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Distress Tolerance Tools part 1: Effective Engagement versus Avoidance Coping
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Dharma Punx NYC Live in Williamsburg: Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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understanding and attaining transcedent non-dual states of mind via early buddhist meditation strategies
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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.
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Memory Reconsolidation: Rewriting the Unconscious Emotional Beliefs That Activate Fast Automatic Bevahiors
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Basics of Neurotransmitters And Their Role in Mood Disorders and Natural Ways to Address Imbalances
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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?
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Anger Mgmt: How to Process and Safely Metabolize Frustration, Resentment and Rage
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FAWNING: The fourth “F” of threat reactions: Fight, Flight, Freeze and Fawn; Accommodating, Appeasing and Deferring to Those Who Have Harmed Us
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When Work Isn’t Worth It
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Setting Boundaries to Maintain Relationships: An Overview and Strategies
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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
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Conflict Avoidance: Addressing maladaptive tendencies, moving forward to face our fears and disclose needs authentically
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Addressing Unresolved Buried Memories and Feelings from the Forgotten Past
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You’re not who you think you are, nor is anyone else: The biases that distort our sense of self and others
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Practicing Contentment: Positive Psychology and Tools for Peace of Mind
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Emotion Contagion: What It Is & How to Limit the Influence of Other People’s Anger, Anxiety & Gloom
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Addiction and Recovery: An Overview of Insights and Tools for Sobriety

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Managing Stress: A Set of Tools to Reset Your Alarm System

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The Mind & The Body: How physiological changes in both body and brain states guide our choices and behaviors

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Cultivating Feelings of Safety in Our Core Relationships

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Denial and Acceptance: How the Mind Can Hold Two Contradictory Beliefs and Perceptions at the Same Time

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Altered States: How We Create What We Experience, Spiritual Endeavors, Meditation, Plant Medicine

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Mind Over Matter: Rituals and Placebos, Some of the Science Behind the Magic

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Confidence with Humility

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The Revolution Within: Some of the Ways Capitalism Colonizes the Mind And the Tools For Liberation

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Sleep, Dreaming and Insomnia: A Concise Overview

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The Simulation of Reality We Live In And The Aha! Moment of the Experiential Shift

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Radical Buddhist Intentions for the New Year (2023)

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Reparenting Oneself in a Meditation Practice

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Seasonal Affective Disorder and the Holiday Blues

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Self-Rumination and Depression

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Building Durable Relationships That Are Resilient Under External Stress

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An Array of Practices and Insights to Address Social Discomfort

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Unconscious Memories and Automatic Behaviors

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Transcendent and Transformational Peak Experiences

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On People Pleasing, Impression Management and the Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

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Resetting the Nervous System to Calm, Confident, Curious and Creative

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Core Insights of the Dharma: Impermanence (Anicca), the Nature of Existence

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Fixing a Broken Picker: Changing How We Choose People For Relationships

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Indecision—Drawbacks, Benefits, and Ways To Make a Decision When the Clock’s Run Out

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Contemporary Insights into the Psychology of Envy, and Some Meditative Strategies to Address It

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A Sense of Purpose Versus Languishing: The Activities That Keep Us Sane, Healthy and Motivated

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Too Much Stuff: Understanding Hoarding and Accumulation

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Getting Unstuck: Both/And (Dialectical) Thinking Versus Either/Or (Black or White) Thinking

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Anger → Resentments → Suffering; Mindfulness → Boundaries → Forgiveness → Relief

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Reading Other People’s Minds: Mentalization, Understanding Other’s Intentions, and Why It’s Vital Coping Skill For Peace of Mind

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Thriving in Relationships: Acceptance versus the Fantasy of Changing One’s Partner

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The Role of Expressed Delight in Developing Healthy a Sense of Self

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Letting Go and Moving on: Skillful Grieving After Rejection, Separation and Loss

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Persevering Despite Setbacks, Obstacles and a Bombardment of Bad News

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Self-Therapy: A Meditation Strategy to Orchestrate Impulses And Drives Towards Healthy Goals

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Trauma Informed: Some Basic Insights And Strategies To Address in a Meditation Practice

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Right Effort and Concentration: Understanding the Attentional Systems of the Brain and Developing Focus Less Prone to Mundane Distractions

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Right Livelihood: The Pressures of Late Stage Capitalism While Seeking Fulfilling Work.

