Bra podd

Seeing Isn’t Believing: Why the Brain Isn’t Built for Truth And Nothing Is As It Seems

30 april | 60 min

Reparenting Your Mind: Parts Work and Buddhist Practice

23 april | 59 min

The Roots of Addiction: Contemporary Psychological and Buddhist Perspectives

21 april | 62 min

When I, Then I'll, or the subtle ways avoidance disguises itself—talk only, meditation didn't record

9 april | 27 min

The Body, Healing and Love (in person talk in NYC)

6 april | 60 min

What's Beneath the Flames: Understanding Anger, Uncovering the Vulnerable Emotions It Conceals and the Path to Healing

26 mars | 65 min

EGO DEATH: The State Where We Lose Our Sense of Having a Separate Identity.

19 mars | 59 min

From Chaos to Calm—Ways to Help Others Who Are Emotionally Distressed

12 mars | 57 min

Catastrophizing: Ruminating on the Worst Possible Outcome, No Matter How Unlikely

18 februari | 60 min

Beyond the Hamster Wheel: Stillness in the Time of Acceleration

29 januari | 57 min

On the Purpose and Interpretation of Dreams, What We Can Learn from Them, and Employ in Our Meditation

22 januari | 60 min

NEW YEAR'S DAY TALK 2025: Breaking Free From the Despair of Capitalist Realism

12 januari | 57 min

The Gift of Being Known: Nurturing Our Well-Being Through Authentic Connection

18 december 2024 | 60 min

Addressing and Lessening the Stressing

16 december 2024 | 60 min

Seeing the Suffering Behind the Blowhard's Mask: The Psychology of and Buddhist Approach to Narcissism

28 november 2024 | 63 min

When the Shit Hits the Fan (or Letting Go of What Never Was): The Path of Disappointment and Resilience

20 november 2024 | 64 min

A MUTE BUTTON FOR THE MIND: Quieting Inner Chatter, Self Talk, Rumination

30 oktober 2024 | 59 min

Breaking Free From Survival Mode: Buddhist Insights into Persistent Childhood Defense Mechanisms

23 oktober 2024 | 60 min

EMPATHY: When It's Helpful and When It's Not

16 oktober 2024 | 59 min

Internalizing Shame: The Psychological Tolls of Late Stage Capitalism and How to Protect Our Sense of Self

9 oktober 2024 | 55 min

Nervous: A Brief Overview of the Autonomic Nervous System and Ways to Regulate Our Stress

26 september 2024 | 60 min

The Buddha: A Revolutionary Who Fought Against the Class System

28 augusti 2024 | 60 min

In Person at GSHP: Connection, Community and Well-Being (not great audio quality)

21 augusti 2024 | 60 min

Is Closure Possible?

12 augusti 2024 | 60 min

Make It Fun For a Change: Imagination, Creativity and Play in Meditation and Spiritual Practice

31 juli 2024 | 57 min

Doomscrolling: The persistent draw toward negative news, why its so alluring and how to disconnect

26 juli 2024 | 60 min

COULDA • WOULDA • SHOULDA • The Fascinating Implications of Counterfactual Thought

17 juli 2024 | 60 min

Cultivating a Secure Base in Adult Life: How We Can Repair Early Attachment Disturbancess To Create a Positive Sense of Self

17 juli 2024 | 61 min

Complaining versus Reframing: How to Process Bad Interactions Without Rumination or Lingering Resentments

3 juli 2024 | 60 min

RELAX & UNWIND: Addressing the Causes and Conditions That Support Well-Being

24 juni 2024 | 60 min

The Ick! An abrupt and unanticipated feeling of disgust toward someone we previously found enjoyable or attractive

18 juni 2024 | 59 min

The Unconscious Prcocesses That Choose Our Attachments (And How to Change Them For the Better)

6 juni 2024 | 62 min

Is There Really a True Self? Sub-Personalities, Impression Management And the Slippery Sense of Authenticity!

29 maj 2024 | 57 min

The Blame and Shame Spiral: An Alternative to Fault Finding and Self-Pity After Relationship Ruptures

22 maj 2024 | 61 min

Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts: How Emotional Memories Create Obsessive Mental States

13 maj 2024 | 63 min

Retail Therapy: The Destructive Cycle of Relying on Shopping to Auto-Regulate Our Emotions

13 maj 2024 | 60 min

Victim Signaling, Competitive Victimization and the Role of Forgiveness

24 april 2024 | 60 min

If This Were a Pill Everyone Would Be Taking It

24 april 2024 | 61 min

Understanding and Addressing Toxic Shame, Including Practices That Build Our Self-Esteem

15 april 2024 | 58 min

DENIAL (Don't Be In It). Understanding And Addressing Denial From Buddhist and Psychological Perspectives

29 mars 2024 | 60 min

The Path of Supporting Others By Listening Without Giving Advice

15 mars 2024 | 59 min

Understanding And Appreciating Our Most Challenging Attributes

15 mars 2024 | 61 min

Instant Karma, Long Term Karma: Why It Really Matters to Your Well-Being

9 februari 2024 | 63 min

Top Down and Bottom Up Processing: How Our Minds Create Our Sense of Self and the World and How to Re-Start the Process

31 januari 2024 | 59 min

The addictive Allure of Unreliable Relationships and Trauma Bonding

24 januari 2024 | 52 min

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

14 januari 2024 | 57 min

New Years Intention Setting Talk, Meditation and Ceremony for 2024

8 januari 2024 | 72 min

Balancing Comfort and Ease with Our Accountability to Others and the World

28 december 2023 | 64 min

Accepting Versus Trying to Change Others in Core Relationships

18 december 2023 | 60 min

The Hidden Allures of Suffering and the Ways Out of the Cycle of Self-Inflicted Despair

3 december 2023 | 57 min

Being Seen In the Eye of the Other: On The Importance of Feeling Understood

26 november 2023 | 60 min

DPXnyc Live: Relieving Overburdened Defenses & Establishing Harmonious Coping Strategies.mp3

15 november 2023 | 60 min

The Fear of Death: What exacerbates It? Practices to Alleviate the Dread & Anxiety.

