All Episodes
Dharmapunx NYC — 510 episodes
The Haunted Self: Ego States, Parts, Sub-Personalities (note: poor audio, recorded over zoom)
Obsession, Fixation and Infatuation. When Our Thoughts Revolve Around One Person.
The Profound Efficacy of Healing Rituals: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Neuroscience and Why the Nervous System Needs More Than Insight
Helping Others Without Losing Ourselves in the Process
Making the Most of the Time We Have
How Thoughts Affect Your Body—What Happens When We Chronically Activate Our Stress Response system Over Imaginary Worries
Playing Hide-and-Seek With Adult Reality
You Are Not Who You Think You Are
What Does It All Mean? (And Does It Really Matter If It Doesn't Mean Anything?)
Oops, I Did It Again! The Psychology of Repetition Compulsion
Filtering Out the Spam From Your Mind — Explaining Right Effort
The Spiritual Bypass [note: editing a little jumpy; I was sick while giving the talk, so edited out the coughing and sniffing as much as possible]
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
A World of Possibilities: Stepping Back Into Life with Curiosity, Courage, and Wonder
How Emotions Are Constructed By the Brain
Disillusionment—With Consumer Culture, Work and Country—And How to Move Forward
Unpacking the Four Stages of Grief
Stop Playing the Tapes: Allowing the Mind to Record New Material
The Smart Heart: Fascinating New Theoretical Insights Into Emotional Intelligence
Cruel Optimism, or What We Seek Can Make Us Suffer
Your Body Remembers What Your Mind Forgot
The Holidays: From Sometimes Just Surviving to Thriving
Wired, Tired and Tense: The Body That's Always Alert, Never Relaxed
If It's Hysterical It's Historical. (poor audio quality, recorded over zoom)
How Predictably You: The Manner in Which Personality Is Constructed
Shadow Selves & Hidden Scripts
When Our Models of the World Are Outdated And Need Updating
Wired for Worry: Why Our Brains Gravitate to Stress and What to Do About It
Your Mind Is Lying About You!
From Cave Fires to Instagram Likes: The Ancient Roots of Envy and Jealousy
Financial Insecurity
No Future: Don't be told what you want, Don't be told what you need.
STOP GOING TO THE HARDWARE STORE ... for orange juice.
Safe Enough to Love: A Journey from Insecure to Secure Attachment
Gut Reactions—Like Disgust—What They Teach Us
How Imagination and Feelings Shape Our Behaviors and Also How We Learn
The Validation Trap: Moving On From the Need for Acknowledgment
It's a Mad, Mad World: Mental Health in Neoliberal Capitalism
No One Is Watching — The Damaging Illusion of an Unseen Audience
The Dharma of the Absurd: The Nature of Awakening in an Indifferent Universe
Seeing Isn’t Believing: Why the Brain Isn’t Built for Truth And Nothing Is As It Seems
Reparenting Your Mind: Parts Work and Buddhist Practice
The Roots of Addiction: Contemporary Psychological and Buddhist Perspectives
When I, Then I'll, or the subtle ways avoidance disguises itself—talk only, meditation didn't record
The Body, Healing and Love (in person talk in NYC)
What's Beneath the Flames: Understanding Anger, Uncovering the Vulnerable Emotions It Conceals and the Path to Healing
EGO DEATH: The State Where We Lose Our Sense of Having a Separate Identity.
From Chaos to Calm—Ways to Help Others Who Are Emotionally Distressed
Catastrophizing: Ruminating on the Worst Possible Outcome, No Matter How Unlikely
Beyond the Hamster Wheel: Stillness in the Time of Acceleration
On the Purpose and Interpretation of Dreams, What We Can Learn from Them, and Employ in Our Meditation
NEW YEAR'S DAY TALK 2025: Breaking Free From the Despair of Capitalist Realism
The Gift of Being Known: Nurturing Our Well-Being Through Authentic Connection
Addressing and Lessening the Stressing
Seeing the Suffering Behind the Blowhard's Mask: The Psychology of and Buddhist Approach to Narcissism
When the Shit Hits the Fan (or Letting Go of What Never Was): The Path of Disappointment and Resilience
A MUTE BUTTON FOR THE MIND: Quieting Inner Chatter, Self Talk, Rumination
Breaking Free From Survival Mode: Buddhist Insights into Persistent Childhood Defense Mechanisms
EMPATHY: When It's Helpful and When It's Not
Internalizing Shame: The Psychological Tolls of Late Stage Capitalism and How to Protect Our Sense of Self
Nervous: A Brief Overview of the Autonomic Nervous System and Ways to Regulate Our Stress
The Buddha: A Revolutionary Who Fought Against the Class System
In Person at GSHP: Connection, Community and Well-Being (not great audio quality)
Is Closure Possible?
