From Depression to Spiritual Awakening (Jeff's Chair Story!) - Jeff Foster
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- čas přidán 29. 04. 2015
- In a meeting, Jeff Foster is asked about his spiritual 'quest', and speaks from the heart about his journey from suicidal depression to spiritual awakening. Recorded live, 25th April 2015 in the Netherlands. www.lifewithoutacentre.com
Failed in the material world... And then failed in the spiritual one... Hits nail on head for me.
Finally someone who sounds exactly what I'm going through now
+Bianca Locke Jeff is awesome, I love how he's so vulnerable and open about his struggles, it really helps other people relate that are going through similar stuff. I can definitely relate to trying to search so hard to"get spirituality", to know oneself, to find the self, to being tired, sick and crazy of all the spiritual seeking. To feeling like you've hit spiritual rock bottom, that your no good, to flip flopping to feeling arrogant about "spiritual insights" to then feeling like a rotten fake for feeling rotten again. I don't know it gets tiresome and at some point you just start to have a hunger for life, for living but the spiritual search has left you feeling so rotten you feel like your just going to fuck it up if you go out there and try to live. At some point though I think one's got to make the leap, to just say screw it I'm going for it, it's time to give life a chance again. Sometimes life gives us a helping hand, or we trip and it's done for us, we're back in the dance and before we know it we're enjoying ourselves.
Same going on here...
All in the same boat xD
Lots are awakening at this time Bianca, this is a real phenomenon!
+Zen same here bro
“All the things I was running from, wanted to save me, fear wanted to save me” perfect
"Sometimes not knowing the path IS the path"
Found this here in 2022 has saved me in every way and probably so many others thankyou
prayer as I watch this video:
- to awaken more deeply
- to be continuously given insights and downloads that help and assist me
- to unite and be with my twin-flame/soul-mate/true-love
- to successfully thrive off my passions and talents
- for a tribe of real friends
- to be permanently healed on every level and in every way...
Spiritual 'quest' of Jeff:
-a whole life of much pain,grief,rage,avoidance
-all the things you are running away from wants to save you
-wants to taste life again
-exhausted:fell in the material and spiritual world
-the exhaustion was saying: "stop, slow down, here"
-mesmerised with "there"
-fed up, sick
-nothing really happened
-it was a remembering of "yes, everything is here, life,love is here"
-the doubt,uncertainty are sacred
-you do not get rid of the waves to become the ocean
-end of spiritual seeking:
-bowling, honouring every emotions
-they are all inclusive, all oneness
-even "the longing to die" was sacred
-they don't want to be acted on, just wanted to be felt and expressed, everything is just energy
not know what the next step will be, that is the path of the moment
I can't express the feels this 12 minute clip gives me, I can't even explain how truthful this is too me n how much I feel it.
This man speaks volumes so profound.. a REAL way out of the all too familiar addictive destructive cycle of depression and self help I can truly relate to this all the chasing endless pursuit of this state or that and how fleeting and elusive it all is. At the expense of sounding cynical many so called spiritual/motivational teachers claim to have the ultimate book workshop,seminar package I so much wish I would have had this awareness in my life over 20 years ago He really.. cuts through alot of the spiritual dichotomy we often experience.What a truly amazing gift of his experience and wisdom he can impart to us. Love it when he says second hand knowledge and others people's paths Clarity.Oh precious clarity
This resonates so much with me. Rest has been my greatest teacher. When you begin to love the rest your body is telling you to take life slowly transforms but you love resting so much you don’t care if you have to rest the rest of your life. And then that’s when you will start needing less rest. Paradox of life. Simple. Beautiful. But So easy to forget and not trust.
I’ve had similar inner understandings/experiences. That’s where I am right now- being ok not knowing what my next step is beyond staying present and being ok that my symptoms returned.
Be careful. You can lose it. I did, and it was and still is very painful.
Wow this dude is really exceptional - amazing job he’s doing
Extremely relatable! I've felt so drained and fed up with still not "getting there"! Still experiencing low moods and reacting to the external after all the spiritual knowledge and practices! Thank you for this 🙏
All I know once when the the sadness,depression goes away, the chattery mind calms down on its own and all the Storm is gone, my energy peeks back up gradually, I feel so much better and I tend to look on things little bit different, I'm much less judgmental over other people believes. Its like after the mental and physical torture is gone I feel much more down to earth and I'm much more balanced in general. Is this the so called Spiritual awakening? I have no clue, you call it whatever you want to, but I called it my personal ass kicker because when it hits me it breaks me down to almost I feel like I don't exist but after I ride out the storm it feels like I needed to reach the bottom of the pit in order to be able to surface again. Story of my life for the past 17+ years, but the last 10 years have been more noticeable. When it gets the hold of me I hate it so much to the point I ask my self whats the point of life if it has to be this much miserable, but when you pass the storm you do realize The STORM was well deserved and needed to put me back on track. I notice the intense Chattery mind followed by depression comes in after some sort of anger and upset feeling I carry in me. All I can say is do not try to stop the chattery mind, your psyche is working itself out, it will put you down, dissect you, make your body so exhausted that even 12-14 hrs of sleep per day will feel like its not enough BUT once when you get out the storm its WELL WORTH IT and you'll be glad you went trough it, just hang on tight and you'll ride it out, no need for any sort of doctors perscriptions. Is it really SPIRITUAL AWAKENING? IKD what to call it, but it puts my ass back in place AKA back on track LOL
Best vid ever - I can so relate when he says he was in bed fed up reading about it all and it still going around his head. lovely man.
oh my god, this is just me...:-))finally someone sincere about everything
Really helpful. Seeing emotions and thoughts as part of what is sacred.
completely relate to your story. Thankyou for being brave enough to tell it.