1 november 2023 | 60 min

Living with the Unknown, or Ways to Respond WHen Life Ambushes Us With the Unexpected

27 oktober 2023 | 60 min

The Addictions of Everyday Life: Common activities can produce bursts of dopamine in the brain that bring short term pleasures and longer term suffering

18 oktober 2023 | 60 min

Insights & Meditations to Develop Secure Relationships (Dharma Punx NYC live)

12 oktober 2023 | 63 min

Distress Tolerance Tools part 2: Reframing Life in Terms of Our Core Values

10 oktober 2023 | 60 min

Distress Tolerance Tools part 1: Effective Engagement versus Avoidance Coping

27 september 2023 | 61 min

Dharma Punx NYC Live in Williamsburg: Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

20 september 2023 | 62 min

understanding and attaining transcedent non-dual states of mind via early buddhist meditation strategies

11 september 2023 | 60 min

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.

6 september 2023 | 54 min

Memory Reconsolidation: Rewriting the Unconscious Emotional Beliefs That Activate Fast Automatic Bevahiors

31 augusti 2023 | 65 min

Basics of Neurotransmitters And Their Role in Mood Disorders and Natural Ways to Address Imbalances

22 augusti 2023 | 74 min

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?

7 augusti 2023 | 64 min

Anger Mgmt: How to Process and Safely Metabolize Frustration, Resentment and Rage

5 augusti 2023 | 64 min

FAWNING: The fourth “F” of threat reactions: Fight, Flight, Freeze and Fawn; Accommodating, Appeasing and Deferring to Those Who Have Harmed Us

23 juli 2023 | 60 min

When Work Isn’t Worth It

13 juli 2023 | 62 min

Setting Boundaries to Maintain Relationships: An Overview and Strategies

28 juni 2023 | 60 min

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

14 juni 2023 | 69 min

Conflict Avoidance: Addressing maladaptive tendencies, moving forward to face our fears and disclose needs authentically

7 juni 2023 | 60 min

Addressing Unresolved Buried Memories and Feelings from the Forgotten Past

31 maj 2023 | 61 min

You’re not who you think you are, nor is anyone else: The biases that distort our sense of self and others

23 maj 2023 | 60 min

Practicing Contentment: Positive Psychology and Tools for Peace of Mind

9 maj 2023 | 64 min

Emotion Contagion: What It Is & How to Limit the Influence of Other People’s Anger, Anxiety & Gloom

29 april 2023 | 61 min

Addiction and Recovery: An Overview of Insights and Tools for Sobriety

19 april 2023 | 66 min

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

12 april 2023 | 63 min

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

5 april 2023 | 60 min

Cultivating Feelings of Safety in Our Core Relationships

27 mars 2023 | 60 min

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

19 mars 2023 | 60 min

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

19 mars 2023 | 63 min

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

16 februari 2023 | 59 min

Confidence with Humility

13 februari 2023 | 60 min

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

8 februari 2023 | 60 min

Sleep, Dreaming and Insomnia: A Concise Overview

29 januari 2023 | 64 min

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

17 januari 2023 | 60 min

Radical Buddhist Intentions for the New Year (2023)

11 januari 2023 | 68 min

Reparenting Oneself in a Meditation Practice

3 januari 2023 | 59 min

Seasonal Affective Disorder and the Holiday Blues

21 december 2022 | 60 min

Self-Rumination and Depression

15 december 2022 | 60 min

Building Durable Relationships That Are Resilient Under External Stress

7 december 2022 | 60 min

An Array of Practices and Insights to Address Social Discomfort

30 november 2022 | 63 min

Unconscious Memories and Automatic Behaviors

20 november 2022 | 68 min

Transcendent and Transformational Peak Experiences

9 november 2022 | 63 min

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

2 november 2022 | 61 min

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

27 oktober 2022 | 60 min

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

27 oktober 2022 | 60 min

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

11 oktober 2022 | 70 min

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

5 oktober 2022 | 61 min

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

24 september 2022 | 64 min

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

12 september 2022 | 60 min

Too Much Stuff: Understanding Hoarding and Accumulation

12 september 2022 | 66 min

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

1 september 2022 | 60 min

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

20 augusti 2022 | 62 min

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

28 juli 2022 | 61 min

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

24 juli 2022 | 64 min

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

19 juli 2022 | 60 min

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

12 juli 2022 | 60 min

Persevering Despite Setbacks, Obstacles and a Bombardment of Bad News

4 juli 2022 | 60 min

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

27 juni 2022 | 64 min

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

20 juni 2022 | 64 min

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

14 juni 2022 | 58 min

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

5 juni 2022 | 61 min

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

26 maj 2022 | 70 min

What Other People Think About YOU

17 maj 2022 | 64 min

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

9 maj 2022 | 60 min

Healthy Ego Function and Sense of Self in a Narcissistic Landscape

4 maj 2022 | 66 min

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

28 april 2022 | 60 min

Cognitive Overload and Mental Fatigue: Understanding and Alleviating

18 april 2022 | 58 min

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

11 april 2022 | 61 min

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

31 mars 2022 | 64 min

Understanding Fear and How to Address It in a Visualization Practice

25 mars 2022 | 65 min

Brief Meditation to Prepare for Anxiety Inducing Situations and Interactions

25 mars 2022 | 14 min

News Flash: How Much News Do We Really Need?

