"How I Freed Myself From Ego In 7 Days! (And You Can Too!)" - Jeff Foster

[@lisade1972]

For the majority of my 43 years I have been at war with myself. I didn't exactly realize it of coarse distracting myself with self improvement, 20+ years of psychotherapy, self help books, spirituality, chasing enlightenment, moving from house to house, extreme sports, careers, seminars, retreats, more therapy... And finally the movement away from myself has begun to settle. This momentum has been slowing down over the last several years which seemed very subtle at first but i'd say it's only in this last year or so that the shift is becoming obvious to me. It's hard to describe what this is that is arising now. It's like a great kindness that comes out of nowhere and embraces this human form exactly as I am. Sometimes I hear a quiet voice that whispers, "just leave her alone now. Just let her be". It brings tears to my eyes to know such a kindness. There is still some old momentum left and it gets active at times seeking something other then this but more and more I am experiencing this grace of acceptance that I could never do or manufacture. This embrace leaves me humble and with a taste of an ease I have longed for my entire life. It has never been about reaching a perfected state only the long slow process of wearing down the resistance enough to finally say yes to this imperfect expression. To leave myself alone once and for all and rest in simply being myself without even knowing how.

[@georgiadienst6570]

Hi Lisa, thanks for sharing. I can relate to your story well. similar issues if not finding peace and being very restless with location and also relationship. any pointers what brought this beautiful chance for you in place? thanks you and so happy to hear you are finding acceptance within you!

[@nancyc5922]

Lisa Lindenlaub Lisa I understand exactly how you feel, just through a different experience! I have always been myself but I came to meet people who tried to change me, many call me a sensitive and I dislike being labelled very much. I grew up on the land hunting, fishing, trapping, hauling wood and so on with my dad, dad did not have sons, he taught me most all I know in order to live from the land, dad is not a religious man but I suppose he can be labelled as such, just like myself, we tend to pick up energies and understand people by doing so, not easy as we never fully understood it, so we basically hermatize ourselves to be ourselves, natural selves! I had met a woman 9 years ago, she lives under the religion of islam, which is nothing even close as to how I was or is! She turned my life upside down! as did the woman addicted to drugs who lives next door to me, as did the woman across the road who goes on wife strikes and mother strikes if she does not get what she wants. I had to cut them all from my life, as it is not who I am! I stopped trying to understand people but listen to the feeling I get from them and I trust my feelings totally, my dad made sure that I trust myself and intuition. My mom on the other hand was there and still is but she does not understand me at all due to her not being there when I was growing up, was a little weird for me, my dad was and is more teacher then the loving dads, he taught me also to clean, cook as I said, most all I know. I love being myself and I am now beginning to be myself again and will live more diligently from now on. I dont like to live by or follow society much, they are very different then I am, they seem to have entitlement issues!

[@ruthdavis2955]

Lisa this brought tears to me reading your words - how they resonate...Thank you for saying it so succinctly.

[@monika_h]

Lisa Lindenlaub ü

[@iceydaywalker9198]

Beautiful comment. I’m only 21 and my (illusory) self “wants” to reach this ease and acceptance sooner than later. Hopefully.

[@adamshanedavis]

Perhps the question we ask kids "What do you want to be when you're big" , sets us up as not being OK with who we intrinsically are.

[@scutty4022]

Adam Davis interesting

[@benjaminhartson3714]

Hopefully kids can start to answer “happy”.

[@dancole2994]

I'd add it encourages us to think of ourselves as only our job title.

[@kellyi1686]

For the past couple of years I've been asking my children and other kids around me "What problems do you want to solve when you get bigger?" To me this is a more meaningful question and replaces "What do you want to be when you get bigger?". We are not our job title. Money can be made anywhere. Our lives will have more meaning when we, as individuals, align our day to day choices with our personal values and beliefs, which is the real you.

[@Anne_W._VerbundenSein]

Exactly 👍 It insinuates that we have to become something in a future that doesn't exist and makes believe that we are nothing in the NOW.

[@darren8121]

“I don’t want to be something else” that is so beautiful Jeff. Thank you.

