I'm Josh. This is our Tuesday class. Every Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. in the morning,

Kathy does her daily pause morning meditation. It's great. It's online. And it's on the

Dharma Punks with an XNYC.com website. So it's a great way to start the day and yeah if you ever want to reach me for any

reason dpx nyc at gmail i'm i'm very respondent to people asking for resources my work is

in counseling so for some reason do want to meet with me. Sometimes I can make

that work as well. So anyway, that's it. Tonight, a really central topic that pretty much covers, I think,

one of the most profound insights of psychology since Freud. One of the most useful insights to understand

ourselves. One of the most helpful insights to understanding why therapy and counseling works.

And it just unlocks in so many ways the mysteries of our mind so I hope that something

in this talk will feel relevant worthy of you schlepping out today the big idea is that our

emotions are basically memories or a time machine and that they're very often not about

what they seem to be. The body as the principal vehicle for the foundational expression of emotion

can drag us back to times in our life in the past where we felt

terrified, rejected, obsessed, and enraged or shamed, and recreate those feelings in the present.

This isn't a flaw.

It's actually how the brain works the brain loads in in every situation in

our life through a process known as neural reinstatement the brain recreates state it was in in situations in the past that most resemble this one. So if you've

never been to Dharma Phelmson, you walked in and you got to, you looked around, your brain went back

to a state where you were previously in a spiritual gathering, or previously in a state where you were previously in a spiritual gathering or previously in a gathering where you

didn't know what to do or previously in a Buddhist setting. So your brain, the way we can make

sense of the present is because our brain doesn't take in everything from the first time.

That would be what's called Neurally expensive.

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