21 mars 2022 | 61 min

Developing Resilience After Relationship Losses and Setbacks

2 mars 2022 | 58 min

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

16 februari 2022 | 71 min

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

16 februari 2022 | 60 min

Addressing Fatalism, Pessimism and Giving Up

5 februari 2022 | 61 min

Transforming Our Greatest Fears Into a Tool For Spiritual Growth

5 februari 2022 | 60 min

Strategies for Addressing Chronic Pain

26 januari 2022 | 71 min

Skillful Communication in Difficult Conversations

26 januari 2022 | 65 min

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

16 januari 2022 | 61 min

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

8 januari 2022 | 72 min

New Year’s Eve Talk & Ceremony

7 januari 2022 | 57 min

Easing the Holiday Blues: Being Triggered During the Holiday Season

26 december 2021 | 60 min

Discerning Our Unmet Needs When Orienting Towards Self-Actualization

18 december 2021 | 60 min

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

13 december 2021 | 62 min

Late Stage Capitalism, the Human Stress Response and Transcendence

3 december 2021 | 66 min

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

3 december 2021 | 70 min

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

20 november 2021 | 62 min

A Higher Purpose in the Time of Languishing

20 november 2021 | 59 min

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

13 november 2021 | 65 min

Death Anxiety and the Reincarnation Blues Band

28 oktober 2021 | 60 min

Dread!!!

25 oktober 2021 | 60 min

Fawning: Avoiding Conflict At All Cost By Performing Placating Behaviors

16 oktober 2021 | 58 min

The Stress of Secrets and Skillful Ways to Disclose Painful Experiences

11 oktober 2021 | 58 min

Creating Space for Other People‘s Emotional States

2 oktober 2021 | 60 min

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

24 september 2021 | 61 min

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

16 september 2021 | 61 min

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

8 september 2021 | 60 min

Easing Loneliness and Feeling More Connected

7 september 2021 | 60 min

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

11 augusti 2021 | 59 min

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

5 augusti 2021 | 64 min

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

1 augusti 2021 | 60 min

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

25 juli 2021 | 60 min

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

15 juli 2021 | 60 min

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

8 juli 2021 | 60 min

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

1 juli 2021 | 60 min

The Path to Awakening: Core Buddhist Teachings on the Nature of Enlightenment

1 juli 2021 | 58 min

Madness (Varied cultural models of madness, the fear of losing one's mind, hidden social agendas packed into the concept of insanity)

19 juni 2021 | 58 min

Psychological and Spiritual Implications of Internet Use

10 juni 2021 | 60 min

Understanding And Cultivating Love, Bonding, Exploration and Emotion-Regulation.

10 juni 2021 | 59 min

The Sublime—How States of Awe and Wonder Provide Refuge From Distress and Anxiety

2 juni 2021 | 60 min

Forbidden Thoughts: Coping with Distressing, Intrusive Impulses

20 maj 2021 | 60 min

Setting Skillful Boundaries: Transforming burdensome relationships without relying on maladaptive defensive strategies

16 maj 2021 | 73 min

Putting Your Head in the Demon's Jaw: Approaches to Trauma, Triggers and Distress Tolerance

5 maj 2021 | 60 min

Addressing Maladaptive Patterns in Relationships

2 maj 2021 | 60 min

Attention: How It Influences Our Emotional Well-being And How To Manage It

25 april 2021 | 60 min

Addressing Anxiety After Social Distancing

17 april 2021 | 60 min

Rituals, Faith, Placebos and Healing

9 april 2021 | 60 min

Offering and Receiving Support: How Talking About Painful Events Can Help And How It Can Make Matters Worse

2 april 2021 | 60 min

Life at the Crossroads: Making Important Life Decisions

11 mars 2021 | 63 min

Work Related Stress: Gaining Confidence Via Meditative and Somatic Practices

3 mars 2021 | 68 min

Getting Closure: What? When? How?

25 februari 2021 | 59 min

The Search For the True Self

13 februari 2021 | 60 min

Toning Down a Pathological Inner Critic

3 februari 2021 | 66 min

A Sense of Purpose

29 januari 2021 | 53 min

How to Feel Safe in Unstable Times

21 januari 2021 | 67 min

Determining and Stating Our Core Needs

9 januari 2021 | 67 min

New Years Eve Talk: Spirituality, Ultimate Concerns and a Meaningful Life

1 januari 2021 | 59 min

Self-Acceptance vs Self-Improvement: The Paths to Well-Being

23 december 2020 | 95 min

Fine Tuning Intuition Through Mindfulness of Feelings

9 december 2020 | 66 min

Cultivating a Balanced Life Free of Compulsive Distractions

2 december 2020 | 59 min

Seasonal Affective Disorder in the Time of the Pandemic

25 november 2020 | 57 min

Obsession. Infatuation. Fixation. Preoccupation.

19 november 2020 | 60 min

Finding Moments of Relief in the Midst of Chaos

12 november 2020 | 57 min

The Growth Choice: Evolving Beyond Avoidance Behaviors to Adult Coping Strategies

30 oktober 2020 | 65 min

GUILT and SHAME

16 oktober 2020 | 67 min

Unsettled: Living with the Unresolved

9 oktober 2020 | 64 min

The Big Questions: Existentialist Psychology and the Dharma

4 oktober 2020 | 63 min

Addiction and Recovery: Contemporary and Buddhist Theories & Treatments

24 september 2020 | 68 min

A Pocket Guide To the Dharma — The Core Principles of Buddhist Psychology

16 september 2020 | 65 min

Positive Emotions: Why We Have Them, Why We Need Them, How to Generate Them

9 september 2020 | 65 min

The Process of Healing: Grieving Loss and Separation From the Loved

3 september 2020 | 66 min

Transcendence and Ultimate Concerns: Some of the Profound Benefits of Spiritual Practice