[@mikelisteral7863]

honesty definitely helps long the spiritual path

[@AmarsZone]

Thanks for sharing ❤

[@Celticwaterwitch]

Yes,! This is it! Only the Ego would want to rid itself of Ego to feel better. To rid yourself of Ego is to rid yourself of life... Allow all thoughts and feelings while knowingly residing in a space of awareness... Welcome them, they are gifts that will bring understanding 💚

[@davbooms]

Not gifts, thinking is Just a response of memory which can be observed without the observer when you have no motive.. so then there is choiceless awareness

[@radhakrsnasbhakta5755]

@@davbooms♥️

[@mikelisteral7863]

doubt your doubts

[@FaFa-bw1mm]

-all experiences are temporary -ego:you are able to control your thoughts and feelings -ego:being something that you are not (e.g. be the enlightened being) -exhaustion:trying/busy to be something else -breakthrough:enbracing myself exactly as I am (no longer getting rid of fear,sadness) -What the hell is wrong with sadness/my experience?

[@AntonioLiberato08]

🔥🔥🙏🏼🙏🏼🤙🤙

[@FreeFlow__]

Thank you Jeff for your honesty.

[@mikelisteral7863]

the hidden truths

[@christinelouiseonpaper]

Now THIS is a teaching that ‘sets right’ with me…. Not Lipton, Dispenza, Braden. THIS ONE!!!!!

[@philippinesidiocracy1018]

Me t0

[@as3pancadas627]

My mid 20 were fine. My mid 30 in another hand... not. Thanks for being you and sharing it with us * control is def a illusion for me. Just being(whatever that would be) is never enough. I hope for me one day it will. much love from Portugal

[@moony9337]

I just found your channel at THE PERFECT TIME

[@orangeregeneration1028]

There is no time. It's all now >:(

[@annieyu6300]

Orange Regeneration i think you knew what they meant though! :) of course it’s all now but we need to acknowledge that there IS a timeline in this 3D reality and at this “time” they recieved something amazing just like me! i found this at the perfect time!!🤍

[@orangeregeneration1028]

@@annieyu6300 That doesn't make any sense. It's all now >:( It's all one >:(

[@annieyu6300]

Orange Regeneration You’re right!! ~it’s all now~

[@joyfold1029]

What about now? Is it still the perfect time? 🙂

[@signsandsignals948]

Damn I know this story all too well. Thanks for sharing Jeff!

[@Obi-Tod-Kenobi]

7 days... wow. People go 100s of lifetimes. Ego is the hardest thing to disconnect. I have been a seeker since I was 17, I'm 47 now. For me losing my ego is my ultimate desire. For I feel that the ego is the darkness that is within that binds us to the physical world. It is the selfishness. I am listening to your story now.

[@laniea.9003]

Thank you for this video... I went through it all when I was younger, seeking enlightenment and so forth. You know what stuck? Christianity. I sought, read about Jesus, and viewed on KZbin pastors and intellectuals like professor John Lennox, Rick Warren, Joel Osteen, etc. Now, I feel enlightened, but you have to do the work behind it to continue to grow and learn a little more each day, and be reminded. Thankful to those people, who showed me and talked to me, even when I didn’t want to hear it. ...Now, my struggle is to get my kids to learn this, but I trust it will happen when they are ready, and to not force it on them.

[@altbit3489]

❤

[@sofiafantin5280]

How did you get where you are?

[@belindaoleary4000]

Such honesty and Truth 🙏thank you

[@VenusLover17]

Very cool

[@suziegregoire4329]

Thaïs is all so true to me ❤ straight to the Health Thank you!

[@psicologoholistico]

thanks Jeff - lovely words, inspiring :)

[@MariusDeines]

Thank you, i got flashed.

[@thedentistbakery2010]

Thank you Jeff X

[@liinu01]

great insights, very helpful, thank you.

[@starseed11111]

Wow! Thank you! Your videos help me a lot! ❤

[@gosia3032]

Same here :)

[@sofiatavares3008]

Dammmm ...i was listning ti myself then. Crying

[@ppdayz888]

TY 🙏💞💪 Beyond Blessings 🙌

[@viktorianagy7965]

love you so much hiiiiiiiiii

[@liliworth8098]

Wanting to be good, perfect and special … to change and be something else… Led me to… BE To BE everything I am Is enough.

[@noahdavis4747]

He should make music, I feel like he would make some insane music

[@joluijten8935]

Yes , he would be the master of the art of omission , because music is like a curtain or a kind of label we put on the hole existance .

[@nondualcafe]

"Just accept yourself.. and everything is ok." .. Another impermanent belief.

[@kd9683]

Nope! It's not a belief, because you're already accepted as you are. Before the concept of accepting or not accepting, acceptance is already present. It is what you are!

[@3313xx]

Where can I see the whole speech?

