If You're Struggling, Life is Telling You to Stop Trying | Nonduality

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  • @brianbriskey509
    @brianbriskey509 5 днів тому +1

    Wow!! You are so good at explaining this!!

  • @visionaryfiction7981
    @visionaryfiction7981 27 днів тому +4

    At 12:04, the rays of the sun shine through the car windows, illuminating everything. How perfect is that!

  • @ajcraft-hello
    @ajcraft-hello 24 дні тому +3

    Excellent message. “Stop identifying w/ your thoughts.” We are Human & we are Being. Seems mind is just a tool.💪❤️✨🌎

  • @AprendiendoaTrascender
    @AprendiendoaTrascender 23 дні тому +2

    Thank you Heather, brilliantly simple, truthful and beautiful. So sweet to come across your channel🪻🙏

  • @mossystoner
    @mossystoner 26 днів тому +6

    The example of Jesus shows the “nothing to protect” he surrendered his body to be crucified. Looking at the circumstances of this life, there is gratitude for my daily bread.

    • @heatherralstonnonduality
      @heatherralstonnonduality  26 днів тому +1

      @@mossystoner I use that example in some context in the book :) as well as in my experience when this understanding is deeply tested by illness or something else. A stocked kitchen is an incredible experience 🙏

  • @concettasultan8570
    @concettasultan8570 24 дні тому +2

    Thank you great delivery of the message

  • @jean-francoiscamire5095
    @jean-francoiscamire5095 21 день тому +1

    Merci Heather! Powerful and Effective🙏

  • @MK7of7of7of7
    @MK7of7of7of7 26 днів тому +1

    thank you "stop and rest" is mind. Open feels ok.

  • @SaleemRanaAuthor
    @SaleemRanaAuthor 27 днів тому +7

    After listening to your talk, I sat down and just tried to experience myself as the one who is observing myself think, feel, and experience physical sensations. I was astonished at how this observing self seemed totally uninterested in doing anything constructive at all. Eventually, I got up went for a walk and then cooked dinner. The rest of the evening continued to go smoothly. I did not experience anything extraordinary, no miracles, no altered states, but everything was easy, from cooking dinner to promoting my online business on social media. What happens if you slow down the mind and begin to see things from the viewpoint of an observer? Does your life improve as a result?

    • @heatherralstonnonduality
      @heatherralstonnonduality  27 днів тому +3

      @@SaleemRanaAuthor lovely 😊 life circumstances may improve from being better managed, or they may stay the same if they serve you. The definite difference is it will be experienced from peace. You will identify as that peaceful presence. You may find that there is less doing, but that doing is more inspired and effective. Thank you for sharing 🙏

    • @schoo9256
      @schoo9256 26 днів тому +2

      Thank you for sharing

  • @OFFTOPdaP
    @OFFTOPdaP 26 днів тому +11

    Damn. First gen Angry ex con who has been super upset since the the election result and you just soothed my soul lmaaaao like dude you just fixed my mania of worrying. You’re so right !! This is so stupid to worry about. The human isn’t the experience to be human is and I’m choosing to be human !!!! Thank you so much.

  • @ThoughtsBecomeThingsChannel
    @ThoughtsBecomeThingsChannel 27 днів тому +4

    Thank you.

  • @iammisanthrope7764
    @iammisanthrope7764 26 днів тому +2

    Thank you. Beautiful. ❤

  • @subject_5056h
    @subject_5056h 27 днів тому +5

    Remnants of illusion. Would be a great album title.

  • @norfolkyeti
    @norfolkyeti 27 днів тому +1

    A beautiful transmission thank you ❤

  • @BephonePersephone
    @BephonePersephone 27 днів тому +2

    The claw analogy 🎯

  • @Rbuntosh365
    @Rbuntosh365 27 днів тому +2

    Spot on..perfect..❤

  • @Saturntabbytype2
    @Saturntabbytype2 21 день тому +1

    Trust the universe regardless to the illusion you eyes see ,everything is conscious even metal and plastic if it has atoms its conscious.

