Are we all addicts? How meditation can help.... - Jeff Foster

[@1234carolynb]

Our biggest addiction is to our thoughts.

[@stuartcallaghan3285]

Absolutely 💯

[@DiamondHeart888]

Yes 💯 and it's Perfect, By Divine Soul Design 😉❤🎉

[@Kia_123]

As a mindfulness teacher working in the mental health and addiction recovery space, I truly appreciate this ❤️🙏🏽

[@AstralAustin]

Yes, I agree. I was even addicted to meditation at one point…too much of anything isn’t good

[@karinededecker518]

So was i❤️

[@RogerioLupoArteCientifica]

If we stop, we have to face what goes inside, and it hurts. It’s not comfortable, there’s a yearning, there’s anguish, guilt, fear… better keep going, don’t look at that, leave it quiet. Don’t mess with those wasps, they sting… Or else face it, let it be, die, leave the world behind for a moment. And examine the pain and relax into it. There’s a precious gift in there… Meditation is a sort of death.

[@solomit1]

One of the biggest distraction from ourselves is the entertainment industry !

[@Justfor2day10]

These phones

[@chehrazed8710]

نعم فعلا. هذه الأيام فقط كنت أتأمل في معنى الإدمان فلاحظت أن أغلب مانقوم به هو ادمان لأنه يقوم بإلهائنا عما نحن عليه في الأساس.. شكرا جزيلا لك❤

[@diego_fernandez_gayo]

Thank you deae Jeff I begin follow you when you were sick. Your expresión helps me a lot to acept my self as I am. Thank you very much to be so vulnerable and honest.

[@brushstroke3733]

Yes! As Buggs Bunny said on the moon - "GET ME OUTTA HERE!" Escape is all I want most of the time. I meditate to try to escape. Sleep. Avoid people and my phone. Exercise. Use cannabis, alcohol, and cigarettes. Collect action figures. Eat. Problem is, there is no way out. These things only seem to postpone the reckoning with what is. Anyway, thanks Jeff. You've been one of my favorite spiritual guides on YT for over a decade. You were one of the OGs on this platform. Respect.

[@olititor]

Explained in such a simple and gentle way ❤

[@IndianJu]

Thank you, dear Jeff. Love your meditations, insights, poetry. Wonderful guidance & reminders of truth. 🩷🙏

[@guitpizz]

Great posts Jeff. Nice format. Long enough to have impact but short enough to keep us focused on the content.

[@mojamurphy4905]

This is a brilliant message. I work in recovery houses, recovery from substances. But I see addictive behaviors continue in our clients, the distraction from themselves and what is, as you've said here. Television, work, relationships, their phones....any distraction will do. I do meditate daily, if not more often. I am learning to rest in my life and trust "the universe" to direct and handle what comes and what goes. I am here, and available to what is. There is so much freedom in life this way. I love the short video, too, Jeff. I'm glad you have the courage to speak honestly about your truth. It resonates here with me. ❤

[@Cappu2209]

Love you so much Jeff! Thank you! 🙏🏻

[@Laura_etc]

Thank you Jeff ❤ It's really hepful for me, I needed to hear this (from France 🙂)

[@discovoid5357]

Very helpful Indeed Jeff 👍. I appreciate your vulnerable honesty

[@daniloa.ferreira2298]

So I guess meditation is about simply realising most of what you perceive and think is critical is in fact an illusion not in the sense of it not being important or having a meaning to your life but that what is real, what trully matters, have always mattered and will matter is you is your aliveness, your being here without having to make sense of it all or feeling like you need to forget about your personal life to reach this notion. One does not have to rule the other but each certainly have the power of dominating us if we don't know how to separete what is real from what isn't. As you pointed out, everything has the potential of becoming adictive, even if you have good intentions and goals. If you forget you're enough (simply because you're alive) and consequently never become content by this fact, you'll always run from yourself and from life. Sorry for my english, I'm not a native speaker

[@johanna11980]

I was saying something similar today, we were never taught to be with our anger etc. ... Thank you Jeff

[@buddyfisherofmen3821]

Blessings Brother, Words of truth…to those who will hear them!

