The Balance of Resilience and Surrender
Jonathan Foust
This talk explores how to find the equilibrium between skillful action and skillful release. You’ll learn how much of meditation practice (and life) calls for focus and sustained attention. But too tight a grip on focus can lead to missed opportunities, fresh insights and new possibilities. Learning to rest in presence can open intuitive faculties - when properly balanced.
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How to Keep Your Meditation Practice Alive and Thriving, Part Two
Jonathan Foust
This talk is a continuation of how to bring aliveness to your practice. You’ll learn some inner practices as well as the invaluable qualities of finding like-minded people and the impact community can have on being more awake in your life.
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How to Keep Your Meditation Practice Alive and Thriving, Part One
Jonathan Foust
This talk explore how to cultivate inspiration in your practice, particularly when it gets challenging. You’ll learn why we stop practicing and a variety of tips, tricks and techniques for keeping your practice alive, vibrant, interesting and engaging.
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Letting Go, Letting Be and Surrendering to Presence (Retreat Talk)
Jonathan Foust
This talk is from the fifth evening of a week-long Vipassana Retreat. You’ll learn how meditation increases your sensitivity to how you hold on, how the intention to let go can set in motion a process that brings you in direct contact with the mystery — and how letting go and letting be are required to wake up to the nature of reality.
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My Interview with Shawn Parell: Somatic Inquiry and the Evolution of Practice
Jonathan Foust
Here’s my interview with the wonderful Shawn Parell, a wonderful teacher, guide and passionate student of the dharma. We discuss the evolution of practice, the power of somatic awareness, how to balance daily life with deep practice and how meditation can be a wonderful tool for self-discovery. For more about Shawn and her offerings, go to www.shawnparell.com, Instagram @ShawnParell for weekly meditations and prompts for practice and lots more.
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Four Big Meditation Myths
Jonathan Foust
This talk explores some of the mistaken beliefs about the practice of meditation. You’ll learn how meditation is not a quick fix for your problems, is not about escaping reality and how this practice is both an art and science … and can dramatically transform your life.
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Starting Over in Your Life [archive]
Jonathan Foust
This talk explores the art of new beginnings. You’ll learn how important it is to embrace your first reaction when things change, how to soften and release the past, how to open to new possibilities and how to engage into what most calls you forward.
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Rewiring Procrastination with Mindfulness
Jonathan Foust
This talk explores mindful strategies for overcoming procrastination. You’ll learn different ways we put things off, what gets in the way of the flow state, what flow feels like and for me, the most important question for sparking creative juices. Jeff Fajains, Phd, offers a 30 Day Creative Momentum and helps creators bring their ideas to life. More on Jeff here:
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BeFriending Fear, Part 4: Managing Panic
Jonathan Foust
This talk explores how to work with acute anxiety. You’ll learn how to identify the triggers that cause feelings of overwhelm and some strategies for working panic, whether it be for yourself or when you accompany another when waves of intense anxiety arise.
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BeFriending Fear, Part 3: The Source of all Fears
Jonathan Foust
This talk explores the fundamental elements of fear and how to release what is between you and feeling free. You’ll learn about the essential nature of anxiety, the cause and the release of suffering through the transformative practices of awakening the Wise Heart.
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You’ll learn about the nature of desire, strategies for working with a greed-filled mind, what can arise as desire lessens and finally, some thoughts on being desire-free and enlightenment itself.