Know Thyself
E134 - Peter Crone: Finding Freedom From Ego & Subconscious Limiting Beliefs
Tue, 11 Feb 2025
This week renowned mindset coach Peter Crone comes back for a transformative discussion on breaking through the barriers of the subconscious mind. He explores how to unlock inner freedom and create lasting change in our lives.Peter delves into the intricacies of the subconscious mind, helping us define its role and influence on our daily experiences. Peter reveals the patterns that lie at the root of our suffering and how to rewire these problems at the source. He examines common limiting beliefs that hold many people back, guiding us through the process of unpacking these layers to uncover deeper truths.He also touches on the theme of transmuting the pain of loss and grief, and the concept of the spiritual ego.BonCharge Red light therapy:Go to https://BonCharge.com/KnowThyself and use code KNOWTHYSELF to save 15% André's Book Recommendations: https://www.knowthyself.one/books___________0:00 Intro 2:08 The Problems Hidden in Your Subconscious 11:37 These Patterns are at the Root of our Suffering18:21 Common Limiting Beliefs that Hold People Back24:08 Unpacking the Layers of Limiting Beliefs 31:15 Ask Yourself This One Question36:30 Transmuting the Pain of Loss/Grief47:23 Ad: Boncharge Redlight Therapy48:40 Relationships & Connecting from a Place of Love1:00:06 The Power of Listening 1:05:37 Go from ‘Seeking’ to ‘Exploring’1:09:45 Why the Ego Fears Being Wrong1:13:08 Stop Identifying with Your Problems1:17:03 Freedom is Available Here and Now1:28:05 Unpacking the Spiritual Ego1:55:26 Reaching new Heights of Your Potenital2:01:02 Conclusion___________Peter Crone is a thought leader in human potential and performance. He devotes his life to sharing insights and strategies to create an inspired life and find true freedom by awakening new levels of awareness. Peter helps redesign the subconscious mind that drives behavior and performance and uses the wisdom of Ayurveda to help people find balance through diet and lifestyle. He’s worked with entertainers, professional athletes, as well as global organizations.Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/petercrone/Website: https://www.petercrone.com/___________Know ThyselfInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/knowthyself/Website: https://www.knowthyself.oneClips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ4wglCWTJeWQC0exBalgKgListen to all episodes on Audio: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4FSiemtvZrWesGtO2MqTZ4?si=d389c8dee8fa4026Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/know-thyself/id1633725927André DuqumInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/andreduqum/
Chapter 1: What are the hidden problems in our subconscious?
People really are under the impression that the life they have is not the life they want. The thing that we're really up against is all our own perspective. That's it. We could just be perpetually chasing our tail, trying to perfect everything around us under the illusion that when I get everything exactly the way that my current perspective thinks it should be, then I'm going to experience peace.
But you don't. When you live that way for decades, you also now have the accumulative effect of that perspective. The toxicity in the brain, the toxicity in the body, the toxicity in your relationships, the absence of abundance in your finances. My role is to help people discover what's beneath their woe.
Because then you start to see that everything that anyone deals with as a problem exists only in perspective. People do end relationships. They leave careers because they realize that it wasn't actually an extension of their greatest self, because it's the freedom from the idea of one's self, which immediately, instantaneously, at the same time, gives an experience of newfound love for what is.
And simultaneously, that's the present state. As it relates to my future, I see nothing but pure possibility.
I've introduced you enough, my friend. I'm honestly getting quite tired of it.
I just don't even like this guy. I can't keep making up nice things about him.
Oh, man. Well, welcome back for the trilogy. Oh, we're going. We're live. Okay. Hello. You in plus one. You brought Scooby-Dooby today.
Yeah, he's one of my favorites. He's great. Reminding you can't take life too seriously, darling. Yeah. Am I your only three-peat?
There might be one or two others. What?
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Chapter 2: How do limiting beliefs affect our lives?
