jim on depression

jim carrey on depression

via tweet [https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/2017695077884104963?s=20]:

Jim Carrey’s profound take on depression (43-second clip gold):

Depression isn’t just sadness from life happening (or not happening).

Depression is your body saying:
‘I don’t want to be this character anymore.
I don’t want to hold up this avatar you’ve created.
It’s too much for me.’

A spiritual teacher friend of his, Jeff Foster, reframes it beautifully:
Change ‘depressed’ to deep rest.

Your body is demanding deep rest from the exhausting role you’ve been playing.

Not broken. Not weak.
Just a soul-level call to drop the mask and rest deeply.

Powerful reframe. Hits different when you hear Jim say it

notes/quotes from 43 second video clip:

people talk about depression all the time

the difference between depression and sadness is.. sadness is just from happenstance.. whatever happened or didn’t happen for you

and depression is your body saying “*&^% you.. i don’t want to be this character anymore.. i don’t want to hold up this avatar that you’ve created in the world.. it’s too much for me

so a friend of mine who’s a spiritual teacher has a really good take.. his name is jeff foster.. his take on it is that .. you should think of the word of depressed as deep rest

deep rest.. your body needs to be depressed.. it needs deep rest from the character that you’ve been trying to play

brown belonging law.. missing piece #1 of maté basic needs.. et al

kafka real face law et al.. wilde not-us law et al..

need means (nonjudgmental expo labeling) to undo hierarchical listening as global detox so we can org around legit needs

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jim via wikipedia []:

Foster was born in 1980 in London, England. He studied Astrophysics at Cambridge University. At the time he was overwhelmed by feelings of despair and loneliness, which eventually led to physical illness and a personal breakdown soon after graduation. He was convinced he was going to die. Foster returned to live with his parents, reading and studying for a year on spirituality, searching for relief from his depression. This ended in 2006 with the dissolution of the sense of separation, which he understood to be a spiritual awakening.

He wrote a book, Life Without a Centre (Non-Duality Press), and was invited to hold small gatherings. Eventually, after having written several more books, the gatherings were supplemented with retreats and one-to-one sessions.

In 2011, Foster wrote an article explaining why he no longer considered himself to be an “*Advaita teacher” or “nonduality teacher,” pointing out problems with the one-sidedness of contemporary “radical Advaita” teachings. Instead of a strict impersonal philosophy, he started to embrace and emphasise the relative, human, personal existence in his writings and gatherings, a relativity which he felt was not in conflict with the impersonal Absolute

*Advaita teacher: An Advaita teacher is a guide in the Hindu tradition of non-dualism (Advaita Vedanta) who helps seekers realize that their individual self (Atman) is fundamentally identical to the ultimate reality (Brahman). They facilitate the understanding that the world of multiplicity is not separate from the one, undivided consciousness, leading to the dissolution of the ego and the realization of liberation (moksha).  Core Message: They emphasize “non-two” (Advaita), pointing out that all is one, and that the individual is not separate from the divine or the world.

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