Consciousness Exercise Bring to mind your general experience of how you relate to others. Are there any ways that seem particularly ineffective? How about ways that are effective? What is it you want to get out of interacting like that? What does it actually get you? Learn more at PeterRalston.com. Join the discussion on Facebook with Conscious Dialogues. […]

There are consequences for assuming and living as an entity residing inside a body and mind. Being isolated and existentially alone is a big one, but the way you relate to this identification of a “you inside” also makes a difference in your experience and your world view. You can see that living as an […]

Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes Click Here DOWNLOAD HERE In this episode of the consciousness podcast, Peter Ralston talks about a being committed to comfort and some of the consequences associated with that. For more information please visit:  PeterRalston.com Join the discussion on Facebook with Conscious Dialogues

Consciousness Exercise Say you’re an internal, separate person that lives inside their body, behind the eyes and between the ears. What happens if you change perspective to that of being the body, and not having an “internal space” to reside within? What is that like? What’s it like to move as the body? To speak? […]

Any single aspect isn’t enough to create a self-identity because any one aspect could be true of any human. Just as ice crystals themselves don’t make a snowflake—it is the individual shape of the many crystals that make it unique and a snowflake—so it is with you. -Peter Ralston   Buy the books at Amazon. Learn more […]

Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes Click Here DOWNLOAD HERE   In this consciousness podcast Peter Ralston talks about a fundamental shift in young people.   For more information please visit:  PeterRalston.com Join the discussion on Facebook with Conscious Dialogues

Consciousness Exercise When you’re doing a task of some kind that you’re resisting in some way, what is going through your head? Do you complain, or beat yourself up, or try and make yourself wrong, or not good enough about it? If that is going on, what happens when you move to an attitude of […]

If we don’t project onto the tree the attributes of a human mind, the “tree-self” appears vastly different from our own. Since trees don’t harm us, and give themselves without a whimper to our needs, the common consensus is that they are benign. So we might imagine a rather benevolent selfless creature, infinitely patient and […]

Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes Click Here DOWNLOAD HERE   In this episode of the Consciousness Podcast, Peter Ralston talks about happiness and how it is not based on circumstance. It’s not about what happens but how you relate to it. Warning: Some explicit language is used.   For more information please visit:  PeterRalston.com Join the […]

Consciousness Exercise When you think of yourself, what comes to mind? What do you want, dislike, fear, enjoy, relate to? All of these things influence how you perceive and relate to yourself. What story do you have that goes along with that? What do you identify as yourself in that? Learn more at PeterRalston.com. Join the discussion […]