[@windrock]

Wow...you have sopken my own truth of the last 6 months. I have stopped. Deep rest is courageous. Yep ive been running and i am just beginning to find clarity and be present. As the Bunyip from the childrens book The Bunyip of Berkeley Creek says when he comes out of the mud..."What am I what am I what am I?"

[@L.C.Griffith]

Very helpful. Tysm! ❤️

[@lynebjornson2928]

I agree with you. ❤

[@heavenonearthhoetv9271]

this was so brilliant, thank you jeff

[@NattyBuh]

Keep making vídeos, please! ❤️

[@timkgoodwin9287]

Why you want him to make more videos? Are you addicted? ;)

[@melindakenton8307]

Thank you

[@-doletskaya9369]

So true! Thank you so much, Jeff

[@francebaillar5608]

So simple, so obvious! ❤️❤️

[@JaneGregory-r7x]

An afterthought, which should probably have been a forethought! Several years ago whilst I was standing in my dining room, I found myself immersed in a sort of viscosity in which I was deliciously ensconced in an awareness of not being separate from reality. I realized in that moment how agonizing the sense of being separate actually is. This discrete sense of things is probably, though only in part, what mystics call 'illusion'. I think this is our most fundamental pain, and that subconsciously, every single thing we do is done to ameliorate it in one way or another.

[@sillawatcht]

thank you Jeff

[@tony1007]

Thankyou Brother!!

[@evanhardy03]

Thank you so much

[@Caspiansees]

Wow, wonderful words ! Confirms what I have been feeling as I discover more and more the power of meditation . : ) Thank you Jeff!

[@traciemchugh3114]

Being with ourself. Raw, silent engagement ! Feel it all as it is now. Cos we resist it is prolonged. Im 60 now, gave up the alcohol & cigarettes last year. Class A now. I will also switch off my phone. Wish me luck ✌🐇🕳🥴

[@cybercouac]

So true. To me, it's all about getting to know my nervous system and its pitfalls.

[@letymartinez2967]

Blessings! It seems that you read my present moment...

[@sohara....]

I'm grateful I've found a way out, although This Way has been available for years. Sailor Bob Adamson is the one whose teaching seems most clear, with tge fewest number of words. He happens to be Australian. And now there's Keith Kavanagh who happens to be Irish, and he makes A Course in Miracles seem straightforward. He's clearly come across the Sedona method, Byron Katie ... and some nonduality teachers as well. For Keith, forgiveness which seems so difficult, impossible even is simply: *- allowing the thought/ feeling stream to happen while resting in present moment awareness,* *- knowing **_I am_** that present moment awareness, and* *- knowing at same time that there is an urgent wanting to be separate, have an identity, be a character....* That's my version of his teaching. *It seems easier than all the other suggestions!*

[@johanvoellner1849]

i think meditation is very helpful, the other thing that helped me a lot in dealing with the pain underlying the distraction was somatic therapy and ayahuasca. The ability to feel the pain, the emotion, because at the end the only way to deal with it is to relive it and see it through the eyes of the adult. Then purge it. Sometimes the pain is just the body keeping score and the nervous system not being able to keep up with that.

[@the.kai.eros.experience]

Yes. What I’m seeking is REST. Home. An experience of being able to unclench all contraction and allow.

[@marzenababij5148]

Thanks😊

[@annikabirgittanordlander6887]

Thank you for talking about this 🌎😘

[@lyndajonesthesoapmaker]

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard-trained and published neuroanatomist Jill's introduction to the 90-second rule. When a person has a reaction to something in their environment, there's a 90 second chemical process that happens in the body; after that, any remaining emotional response is just the person choosing to stay in that emotional loop. That's when mindful breathing can help require the addiction pathway by turning our attention towards breathing in deeply and exhaling... u csn use your fingers or count 1 cycle in/out per finger and by the time you get to 10 cycles just over 90 seconds the chemical impulse surging through the body that is created by a trigger...to eat, smoke, shout, drink, shop, overwhelme, anxiety...(these all show up when our parasympathetic nervous system is at peak capacity? etc.. diminishes...leaving you free of that rush...to make a better choice in the next moment gor yourself...its like a magic key.. she wrote a book about it...