I’m currently in this situation. The only ‘thing’ helping is the realization that this is the cry of the ego. It has been ‘seen’ and knows it’s ‘death’ is close and ‘it’ is trying to survive by strengthening itself in a brutal way. It wants the entanglement of a ‘fight’ as entanglement IS its existence and is throwing everything but the kitchen sink at you/me/us. I snap out of it by asking; ‘am I aware’ awareness then briefly ‘dips’ into itself and tastes itself and you get the answer of YES. THIS and the realization that there IS no one there (referring to ego) has to be remembered until it fades into the background and hopefully non existence....I guess in one word: non-resistance.
Thank u I'm exhausted all the time. Maybe there's hope
I'm so grateful for this.
Oh Yeah! Perfect description of realisation. Love this talk Jeff. You are speaking for so many of us who are experiencing what you described here. Peace and Love to all ❤️
Thank you so very very much for sharing this Jeff. And thanks for your book “Falling in Love with Where You Are.” Highly recommended.
All I can say is, "I love you,Jeff." Thank you.
Wow, I love this and I have just been starting to see this recently. I choose spirituality to try and get over all the things I thought had happened and obsessively blamed myself for. I wanted to 'get somewhere' so that I could feel good again (and to find a way of being special and superior - if I am honest) but it became another escape route, another way of trying to avoid things. But surrendering feels totally different and I can just 'be' and drop the zealous mission to fix myself.
love this guy - talks to me in the most honest and deep way - thank you - thank you -
So "in line" with what this character experiences...Many (many) thanks!
I'm Jeff before awakening...
Yeah, we are so depressed and we like craving freedom, or we can say that we want escape, escape from our minds, escape from ourselves, escape from family and everyone, escape of life, or to some pretty dark extent, die, craving death as solutions of all problems....
Thank you so much!
Can totally relate to it! Thanks 🙏 Jeff
presence of the witness of the witness of awareness, subject of the object, the witness of the self.
the self that has no self, no self that has a self, a self that drops the self, but who knows that the self is dropped, because who would drop the self? am I someone? am I noone? but if I'm noone then how do I know I'm noone? maybe I'm someone thinking he is a noone?
Thank you for your message.
Danke Jeff❤
You the man! Jeff!
I’m losing my mind at the moment. I’m in a very dark place 11 weeks after my fiancé’s suicide. I want to die too, my life is too painful at the moment and I can’t see a way out of this darkness. I keep watching these videos about light at the end of the tunnel and this being part of an awakening but I don’t even have a tunnel. I have no clue about my path but this is too hard to go through.
💞xx
Sorry to hear about your pain and struggles, you are stronger that you have ever known.
You are stronger than you ever knew
Amaizing,thank you
just simply ❤
This message help me a lot thnx 🙏♥🙏♥🙏♥
brilliant
awesome
POV: THE MOMENT OF UNDERSTANDING.
Experiencing IT is the only way to UNDERSTAND IT.
NONE CAN GUIDE YOU BUT YOU.
Precisely NOT YOU BUT YOUR SINCERITY.
Following someone's path will never take you to the place where you are seeking. It will only help you to seek more, hope more, thought more and do more. Like a mirage
How do you know its awakening vs depression..because in april I changed,,lost joy in everything feeling so disconnected and so sad, exhausted, can not find joy in anything, the world seems different and so do i... I constantly hear white noise n ringing in my ears...I feel like nothing's real..exhaustion, waking up ok but end up with the crying.not knowing where I wanna be..feel lost...so is this awakening or depression I'm going through...thank you
Hello Jeff, thank you so much for sharing this 💛 Do you describe your awakening in any of your books?
Oh yah I know this place
I find that I would enjoy helping the earth get to a better place, like what the new age calls light workers. I was way out of alignment this year but it is my commitment & goal to become self aware in every moment and ride the waves of emotion and stay in alignment with what feels right.
I also want to live in a intentional community one day. Real bad. :p
Impossible Dreams ask yourself why you think youd be enjoying that, it wouldnt make you feel any different
Want moreee🦄🦄🦄
"Ow carpet', legend!!
wow
Wow
You are there I was typing that then you said it the problem is the way this world is set up is for you to work for the world for you to survive.Its hard to work for yourself to find your peace because that doesn’t make anyone richer you are not spending money if you are sitting and enjoying the calmness in nothing except breathing and cleaning your mind that is your connection to your soul and will make you stronger in this world they don’t want anyone to have that FREE power and strength that we all carry IN US.That is like telling you that you have diamonds in your pocket that is 100% percent yours but don’t cash them in and become rich?????????
Awesome
the setting looks like an eckhart tolle seminar
Awesome! Yay!!!! 👍😁😊
i am also suferr that feeling wht i can do to over come from
Just watch this video: "Anthony de Mello rediscovering life"
We die anyway in a sense of leaving our body.
This doesn’t touch the severe mental state I am in. How do I get through this ?
Just watch this video of a talk by "Anthony de Mello: rediscovering life". He explains how he "awakened" 12 years before the talk was recorded.
Amy Moule by not wanting tou get through this
OOOOOOOOOKKKKKKKKKKK
Ein gutes Buch Titel, für ein Land wie Rumänien auch sein mag, Wie kann man ein Leben zu leben, ohne zu wissen, dass Sie Depression "in einer Gesellschaft,, Wie kann man sich der Mann NEOM" oder,, Würfel der geistigen Liebe Ohne zu wissen, "
Let's not romanticize depression
I'm obviously not enlightened because this just seems lame af. So I have a lot of suicidal energy I guess.