Hi there, welcome and Dorma Punk's New York, Tuesday night class and I am Josh Korda and I'm very happy to be here with you. Just a couple of notes, the retreat which is happening over Labor Day at Garrison Institute should be

posted if not next week, hopefully by the beginning of April,

Darmapunks NYC.com website,

it will, the information will be there or you could also check Garrison Institute, which is where the retreat will be which is just about an hour north of New York by the Metro North train.

Train leaves us a short walk through the woods to the Institute, very beautiful walk by the Hudson so it's a great way to get there you don't have to use a car and so I hope those of you that feel up for doing an in-person retreat will consider that.

And if you'd like to support my work, which is offered entirely free of charge, everything I do,

the counseling and teaching this all by donation, there's the PayPal button on the website or there's Venmo.

Dharma Punk's NYC is the Venmo. So thanks for that. And without further ado jumping into tonight's conversation on fear. There's a significant component of fear which we could refer to as the

conditioned threat response. For instance, if you're sitting and suddenly you feel a sensation on your shoe and you look and you see a

rat crawling over your shoe or a you get a phone call late at night or you're lying in bed and you hear suddenly a sound that sounds like it could be from inside your apartment.

A very fast involuntary series of events occurs

within a half a second.

Now in most cases, this will result in a quickened heart rate,

rapid inhalations.

Your blood will flow to your limbs. There will be a narrow focusing of awareness to a small area where you expect the threat to be and your when your blood flows to your limbs and the

HPA axis is switched on also your body stops,

generating white blood cells,

and instead goes into the production of red blood cells

because it anticipates some form of injury.

And so that's the underpinnings of the fight-flight panic response, the quickened heart rate the

mobilization state the either rapid breathing or the hell breath the panic looking for a threat, the rapid-fire thoughts cycling through one's

mind.

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