26 augusti 2020 | 53 min

Processing the Pandemic: How We Carry or Discharge Our Emotional Wounds & Stress

12 augusti 2020 | 69 min

Cultivating the Resilience to Bounce Back After Losses, Setbacks and Disappointments

30 juli 2020 | 62 min

You Are Smarter Than You Think (But You Probably Don't Know Why)

22 juli 2020 | 67 min

Rewiring Our Old Circuitry: Overriding Outdated Behavioral Traits

8 juli 2020 | 59 min

Understanding and Addressing the State of Being Overwhelmed

4 juli 2020 | 60 min

Understanding and Connecting with the Inner Child in Mindfulness Meditation

26 juni 2020 | 59 min

How Minds and Bodies Interact in the Healing of Emotional Wounds

17 juni 2020 | 56 min

Pandemic Talk 9: Understanding and Addressing Situational Depression

27 maj 2020 | 69 min

Pandemic Talk 8: Taking Care of the Nervous System During Times of Stress

20 maj 2020 | 67 min

Pandemic Talk 7: A Spiritual Practice for These Times

13 maj 2020 | 73 min

Pandemic Talk 6—Communicating During the Pandemic: Stating Needs. Setting Boundaries. Working Through Conflict.

6 maj 2020 | 71 min

Pandemic Talk 5—Practices to Support Emotion Stability During Social Distancing

29 april 2020 | 57 min

Pandemic Talk 4: Coming to Terms With Difficult Experiences

23 april 2020 | 54 min

Pandemic Talk# 3: Tools for Self-Acceptance and Internal Integration

17 april 2020 | 60 min

Pandemic Talk 2—Adapting to the New Normal Through Titration, Portioning and Mindfulness

9 april 2020 | 67 min

Pandemic Talk 1 — Some Tools for the Times

9 april 2020 | 91 min

a meaningful life with significant experiences

16 mars 2020 | 58 min

The Felt Sense of Security: Why Some People Respond to Challenges, While Others React

4 mars 2020 | 53 min

Terror Management: How We Accept Or Deny the Most Significant Truth of Existence

5 februari 2020 | 56 min

Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts: Understanding Why They're So Sticky, And How To Alleviate Them

29 januari 2020 | 57 min

Mindful Communication During Conflict: The Process of Building Trust and Mutuality Amidst Tension

22 januari 2020 | 68 min

A Healthy Balance: Love Versus Codependency and Enmeshment

15 januari 2020 | 58 min

Relax & Unwind: How to Slow Down and Recuperate

8 januari 2020 | 59 min

Skillful Intentions for a New Decade of Well Being (with New Year's Eve Ceremony)

1 januari 2020 | 53 min

Inclining the Mind Toward Secure Attachment

18 december 2019 | 61 min

object constancy and the psychology of protective spirits and persecutory delusions

11 december 2019 | 55 min

Chronic Stress: Causes and Relief

4 december 2019 | 63 min

Addressing the Fear of Social Rejection

27 november 2019 | 57 min

Peak Experiences, Ego Transcendence and Self-Actualization: Some Tools and Insights from Transpersonal Psychology and the Human Potential Movement

20 november 2019 | 62 min

Self Integration: Understanding the separate states of the psyche

15 november 2019 | 62 min

Alleviating Distress: Buddhist and Contemporary Insights Into the Two Kinds of Suffering in Life

7 november 2019 | 64 min

Repairing Attachment Wounds in Adults: A Summary of Five Practices

30 oktober 2019 | 66 min

Contemplation of One's Mortality Meditation to Clarify Our Purpose in Life

30 oktober 2019 | 24 min

Interacting Skillfully with Irrational People

24 oktober 2019 | 66 min

Addressing Work Related Anxiety

17 oktober 2019 | 56 min

Thoughts on Setting Boundaries and Stating Needs

9 oktober 2019 | 68 min

Orienting Practice: Locating Safety Cues in Stressful Situations, Talk and Guided Visualization

2 oktober 2019 | 54 min

Stop Making Sense: Retrieving the Felt Experience Before All Conceptualization and Meaning Making

19 september 2019 | 54 min

Addressing Learned Helplessness, Fatalism, Resignation

11 september 2019 | 60 min

Resilience, Bouncing Back From Setbacks and Going with the Flow

5 september 2019 | 55 min

Procrastination, Perfectionism & Avoidance Coping: What Makes Us Drag Our Feet And How To Move Forward

21 augusti 2019 | 61 min

Killing the Buddha: Infatuation with Big Ideas and the Fetishization of "The One Who Knows"

14 augusti 2019 | 67 min

A Balanced Nervous System: Stress vs Shut Down vs Wellbeing

8 augusti 2019 | 64 min

Preoccupation: Addressing the fixation on unreliable relationships that distract attention from embracing our life and moving forward.

31 juli 2019 | 63 min

Making Sense of Life: Processing Emotional Events & Attachment Wounds Through Storytelling

24 juli 2019 | 61 min

Taking Inventory: Reviewing the Quality of Our Actions Without Beating Ourselves Up

17 juli 2019 | 60 min

Repetition Compulsion: The Tendency to Wind Up in Unhealthy Interpersonal Dynamics, and How to Address These Patterns with Somatic Mindfulness

10 juli 2019 | 61 min

Attaining Trascendent & Altered States of Consciousness

4 juli 2019 | 76 min

Emotions: How Are They Made & Can They Be Changed?

