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Heather Ralston
Приєднався 29 чер 2022
Author of "One Thing at a Time," nondual awakening guide incorporating yoga, Ayurveda.
A Shift in Perspective is All it Takes | Nonduality
An assumption has been made about reality, about perspective. We just need to be willing to recalibrate our attention from the illusion to the truth.
This video is part of the Companion to "One Thing at a Time," published November 23, 2023. This book is a guide for those who wish to go beyond suffering, to realize who they really are and awaken to the true nature of reality. The book is a primer for much of this material and may require some digestion/contemplation. For more information, visit Heatherralston.com.
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This video is part of the Companion to "One Thing at a Time," published November 23, 2023. This book is a guide for those who wish to go beyond suffering, to realize who they really are and awaken to the true nature of reality. The book is a primer for much of this material and may require some digestion/contemplation. For more information, visit Heatherralston.com.
DISCLAIMER:
The content provided in this UA-cam channel/video is for informational purposes only. The information presented in this channel is not intended to be a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician, mental health provider, or other qualified healthcare provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
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How Do I Know What’s True? | Nonduality
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Heather answers this question, as well as addresses the current fixation on uncertain future events within spirituality. To be clear... nonduality is not spirituality, it just fits best in that category. It is not based on beliefs and shows ways of employing discernment to remain open when hearing new information. This video is part of the Companion to "One Thing at a Time," published November ...
Self-Inquiry - Using the Mind to Deconstruct Itself | Nonduality
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If you are "doing a lot of seeking and not getting anywhere," stop looking to others for answers and go inside with this method (ruthlessly and constantly, I recommend). The truth is being missed, it is not hidden or hard to find. While other practices support this, this is the one thing that will actually get answers that are beyond doubt. Outro by Jesús Olmo. This video is part of the Compani...
You Are Not Alone | Nonduality
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From the perspective of the mind, it really feels like each human fights for themselves to the death. From the perspective of awareness, we can drop all the walls around the heart and open, knowing... I am playing all the characters. You are not alone, and you are loved. This video is part of the Companion to "One Thing at a Time," published November 23, 2023. This book is a guide for those who...
If You're Struggling, Life is Telling You to Stop Trying | Nonduality
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To experience the existence of a human is a joy. To identify as the human, now seemingly vulnerable to all that happens "outside," results in an experience of struggle. When we recognize signs that we are off track, we can begin to be grateful for them - they are telling us how to get back. I notice resistance - I see that I am noticing resistance. I am not the resistance. The only measure for ...
There is Nothing to Do, No Need to Be Liberated | Nonduality
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Removing all concepts around "god"... you are that. Your true nature is beyond the human. To simply drop all concepts, all of what the mind says "I" know, the truth fills in the gaps. Trying to understand, trying to relax, going somewhere to learn from someone... these are in service of the misunderstanding. It simply happens when I am knowingly myself. This does not mean I can't meet a teacher...
How Do I Relax In a Chaotic World? | Nonduality
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Yet another trick question: to relax, realize that relaxation flows from you effortlessly when it is not resisted. Find the resistant thoughts in the mind, recognize that they are not true and are part of the illusion veiling your true self. This video is part of the Companion to "One Thing at a Time," published November 23, 2023. This book is a guide for those who wish to go beyond suffering, ...
"What Will I Lose if I Let Go?" | Nonduality
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The mind's protests about letting go end up pointing to its shortsightedness when we investigate. Heather talks through some of the flawed reasoning in mind, and how to see around it through self-inquiry and the simple shifting of attention. This video is part of the Companion to "One Thing at a Time," published November 23, 2023. This book is a guide for those who wish to go beyond suffering, ...
The Spiritual Ego - Sticky, Distracting, and Useful Material
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The spiritual ego is really just a continuation of the ego's attempts to evolve, to continue to grip your attention using newly compelling material. Watch as it co-opts new insights gained in the Awareness that you are - let it unravel itself. This video is part of the Companion to "One Thing at a Time," published November 23, 2023. This book is a guide for those who wish to go beyond suffering...
Stop Searching - You Are What You Seek | Nonduality
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After years deep in a search, it can be so confusing, but here's the answer: there is no question, no problem. Stop searching. All is already well. This video is part of the Companion to "One Thing at a Time," published November 23, 2023. This book is a guide for those who wish to go beyond suffering, to realize who they really are and awaken to the true nature of reality. The book is a primer ...
“How Am I Consciousness Itself if I Don't Even Like it Here?” | Nonduality
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In this video we get back to basics - all other videos, all discussion, is built upon one truth which must be observed firsthand to be understood - you are not the mind, and the mind is not truthful. When we see this, we understand that "I don't like it here, no way I am the one in charge" is just one of the mind's million backdoor distractions from what is plainly evident when all filters are ...