For just kind of definition sake, I would love actually for you to just define what you feel the subconscious mind is, because what's so fascinating to me is on the pursuit of discovering true freedom in our life, there are so many things beyond our current awareness that are holding us back from accessing our natural state of being, which we both feel is freedom.
but it helps to get context for what the subconscious mind is and the patterns that are kind of outside of our realm of awareness. So what is that in your perspective?
I mean, I don't know if it's so much a definition. I like to use analogies. I think it helps people to understand things that perhaps aren't so palatable. But if you imagine the building we're in right now, it's going to be commensurate with the foundations, right? So this existence that we live in as a space, or you live in as your home, It has to have the pillars that support it.
So any building, any identity that we become associated with, in this case, our own personality, has got its own foundation. So for me, the subconscious represents that. So the things that we're aware of, it's really just as the word implies, that which is beneath, which is conscious, right? So it's just below. So we become oblivious to it, but nonetheless, it informs everything.
So that when we're thinking about things, we're in the shower, we're going to bed, we're driving our car, whatever it is that you are aware of as a conscious thought, to me is generated from a much deeper and at times more insidious, doesn't have to be bad, but it's a much more well-formed idea.
And so whilst people know, for example, that they shouldn't smoke cigarettes or maybe they shouldn't drink so much alcohol, that's a conscious awareness. but they don't know why they still do it because of the subconscious foundation that supports the habit. So that's why it's so beautiful to be able to access because really it informs everything else.
It's sort of that which is tucked away in the wings, but it's the genesis of everything that we're aware of that we think about that then creates all of our emotions and our actions and then consequently our results. So that's why for me, I love delving into that because it's the only thing that's really going to make lasting change.
I mean, you go and see an expert of any kind, they're going to dabble in the realm of behavior, right? Like you see someone who teaches you tennis or someone who teaches you yoga or someone who's a nutritionist, most of the conversation is going to be in the realm of action. Like do this, don't do that. But to me, that's way too far down the cascade of how things come into creation.
So prior to what we're aware of and we think about are these subconscious thoughts, and then we can access the realm of being and freedom.
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Chapter 3: What question should we ask to explore our limiting beliefs?
It's not a truth, right? And so that's why that reverse engineering process is so profound. I mean, I just work with someone as part of a free event to show people what they might experience in my mastermind program. And this guy, there's like 8,000 people signed up to witness this free, you know, sort of expose in terms of my philosophy and my work.
And I work with a guy I've never met before, 46, 48 year old guy from India. And he'd submitted a question like a lot of people and I just randomly picked. And he was struggling with self-esteem, anxiety, and a lot of anger, particularly towards his loved ones, which tends to be, you know, sadly the case when people struggle with that.
And you could see, like even for me, the fatigue in his face, like the dark circles under his eyes, the sadness, the fatigue that is upon him knowing he's a good guy and he doesn't want to hurt people that he loves. He even said that he'd just blown up at his oldest son and almost said to his son, I hope you don't grow up to be like me. You know, you can feel like the shame in that, right?
There's a guy who wants to be a good dad, but he doesn't even know why he blows up. And so to be able to reverse engineer that and help him see that he fundamentally thought who he was was bad. Like, he's not walking around going, I'm bad. He's walking around going, I'm an asshole of a father because I just blew up on my kids, right?
But the I'm bad was the foundation that allows that behavior to be perpetuated through every arena of his life. So once we... Then we investigate the validity of that. Like, where did that come from? When he was slapped as a kid in a very traditional Indian family where he was sort of, you know, seen and not heard and scolded and shamed and all the things he did was wrong. And...
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Chapter 4: How can we transmute the pain of loss and grief?
But then to see that it's not a truth, right? That's what you went through. And it's hard for a kid. And I can understand why you thought you're a bad kid, but it's not an actual truth. And to see his face on the other side of that, realizing, as I ask everybody, is it true, whatever the constraint is, like in his case, is it true that you're bad? And he really got it. It's not a truth.
But it becomes so part of him, it's not even a thought. People talk about limiting beliefs. That's also not it. It's a subconscious foundation of his whole identity. And when you pull that from beneath someone, I mean, the joy that was on his face was palpable.