28 juni 2019 | 69 min

managers, firefighters and exiles—Different Parts of the Self

20 juni 2019 | 60 min

Upgrading Your Mind's Operating System

15 juni 2019 | 61 min

Unseen Costs: How Social Media & Text Based Communication Contribute to Emotional Isolation

5 juni 2019 | 65 min

Self-Transcendence

29 maj 2019 | 60 min

Alleviating Loneliness

22 maj 2019 | 53 min

Getting Unhooked • How To Uncover the Nonconscious Complexes Underlying Current Struggles

8 maj 2019 | 59 min

Dharma 101: Understanding the Four Noble Truths

1 maj 2019 | 58 min

Connecting with Our Unmet Needs & Deepest Longings

24 april 2019 | 58 min

The Four Foundations of Love

21 april 2019 | 66 min

hungry ghosts & angry demons: recovery retreat talk 1

17 april 2019 | 87 min

hungry ghosts & angry demons: recovery retreat talk 2

17 april 2019 | 53 min

Balancing the Bilateral Brain

10 april 2019 | 60 min

Soothing Guided Meditation (with relaxing ambient music)

29 mars 2019 | 29 min

Fulfillment in Life

27 mars 2019 | 66 min

Self-Soothing in Triggering Social Settings

20 mars 2019 | 65 min

Relationships: Tools For Establishing a Secure Bond

13 mars 2019 | 60 min

Entering the Bardos: The Hidden Wisdom of Buddhist Mysticism

6 mars 2019 | 42 min

hacking your brain: neurotransmitters, hormones and using meditation to cultivate states of well-being

12 februari 2019 | 61 min

On Releasing Resentments and Processing Anger

6 februari 2019 | 58 min

SAD: Seasonal Depression and Processing Dispiriting Moods

30 januari 2019 | 62 min

Understanding and Addressing Catastrophizing Thoughts and Hypochondria

23 januari 2019 | 63 min

Being Triggered: Why It Happens And What to Do About It

16 januari 2019 | 62 min

Climbing the Ladder of Well-Being – The Psychological Processes Underpinning Helping Others Skillfully

9 januari 2019 | 60 min

Reflecting on a Renewed Sense of Purpose for a New Year

1 januari 2019 | 60 min

Safe vs Alert vs At Risk: How Our Nervous System Influences How We Think, Act and Perceive Others

19 december 2018 | 60 min

Developing Awareness of Feelings as a Way to Transform Ingrained Behaviors

12 december 2018 | 59 min

Loosening the Grip of False Perceptions Through Skillful Acts of Non-Compliance

5 december 2018 | 60 min

the myth of self-improvement vs the healing journey of self-care

28 november 2018 | 69 min

Social Discomfort: What Behaviors Exacerbate and Alleviate Interpersonal Awkwardness

21 november 2018 | 59 min

Imagination and Creativity in Meditation as a Form of Self-Therapy

14 november 2018 | 56 min

Surviving Toxic Relationships with Narcissists and Sociopaths

14 november 2018 | 59 min

How to Transform Unpleasant Memories into Useful Stories

31 oktober 2018 | 64 min

Two Talks and Meditations from 2018 Dharma Punx Retreat on Secure Attachment

31 oktober 2018 | 121 min

Unlearning Fear: Reviewing neural processes underlying fear and meditation strategies to alleviate avoidance coping

25 oktober 2018 | 61 min

Cultivating A Spiritual Path to Survive Shitty Times

17 oktober 2018 | 63 min

Healing Core Shame By Developing Self-Worth and Confidence While in a Meditation Practice

10 oktober 2018 | 58 min

How to Understand and Alleviate Those Distressing Thoughts

4 oktober 2018 | 60 min

Self-Retreat: On the Transformative Power of Emotions

4 oktober 2018 | 73 min

The Emotional Wounds Underlying Envy & Jealousy

26 september 2018 | 58 min

A Basic Process for Making Difficult Decisions

23 september 2018 | 61 min

Core Feelings, Defensive Impulses and Resilience

12 september 2018 | 64 min

The Social Brain and Shaping One's Self to Achieve Acceptance from Others

5 september 2018 | 59 min

Five ways to Use Attention in Meditation to Reduce Agitation & Build Distress Tolerance

29 augusti 2018 | 67 min

What Hides Behind the Curtain

22 augusti 2018 | 51 min

Addiction. Attachment. Dharma. Recovery.

15 augusti 2018 | 66 min

Live in Berlin, August 9 2018

12 augusti 2018 | 75 min

the repair of emotional wounds and core shame in meditation practice

1 augusti 2018 | 59 min

The Fear of Insignificance, Transcendence and the final process in Buddhism, Atammayata

25 juli 2018 | 61 min

The Whys & Hows of Setting Boundaries with Foolish People

12 juli 2018 | 64 min

Defining Depression and Alleviating the Intrusive Thoughts That Trigger Relapses

12 juli 2018 | 58 min

Each of us is a crowd: Defensive Sub-Personalities and the Wounded Child

5 juli 2018 | 61 min

UNDERSTANDING THE DECENTRALIZED SELF AND HOW ONE CAN INTEGRATE IMPULSES INTO AN ADAPTABLE PSYCHE

28 juni 2018 | 70 min

Standing Up to Bullies Without Freezing: Using Spiritual Tools to Protect Ourselves

20 juni 2018 | 57 min

Invitation to a Spacious and Open Mind

14 juni 2018 | 60 min

NO BIG IDEA - Don't Believe the Hype

7 juni 2018 | 55 min

Sometimes All You Need Is a New Perspective (or A Different View)

30 maj 2018 | 60 min

Mending Important Relationships with Mindful and Mirroring Dialogue Strategies

23 maj 2018 | 61 min

Talk on Core Shame and Low Self-Esteem, With Inner Child Meditation Exploring How to Ease Old Emotional Wounds

16 maj 2018 | 59 min

Understanding and Treating Anxiety

9 maj 2018 | 60 min

Existential Well-Being: Cultivating Insights Steering Us Towards a Meaningful Life