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The Wisdom of Emotions • What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You

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What Other People Think About YOU

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Attaining States of Flow, being fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus or “in the zone”

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Healthy Ego Function and Sense of Self in a Narcissistic Landscape

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Dependency, Co-Dependency and Interdependency: Understanding the Differences and Addressing the Concerns

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Cognitive Overload and Mental Fatigue: Understanding and Alleviating

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Stress, Internal Conflicts and the Body in Pain; Psychosomatic Disorders; Contemporary and Buddhist Insights and Meditation Practices

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Stop Tip Toeing Around: Relating to Important People in Our Lives Who Cannot Regulate Their Emotional Reactions, Especially Anger

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Understanding Fear and How to Address It in a Visualization Practice

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Brief Meditation to Prepare for Anxiety Inducing Situations and Interactions

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News Flash: How Much News Do We Really Need?

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Developing Resilience After Relationship Losses and Setbacks

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Buddhism and Attachment Theory Part 1: The Types of Attachment And How Early Bonds Influence Everything

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Buddhism and Attachment Theory part 2: The Neurobiology of Attachment, the Reasons We Love and Connect

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Addressing Fatalism, Pessimism and Giving Up

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Transforming Our Greatest Fears Into a Tool For Spiritual Growth

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Strategies for Addressing Chronic Pain

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Skillful Communication in Difficult Conversations

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Self- Destructive Impulses: The Buddha & Freud’s insights into our inclinations toward self-sabotaging behaviors.

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RUMINATION: When the Voice in Our Heads Talks Too Damn Much

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New Year’s Eve Talk & Ceremony

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Easing the Holiday Blues: Being Triggered During the Holiday Season

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Discerning Our Unmet Needs When Orienting Towards Self-Actualization

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Why We Do the Things We Do: The Possibility of Change Amidst the Demise of Free Will

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Late Stage Capitalism, the Human Stress Response and Transcendence

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The Life of the Buddha & The Middle Path to Well-Being

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On the Removal of Intrusive Thoughts: Insights, Tools and Buddhist Contemplative Strategies

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A Higher Purpose in the Time of Languishing

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Upgrading Our Operating Systems: How Evolutionary Mismatch Effects Your Life And What To Do About It

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Death Anxiety and the Reincarnation Blues Band

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Dread!!!

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Fawning: Avoiding Conflict At All Cost By Performing Placating Behaviors

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The Stress of Secrets and Skillful Ways to Disclose Painful Experiences

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Creating Space for Other People‘s Emotional States

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It‘s Not What You Think, But What You Feel That Really Matters

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Oceanic Boundless: Achieving Transformative, Mind-Expanding Altered States of Consciousness in Meditation

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Effective Early Buddhist Strategies for Addressing Compulsions, Addictions and Bad Habits

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Easing Loneliness and Feeling More Connected

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Buddhist Interventions for Managing Ego States: Mindfulness and Visualization Strategies to Employ Adult Capabilities in Stressful Situations

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Hacking Your Brain: Neurotransmitters, why you should care, and how to balance their levels

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The Shadow Self: Understanding the nature of unconscious, disowned feelings, impulses and memories that we often fail to acknowledge and accept.

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Incompatible Relationships—Why some pairings create conflict and instability no matter how much we try to compromise and practice tolerance and understanding.

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Karma: How our present intentions and actions influence our future emotional well-being.

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Negativity Bias: focusing on negative experiences has resulted in severe consequences for our psychological well-being.

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The Fear of Missing Out—How to Address the Concern That Other People Are Doing Life Better.

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