Make It Fun For a Change: Imagination, Creativity and Play in Meditation and Spiritual Practice
Doomscrolling: The persistent draw toward negative news, why its so alluring and how to disconnect
COULDA • WOULDA • SHOULDA • The Fascinating Implications of Counterfactual Thought
Cultivating a Secure Base in Adult Life: How We Can Repair Early Attachment Disturbancess To Create a Positive Sense of Self
Complaining versus Reframing: How to Process Bad Interactions Without Rumination or Lingering Resentments
RELAX & UNWIND: Addressing the Causes and Conditions That Support Well-Being
The Ick! An abrupt and unanticipated feeling of disgust toward someone we previously found enjoyable or attractive
The Unconscious Prcocesses That Choose Our Attachments (And How to Change Them For the Better)
Is There Really a True Self? Sub-Personalities, Impression Management And the Slippery Sense of Authenticity!
The Blame and Shame Spiral: An Alternative to Fault Finding and Self-Pity After Relationship Ruptures
Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts: How Emotional Memories Create Obsessive Mental States
Retail Therapy: The Destructive Cycle of Relying on Shopping to Auto-Regulate Our Emotions
Victim Signaling, Competitive Victimization and the Role of Forgiveness
If This Were a Pill Everyone Would Be Taking It
Understanding and Addressing Toxic Shame, Including Practices That Build Our Self-Esteem
DENIAL (Don't Be In It). Understanding And Addressing Denial From Buddhist and Psychological Perspectives
The Path of Supporting Others By Listening Without Giving Advice
Understanding And Appreciating Our Most Challenging Attributes
Instant Karma, Long Term Karma: Why It Really Matters to Your Well-Being
Top Down and Bottom Up Processing: How Our Minds Create Our Sense of Self and the World and How to Re-Start the Process
The addictive Allure of Unreliable Relationships and Trauma Bonding
Burnout Culture: How the ‘Always On’ Digital Landscape of Connectivity and Convenience Inevitably Leads to States of Exhaustion; the Role of Meditation and Contemplation in Restoring Balance to Life
New Years Intention Setting Talk, Meditation and Ceremony for 2024
Balancing Comfort and Ease with Our Accountability to Others and the World
Accepting Versus Trying to Change Others in Core Relationships
The Hidden Allures of Suffering and the Ways Out of the Cycle of Self-Inflicted Despair
Being Seen In the Eye of the Other: On The Importance of Feeling Understood
DPXnyc Live: Relieving Overburdened Defenses & Establishing Harmonious Coping Strategies.mp3
The Fear of Death: What exacerbates It? Practices to Alleviate the Dread & Anxiety.
Living with the Unknown, or Ways to Respond WHen Life Ambushes Us With the Unexpected
The Addictions of Everyday Life: Common activities can produce bursts of dopamine in the brain that bring short term pleasures and longer term suffering
Insights & Meditations to Develop Secure Relationships (Dharma Punx NYC live)
Distress Tolerance Tools part 2: Reframing Life in Terms of Our Core Values
Distress Tolerance Tools part 1: Effective Engagement versus Avoidance Coping
Dharma Punx NYC Live in Williamsburg: Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
understanding and attaining transcedent non-dual states of mind via early buddhist meditation strategies
Complicated Grief talk & meditation. Please note: the meditation might be painful for those with cPTSD or attachment traumas, so don’t practice if you feel vulnerable.
Memory Reconsolidation: Rewriting the Unconscious Emotional Beliefs That Activate Fast Automatic Bevahiors
Basics of Neurotransmitters And Their Role in Mood Disorders and Natural Ways to Address Imbalances
The Universe as a Simulation: The brain lacks direct access to the outside world, so it must guess what’s out there. How can we change the predictive models we live in?
