Pain is a Holy Messenger

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Pain is a Holy Messenger

FromJonathan Foust

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Mar 9, 2023

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This talk explores how to shift your relationship to physical pain. You’ll learn how pain lives in both the body and mind, how ‘pain’ is looking out for your well-being and how your attention can dramatically affect your experience of pain.

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Mar 9, 2023

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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

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Four Ideals to Guide Your Practice: This talk explores four sutras offered by the Buddha on how to awaken your heart and mind. You’ll learn the importance of cultivating a lifelong aspiration to awaken, to actively cultivate spiritual friendships, to be open and kind and to... by Jonathan Foust
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Compassion Strategies for Working with Pain: This talk explores how to draw on compassion when in pain. You’ll learn how compassion must be balanced with wisdom (tough love) and a powerful technique for opening the frame of compassion that can dramatically shift your personal experience... by Jonathan Foust
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From the Ruthless Critic to Wise Discrimination: This talk explores how you can transform your relationship with your inner critic. You’ll learn the origins of negativity bias, how that critical voice forms in your early development and how the miracle of self-awareness can lead to a life... by Jonathan Foust
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Sacred Wounds, Sacred Gifts: This talk explores how you might transform your deepest wounds into sacred gifts. You’ll learn how stress and suffering are inevitable and how, when you deeply examine your wounds, you can unveil the gifts they offer. We’ll explore the... by Jonathan Foust
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Concentration, Mindfulness and Insight: This talk explores the power of paying attention on purpose as well as the power of non-judging awareness. You’ll learn about how getting control of your concentration can make a huge difference in your life as well as what happens when you turn... by Jonathan Foust
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More Practice Questions with Tara and Jonathan (Part 2): We’re back! We had so much fun last time we are doing another. Here’s the second installment of practice questions with Tara Brach and Jonathan Foust. by Jonathan Foust
58 min listen
Change Yourself, Change the World (archive): This archive talk explores how your perception of stress and suffering in the world is a mirror your inner world. You’ll learn how, by reflecting on the core teachings of suffering, the cause of suffering, the cessation of suffering and the path... by Jonathan Foust
46 min listen
More on From Fear to Wisdom (2 of 2): We continue our exploration on moving from Fear to clear-seeing. You’ll explore a few protocols that have helped me enormously in shifting from feeling caught to feeling empowered again. Fear can serve as an early-warning detection system... by Jonathan Foust
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4 Reasons I Meditate: This talk explores why, after 52 years of practice, I still meditate. You’ll learn about the science behind meditation, what all great traditions say about the practice, the power of empirical evidence and the potency of the intention to live in... by Jonathan Foust
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The Quickest Way to Be Happy: This talk explores the nature of happiness. You’ll learn how happiness truly is ‘here and now,’ how important it is to actively explore what is between you and feeling happy, how happiness is a reflection of your true nature and a model or... by Jonathan Foust
42 min listen
How to Heal What’s Broken: This talk explores the mechanics of healing (and how I’m healing a bone fracture.) You’ll learn how critical it is to make room for all your reactions and how to ask yourself an important question that can make room for feeling whole. ... by Jonathan Foust
47 min listen
$How to Heal What’s Broken: This talk explores the mechanics of healing (and how I’m healing a bone fracture.) You’ll learn how critical it is to make room for all your reactions and how to ask yourself an important question that can make room for feeling whole. ...$
Love and the Fear of Losing Love: This talk explores the near-enemy of love: Attachment. You’ll learn about the nature of attachment and attachment styles in relationship as well as keys to healing what holds you back from loving fully. by Jonathan Foust
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From Fear to Wisdom (1 of 2): This talk explores how to move from Fear to Clear-Seeing and new possibilities. You’ll learn how unresolved fear restricts the possibilities in your life and how you can turn toward fear through cognitive processes as well as somatic inquiry.... by Jonathan Foust
46 min listen
The Antidote to Imposter Syndrome: This talk explores how to free yourself from feeling like an imposter. You’ll learn the power of self-awareness, the importance of investigating inner states and how to break out of the box of the doubting mind. You’ll also explore ways you... by Jonathan Foust
