Jonathan Foust Awakening the Still, Small Voice with Links Between Mindfulness and Intuition

Jonathan Foust joins Tricia and Doro to share insight on awakening the intuitive voice within ourselves. Through various teaching techniques and years of experience, Jonathan educates us on the links between mindfulness and opening yourself to intuition. We also learn there are many paths to finding your individual calming style. Listen in!

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Quotes:
We are surrounded by tremendous stress and tremendous suffering. And at the same time, we also have this innate capacity for joy.
Jonathan Foust, M.A., C.S.A.

When your intuition is flowing, there are three things that are not happening: You're not judging. You're not comparing. And you're not trying to figure things out. Jonathan Foust, M.A., C.S.A.


Listen to the gut, the heart, and even the throat. The whole body is an incredible repository of information. Jonathan Foust, M.A., C.S.A.


Show Notes:
Jonathan Foust: Smiling like they do in the commercials when they wake up. It works every time.

Jonathan Foust: My whole background, you know, all those decades of doing lots of deep yoga has kind of translated into mindful movement as well.

Jonathan Foust: We are indeed surrounded by tremendous stress and tremendous suffering. And at the same time, we also have this innate capacity for joy.

Jonathan Foust: It's such a challenge to keep our hearts open and at the same time to stay present to ourselves.

Jonathan Foust: The Quakers would always use this phrase of the still small voice and which really speaks about your conscience, you know, of really tapping into that, that really deep place of inner knowing.

Jonathan Foust: The mind is just this wild, wild thinking machine that's kind of out of control. So there is that element of looking for the techniques that help you to calm. 

Jonathan Foust: After I would work out, it was so much easier to meditate because like the deep-seated tensions were dispelled a little bit.

Jonathan Foust: We have four ways that we process information and they're directly linked to, like your intuitive style.

Jonathan Foust: Identifying your style is an indicator of how information tends to flow through your nervous system and kind of throw flow through your awareness.

Jonathan Foust: If you're not aware of your beliefs, they form your habits. If you're not aware of your habits, they form your character. And if you're not aware of your character structure, that becomes your destiny.

Jonathan Foust: The image from Joseph Campbell talks about the circle with this horizontal line through it. Above the line is what you're aware of. Below the line is everything you're not aware of.

Jonathan Foust: A lot of times intuition kind of like pops through when we least expect it. You know, it's again, it's when we're not judging, we're not comparing, we're not trying to figure it out. That's when actually that information can kind of filter through.

Jonathan Foust: You're bringing these kind of unconscious anxieties above the line just by naming them.

Jonathan Foust: Filling your cup to overflowing is your responsibility. Because when my cup is overflowing, it's very easy to be kind. You know, it's very easy to be present. It's very easy to feel how I might be most effective in the world.

Jonathan Foust: I'm influenced in part by Buddhist psychology. And one of the things that Buddha allegedly said was finding your path is your path.

Jonathan Foust: If I can't sleep oftentimes I'll do I'll do a body scan meditation.

Jonathan Foust: If you can't sleep, just systematically from the inside, move from the crown of your head down to your feet. He said, ‘Even if you don't sleep, you might be surprised at how rested you feel.’

Jonathan Foust: I looked at looked at the science of it, the consequences of not sleeping. It kind of scared me into action.

Jonathan Foust: It's listening to the gut, but it's also listening to the heart, you know, and even listening to the throat, you know, like the whole the body's incredible repository of information and including that is so, so important.

Jonathan Foust: Close your eyes and just listen and be and part of it is to be open 360 degrees. There may be something that arises from the felt sense.



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