A New Way of Being

Dissolve Barriers to Happiness: Peter Crone


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How to transcend needless suffering & discover true happiness - with 'the Mind Architect'

Above everything else, people want to feel happy – and to experience freedom from suffering. It’s not the car, the promotion or the relationship we really want – it’s the happiness we believe we will derive from it. But what if the very act of seeking happiness is exactly what is stopping us from experiencing true happiness?

That is the essence of this week’s conversation with Peter Crone. He calls himself the Mind Architect, and he has twenty years of experience training and coaching elite athletes and world renowned artists – includingTom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.

Peter says his work is not about solving problems, but about dissolving them. You see, the brain is a prediction making machine. So, it creates problems at the level of thought, and then goes about trying to solve the imagined problem at the very same level at which it has been created. As you hopefully can see, that’s not a recipe for success.

The answer lies in enquiring into the places where we appear not to be free, and questioning the reality of those assumptions. That is the nature of the game of life.


In this episode:


  • The paradox of working on yourself – seeking to ‘fix’ yourself – until you realise there is nothing to work on or fix
  • Peter’s experience of true aloneless – after the death of both his parents when he was young
  • The difference between pain and suffering – and how the latter only exists relative to the idea we have about ourselves
  • Working with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman – and giving a snapshot into their lives
  • The difference between solving so-called problems and dissolving them
  • The relationship between inner freedom and effortless performance
  • The game of life – shining light onto the areas ‘where we are not free’
  • Radical responsibility
  • The brain as a prediction machine, and the absurdity of how it creates problems and then tries to solve its own creations
  • Starting with love and acceptance for where you are now and the 'is-ness' of this moment
  • What true happiness is the absence of the search for happiness means
  • Releasing resistance to what is NOW
  • The instantaneous nature of change

  • Peter Crone's website: https://www.petercrone.com/


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