  • @paulaspinall8439
    @paulaspinall8439 27 днів тому +3

    Love this 🙏

  • @metalbirder
    @metalbirder 27 днів тому +1

    This is perfect. Thankyou. ❤

  • @ianbuchan2102
    @ianbuchan2102 26 днів тому +1

    Good one Heather. Thank you. 🙏

  • @darrenh8384
    @darrenh8384 27 днів тому +2

    Hi. Loved this. ❤️

  • @discoteque7768
    @discoteque7768 27 днів тому +1

    This video was made for me. This might be exhausting. Thank you, dear.

  • @skpince
    @skpince 26 днів тому +1

    Miraculously the "No Thing" is the base of and contains "Every Thing". There's no salvation for the me. There's only the dissolution of it. What remains is "What is". Not to be imagined, not to be thought about. Only to be experienced, if it can be said that. By whom? Therein lies the great mystery. "I" like this channel. ❤

    • @heatherralstonnonduality
      @heatherralstonnonduality  25 днів тому +1

      @@skpince thank you 🙏 well said

    • @skpince
      @skpince 25 днів тому +1

      @heatherralstonnonduality thank you for the video. deeply appreciated.

  • @MOAON_AABE
    @MOAON_AABE 26 днів тому +2

    One love ❤

  • @jonschmitt232
    @jonschmitt232 27 днів тому +2

    OK I failed in my attempt to quit the internet for a while. Oh well, try again tomorrow, anyhow, I think this one was gorgeous with the moving sun. Thanks.

  • @easylee3612
    @easylee3612 23 дні тому

    Nonduality points to the absence of any relationship, subject, including the „true self”, knowing myself, etc.

  • @alienoverlordsnow1786
    @alienoverlordsnow1786 27 днів тому +9

    👍👍👍✌💯 Good point that self help just reinforces mind identification. Thanks for the reminder that we have to stop believing the lies of the mind, which are preventing us from seeing true nature. It would be nice to have a list of all those lies, so we could memorize the list and then denounce them when they happen.
    Insidious lies of the mind:
    1. I am a human with a body and a mind.
    2. I am the creator of my thoughts.
    3. I need circumstances and outcomes to be a certain way in order to be fulfilled.
    4. I am separate from others and I need to protect myself from others....

    • @heatherralstonnonduality
      @heatherralstonnonduality  26 днів тому +2

      @@alienoverlordsnow1786 agreed - I “believe” in one of these videos I discuss that, in the book too. Keeping inventory is helpful for a more consistent experience

  • @williamwightman8409
    @williamwightman8409 23 дні тому +3

    It is strange that what I hear you say in the first two minutes is what I believe, spot on. After that there are too many words. KISS principle. This is my abbreviated life plan: chop wood, carry water, PAY ATTENTION, chop wood, carry water, repeat as-required.

  • @nunyabinnus
    @nunyabinnus 27 днів тому +2

    4:40.... is the veil nice.

  • @kathleenwharton2139
    @kathleenwharton2139 26 днів тому +8

    Relax..Let Go..Trust God 😊❤I spent my life trying to control

  • @techhardman
    @techhardman 27 днів тому +2

    There's no YOUUUUUUUUUU. DONE.

  • @the-comments-poet
    @the-comments-poet 14 днів тому

    A day on earth
    Every day I see the world
    I am forever amazed by its unending wonders
    And all the beauty of everything around me
    Each blade of grass, every pebbles, shoot and twigs
    Drops of dew as diamonds in the morning sun
    The fresh scent of renewed hope in the early breath
    The promises of life awoken
    Riches and abundance and rewards near
    I am so very small - this world so big
    Though I look and look I cannot see very far
    But I can see I belong here
    That I belong to here
    The new day also brings hurdles and sorrow
    Streams to cross, treacherous and menacing covers
    I am just a solitary little mouse trotting along
    In this immeasurable field I call home
    And no matter the dangers and the threats
    However unkind the weather and cold the nights
    And the friends lost and the dark days
    I am grateful for this ground I walk on
    I am the life given to me
    Like a voice needs a listener
    And the dream a dreamer
    This earth comes alive under my tiny little feet
    I am bound to it as it is to me
    I am just a solitary little mouse trotting along
    Small and defenceless, sometimes scared and unsure
    But trusting and confident in this moment
    Today, there is nowhere else I would rather be
    Here and now I belong
    To this life given to me
    I am a voice, I am a dream, I am a breath
    I am just a little mouse

  • @steinwendter
    @steinwendter 25 днів тому +1

    crisp, crunchy, tasty pointer to simply what is! Yes!