Anger Mgmt: How to Process and Safely Metabolize Frustration, Resentment and Rage
FAWNING: The fourth “F” of threat reactions: Fight, Flight, Freeze and Fawn; Accommodating, Appeasing and Deferring to Those Who Have Harmed Us
When Work Isn’t Worth It
Setting Boundaries to Maintain Relationships: An Overview and Strategies
How Right Effort in Buddhism Overlaps with Metacognition and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; How Changing the Way We Frame Experience Changes How We Feel and Addresses Our Moods
Conflict Avoidance: Addressing maladaptive tendencies, moving forward to face our fears and disclose needs authentically
Addressing Unresolved Buried Memories and Feelings from the Forgotten Past
You’re not who you think you are, nor is anyone else: The biases that distort our sense of self and others
Practicing Contentment: Positive Psychology and Tools for Peace of Mind
Emotion Contagion: What It Is & How to Limit the Influence of Other People’s Anger, Anxiety & Gloom
Addiction and Recovery: An Overview of Insights and Tools for Sobriety
Managing Stress: A Set of Tools to Reset Your Alarm System
The Mind & The Body: How physiological changes in both body and brain states guide our choices and behaviors
Cultivating Feelings of Safety in Our Core Relationships
Denial and Acceptance: How the Mind Can Hold Two Contradictory Beliefs and Perceptions at the Same Time
Altered States: How We Create What We Experience, Spiritual Endeavors, Meditation, Plant Medicine
Mind Over Matter: Rituals and Placebos, Some of the Science Behind the Magic
Confidence with Humility
The Revolution Within: Some of the Ways Capitalism Colonizes the Mind And the Tools For Liberation
Sleep, Dreaming and Insomnia: A Concise Overview
The Simulation of Reality We Live In And The Aha! Moment of the Experiential Shift
Radical Buddhist Intentions for the New Year (2023)
Reparenting Oneself in a Meditation Practice
Seasonal Affective Disorder and the Holiday Blues
Self-Rumination and Depression
Building Durable Relationships That Are Resilient Under External Stress
An Array of Practices and Insights to Address Social Discomfort
Unconscious Memories and Automatic Behaviors
Transcendent and Transformational Peak Experiences
On People Pleasing, Impression Management and the Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Resetting the Nervous System to Calm, Confident, Curious and Creative
Core Insights of the Dharma: Impermanence (Anicca), the Nature of Existence
Fixing a Broken Picker: Changing How We Choose People For Relationships
Indecision—Drawbacks, Benefits, and Ways To Make a Decision When the Clock’s Run Out
Contemporary Insights into the Psychology of Envy, and Some Meditative Strategies to Address It
A Sense of Purpose Versus Languishing: The Activities That Keep Us Sane, Healthy and Motivated
Too Much Stuff: Understanding Hoarding and Accumulation
Getting Unstuck: Both/And (Dialectical) Thinking Versus Either/Or (Black or White) Thinking
Anger → Resentments → Suffering; Mindfulness → Boundaries → Forgiveness → Relief
Reading Other People’s Minds: Mentalization, Understanding Other’s Intentions, and Why It’s Vital Coping Skill For Peace of Mind
Thriving in Relationships: Acceptance versus the Fantasy of Changing One’s Partner
The Role of Expressed Delight in Developing Healthy a Sense of Self
Letting Go and Moving on: Skillful Grieving After Rejection, Separation and Loss
Persevering Despite Setbacks, Obstacles and a Bombardment of Bad News
Self-Therapy: A Meditation Strategy to Orchestrate Impulses And Drives Towards Healthy Goals
Trauma Informed: Some Basic Insights And Strategies To Address in a Meditation Practice
Right Effort and Concentration: Understanding the Attentional Systems of the Brain and Developing Focus Less Prone to Mundane Distractions
Right Livelihood: The Pressures of Late Stage Capitalism While Seeking Fulfilling Work.
The Wisdom of Emotions • What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You
What Other People Think About YOU
Attaining States of Flow, being fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus or “in the zone”
Healthy Ego Function and Sense of Self in a Narcissistic Landscape
Dependency, Co-Dependency and Interdependency: Understanding the Differences and Addressing the Concerns
Cognitive Overload and Mental Fatigue: Understanding and Alleviating
Stress, Internal Conflicts and the Body in Pain; Psychosomatic Disorders; Contemporary and Buddhist Insights and Meditation Practices
Stop Tip Toeing Around: Relating to Important People in Our Lives Who Cannot Regulate Their Emotional Reactions, Especially Anger
Understanding Fear and How to Address It in a Visualization Practice
Brief Meditation to Prepare for Anxiety Inducing Situations and Interactions
News Flash: How Much News Do We Really Need?