[@lioninvesting4676]

nice

[@joyfold1029]

language sucks, so please forgive the obvious errors. The problem with following a "path" that another has followed, is that their "path" only worked out as it did, because millions of tiny, known and unknown variables, made the "path" they walked, result in "Awakening". Otherwise, those like Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta, Tony Parsons, Jeff Foster, David Carse, etc, would have been/would be, surrounded with "Awakened beings", instead of sleeping ones still seeking what was never lost. It seems very likely, that if a million people did as I did, perhaps none of them would have woken up. It is a paradox. Yet reality, is a paradox that is also resolved. So there is always hope lol

[@sharkwang1542]

What makes it a paradox?

[@lifeisthegreatest]

💯💯💯

[@AnaGrajalesAlegr-Arte]

Cómo puedo tener este video en español, por favor🙏 gracias

[@RegularLou]

This is brilliant. Until 2:50 I was like "This dude can't be using this clickbait title shit", and there he goes. You might have become the enlighted one trying to prevent yourself from wanting to be one. At least, you are to me, thanks a lot.

[@omurosh2792]

а есть ли видео Джеффа в переводе на русский?

[@bucklaw]

Seven Days? What took so long?

[@excusesbegone]

trying to be something that I am not.... l was trapped in the never ending merry-go- round!

[@gloriasilence]

Do you have a link to the entire talk/video? Thank you...

[@Daniel-pr4uk]

Check his website, Gloria

[@gloriasilence]

@@Daniel-pr4uk Thank you...😊

[@ericafrances7110]

Come to Australia!

[@Corey_jam3s]

I'm in Australia can we talk?

[@ooohlaa13]

I am moved to say that there is nothing wrong, yes, with fear and shame and all those hideous thoughts we run from and try to distract ourselves from. The deeper truth is being able to be with them as clouds passing by and not necessarily believing in them by making some of them truer than others. I find the positive overlay or spin some people put on everything is equally disturbing because its reinforcing the duality so overly positive people/robots are also signals for me because I "believe" them and then do the envy/comparison/lesser than trip. And yet ... I don't want to turn this into yet another ego game of being able to create space for the negative buttons that get pressed and mistaken for who I AM??? Right now its still quite a conundrum for me but at least its in the direction of becoming more conscious ... which could unwittingly turn into yet another ego trip. Yikes.

[@spadeclover7129]

I think you actually didn’t explore the path enough. Yes there are many kinds of duality but the longer you practice the more these dualities begin to affect your perception all of the time and spontaneously they will arise as well. They can add profound meaning and moments of awakening that touch the heart so profoundly that you, having understood the tragic beauty of this existence, have no choice but to live fully and ethically.

[@adelok]

Spoiler alert the work never end .it a coinsciene choice you have to make. It is always a danger To aspirants on the Path When they begin To believe and act As if the ten thousand idiots Who so long ruled and lived inside Have all packed their bags And skipped town Or Died.” ~Hafiz

[@mikelisteral7863]

doubt your doubts

[@carlavela7106]

💙💙💙

[@samlack5997]

The title is misleading!

[@crispinhay6316]

sam lack all good jokes mislead!

[@neildmedia]

Misleading click bait headline. He's saying opposite.

[@georgebenichou9727]

your video is not understandable due to the sound track inaudible !! frustrating ?? in fact not so !! because I know anyway how !!! it was only to help others !!!

[@judeperks6612]

Lmao did you have a stroke while typing this?

[@zdenkkk]

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[@davidwilderman6565]

It seems that the ego Jeff has become confused- the ego self is only an illusion of an illusion and not separate. The term non-duality is the only possible way to express “ reality” because if u say we are one - then there is 2. Your self deprecating barrage of what the “ u” is suffering from because there is confusion stems from abandoning Vedanta Advaita - as the “ i” is so troubled with moving away from nonduality and u want an ego - and all that follows- Seems u believe the u ( ego) wants so desperately to be acknowledged- This is understandable- particularly if u gather an Audience of people who want to and enjoy coming back to the ego self- Surely, u will get an audience- but abandoning what is true doesn’t make sense. You are clearly frustrated- so ur stage is anti-truth and allows u to proclaim that there are 2 or more - Problem is that there are no words that can “ explain” nonduality- So just give up - however the process is not one of logic but of self inquiry thru meditation- Hang in there, as frustrating as nonduality is to hold a conference on - is not a rationale for abandoning what u used to think

[@x_x_pops_x_x]

David Wilderman can we talk?

[@charlesdavis7087]

Who cares? I don't.

[@dalehollis3699]

Yeah Right? Lol

[@KevinCease]

It's time you shaved your head bro!

[@emmarose36]

Kevin Cease why ?