No “Other” Means No Enemies | Nonduality
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The best news ever: there was never anything to forgive anyone for. Until this can be felt and experienced firsthand, we work with this in a relative sense. This is "indirect path" - when pointing falls flat or there is too much mental resistance to listen, create peace within by healing apparent breaches and clearing the energy layer of the body. This video is part of the Companion to "One Thi...
Realizing Effortless Awareness Right Now! - With Karim
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Thank you to Karim for graciously allowing the sharing of this video in which the true Self is realized, to serve others. A simple and beautiful realization. Watch from the heart - listen without mental engagement. 🙏 Small cuts have been made to conversation for time. Clarification: Heather says "everything" is healed when mental and energetic contraction is released. Everything related to cont...
The Mind's Back Doors are No Match for You | Nonduality
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Many will relate to the nagging questions the mind poses - its last ditch efforts to really hypnotize and captivate the attention. These are sometimes distressing, other times invitations to overanalyze intellectual concepts. Step back, and they are as a child looking for attention, no match for you. This video is part of the Companion to "One Thing at a Time," published November 23, 2023. This...
Self-Inquiry - Letting Go of What You Are Not | Nonduality
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Dropping beliefs, opinions, and reactions is an aspect of self-inquiry. By becoming less of what we are not, we recognize what we are. Note: Nisargadatta Maharaj didn't "write in his book." It is a book of dialogue. This video is part of the Companion to "One Thing at a Time," published November 23, 2023. This book is a guide for those who wish to go beyond suffering, to realize who they really...
Working with Trauma in Self-Realization | Nonduality
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Working with Trauma in Self-Realization | Nonduality
Everything I Need to Know is Contained Within Me - Nonduality
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Everything I Need to Know is Contained Within Me - Nonduality
Why Surrender, and What Does it Do? | Nonduality
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Why Surrender, and What Does it Do? | Nonduality
Why Does Awakening Feel "Crazy" and What Do I Do?
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Why Does Awakening Feel "Crazy" and What Do I Do?
Don't Believe Anything You Hear | Nonduality
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Don't Believe Anything You Hear | Nonduality
Nobody is Coming to Save You and Other Good News | Nonduality
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Nobody is Coming to Save You and Other Good News | Nonduality
Knowingly Being the Love We Seek | Nonduality
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Knowingly Being the Love We Seek | Nonduality
The Weight of Beliefs - Am I Okay Alone? | Nonduality
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The Weight of Beliefs - Am I Okay Alone? | Nonduality
"I'm Sick of This" - Are You? | Nonduality
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"I'm Sick of This" - Are You? | Nonduality
What is Nonduality? | An Introduction
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What is Nonduality? | An Introduction
I Am Consciousness - Is it Lonely/Arrogant?
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I Am Consciousness - Is it Lonely/Arrogant?
I Am Consciousness: Is it Arrogant? Is it Lonely?
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I Am Consciousness: Is it Arrogant? Is it Lonely?
What is Awakening? Event VS Realization
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What is Awakening? Event VS Realization
What is the Self and How Do I Live with It?
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What is the Self and How Do I Live with It?
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It's so funny. You don't need the intellect except too deconstruct itself. I went down this journey for years, trying to find out who I was and what I should be doing and the purpose of life and all that... Only to discover that the same thing that should be doing, and the person I should be is what I was doing and who I was all along before I even started. I went so far only to realize the place I should be was the place I was before I left. I journeyed to the end of the universe only to see my own reflection in the mirror. I became so wise that i was able to deconstruct myself back into the person that I was to start with.
Who is identifying with what when there is no separate limited entity called “me” from the beginning? Mind is supposed to identify with body. Huckleberry is talking to Heather and Heather is talking to Huckleberry. Saying I am Infinite consciousness is as ridiculous as saying Consciousness is talking to itself, although that’s true.
language is tricky...as the last sentence "we are in this moment"... there is duality that the mind attaches to...would it be better to say... "we are this moment"...probably, the less words that display these truths, the better, don't you think?