There wasn't a dry eye on the Zoom, you know, because people could feel, they can relate to like, wow, like he spent 40-something years thinking that who he is as a person is bad. And that's, you know, that's how most people go through life. And then they have the myriad of forms of escape, right? Some street drugs to medication to food to, you know, whatever it is that impacts their life. So...
Yes, that's why I like what I get to do. If you're into freedom and not having suffering, yeah.
Especially, as I'm sure you've experienced more and more life as it is, you witness the realm that this is, which is very beautiful, so joyous. And we were just talking about beforehand on this podcast, how vast this universe is. The human predicament, where we find ourself in this cosmos is so magnificent and awe-inspiring.
And for us to be living life in our own projections, it's just sad when we know what else is possible. And so as you've seen and worked with people for decades, you've like anybody who does anything for a while, you recognize patterns, right?
You recognize that we're actually fairly predictable and that there's these patterns and limiting constraints that we share across the board throughout humanity. Now, you mentioned that we're essentially suffering a perspective that's rooted in words. Yeah, yeah. When you go to the core of it, and especially when somebody transmutes it and finds more freedom, Is it not more than that?
There's got to be, there's feelings attached in emotion that's energy stored physiologically. How do you see what it's actually made up of? Because words lead to, I guess, a narrative around ourselves, which informs the perspective we have. But when you see the substance of what is actually making up our limitations, how would you kind of break that down?
I still think at its core, it's still words. It's still sound, right? Like we live in a vibratory universe. Tessa said you want to understand the universe in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration, right? So in the beginning was the word. No matter what sort of tenets you pull from, everything to me still comes back to that vibratory state that is what it is to have life.
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Chapter 5: What is the role of relationships in personal growth?
Then you want to balance the effects of the previous root cause, and then the third stage is you create a new paradigm for existence. So in his case, the root cause is, I would still assert based in vibration and language, I'm bad. And there were other ones, like there's something wrong with him because he was a pretty boy when he was young. He had very pretty eyes.
And so as a little boy, he was told, oh, you look like a girl. Now, it's an innocent almost compliment, really, because he's got these beautiful eyes. But the way he interpreted it is that there was something wrong with him. So that was another part of his constraint. So he's bad. There's something wrong with him. And then most people's relationship to the future is based in worst case scenario.
So that's the lens constraint of I'm not going to be okay. It's a survival proposition. So you had all three going, right? So those three to me are still the foundation that create the suffering. When you live that way for decades, then you also now have the accumulative effect of that perspective.
So the toxicity in the brain, the toxicity in the body, the toxicity in your relationships, the absence of abundance in your finances, the kind of environment you live in,
A lot of evidence to reinforce its existence.
Yeah. So that's where we get to be right about the perspective, right? Which is why humans are, you know, so preoccupied with self-righteousness because it's a way that ego can perpetuate itself.
So once he saw that he's not bad, he's still going to be left with, you know, the adrenal fatigue, right, that I could see based on the dark circles under his eyes, which is a reflection of somebody who's in fight or flight for the majority of their day. So that now has to be balanced, right? So the previous root cause removed, which is awesome.
But like someone who's been an alcoholic, for example, they got psoriasis of the liver, right? You've got to Just because you stopped drinking, your liver isn't now functioning like a brand new baby. It's clean. So you've got to balance the effects of living that way. So there is some practical things to do, too, once I work with people.
They also may find that they're in a toxic relationship that served their previous identity, but no longer is in alignment with their newfound sense of self-worth. Which can be, you know, that can be tough. People, you know, do end relationships. They leave careers because they realize that it wasn't actually an extension of their greatest self.
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Chapter 6: How can we shift from seeking to exploring in our lives?
We do it physiologically, just showering every day. You're getting rid of dead cells. But why I love what I get to do is because people just, they don't upgrade their software usually, oftentimes in an entire lifetime. So to keep dying to the version of yourself that no longer serves you is a form of being truly alive.
which is why the subject of death is one of my favorites because to truly be alive, you have to constantly dive to the part of you that is redundant.