Developing Resilience After Relationship Losses and Setbacks
Buddhism and Attachment Theory Part 1: The Types of Attachment And How Early Bonds Influence Everything
Buddhism and Attachment Theory part 2: The Neurobiology of Attachment, the Reasons We Love and Connect
Addressing Fatalism, Pessimism and Giving Up
Transforming Our Greatest Fears Into a Tool For Spiritual Growth
Strategies for Addressing Chronic Pain
Skillful Communication in Difficult Conversations
Self- Destructive Impulses: The Buddha & Freud’s insights into our inclinations toward self-sabotaging behaviors.
RUMINATION: When the Voice in Our Heads Talks Too Damn Much
New Year’s Eve Talk & Ceremony
Easing the Holiday Blues: Being Triggered During the Holiday Season
Discerning Our Unmet Needs When Orienting Towards Self-Actualization
Why We Do the Things We Do: The Possibility of Change Amidst the Demise of Free Will
Late Stage Capitalism, the Human Stress Response and Transcendence
The Life of the Buddha & The Middle Path to Well-Being
On the Removal of Intrusive Thoughts: Insights, Tools and Buddhist Contemplative Strategies
A Higher Purpose in the Time of Languishing
Upgrading Our Operating Systems: How Evolutionary Mismatch Effects Your Life And What To Do About It
Death Anxiety and the Reincarnation Blues Band
Dread!!!
Fawning: Avoiding Conflict At All Cost By Performing Placating Behaviors
The Stress of Secrets and Skillful Ways to Disclose Painful Experiences
Creating Space for Other People‘s Emotional States
It‘s Not What You Think, But What You Feel That Really Matters
Oceanic Boundless: Achieving Transformative, Mind-Expanding Altered States of Consciousness in Meditation
Effective Early Buddhist Strategies for Addressing Compulsions, Addictions and Bad Habits
Easing Loneliness and Feeling More Connected
Buddhist Interventions for Managing Ego States: Mindfulness and Visualization Strategies to Employ Adult Capabilities in Stressful Situations
Hacking Your Brain: Neurotransmitters, why you should care, and how to balance their levels
The Shadow Self: Understanding the nature of unconscious, disowned feelings, impulses and memories that we often fail to acknowledge and accept.
Incompatible Relationships—Why some pairings create conflict and instability no matter how much we try to compromise and practice tolerance and understanding.
Karma: How our present intentions and actions influence our future emotional well-being.
Negativity Bias: focusing on negative experiences has resulted in severe consequences for our psychological well-being.
The Fear of Missing Out—How to Address the Concern That Other People Are Doing Life Better.
The Path to Awakening: Core Buddhist Teachings on the Nature of Enlightenment
Madness (Varied cultural models of madness, the fear of losing one's mind, hidden social agendas packed into the concept of insanity)
Psychological and Spiritual Implications of Internet Use
Understanding And Cultivating Love, Bonding, Exploration and Emotion-Regulation.
The Sublime—How States of Awe and Wonder Provide Refuge From Distress and Anxiety
Forbidden Thoughts: Coping with Distressing, Intrusive Impulses
Setting Skillful Boundaries: Transforming burdensome relationships without relying on maladaptive defensive strategies
Putting Your Head in the Demon's Jaw: Approaches to Trauma, Triggers and Distress Tolerance
Addressing Maladaptive Patterns in Relationships
Attention: How It Influences Our Emotional Well-being And How To Manage It
Addressing Anxiety After Social Distancing
Rituals, Faith, Placebos and Healing
Offering and Receiving Support: How Talking About Painful Events Can Help And How It Can Make Matters Worse
Life at the Crossroads: Making Important Life Decisions
Work Related Stress: Gaining Confidence Via Meditative and Somatic Practices
Getting Closure: What? When? How?
The Search For the True Self
Toning Down a Pathological Inner Critic
A Sense of Purpose
How to Feel Safe in Unstable Times
Determining and Stating Our Core Needs
New Years Eve Talk: Spirituality, Ultimate Concerns and a Meaningful Life
Self-Acceptance vs Self-Improvement: The Paths to Well-Being
Fine Tuning Intuition Through Mindfulness of Feelings
Cultivating a Balanced Life Free of Compulsive Distractions
Seasonal Affective Disorder in the Time of the Pandemic
Obsession. Infatuation. Fixation. Preoccupation.