2 maj 2018 | 60 min

How to Fire Your Inner Prosecutor: Deflating the Inflated Superego

25 april 2018 | 64 min

how early life experiences, now long forgotten, still influence our lives and what we can do about them

18 april 2018 | 61 min

two paths to liberation: samadhi and vipassana

11 april 2018 | 57 min

Guided meditation – samadhi and vipassana

11 april 2018 | 30 min

i just dont know what to make of it and that's ok

4 april 2018 | 57 min

memory reconsolidation—the intersection of a core buddhist insight practice with contemporary neuropsychology

26 mars 2018 | 60 min

Turning Towards, Rather than Running from, Discomfort: Observing and Learning from Difficult Experiences

7 mars 2018 | 63 min

Dual Talk Noah Levine & Josh Korda: Healing through Community

28 februari 2018 | 43 min

The Psychology of Resistance: Sustaining Action in the Era of Trumpism

21 februari 2018 | 61 min

KARMA: A Neural Interpretation

7 februari 2018 | 60 min

Limitless Expansive Awareness Meditation (recorded outdoors at Autumn 2017 retreat)

7 februari 2018 | 38 min

Mentalization: Discerning What Motivates the Behaviors of Oneself and Others

31 januari 2018 | 69 min

Primary Emotions versus Secondary Emotions and the Dharma

24 januari 2018 | 58 min

Moving on, letting go and getting over it—An Overview

19 januari 2018 | 54 min

Taking Care of Others While Taking Care of Oneself

10 januari 2018 | 34 min

Ideas on the Role of Consciousness in Adaptive Behaviour

3 januari 2018 | 50 min

guided meditation for coping with stressful situations

3 januari 2018 | 27 min

New Year's Eve Reflection, Dharma Talk & Buddhist Refuge Ceremony

1 januari 2018 | 44 min

The Psychological Insights Inspiring Early Buddhist Teachings on Ghosts & Spirits

21 december 2017 | 55 min

Addressing arguments, fights, hostility, conflict, spats, misunderstandings, tension, Ill feelings & falling outs without conflict avoidnace

13 december 2017 | 60 min

The Delusions of Everyday Life, or Learning to See Through Appearances

7 december 2017 | 59 min

Making Sense of it All: How to Process Emotionally Resonant Experiences

29 november 2017 | 60 min

Live at Against the Stream San Francico... “Unsubscribe: Opt Out of Delusion, Tune into the Truth"

22 november 2017 | 34 min

Surviving Social Gatherings & Facing Conflicts

22 november 2017 | 58 min

Establishing Secure Connection in the Age of Tinder & Facebook

8 november 2017 | 31 min

Pursuing Worthwhile Long Term Goals Without Procrastinating

5 november 2017 | 56 min

the importance of creativity in developing wellbeing

26 oktober 2017 | 59 min

Understanding maladaptive coping strategies

26 oktober 2017 | 60 min

The Dharma of Attachment Theory 1 (Mindfulness & Reparenting Oneself)

16 oktober 2017 | 47 min

The Dharma of Attachment Theory 2 (Heart Practices for a Secure Base)

16 oktober 2017 | 72 min

Alleviating Guilt

16 oktober 2017 | 60 min

Self-Retreat Talk 2017: Understanding Self-States

8 oktober 2017 | 87 min

Wiring the Brain to Override Compulsive Behaviors

7 oktober 2017 | 59 min

A Secure Base (Cultivating the Inner Qualities We Need to Thrive in Life)

29 september 2017 | 62 min

Resilience: Bouncing Back After Setbacks (31 minute talk, 30 minute meditation)

20 september 2017 | 62 min

The Buddha the Bilateral Brain (31 minute talk followed by 26 minute guided meditation)

13 september 2017 | 58 min

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love • (1) 27 minute talk (2) 27 minute guided meditaton

30 augusti 2017 | 54 min

Reflections on White Privilege and the Dharma

23 augusti 2017 | 17 min

Creating & Experiencing a Felt Shift in Life (Focusing in Meditation)

23 augusti 2017 | 50 min

How to Let Go When Plans Go Awry, Reprioritize & Set New Goals

10 augusti 2017 | 52 min

How to Use Attention to Regulate Emotions

10 augusti 2017 | 54 min

Overcoming Obstacles and Fear By Developing Stress Tolerance

28 juli 2017 | 59 min

learning from anger & resentments (with meditation)

19 juli 2017 | 57 min

Talks at Garrison Institute: How do I know Who I am When I'm Not Even Supposed to Ask?

16 juli 2017 | 60 min

Talks at Garrison Institute: Unearthing the Mind's Hidden beliefs

15 juli 2017 | 46 min

Talks at Garrison Institute: Orchestrating the Mind

15 juli 2017 | 57 min

Talks at Garrison Institute: Techniques for Quieting the Mind

15 juli 2017 | 60 min

Pessimism & Cynicism & Nihilism vs. Buddhism

11 juli 2017 | 21 min

How Awareness of the Body Helps Us Improve Our Social & Interpersonal Experience

4 juli 2017 | 57 min

Attaining the Spiritual in a Material World

28 juni 2017 | 57 min

Talk with Dr. Stephen Dansiger: Addressing Addiction & Trauma with Mindfulness (also: Refuge Recovery & EMDR)

21 juni 2017 | 34 min

The Hidden Message of Depression

21 juni 2017 | 21 min

Building Confidence: Dharma Talk followed by Meditation

14 juni 2017 | 48 min

Meditation: confidence building with somatic awareness & inner child practice

14 juni 2017 | 32 min

Learning From Life: How & When to Transform Experience into Insight

7 juni 2017 | 26 min

Inducing Positivity Meditation (30 minutes)