Yeah.
It's a gift to be able to see you work. And also, you came and worked with my men's group one night. Yeah, it was fun. What's fascinating is when you see the process of you working with somebody, it becomes quite obvious to everybody except the person who's being worked on. Because the nature of our blind spot is like,
we can't see it we're operating through the lens of it and so we can't see ourselves because we're looking through it yeah i'm excited to unpack that a little bit but when you look at the possible perspectives that that you boil down that are prisons of our own making yeah what would you say are the are some of the most common ones um if you look at it from you know pattern perspective
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Chapter 7: Why does the ego fear being wrong?
Yeah, I think, you know, I often talk about the three main buckets, which sort of are a catch-all for the different ways that people perceive themselves. And it's not even, as I said, it's not a limiting belief. The way I phrase it, it's the you that you are for yourself, right? Which might seem like a weird statement, but it's accurate, right? The you that you are for yourself.
So it's not that you think or have a belief that you're not enough. It's that who you are for yourself is you're not enough. And so that informs, that is the view of life that you look through.
so i talk about like some sense of inadequacy some sense of insecurity and some sense of scarcity as being the three main catch-alls right that everyone can relate to inadequacy is normally about ourselves that i'm not enough i'm not loved i'm not valuable insecurity is how i relate to my environment so there's a fundamental feeling of like we're not safe and particularly for the feminine sadly because of this patriarchal world we live in and that they've been abused for centuries right so a woman walking to her car at night
has a totally different experience than a guy walking to his car at night, right? You know, just because of the way that this society is sadly set up. So the not safe really is the feeling of insecurity for the way it manifests in a masculine. It might be insecurity in performance, right? So I've worked with high-end executives who are super well-informed about their industry.
Chapter 8: What does it mean to stop identifying with our problems?
They've worked in a company for decades, but they're still scared shitless to get on stage and present, right? So insecurity. And then scarcity is like where people have this misnomer that there isn't enough as it relates to the material world, right? So there's a relationship to ourself, there's a relationship to others, and there's a relationship to the material world.
And so they tend to be the default factory settings of the subconscious that we look through. Something wrong with me, I'm not fundamentally loved and accepted by society, and I don't have enough. And then it's like slap on the ass and go figure it out, have fun. Become who you think you should be as a compensation for your inadequacy.
Do whatever you have to as a strategy to win love and favor from your fellow species. And then accumulate as much as you can to compensate for the scarcity. And those three right there, you start to see the idiosyncrasies that people deal with, right? People are exhausted. They are living in a pretense. They're trying to be who they think they should be in order to be loved and accepted.
They are doing whatever they can as a strategy to compensate for their own shortcomings, whether they work harder, they become people-pleasers, perfectionists. The social media game is obviously where this is replete with the attempts through filters and posters and positions and lights to look good.
And then the hoarding mentality that it is to be human, the holding onto things as though anything exogenous to us has any value at all. It just doesn't. So when you really start to see that, it's like, holy shit, no wonder people are just sick and tired. They're playing this quintessential hamster wheel game of really trying to overcome their own blind spots of lies.
When you really see it, there's so much compassion. That's why, again, I love what I get to do, because as I tell people, I can't give you something you don't already have. I'm just helping you see what's in the way of you realizing that. And it's a dissolution process, right? And we live in a very solved world. a solution-oriented society.
Yeah, where growth is perceived in the acquisition of more as opposed to addition by subtraction and actually the removal of things.
Which is why I love Ayurveda. And when I became a practitioner of that, there were so many correlates between what I already intuitively understood in my own work and what the science of 5,000, 6,000 years old was pointing to physiologically. And there's something called Samprapti, which is the six stages of disease. And it really talks about the physiology and the doshas, right?
If you have too much pitta or vata or kapha, these different energies, then you eventually get sickness. And the first stage of disease is accumulation. And yet here we live psychologically in a world of scarcity, and so the impulse is to accumulate.
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