Peter Russell: ...how much worry gets in the way happiness (but it's fixable!)

Nobody Told Me!

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🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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All of us have negative thoughts and feelings we ought to let go of—like expectations, grudges, certain beliefs and judgements. But we hang on to them. Our guest on this episode, Peter Russell, says we shouldn’t! Peter is a world-renowned author and teacher who believes the critical challenge today is to free human thinking from the limited beliefs and attitudes that lie behind so many of our personal, social and global problems. Peter’s latest book is called "Letting Go of Nothing: Relax Your Mind and Discover the Wonder of Your True Nature". His website is https://www.peterrussell.com/index.php

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens, and I'm Jan Black. Most of us have negative thoughts and feelings we ought to let go of, like expectations, grudges, certain beliefs,
0:21.7	and judgments, but we hang on to them. Our guest on this episode, Peter Russell, says we shouldn't.
0:27.0	Peter is a world-renowned author and teacher who believes the critical challenge today
0:31.2	is to free human thinking from the limited beliefs and attitudes that lie behind so many of
0:36.8	our personal, social, and global problems.
0:39.2	Peter earned degrees in theoretical physics, psychology, and computer science at the University of
0:44.3	Cambridge in England, where he studied for a time with Stephen Hawking.
0:48.1	Peter's latest book is called Letting Go of Nothing.
0:52.1	Relax your mind and discover the wonder of your true nature.
0:55.9	Peter, we thank you so much for joining us.
0:58.3	Oh, lovely to be with you both.
0:59.7	Looking forward to it.
1:00.7	Tell us more about the meaning behind the title of your book, Letting Go of Nothing.
1:06.8	Right.
1:08.5	Yes.
1:09.5	It's actually a slight play with words. It's letting go of no thing.
1:13.6	When you think of letting go, we often say, I've got to let go of my, this relationship, or this job, or this house, or what I was going to do yesterday or, you know, whatever it is, our expectations.
1:25.6	What we're actually letting go of is not things in themselves.
1:30.4	What we're letting go of is an attitude, a mindset.
1:33.8	It's how we see things.
1:35.4	So we're letting go of our attachment.
1:38.3	And our attachment isn't actually a thing in itself.
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