  • @NickMak-m2c
    @NickMak-m2c 9 днів тому +2

    I started "not trying" a long time ago, as I got into non-duality. Nothing happened. Lol.

    • @heatherralstonnonduality
      @heatherralstonnonduality  9 днів тому

      @@NickMak-m2c does it work now?

    • @NickMak-m2c
      @NickMak-m2c 9 днів тому

      @@heatherralstonnonduality It helped me with emotional pain, and the bulk of it is off my shoulders, and it has been.
      As far as the practice itself...
      It feels good to go there but I can never stay long. Life beckons.

    • @heatherralstonnonduality
      @heatherralstonnonduality  9 днів тому

      @@NickMak-m2c it can be carried into life but that's another art unto itself. Glad to hear it helped so much with the emotional aspect.

  • @Dmc805
    @Dmc805 26 днів тому +1

    Tky

  • @tim2269
    @tim2269 27 днів тому +1

    7:56

  • @bluwng
    @bluwng 27 днів тому +3

    You are the car. If you want to go places you still have to drive you still have to learn to drive you still have to maintain the car. Even if you do all this there is always risk and danger so you still have to play the 3D games and protect yourself to the best of your ability. I am hiring engineers, they must have the proper education, training,experience even after they are hired they still have to get along and perform. Realization that your spirit is not the car your spirit is whole and complete does not absolve you from living and living by the rules the universe/god put on this world.

    • @heatherralstonnonduality
      @heatherralstonnonduality  5 днів тому

      @@bluwng if your car dies… do you?
      If the body dies… do you cease to be?

    • @bluwng
      @bluwng 4 дні тому

      @ that has zero to do with point Einstein. I guess being awake doesn’t make smart. The point is you can’t live in La La Land because you are one with the universe, this avatar is here and limited by the rules of this world if you want to play the game of life you must do it within these constraints if you don’t want then check out.

    • @Mike4Life4Life
      @Mike4Life4Life 22 години тому +1

      @@bluwng
      It’s not easy if you identify with the body more than the entity that just is .. the entity that IS is ALL there really is
      Everything else is an illusion
      Like solid objects are not solid .. they are holographic… the Entity that really exist is the foundation of that hologram
      So to reflect on your life as the illusion and the need to feed it can only end in despair.. because the true self only needs peace and the only way to peace is to let go of illusionary needs
      Most will not have until they are dead because society thrives on the illusion

  • @Saturntabbytype2
    @Saturntabbytype2 21 день тому

    You are the observer in matter through spirit means ,nothing actually exsists you are one with everything nowhere knowing nothing. 011 you never did anything other than process through the process you have to be ,there are many selfs the observer is the essence.

  • @billbadiha9836
    @billbadiha9836 27 днів тому +1

    Most people identify with the puppet, that which is unseen is the puppet master which is not physical.

  • @brushstroke3733
    @brushstroke3733 26 днів тому

    I just want to take a bath like Jim Morrison. The music is over.

  • @gribwitch
    @gribwitch 25 днів тому +1

    I've watched dozens of spiritual videos like this one and they all say similar things. However none of it makes sense to me. Including this. 😕☹

    • @heatherralstonnonduality
      @heatherralstonnonduality  25 днів тому +2

      @@gribwitch if you’re watching you’re looking for something, that’s good. I would not recommend starting with these. Read a book for a good foundation and to be able to sit and chew it. Read it multiple times. You may have to get to a point the mind is used to the concepts so there aren’t walls up and it gets through to the heart. You’ll end up finding this isn’t even spiritual, it’s going to feel obvious and like common sense. 🙏

    • @gribwitch
      @gribwitch 25 днів тому

      @@heatherralstonnonduality I've read lots of spiritual articles, watched dozens of videos e.t.c. and am quite familiar with the theory part. But it's the practical side that eludes me time after time.
      And anyway, isn't what you're saying in this video fairly basic stuff ? Trying to awaken ( i.e. self realisation ) is the first step before everything else, isn't it ?

    • @heatherralstonnonduality
      @heatherralstonnonduality  25 днів тому +1

      @ this isn’t a theory but a methodology for understanding experientially. Practice it. Self inquiry and releasing.