[@Freedom-2BME]

Interesting… when I stopped running from what I thought was fear, I looked fear in the face And it was love, it was LOVE I’d been running from

[@Ame-sens-ible]

Yeah, I feel it like this way too. I was so scared by the fear… but now I just want to dive in it, I’m tired of running.

[@JaneGregory-r7x]

There's a context here. We are fundamentally physical creatures with five obvious senses. We are designed for the work required to survive in a physical world, i.e. to build shelters, grow food, carry water, create communities, to respond instant by instant to everything we interface with. The way this physical nature and innate momentum in us have become rapidly changed since the first industrial revolution emerged is perhaps something we simply haven't known how to adapt to. As human beings, we are unfathomably complex, including biologically. It seems to me that our current narratives are much too narrowly defined, plausible as many might appear, to truly fathom very much at all. As for the deeper 'dimensional' or 'spiritual' truth, we are so enculturated in dogmas of one sort or another, I'm not sure we even know how to begin sorting the wheat from the chaff. All of this said, what we understand as 'love' does appear to be HUGE in this picture.

[@renatakrystian3886]

❤

[@LeezahB]

Yes!!!

[@mariamkamal]

Yes

[@lyndajonesthesoapmaker]

CPTSD or PTSD could be at the root of most addictive behaviours...

[@Nothining]

But even resistance to and/or distraction of 'the moment' is still 'the moment?' Are we all still trapped inside this 'running?' Or is meditation also about noticing the running (and realizing it is an inseperable wave of the ocean as well?)? In that regard; is meditation not always-already happening, and if that is the case maybe practicing stillness is not necesarry?

[@iamthefiremanjj]

We are all addicts

[@Freedpeoples]

Oh yes so much so! I am myself just coming into this understanding. I WAS addicted to over-explaining myself! 😂 I laugh, but serious addiction that led me into the wrong career that stifled me and drained me of my life force. It was rooted in the childhood trauma of always getting into trouble, even when I tried to be good, and not understanding what I had done🙏much love to all who read. We are never alone in our struggles even when it feels like it🤍♾️

[@Ame-sens-ible]

Same addiction here. Always a voice in my head trying to understand, explaining what’s going on, justifying all I’m doing… it’s exhausting. You said « WAS »… I’m still in there and I would be happy to have your experience story if you ok to share it with me. Thanks for your comment. ✨

[@Freedpeoples]

@@Ame-sens-ible Hey, So my story, in a very condensed form, is that after almost 2 decades of trauma healing I still hated myself so turned to plant medicine. After my 3rd trip I became aware of my spirit guides who have been guiding me ever since. They have empowered me to see where I needed to place boundaries and the love and miracles I experience from them is teaching me to be kind to myself and so much more...too much to put here, but basically they have and are helping me to completely change my life. I am now training as a Shaman 🙏

[@Ame-sens-ible]

@@Freedpeoples Thank you for your experience sharing. 🙏

[@Freedpeoples]

@@Ame-sens-ible my pleasure 🙏 🥰

[@2133Jay]

🙏

[@iamthefiremanjj]

The present moment is our home . We dont know how to just " be "

[@ruthlewis673]

Chronic illnesses leads us to the same conclusion.

[@alejandrozimmermann8064]

Yes honestly I am addicted to cigarretes, Marihuana, Monster energy drink and maybe women but sex bot any more even there IS Desire but i am celibate yet for many month i dont remember because i feel its not good to give out so much semen not repressing but letting sexual energy flow through my body consciously.. but yes one have to be honest with this❤ but with women i dont feel It like addicton but strong atraction and intenting to make It consciious what IS this force wanting to me go afrer womans like a force of atracion i feel but with good intention for all of us and bbeing honest with all i feel ❤

[@alienoverlordsnow1786]

🙂❤✌👍💯

[@taby1975]

Distractions are helpful to relax our monkey brain, not all distractions are bad

[@taby1975]

Is there any addiction of a 'meditator' to meditation....What is a true meditation dear