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That what you are seeking is seeking you. Spoken by the poet Rumi. Best Wishes
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The neuroscience base evidence description isn't higher vibration it's higher brain wave frequency. Higher gamma brainwaves may be the cause of the mind separating in thoughts and the observer. Best Wishes
Think Therapeutic Disassociation . While technical very correct, this young lady is speaking from the first step in awakening. I have meet many meditators in the stage but have found no one at stage two (permanent observer state) Based on neuroscience... in order to change your perspective you need to create neuroplasticity changes on the brain. This. requires concentration meditation in watching thoughts and ego physiological response. Best Wishes 16:13
When the self is realized you simply live life noticing thoughts coming up and recognizing you are not the thoughts or the mind, until mind begins to putter out and resume its role as a tool. If self-realization is step one, why doom oneself to a life of seeking attainment of some other kind when one's experience is already mostly or completely free of suffering? This is mind dragging out the process.
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Your theory collapses when in physical chronic pain
@@JDB61698 physical chronic pain, among other things, is how this went from theoretical to real in this experience.
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Nonduality - is a denial of good and evil - which OBVIOUSLY exist. It's a lie - and a way to avoid reality. That doesn't work.
Good and evil are concepts that animals need to survive life. They do exist in the minds and existence of us but if you take a step back you see they don't exist outside of us. Of course we still need to take care of good and evil because we are living creatures. At the same time we can be aware that everything outside of us is ok. Idk, maybe somebody else can explain this better.
Thanks Heather, I needed to hear this today. I find myself push push pushing to make things happen rather than letting life come to me ... and just being here now unheckled by the mind. Peace
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There's only an empty apparence of what we are not.
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My mind is doing everything it can to keep me locked into this horrible perspective. Darn the luck.
@@bryandraughn9830 let go of it as “yours.” It’s just happening. Isn’t that nice? You aren’t being harmed. Remember it. ✨
Omg, I love you!! I get emotional giggles too when it communicates 😊
@@EmilywithSerenity I love you too ❤️ Buddha chuckles are incredible
Awesome pertinent message. The back & forth - getting sucked in then back to the Self again.
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Thank you for sharing your experience. Were you self taught or did you work with teachers?
You're welcome 🙏 The only experience I had working with a teacher directly was one 1-hour session addressing two stubborn questions in the mind. Overall, lessons came from books and videos - Tolle, Spira, David Bingham, Jeff Wheeler were the main ones, and each for very different reasons. I discovered Maharaj and Maharshi later and haven't read either extensively.
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love the giggles you got near the end :)
I desperately need a change in perspective, just a minor internal shift to make life worth living again. But I dunno what change...
Ok - you are not the one who needs a change. You are beyond this. The mind is telling a lie about a minor internal shift as though it will happen from mental knowledge. To free this experience from suffering, recognize that you are not the mind and that it's not ultimately true, ever.
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Consciousness has to see it is not a person. However, Hugs are still a very nice thing. 🙏
Yes! We get to live in both worlds
10. Trying desperately to understand how I was "friends" with people I loathe and despise, and how I thought that was normal 11. How on earth will I ever heal from the ceaseless life-long rage?
Let the rage wash over you. Let it all come up, without fueling it with further thought, without identifying with it. Allow it to be there. In this way, you "love" this rage into releasing. The real you doesn't loathe those friends. You are playing all the parts. 🙏
Wow!! You are so good at explaining this!!
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__ Consciousness is the elephant in the living room of miracles. --Thor
It took me over forty years to write that. Says everything that needs to be said about anything anywhere ever, in just ten words.
I am finding as I progress on this journey that the pain I experience is really there as a spur. I just went through a particularly painful bit and it led me to an answer that I have been asking for months. I also now realize that if something comes up again, to just embrace that pain and get curious about what it is trying to guide me to. If my brain is a tool then so must be my emotions.
I found this out today. I discovered that I HAD a believe that I needed to hold on to fear to survive. Just like that, it seems fear lost its power. It was so painful for so long and all that suffering was from a belief I had that wasn't even remotely true. So wild.
Yes! Thank you for sharing that
On an earthly note, I absolutely adore that red scarf on you
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So.. repeating patterns and the hopelessness of moving from sadness to joy and then sadness again.. is just mind (and not me). I am awareness of the patterns, the hopelessness. Is that what’s being communicated? That too feels like part of the repeating pattern itself, and again, awareness lol. Ay ay ay!
@@GRunner6S you are the unchanging, observing the changing. What a weight off :)
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My "guru" is a woman in a bright red scarf, sitting in a car, laughing alone, somewhere on Earth. Try to beat *that* Ramana/Krishnamurti/Sadhguru/Ram Dass/Rupert Spira/Robert Adams/Alan Watts etc. (sorry: that thought made me laugh; I hope you will pardon me)
As long as we know "this guru" never had a guru, and your real guru is you :)
It always amazes me how simple it is and how complicated the mind makes it. When my mind goes off on a tantrum and I catch it, I can't help but laugh at it. Its like I was always there but I didn't know it.