Finding Moments of Relief in the Midst of Chaos
The Growth Choice: Evolving Beyond Avoidance Behaviors to Adult Coping Strategies
GUILT and SHAME
Unsettled: Living with the Unresolved
The Big Questions: Existentialist Psychology and the Dharma
Addiction and Recovery: Contemporary and Buddhist Theories & Treatments
A Pocket Guide To the Dharma — The Core Principles of Buddhist Psychology
Positive Emotions: Why We Have Them, Why We Need Them, How to Generate Them
The Process of Healing: Grieving Loss and Separation From the Loved
Transcendence and Ultimate Concerns: Some of the Profound Benefits of Spiritual Practice
Processing the Pandemic: How We Carry or Discharge Our Emotional Wounds & Stress
Cultivating the Resilience to Bounce Back After Losses, Setbacks and Disappointments
You Are Smarter Than You Think (But You Probably Don't Know Why)
Rewiring Our Old Circuitry: Overriding Outdated Behavioral Traits
Understanding and Addressing the State of Being Overwhelmed
Understanding and Connecting with the Inner Child in Mindfulness Meditation
How Minds and Bodies Interact in the Healing of Emotional Wounds
Pandemic Talk 9: Understanding and Addressing Situational Depression
Pandemic Talk 8: Taking Care of the Nervous System During Times of Stress
Pandemic Talk 7: A Spiritual Practice for These Times
Pandemic Talk 6—Communicating During the Pandemic: Stating Needs. Setting Boundaries. Working Through Conflict.
Pandemic Talk 5—Practices to Support Emotion Stability During Social Distancing
Pandemic Talk 4: Coming to Terms With Difficult Experiences
Pandemic Talk# 3: Tools for Self-Acceptance and Internal Integration
Pandemic Talk 2—Adapting to the New Normal Through Titration, Portioning and Mindfulness
Pandemic Talk 1 — Some Tools for the Times
a meaningful life with significant experiences
The Felt Sense of Security: Why Some People Respond to Challenges, While Others React
Terror Management: How We Accept Or Deny the Most Significant Truth of Existence
Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts: Understanding Why They're So Sticky, And How To Alleviate Them
Mindful Communication During Conflict: The Process of Building Trust and Mutuality Amidst Tension
A Healthy Balance: Love Versus Codependency and Enmeshment
Relax & Unwind: How to Slow Down and Recuperate
Skillful Intentions for a New Decade of Well Being (with New Year's Eve Ceremony)
Inclining the Mind Toward Secure Attachment
object constancy and the psychology of protective spirits and persecutory delusions
Chronic Stress: Causes and Relief
Addressing the Fear of Social Rejection
Peak Experiences, Ego Transcendence and Self-Actualization: Some Tools and Insights from Transpersonal Psychology and the Human Potential Movement
Self Integration: Understanding the separate states of the psyche
Alleviating Distress: Buddhist and Contemporary Insights Into the Two Kinds of Suffering in Life
Repairing Attachment Wounds in Adults: A Summary of Five Practices
Contemplation of One's Mortality Meditation to Clarify Our Purpose in Life
Interacting Skillfully with Irrational People
Addressing Work Related Anxiety
Thoughts on Setting Boundaries and Stating Needs
Orienting Practice: Locating Safety Cues in Stressful Situations, Talk and Guided Visualization
Stop Making Sense: Retrieving the Felt Experience Before All Conceptualization and Meaning Making
Addressing Learned Helplessness, Fatalism, Resignation
Resilience, Bouncing Back From Setbacks and Going with the Flow
Procrastination, Perfectionism & Avoidance Coping: What Makes Us Drag Our Feet And How To Move Forward
Killing the Buddha: Infatuation with Big Ideas and the Fetishization of "The One Who Knows"
A Balanced Nervous System: Stress vs Shut Down vs Wellbeing
Preoccupation: Addressing the fixation on unreliable relationships that distract attention from embracing our life and moving forward.
Making Sense of Life: Processing Emotional Events & Attachment Wounds Through Storytelling
Taking Inventory: Reviewing the Quality of Our Actions Without Beating Ourselves Up
Repetition Compulsion: The Tendency to Wind Up in Unhealthy Interpersonal Dynamics, and How to Address These Patterns with Somatic Mindfulness
Attaining Trascendent & Altered States of Consciousness
Emotions: How Are They Made & Can They Be Changed?