    • @MrMoneyHelper
      @MrMoneyHelper 8 днів тому

      ​@@gribwitch Think of your spiritual journey as going from kindergarten to PhD. You can have the books but without practical experience the books do nothing for you.
      Some people are fortunate and spontaneously reach the top. Somehow they came across a piece of the puzzle and it made them ask the right question. Which allowed them to see a truth that unlocked the door.
      I've been at this forever. Many bits of the puzzle have helped me do the work of releasing all kinds of emotions and opinions. I'm now at the point where there isn't anything left to ask, other than the fundamental questions of who am I? How does this relate to that? I see things and apply gained knowledge to them and gigantic realizations shift my fixed ideas about life.
      A good course for everybody starting on the journey is The Sedona Method. It teaches how to release feelings. The more that are released, the more insights will be had about life. There are videos about it. The originator of the method was Lester Levenson. He went from near death to a healthy body in about a month. He then lived another 42 years and taught his method that got him to enlightenment. He taught Hale Dwoskin, who made the course mentioned above.
      It is a practical thing. It is first grade for people who want to _do_ something to get to enlightenment. The things learned there can be used all the way to the PhD level. Peeling away feelings brings you to the next level; and then the next level. Each revelation brings more peace, more understanding. Most people aren't ready to ask the simple questions because they are too entrenched into their personal identity.
      Eventually there isn't much left to release. Then you spontaneously begin asking Who am I? To whom is that thought addressed? What is its relationship to me? I hope that helps.

  • @darrenh8384
    @darrenh8384 27 днів тому +3

    I don’t know if you noticed how the sun beams came in during this video

    • @ptanji
      @ptanji 27 днів тому

      Yes. Really cool effect. Sure Rachel willed it! lol!

    • @heatherralstonnonduality
      @heatherralstonnonduality  27 днів тому

      @@darrenh8384 it’s happened 3 times now ☀️

  • @BEACHDUDE71
    @BEACHDUDE71 19 днів тому

    Unemployed 53 single virgin living with my parents, I have failed

  • @english_5359
    @english_5359 28 днів тому +1

    Can I quit my job?
    I think that’s gonna make the situation more difficult.

    • @lizchurchill6051
      @lizchurchill6051 28 днів тому +1

      I feel like the word struggle is being used in a different way by her here. Not that we never do anything that is challenging. For example, after Angelo Dilullo “woke up” he still went to medical school. I’m sure he had to work to learn and do.
      Maybe she means the feeling of efforting? Like when if we are egoically “trying,” rather than just physically putting some effort in to do something.

    • @heatherralstonnonduality
      @heatherralstonnonduality  28 днів тому +5

      @@lizchurchill6051 Yes. To struggle requires resistance to something and/or a sense of working really hard perhaps without the outcome you want. You can have no money and not be struggling. You can have everything and experience great internal struggle.

    • @lizchurchill6051
      @lizchurchill6051 27 днів тому

      @@heatherralstonnonduality you can also feel no internal struggle, but still struggle to move a couch up the stairs. ;)
      Or find yourself struggling to pass a chemistry class, and hire a tutor to help. (Without any internal resistance.)

  • @MK7of7of7of7
    @MK7of7of7of7 28 днів тому +1

    In this cleaning up process rage appeared; rage was expressed. Was that struggling? NO. Effortless automatic full adenine alpha female took the wheel. How does that work, it appears and is experienced? Body was contracted severely and blood pumping to brain was apparent. Much burping, and throat chakra very active recently. Feel changes everywhere and thank you. Body appeared like a field hospital for the critically injured with ptsd. Didn't catch the rage building. Was I supposed to?
    I have been guided all of memory, don't know why this is sensed so strongly and yet resistance to it is sensed. Like it is too good to be true, it is too good. Might find Joy or happiness. Need a smile and shake head emoji here.
    Its ok and everything is more unknown and less cared about and nothing can be said about "I know" So why care about rage?
    It is not who I am. It is not preferred. What happens to rage? What happens to grief unexpressed from the age of 4. So much coming loose and its ok. Seemingly doubt is sensed and fear and that is ok also. Am a reiki practitioner not a master and practiced enough to be dangerous and learned 20 years ago. Again, sense of doubt when I've seen it work like you have. What is that? Pls Advise.

