Synopsis
A Guiding Teacher at the Insight Meditation Community of Washington and co-founder of the Meditation Teacher Training Institute, Jonathan offers talks, guided meditations and inquiries into what it means to be awake in mind and heart. www.jonathanfoust.com
Episodes
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Four Big Meditation Myths
02/10/2024 Duration: 44minThis 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]
24/09/2024 Duration: 46minThis 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
22/09/2024 Duration: 59minThis 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: https://jefffajans.com/
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BeFriending Fear, Part 4: Managing Panic
14/09/2024 Duration: 45minThis 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
28/08/2024 Duration: 45minThis 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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BeFriending Fear, Part 2: Powerful Strategies
20/08/2024 Duration: 46minThis talk explores strategies for working with fear and anxiety. You’ll learn how you can move from threat mode to opportunity mode and strategies for working with fear and anxiety in the body as well as a particular strategy for working with thoughts and beliefs.
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BeFriending Fear, Part 1: Healthy and Unhealthy Worry
14/08/2024 Duration: 47minThis talk explores the art of working with anxiety and dread. You’ll learn the difference between healthy and unhealthy fear, the roots of fear and some strategies for transforming the experience of anxiety when it arises.
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Does Meditation Make You Lucky?
06/08/2024 Duration: 42minThis talk explores the difference between luck and karma. You’ll learn how a mindfulness practice may help you cultivate a clearer intention, recognize opportunities and help you more quickly reset when you recognize you are off course. For those looking from the outside, you may appear quite lucky indeed.
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The Ten Perfections: #10 Be Steady and Equanimous
03/08/2024 Duration: 46minThis talk explores the tenth of the ten perfections. You’ll learn how you cannot make steadiness and serenity happen, but can create the conditions that allow this inner state to arise. When you remember the fundamental quality of reality, you can more easily open to embrace your true nature.
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The Ten Perfections: #9 Be Kind and Compassionate
02/08/2024 Duration: 47minThe talk explores the power of loving kindness. You’ll learn how to be more of a well-wisher to all, some techniques to more effectively express kindness in the world and a reflection on what might happen in your life if you were to be more adept at responding to challenges with an open heart.