managers, firefighters and exiles—Different Parts of the Self
Upgrading Your Mind's Operating System
Unseen Costs: How Social Media & Text Based Communication Contribute to Emotional Isolation
Self-Transcendence
Alleviating Loneliness
Getting Unhooked • How To Uncover the Nonconscious Complexes Underlying Current Struggles
Dharma 101: Understanding the Four Noble Truths
Connecting with Our Unmet Needs & Deepest Longings
The Four Foundations of Love
hungry ghosts & angry demons: recovery retreat talk 1
hungry ghosts & angry demons: recovery retreat talk 2
Balancing the Bilateral Brain
Soothing Guided Meditation (with relaxing ambient music)
Fulfillment in Life
Self-Soothing in Triggering Social Settings
Relationships: Tools For Establishing a Secure Bond
Entering the Bardos: The Hidden Wisdom of Buddhist Mysticism
hacking your brain: neurotransmitters, hormones and using meditation to cultivate states of well-being
On Releasing Resentments and Processing Anger
SAD: Seasonal Depression and Processing Dispiriting Moods
Understanding and Addressing Catastrophizing Thoughts and Hypochondria
Being Triggered: Why It Happens And What to Do About It
Climbing the Ladder of Well-Being – The Psychological Processes Underpinning Helping Others Skillfully
Reflecting on a Renewed Sense of Purpose for a New Year
Safe vs Alert vs At Risk: How Our Nervous System Influences How We Think, Act and Perceive Others
Developing Awareness of Feelings as a Way to Transform Ingrained Behaviors
Loosening the Grip of False Perceptions Through Skillful Acts of Non-Compliance
the myth of self-improvement vs the healing journey of self-care
Social Discomfort: What Behaviors Exacerbate and Alleviate Interpersonal Awkwardness
Imagination and Creativity in Meditation as a Form of Self-Therapy
Surviving Toxic Relationships with Narcissists and Sociopaths
How to Transform Unpleasant Memories into Useful Stories
Two Talks and Meditations from 2018 Dharma Punx Retreat on Secure Attachment
Unlearning Fear: Reviewing neural processes underlying fear and meditation strategies to alleviate avoidance coping
Cultivating A Spiritual Path to Survive Shitty Times
Healing Core Shame By Developing Self-Worth and Confidence While in a Meditation Practice
How to Understand and Alleviate Those Distressing Thoughts
Self-Retreat: On the Transformative Power of Emotions
The Emotional Wounds Underlying Envy & Jealousy
A Basic Process for Making Difficult Decisions
Core Feelings, Defensive Impulses and Resilience
The Social Brain and Shaping One's Self to Achieve Acceptance from Others
Five ways to Use Attention in Meditation to Reduce Agitation & Build Distress Tolerance
What Hides Behind the Curtain
Addiction. Attachment. Dharma. Recovery.
Live in Berlin, August 9 2018
the repair of emotional wounds and core shame in meditation practice
The Fear of Insignificance, Transcendence and the final process in Buddhism, Atammayata
The Whys & Hows of Setting Boundaries with Foolish People
Defining Depression and Alleviating the Intrusive Thoughts That Trigger Relapses
Each of us is a crowd: Defensive Sub-Personalities and the Wounded Child
UNDERSTANDING THE DECENTRALIZED SELF AND HOW ONE CAN INTEGRATE IMPULSES INTO AN ADAPTABLE PSYCHE
Standing Up to Bullies Without Freezing: Using Spiritual Tools to Protect Ourselves
Invitation to a Spacious and Open Mind
NO BIG IDEA - Don't Believe the Hype
Sometimes All You Need Is a New Perspective (or A Different View)
Mending Important Relationships with Mindful and Mirroring Dialogue Strategies
Talk on Core Shame and Low Self-Esteem, With Inner Child Meditation Exploring How to Ease Old Emotional Wounds
Understanding and Treating Anxiety
Existential Well-Being: Cultivating Insights Steering Us Towards a Meaningful Life
How to Fire Your Inner Prosecutor: Deflating the Inflated Superego
how early life experiences, now long forgotten, still influence our lives and what we can do about them
two paths to liberation: samadhi and vipassana
Guided meditation – samadhi and vipassana
i just dont know what to make of it and that's ok
memory reconsolidation—the intersection of a core buddhist insight practice with contemporary neuropsychology
Turning Towards, Rather than Running from, Discomfort: Observing and Learning from Difficult Experiences
Dual Talk Noah Levine & Josh Korda: Healing through Community