It's the most incredibly silly thing :)
Does this belief system or life outlook, or if that isn't the correct thing to call it, I apologize. Does it hold out any hope of an afterlife? I think the thing that holds people back with this is, if I'm not an individual, but part of a whole oneness, what happens to this representation of me when I'm gone and will I get to see everyone I care for again?
Hiya - it's a methodology for releasing all that is false, realizing the truth. It's the opposite of a belief system. From the mind perspective, it feels like there is so much loss and we want to be reunited with people. But this is what I'm saying in this video - you are them. From A Course in Miracles - nothing real can be lost. They were never lost! The hole you experience from the relative loss - YOU fill it, and only you. An afterlife isn't needed, releasing mind identification is heaven.
@heatherralstonnonduality thank you for your detailed explanation. You've given me a lot to think about. What is A Course in Miracles? Also, I like the parts of your videos where you are laughing at what you are saying, because it makes me think that what you are explaining should inspire joy in some way.
@@YoolSea that's exactly why I don't cut those parts out... the resonance that happens on a level beyond mind is the thing, and it's helpful to see it can take almost nothing for it to happen when we allow :)
@heatherralstonnonduality thanks very much. Is A Course in Mircacles a book you are referring to?
@ yes it’s a book, I only mention to give credit. I haven’t read the whole thing and can’t recommend or not
I loved this video-especially your laughter! It really cheered me up.😊
Love to hear it :)
“We are not after this elusive thing…it’s about what is experienced in this moment when we see through identification with mind”. That. Freedom was found here. There. Thank you
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Isnt seeking an activity of the mind? So what should one do? Unidentify with thoughts, ignore thoughts, and just look, be " a pair of eyes floating in space with nothing behind" like Mooji said?
I've never heard that saying before, and I'm not sure how I feel about it, but the intention behind it is the same thing I'm saying, yes :) We play the game of seeking until we realize we are seeking what we already are. Then the game is played, having found.
What is the Truth? Also, what is the mind? Is it the activity of the brain?
The truth is I am. :) The mind is an entity/process within the game or dream of life. Equipment for experience. The brain is the physical representation of the mind. Not the mind itself. We can see mind activity made manifest in the brain.
Heather, it would be interesting to get your perspective on the ‘power of I Am’ (Neville Goddard, Joseph Murphy, David Allen, etc.) and how to use it with respect to influencing/navigating this dream we seem to be living in. Thanks for the video.
I haven't gotten deeply into Goddard. Using the work to influence or navigate the dream sounds to me akin to law of attraction or resonance, and if so my suggestion would be to first realize what you are. Let it fully sink in, then play with LOA from a detached and effortless place that is fully ecological, is in the framework of oneness. The thing is, once it is realized, you might not care to play in that way.
Another teacher suggested- if you’re having a really rough time in life ask yourself “what have I not been willing to see?” I’ve been having a rough time with that koan because it feels like it engages mind and the person. What do you think heather? Is there some sort of dual process of using the mind to deconstruct the mind, as well as constantly disbelieving the mind and seeing what’s actually here?
Good question. This is like a variation of self inquiry. Dropping beliefs is also a variation. It slightly changes your intention, maybe slightly changes the outcome. We are using mind to deconstruct itself, but the emotional/energetic and physical layers are also cleared using it. What you're talking about may also involve consciously opening the heart to what's been suppressed. We do this with determination, not for our amusement - it's not a new way for mind to entertain itself. Mind is the tool. Keep that intention and this won't add more mind content, only shift and dismantle it.
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Very authentic Heather, thanks. Laughing at the mind and the seriousness with which it takes its manifestations is a big step forward in eventually dismantling it.
She has a very peaceful energy around her…
What book was recommended in the beginning? Great talk! Much health, much wealth, and much love.
At about 2:00? That was my book, "One Thing at a Time." The link to it is in the channel info. ☀
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Thank you for helping me to unlearn" the mind " go to" fix it!😅
Just showing myself to myself :)
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I love the YOU version of ME❤️ Keep on dropping the seeds for people to evolve to their highest self 🕉🙏🏻 In this cosmic joke called life
What a phrase... thank you! I love the you version of me too.
I love the YOU version of ME❤️ Keep on dropping the seeds for people to evolve to their highest self 🕉🙏🏻
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Yes I like this a lot The way you explain these things is very different and very helpful I used to watch your videos and others and think “I want what they have” I’m starting to see another thought when I watch these videos It’s “ oh I am that too, I want to uncover more of this truth which I already have” it seems like a small shift but it’s fun
That is a wonderful shift :) thank you for sharing that