emotions of fear and anger are tied up to this core set of

1:29.9

needs which basically make us fight, flight, or freeze given any kind of threat.

1:36.0

So basically it's the mind that's set to look at the world in terms of threats and keep us alive.

1:42.0

And those are the most in terms of... threats that keep us alive.

1:42.8

And those are the most, in terms of their access to

1:46.2

neurotransmitters and to the way the,

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