The Psychology of Resistance: Sustaining Action in the Era of Trumpism
KARMA: A Neural Interpretation
Limitless Expansive Awareness Meditation (recorded outdoors at Autumn 2017 retreat)
Mentalization: Discerning What Motivates the Behaviors of Oneself and Others
Primary Emotions versus Secondary Emotions and the Dharma
Moving on, letting go and getting over it—An Overview
Taking Care of Others While Taking Care of Oneself
Ideas on the Role of Consciousness in Adaptive Behaviour
guided meditation for coping with stressful situations
New Year's Eve Reflection, Dharma Talk & Buddhist Refuge Ceremony
The Psychological Insights Inspiring Early Buddhist Teachings on Ghosts & Spirits
Addressing arguments, fights, hostility, conflict, spats, misunderstandings, tension, Ill feelings & falling outs without conflict avoidnace
The Delusions of Everyday Life, or Learning to See Through Appearances
Making Sense of it All: How to Process Emotionally Resonant Experiences
Live at Against the Stream San Francico... “Unsubscribe: Opt Out of Delusion, Tune into the Truth"
Surviving Social Gatherings & Facing Conflicts
Establishing Secure Connection in the Age of Tinder & Facebook
Pursuing Worthwhile Long Term Goals Without Procrastinating
the importance of creativity in developing wellbeing
Understanding maladaptive coping strategies
The Dharma of Attachment Theory 1 (Mindfulness & Reparenting Oneself)
The Dharma of Attachment Theory 2 (Heart Practices for a Secure Base)
Alleviating Guilt
Self-Retreat Talk 2017: Understanding Self-States
Wiring the Brain to Override Compulsive Behaviors
A Secure Base (Cultivating the Inner Qualities We Need to Thrive in Life)
Resilience: Bouncing Back After Setbacks (31 minute talk, 30 minute meditation)
The Buddha the Bilateral Brain (31 minute talk followed by 26 minute guided meditation)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love • (1) 27 minute talk (2) 27 minute guided meditaton
Reflections on White Privilege and the Dharma
Creating & Experiencing a Felt Shift in Life (Focusing in Meditation)
How to Let Go When Plans Go Awry, Reprioritize & Set New Goals
How to Use Attention to Regulate Emotions
Overcoming Obstacles and Fear By Developing Stress Tolerance
learning from anger & resentments (with meditation)
Talks at Garrison Institute: How do I know Who I am When I'm Not Even Supposed to Ask?
Talks at Garrison Institute: Unearthing the Mind's Hidden beliefs
Talks at Garrison Institute: Orchestrating the Mind
Talks at Garrison Institute: Techniques for Quieting the Mind
Pessimism & Cynicism & Nihilism vs. Buddhism
How Awareness of the Body Helps Us Improve Our Social & Interpersonal Experience
Attaining the Spiritual in a Material World
Talk with Dr. Stephen Dansiger: Addressing Addiction & Trauma with Mindfulness (also: Refuge Recovery & EMDR)
The Hidden Message of Depression
Building Confidence: Dharma Talk followed by Meditation
Meditation: confidence building with somatic awareness & inner child practice
Learning From Life: How & When to Transform Experience into Insight
Inducing Positivity Meditation (30 minutes)
Inducing Positivity to Flourish in Life
Meditation for Working with Trauma & Painful Memories (with Introduction)
Addressing Trauma (With Overview of Trauma, Treatment Modalities & Meditation)
How Awareness of Moods & Mind States Helps Us Survive in the World
The Courage to Make Big Life Changes
Letting Go of Control in Life
Stating Needs & Setting Boundaries
Guided meditation - Choiceless Awareness
Introduction to a Buddhist Psychology of Addiction
Alleviating Anxiety (with a Guided Meditation)
Understanding & Attaining the Sublime & Mystical (with Guided Meditation)
Insecurity in Relationships and How to Move Towards Secure Attachment
Knowing Thyself: Skillful and Unskillful Forms of Self-Awareness
If You Meet the Buddha on the Road
Overthrowing the Inner Tyrant
How to Connect and When to Let Go
Approaching the Bardo (talk & meditation)
Staying Sane in a Sh*t SHow (with meditation)
Processing Emotional Experiences with Mindfulness
The Psychology of Peak Experiences (with Guided Meditation)
Understanding and Addressing Obsessive Ideations & Compulsive Behaviors
A Basic Summary of the Dharma
New Year's Eve Message
Understanding Craving & Suffering
what is a meaningful life?