45 min listen
The Keys to Lasting Happiness [archive]: This talk explores how you can cultivate lasting happiness. You'll learn how to avoid the biggest trap in seeking happiness and how you can cultivate happiness both externally - through wise and skillful action - as well as... by Jonathan Foust
47 min listen
Understanding Joy [archive talk]: This talk explores how to increase your capacity for joy and wholesome states. You’ll learn about the nature of Joy, what gets in the way of the experience and how to cultivate more and more positive and fulfilling qualities of presence. by Jonathan Foust
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Conversations with Depth Practitioners: Advice on Intensive Practice with Tracy Budd: Soon after retiring, Tracy Budd, who had a strong meditation practice, embarked on an exploration of meditating for four hours a day following the Elephant Path and the teachings of Culadasa. In this interview we explore what happened over the course... by Jonathan Foust
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Am I Dreaming? Thoughts on Thinking Part 5: Love is the Highest Thought of All: This talk explores the power of streaming thoughts toward love, compassion, kindness, joy and equanimity. You’ll learn about the origin of the heart practices, how here love starts as a thought and moves into an experience, the system for... by Jonathan Foust
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How to Increase Your Capacity for Wisdom and Insight: This talk explores how you can open to greater insight and wisdom in your life. You’ll learn about the characteristics of a wise person, what gets in the way of wisdom, the anatomy of intuition and insight and the natural flowering of compassion... by Jonathan Foust
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Practice Questions with Tara and Jonathan: Jonathan interviews his wife, Tara Brach, regarding common practice questions and weighs in on a few himself. by Jonathan Foust
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Frank Sinatra Got It Right: Do Be Do Be Do: This talk explores what I think of as the “Frank Sinatra Sutta.” You’ll learn the importance in meditation - and life - of willful doing combined with conscious being. The result of this balance is ‘knowing,’ the arising of... by Jonathan Foust
46 min listen
The Best Technique [archive]: This talk reveals the best technique for awakening heart and mind. You’ll learn about techniques that awaken your capacity for sustained present-moment awareness, techniques for cultivating awareness of change, techniques for purifying the... by Jonathan Foust
45 min listen
Am I Dreaming? Thoughts on Thinking Part 4: Bare Attention and Gratitude: This talk explores the practice of Bare Attention and how suffering ceases in the experience of gratitude. You’ll learn about the distinction of the linear mind and the intuitive mind, the practice Bare Attention and a technique for opening to... by Jonathan Foust
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Am I Dreaming? Thoughts on Thinking Part 3: Investigating Beliefs: This talk explores how to deconstruct beliefs. You’ll learn about the origin of thoughts and beliefs, the art of interrupting the stream of thinking, the art of deconstructing beliefs and the importance, when you do this work, to err on the side of... by Jonathan Foust
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Am I Dreaming? Thoughts on Thinking, Part 1: Embodied Awareness: This talk explores how to cut through the trance of thinking. You’ll learn how turning toward awareness itself reveals how much you rely on thinking and some practical strategies using embodied awareness for ‘remembering’ who and what you truly... by Jonathan Foust
46 min listen
A Heart That Can Hold it All: This talk explores how to cultivate both wisdom and compassion. You’ll learn how suffering is both internal and external, the keys to the release of suffering and how to foster your intention to be awake in the midst of turbulent times. by Jonathan Foust
45 min listen
When to Step Up and When to Step Back [recast]: This talk explores the art of engaging and disengaging. You’ll learn about stimulus / response and how your practice of meditation can open up more space for you to be more skillful as to how you respond to the moment — and to the challenges that... by Jonathan Foust
43 min listen
You Can’t Stop the Surf, but You Can Surf the Waves [archive]: This talk explores how to go with the flow. You’ll learn how life is filled with constant challenge and how, when you learn to let go and bring full attention to the here and now, you can open to new possibilities in your life. by Jonathan Foust
65 min listen
Gratitude and Giving as a Spiritual Practice: This talk explores to transformative power of generosity. You’ll learn how giving as a spiritual practice reveals what is between you and a truly generous heart, how generosity requires you learn how to fully receive … and the Buddha’s... by Jonathan Foust
46 min listen
Is it OK to Be Happy in a Turbulent World? [recast]: This talk explores how to increase your happiness level. You’ll learn how stress and dissatisfaction can be transformed and how happiness is not only your birthright, but your greatest responsibility and contribution to others. by Jonathan Foust
46 min listen

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