    • @Rob_132
      @Rob_132 27 днів тому +2

      You might look into understanding Complex Trauma and its effects. CPTSD. Tim Fletcher has some excellent educational videos on this in UA-cam.

  • @highlanderes
    @highlanderes 22 дні тому +1

    Then why do you do anything at all - what motivates you to sustain a minimal lifestyle?

    • @heatherralstonnonduality
      @heatherralstonnonduality  22 дні тому +1

      @@highlanderes no motivation needed. It just happens. There is natural curiosity and interest in my true nature (same as you), it is the mind that presents the idea of depression or boredom. I make my own meaning

    • @highlanderes
      @highlanderes 17 днів тому +1

      @@heatherralstonnonduality Thank you - I see now. Listening to more of your videos brought me “back in the zone”, and the body has softened (as described in another video). I have experienced this before, like being free of a heavy backpack of past and future (attachments), I was not aware of carrying around.

    • @heatherralstonnonduality
      @heatherralstonnonduality  16 днів тому

      @@highlanderes that is beautiful. Thank you for sharing. I've described it the same way, actually there's an exercise in the book about carrying a backpack full of beliefs and concepts up stairs and dropping over a cliff :)

  • @chrisbova9686
    @chrisbova9686 27 днів тому +6

    It would have been so nice to have just skipped all this. I get born into a traffic jam where the institution that defines God is the head of every conspiracy, and nothing is true.

    • @heatherralstonnonduality
      @heatherralstonnonduality  27 днів тому +2

      @@chrisbova9686 in the end I wouldn’t have skipped anything

    • @schoo9256
      @schoo9256 26 днів тому

      At the end of the day, God is what you decide. They can only define God to the people who choose to listen to them.

    • @Thhhgg838
      @Thhhgg838 24 дні тому +1

      Know thy self. IAM

  • @anthonybailey2010
    @anthonybailey2010 27 днів тому +2

    How are your practical need met then? Eating work gas phone bill?

    • @norfolkyeti
      @norfolkyeti 27 днів тому +2

      Through effortless living, the day job becomes a breeze when you realise ❤

    • @BephonePersephone
      @BephonePersephone 27 днів тому +5

      Imagine if you had this nonstop, inner dialogue about breathing and were convinced that every breath was consciously up to you. According to your beliefs based on the way things appear, you are solely responsible for when your breathing happens and therefore to blame when it doesn’t. You’d be constantly scanning for future breathing obstacles. You’d create ridiculous stories about how you’re to blame for any restriction in breathing that arises. You’d be in therapy just to deal with the shame of that time you let a bit of water go down the wrong pipe. Just like the experience of breathing happens or doesn’t, the body/mind will get up, take a shower, get dressed, and get itself to a job if that is what is occurring. The body/mind will lay in bed and doomscroll if that is what is occurring. It’s just happening. The inner dialogue about all of it is just arising as well, as spontaneously as a fart. The belief in that inner dialogue is what makes you feel separate and responsible for what is happening, but that belief is also just occurring. It’s all just happening. Not only is there nothing to do, there’s nothing you can do.

    • @norfolkyeti
      @norfolkyeti 27 днів тому

      @ brilliantly put ❤️

    • @ptanji
      @ptanji 27 днів тому

      All happens effortlessly. The mind will struggle though hence the question.

    • @BephonePersephone
      @BephonePersephone 27 днів тому +2

      Effort arises effortlessly. 😜

  • @lemillion5980
    @lemillion5980 25 днів тому +1

    But if you want a muscular body for example you gonna suffer phisically at least

  • @WarrenStarCat
    @WarrenStarCat 26 днів тому +1

    Advaita is " not " Non Duality. This is a westernized Fabrication, but ok. If you ever find your body in extreme levels of physical pain which comes on unexpected and does not seem to leave, your perspective might undergo some kind of alteration. Exactly what that will look like will be completely on the blind side of your awareness. It will create issues in the physical plane that demand some sort of action. And its about that simple. In this state a person will have been cornered. The complexity that comes in is most sordid. The idea that suffering is a choice in this space is a Colossal joke, and another westernized meme.

  • @progressfinally1
    @progressfinally1 27 днів тому

    Many of us are spirit beings in an avatar body. Life is easy life is hard it's part of life on this reality. Struggle makes us stronger. Usually those who Struggle the most it's because God is purifying us.