How to think about yourself skillfully (followed by guided meditation)
Getting to Know the Different Parts of Yourself
Tools to Heal and Sustain Important Relationships
Surviving Social Gatherings
When the Fit Hits the Shan (Some Reflections on the Election)
Understanding and Alleviating Dread
Addressing Negative Self-Talk
Harnessing Our Anger and Fear (Wesleyan University Talk)
Settling the Wandering Mind (tools to develop present time awareness)
Self-Integration of the Divided Brain via Mindfulness (2 talks DPxNYC 2016 Autumn Retreat)
the value and attainment of the sublime state of awe
three ways to address maladaptive behaviors
Two Talks in Philadelphia September 2016
Little Known Paths Leading to Deep Spiritual Insights
Exploring & Expressing Emotions (Retreat at Garrison Institute 2016)
The Imposter Syndrome & Low Self-Esteem
It Doesn't Have to Make Any Sense At All
Explanation of Rain Meditation with Guided Practice
Taking Good Care of Your Tripartite Brain
From Self-Delusion to Self-Awareness
Emotions talk at Garrison institute
Metacognition - How to Determine Which Thoughts are Useful, Which Aren't, And What to Do About It
Towards a Psychological Understanding of Karma
Moving Towards A Balanced Life That Addresses All Our Needs
Overview of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness
The Third and Fourth Fourth Foundations of Mindfulness (Awareness of Emotional Settings & Contents of the Cognitive Mind)
The Second Foundation of Mindfulness (Feelings)
The First Foundation of Mindfulness (The Breath and Body)
Tools for Healing Relationship Issues
Processing the Incomprehensible
Buddhist Insights into the Causes of Suffering and Craving
Ways to Address & Heal the Hidden Causes of Shame
The Essential Role of Creative Play and Imagination in Spiritual Practice
Addressing Maladaptive Behaviors with Visualization Meditation
Parts of the Mind Retreat talk 2-Understanding and Addressing Unconscious Beliefs
Parts of the Mind Retreat talk 1 - Connecting with the Minds Different Parts
An End to Low Self Esteem and Self-Consciousness
Why Do I Feel the Way That I Do?
Healing After the Heartbreaking, or The Risk of Keeping It All Together
Changing the Perceptions that Keep Us Trapped in Repetitive Patterns
On the Spiritual Journey from People Pleasing to Authenticity
alleviating anger
freedom starts in your practice
Addressing the Underlying Causes of Addiction - Josh Korda with Dr. Stephen Dansiger
Attaining Moments of Clarity—Understanding the States of Survival Mode and Homestasis
can you keep a secret?
Thailand talk 8 - Changing Self-Destructive Habits by Addressing Unconscious Beliefs
Thailand talk 7 - Interpersonal Practices Explored In Depth
Thailand talk 6 -- How to Connect with Others to Heal Emotional Wounds
Thailand talk 5 - Relieving Shame & Blame Spirals
Thailand talk 4 - Understanding & Orchestrating the Mind's Sub-personalities
Thailand talk 3 - Processing Emotions Further Explored
Thailand talk 2 - Overview of Emotion Processing
Thailand talk 1 - relieving obsessive thoughts
The Role of Death in a Meaningful Life
Developing Feelings of Security Through Five Spiritual Faculties
Self-Compassion as a Tool to Heal Emotional Wounds
Helping Others & Sobriety—01/09/2016 Talk at zencare
addressing bad moods
Facing the unknown and overwhelming
DharmaPunxNYC New Year's Eve Talk and Ceremony 12-31-2015
Setting and Keeping Intentions for the New Year
modern psychology & the dharma 3: alternatives to repression, denial & avoidance
modern psychology & the dharma 2: irrational thoughts and beliefs
modern psychology and the dharma 1: the true & false self
How to Prepare for Triggering Social Gatherings
Head and Heart Together 2 (reflective practices)
Head and Heart Together 1 (basic practices)
Resolving Conflicts with Confidence
guided sunyata (emptying the mind) meditation
finding a meaning for life despite pessimism
understanding and addressing stress
The Psychology of Presence
Understanding Concentration and Insight
Dharma in the Desert - Josh Talk at ATS West Coast Retreat 2015
what is an authentic life—talk and guided reflection
the foundations of buddhist wisdom
Shedding Light on Awakening—Understanding Early Buddhist Thoughts on Enlightenment
understanding and addressing anxiety
nowhere to go, nothing to do, no one to become
ways to change bad habits
Atammayata: The Meditation That Leads to Transcendence
Misperceptions that Sabotage Relationships and How to Correct Them
Buddhist & Psychological Tools to Maintain Stable Relationships
Karma, Self-Forgiveness and Detaching with Love, a Talk & Meditation
Talk at ATS: Managers, Firefighters and Exiles