31 maj 2017 | 31 min

Inducing Positivity to Flourish in Life

31 maj 2017 | 57 min

Meditation for Working with Trauma & Painful Memories (with Introduction)

24 maj 2017 | 33 min

Addressing Trauma (With Overview of Trauma, Treatment Modalities & Meditation)

24 maj 2017 | 56 min

How Awareness of Moods & Mind States Helps Us Survive in the World

17 maj 2017 | 57 min

The Courage to Make Big Life Changes

10 maj 2017 | 60 min

Letting Go of Control in Life

3 maj 2017 | 59 min

Stating Needs & Setting Boundaries

26 april 2017 | 34 min

Guided meditation - Choiceless Awareness

25 april 2017 | 29 min

Introduction to a Buddhist Psychology of Addiction

19 april 2017 | 54 min

Alleviating Anxiety (with a Guided Meditation)

12 april 2017 | 60 min

Understanding & Attaining the Sublime & Mystical (with Guided Meditation)

5 april 2017 | 58 min

Insecurity in Relationships and How to Move Towards Secure Attachment

29 mars 2017 | 60 min

Knowing Thyself: Skillful and Unskillful Forms of Self-Awareness

22 mars 2017 | 29 min

If You Meet the Buddha on the Road

14 mars 2017 | 59 min

Overthrowing the Inner Tyrant

8 mars 2017 | 60 min

How to Connect and When to Let Go

3 mars 2017 | 54 min

Approaching the Bardo (talk & meditation)

21 februari 2017 | 56 min

Staying Sane in a Sh*t SHow (with meditation)

31 januari 2017 | 58 min

Processing Emotional Experiences with Mindfulness

28 januari 2017 | 58 min

The Psychology of Peak Experiences (with Guided Meditation)

18 januari 2017 | 55 min

Understanding and Addressing Obsessive Ideations & Compulsive Behaviors

11 januari 2017 | 51 min

A Basic Summary of the Dharma

11 januari 2017 | 35 min

New Year's Eve Message

2 januari 2017 | 21 min

Understanding Craving & Suffering

28 december 2016 | 31 min

what is a meaningful life?

21 december 2016 | 26 min

How to think about yourself skillfully (followed by guided meditation)

15 december 2016 | 56 min

Getting to Know the Different Parts of Yourself

7 december 2016 | 50 min

Tools to Heal and Sustain Important Relationships

30 november 2016 | 56 min

Surviving Social Gatherings

23 november 2016 | 56 min

When the Fit Hits the Shan (Some Reflections on the Election)

17 november 2016 | 56 min

Understanding and Alleviating Dread

8 november 2016 | 54 min

Addressing Negative Self-Talk

28 oktober 2016 | 30 min

Harnessing Our Anger and Fear (Wesleyan University Talk)

28 oktober 2016 | 35 min

Settling the Wandering Mind (tools to develop present time awareness)

19 oktober 2016 | 54 min

Self-Integration of the Divided Brain via Mindfulness (2 talks DPxNYC 2016 Autumn Retreat)

19 oktober 2016 | 104 min

the value and attainment of the sublime state of awe

12 oktober 2016 | 53 min

three ways to address maladaptive behaviors

9 oktober 2016 | 30 min

Two Talks in Philadelphia September 2016

2 oktober 2016 | 107 min

Little Known Paths Leading to Deep Spiritual Insights

25 september 2016 | 40 min

Exploring & Expressing Emotions (Retreat at Garrison Institute 2016)

18 september 2016 | 95 min

The Imposter Syndrome & Low Self-Esteem

8 september 2016 | 30 min

It Doesn't Have to Make Any Sense At All

31 augusti 2016 | 27 min

Explanation of Rain Meditation with Guided Practice

25 augusti 2016 | 34 min

Taking Good Care of Your Tripartite Brain

19 augusti 2016 | 28 min

From Self-Delusion to Self-Awareness

10 augusti 2016 | 55 min

Emotions talk at Garrison institute

10 augusti 2016 | 73 min

Metacognition - How to Determine Which Thoughts are Useful, Which Aren't, And What to Do About It

3 augusti 2016 | 30 min

Towards a Psychological Understanding of Karma

27 juli 2016 | 26 min

Moving Towards A Balanced Life That Addresses All Our Needs

20 juli 2016 | 30 min

Overview of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness

13 juli 2016 | 35 min

The Third and Fourth Fourth Foundations of Mindfulness (Awareness of Emotional Settings & Contents of the Cognitive Mind)

13 juli 2016 | 29 min

The Second Foundation of Mindfulness (Feelings)

13 juli 2016 | 27 min

The First Foundation of Mindfulness (The Breath and Body)

13 juli 2016 | 30 min

Tools for Healing Relationship Issues

22 juni 2016 | 34 min

Processing the Incomprehensible

15 juni 2016 | 55 min

Buddhist Insights into the Causes of Suffering and Craving

8 juni 2016 | 47 min

Ways to Address & Heal the Hidden Causes of Shame

1 juni 2016 | 42 min

The Essential Role of Creative Play and Imagination in Spiritual Practice

25 maj 2016 | 55 min

Addressing Maladaptive Behaviors with Visualization Meditation

18 maj 2016 | 42 min

Parts of the Mind Retreat talk 2-Understanding and Addressing Unconscious Beliefs

17 maj 2016 | 60 min

Parts of the Mind Retreat talk 1 - Connecting with the Minds Different Parts

17 maj 2016 | 41 min

An End to Low Self Esteem and Self-Consciousness

11 maj 2016 | 30 min

Why Do I Feel the Way That I Do?

27 april 2016 | 30 min

Healing After the Heartbreaking, or The Risk of Keeping It All Together

20 april 2016 | 48 min

Changing the Perceptions that Keep Us Trapped in Repetitive Patterns

14 april 2016 | 34 min

On the Spiritual Journey from People Pleasing to Authenticity

6 april 2016 | 29 min

alleviating anger

30 mars 2016 | 31 min

freedom starts in your practice

30 mars 2016 | 22 min

Addressing the Underlying Causes of Addiction - Josh Korda with Dr. Stephen Dansiger

24 mars 2016 | 58 min

Attaining Moments of Clarity—Understanding the States of Survival Mode and Homestasis

16 mars 2016 | 55 min

can you keep a secret?

9 mars 2016 | 32 min

Thailand talk 8 - Changing Self-Destructive Habits by Addressing Unconscious Beliefs

26 februari 2016 | 36 min

Thailand talk 7 - Interpersonal Practices Explored In Depth

25 februari 2016 | 30 min

Thailand talk 6 -- How to Connect with Others to Heal Emotional Wounds

25 februari 2016 | 40 min

Thailand talk 5 - Relieving Shame & Blame Spirals

25 februari 2016 | 41 min

Thailand talk 4 - Understanding & Orchestrating the Mind's Sub-personalities

25 februari 2016 | 38 min

Thailand talk 3 - Processing Emotions Further Explored

25 februari 2016 | 43 min

Thailand talk 2 - Overview of Emotion Processing

25 februari 2016 | 38 min

Thailand talk 1 - relieving obsessive thoughts

25 februari 2016 | 46 min

The Role of Death in a Meaningful Life

3 februari 2016 | 44 min

Developing Feelings of Security Through Five Spiritual Faculties

28 januari 2016 | 54 min

Self-Compassion as a Tool to Heal Emotional Wounds

28 januari 2016 | 50 min

Helping Others & Sobriety—01/09/2016 Talk at zencare

17 januari 2016 | 35 min

addressing bad moods

14 januari 2016 | 31 min

Facing the unknown and overwhelming

7 januari 2016 | 43 min

DharmaPunxNYC New Year's Eve Talk and Ceremony 12-31-2015

1 januari 2016 | 40 min

Setting and Keeping Intentions for the New Year

1 januari 2016 | 54 min

modern psychology & the dharma 3: alternatives to repression, denial & avoidance

22 december 2015 | 25 min

modern psychology & the dharma 2: irrational thoughts and beliefs

17 december 2015 | 25 min

modern psychology and the dharma 1: the true & false self

10 december 2015 | 22 min

How to Prepare for Triggering Social Gatherings

26 november 2015 | 54 min

Head and Heart Together 2 (reflective practices)

17 november 2015 | 56 min

Head and Heart Together 1 (basic practices)

17 november 2015 | 53 min

Resolving Conflicts with Confidence

13 november 2015 | 55 min

guided sunyata (emptying the mind) meditation

8 november 2015 | 30 min

finding a meaning for life despite pessimism

4 november 2015 | 30 min

understanding and addressing stress

4 november 2015 | 56 min

The Psychology of Presence

25 oktober 2015 | 40 min

Understanding Concentration and Insight

25 oktober 2015 | 66 min

Dharma in the Desert - Josh Talk at ATS West Coast Retreat 2015

10 oktober 2015 | 47 min

what is an authentic life—talk and guided reflection

30 september 2015 | 55 min

the foundations of buddhist wisdom

23 september 2015 | 55 min

Shedding Light on Awakening—Understanding Early Buddhist Thoughts on Enlightenment

16 september 2015 | 28 min

understanding and addressing anxiety

9 september 2015 | 24 min

nowhere to go, nothing to do, no one to become

3 september 2015 | 27 min

ways to change bad habits

3 september 2015 | 56 min

Atammayata: The Meditation That Leads to Transcendence

27 augusti 2015 | 26 min

Misperceptions that Sabotage Relationships and How to Correct Them

19 augusti 2015 | 35 min

Buddhist & Psychological Tools to Maintain Stable Relationships

19 augusti 2015 | 39 min

Karma, Self-Forgiveness and Detaching with Love, a Talk & Meditation

19 augusti 2015 | 37 min

Talk at ATS: Managers, Firefighters and Exiles

7 augusti 2015 | 43 min

Retreat Talk: Opening to emotions using RAIN

3 augusti 2015 | 48 min

making smart choices using mindfulness

29 juli 2015 | 52 min

ways to develop control over impulses and thoughts

29 juli 2015 | 55 min

How to Read Other People's Minds (Mentalizing)

15 juli 2015 | 55 min

Identity Construction—How to Develop a Strategic Sense of Self

15 juli 2015 | 35 min

Emotion Integration: How to Listen to the Heart

1 juli 2015 | 56 min

recognizing safe desires and thoughts

1 juli 2015 | 55 min

guided 25 minute meditation developing concentration and insight

17 juni 2015 | 25 min

How to Emotionally Process Life's Difficult Experiences

17 juni 2015 | 28 min

simplifying life by separating wants from needs

17 juni 2015 | 35 min

Building up the mind to meet all of our needs

6 juni 2015 | 28 min

Staying Calm While Others Fall to Pieces

27 maj 2015 | 33 min

how to let go of resentments

20 maj 2015 | 27 min

Dealing with the Inner Critic, or How the Buddha Reparented Himself

8 maj 2015 | 32 min

Understanding and Averting Cognitive Overload

8 maj 2015 | 32 min

a purposeful life

24 april 2015 | 26 min

Changing the Inner Narrator

5 april 2015 | 56 min

Spiritual practice in relationships

20 mars 2015 | 22 min

envy and jealousy

14 mars 2015 | 55 min

Who am I

23 februari 2015 | 54 min

No Future: Don't be told what you want, Don't be told what you need.

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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