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Michael Singer Podcast
Michael Singer
245 episodes
Join the New York Times bestselling author of The Untethered Soul, The Surrender Experiment, and Living Untethered for this free series of curated teaching sessions, recorded at his Temple of the Universe yoga and meditation center. For more information, go to michaelsingerpodcast.com. Sounds True Inc. Episodes: © 2025 Michael A. Singer. All Rights Reserved.
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E228: Transcending the Multiple Layers of Mind
You look at the world through your senses after your mind projects its preferences, fears, and self-concept onto what it sees. Spiritual growth begins when you recognize you are the consciousness aware of your mind’s…
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E227: You Are Not the Doer
You think of yourself as the doer, responsible for making life unfold as you want, yet nearly everything that makes your life possible happens outside your control. Your heart beats, your breath flows, and events…
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E226: From Fleeting Pleasure to Lasting Joy
Pleasurable experiences can open you and awaken a beautiful flow of energy, but if that energy flow depends on particular conditions, it will fade over time. That does not mean you have to reject love, success, or…
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E225: Becoming Comfortable with Discomfort
You are not your heart or mind but the conscious being who is experiencing them. Psychological disturbance results from resisting uncomfortable experiences and storing those impressions inside. Rather than asking the…
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E224: Stop Controlling and Start Releasing
The mind becomes disturbed because the painful experiences you resisted remain stored inside, obstructing the natural flow of your inner energy. Trying to control the mind or manipulate external circumstances can…
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E223: Truth Will Set You Free
Deep truths do not depend on beliefs or preferences; they are absolute. For example, you live on a tiny planet spinning through dark empty space; life around you unfolds according to the laws of cause and effect; your…
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E222: Unconditional Freedom
Most people seek conditional freedom by trying to make relationships, careers, and finances conform to their personal preferences. Because those preferences arise from our limited past experiences, this effort leads to…
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E221: The True Meaning of Witness Consciousness
True witness consciousness is not willfully watching, analyzing, or trying to let go of thoughts and emotions; it is the effortless state of simply seeing whatever arises without touching it. There is a vast difference…
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E220: Transforming Emotional Energy
You are not your emotions; you are the conscious awareness experiencing them. Emotions arise when your natural flow of inner energy encounters blockages created by experiences you resisted in the past or are currently…
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E219: Removing the Obstacles to Love
Love is the natural flow of energy through the heart that occurs when consciousness rises above the ego and becomes genuinely interested in something beyond itself. Unconditional love is found when you no longer allow…
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E218: Why You Suffer—and How to Let It Go
Most psychological suffering comes from wanting the outside world to align with our personal preferences, which were formed by our past experiences. Because outer reality is governed by the laws of cause and effect,…
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E217: You Are the Consciousness Behind It All
The deepest spiritual inquiry is into the nature of consciousness—the awareness that is always present behind every thought, emotion, and experience. You are not your experiences; you are the consciousness that is,…
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E216: Expanding Your Frame of Reference
Most suffering comes from living within a tiny frame of reference centered on “I, me, and mine,” where everything is judged according to personal preferences, fears, and desires. Spiritual growth occurs by ceasing to…
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E215: The Source of Consciousness
You are not the limited thoughts, emotions, or sensory experiences you are aware of; you are the consciousness that is aware of them. Spiritual growth involves ceasing to focus that consciousness on the personal self,…
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E214: Letting Go of Yourself and Seeing the Miracle of Life
Every moment of existence is an extraordinary miracle, but you filter that miracle through the likes, dislikes, fears, and expectations developed through your past experiences. By resisting what you don’t like and…
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E213: God Beyond the Mind
God is not to be seen as merely a personal wish-fulfilling entity but the universal consciousness and creative force that exists as everything in creation, including ourselves. We lose our connection when our…
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E212: Living Every Moment as Its Own Reward
The Bhagavad Gita teaches that you should engage fully in life while renouncing any attachment to the results of your actions. Expectations, personal motives, and the desire to control outcomes create stress, fear,…
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E211: Exploring the Nature of Will
Few people understand the source of will power. Will is the inner power created by the focusing of consciousness, and the way we use it determines whether we become trapped in ego or awakened spiritually. By using our…
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E210: The True Meaning of Spiritual Evolution
The essence of spiritual growth is not fixing the mind or emotions, but recognizing the consciousness that is aware of them. Suffering arises because awareness becomes absorbed in thoughts, emotions, and psychological…
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E209: The Science and Spirituality of Consciousness
Most human beings mistakenly identify with the mind and live inside its endless stream of thoughts rather than directly experiencing reality. Reality can be defined as different vibration rates of energy, from matter…
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E208: Living Beyond the Personal
Every genuine spiritual tradition teaches that the highest path is letting go of the personal ego and living according to a greater guidance than our personal desires. The suffering we experience comes from identifying…
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E207: The Birth of the Personal Mind
Suffering arises when consciousness becomes distracted by experiences, identifies with them, and forms the personal mind filled with preferences, fears, and attachments. Spiritual growth comes not from stopping…
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E206: What Surrender Really Means
Surrender is not about giving things up, practicing self-denial, or always accepting life’s circumstances. True surrender begins by recognizing that you are not the doer—the universe is continuously unfolding…
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E205: The Pathless Path—Learning to Handle Reality
The pathless path is the practice of accepting and handling reality exactly as it appears rather than trying to resist or cling to it. Every experience that disturbs us reveals stored energy patterns inside us that…
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E204: From Form to Energy—The Secret of Spiritual Freedom
True spiritual growth occurs when we shift our focus from external forms—relationships, possessions, and passing circumstances—to the inner flow of spiritual energy (Shakti). Happiness and love do not come from…
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E203: The Difference Between Reality and Your Experience of Reality
While we do not create objective reality itself, we do create our personal experience of reality through the psychological filters formed by our past experiences. Every event that we resist or cling to becomes an…
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E202: From Ego to Divine Consciousness
Both modern quantum physics and ancient spirituality point to a universe arising from an underlying field of energy. Spirituality goes one step further: the source of that field is an omnipresent, omnipotent,…
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E201: The Spiritual Path Beyond Preference
We suffer when reality fails to conform to what we want or gives us what we don’t want. Instead of trying to manipulate the external world, spirituality involves becoming conscious of our inner reactions, learning to…
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E200: The Mind Is the Voice of the Heart
The personal mind is not the true source of our thoughts but rather an expression of the emotional disturbances, fears, desires, and unresolved experiences stored in the heart. Attempts to quiet the mind through…
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E199: Why You Cannot Fix the Inside from the Outside
Spiritual growth occurs when we stop identifying with our ego and recognize ourselves as the consciousness that observes thoughts, emotions, and experiences. By relaxing instead of resisting life’s inevitable…
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E198: Stop Trying to Fix Life—Start Living It
Life is not a problem; it is an experience. Life becomes a problem when we resist the discomfort some experiences trigger within us. The ego stores these resisted experiences, creating fear, tension, and the endless…
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E197: Why People’s Opinions Have Power Over You
Ego causes suffering because it constantly worries about how people and circumstances relate to its self-image and personal preferences. Every experience ego resists becomes stored inside as emotional baggage, creating…
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E196: Fear—The Hidden Root of Suffering
Most people attempt to fix life outside themselves, so they do not have to feel disturbed inside. But this approach creates an endless struggle and never really addresses the real problems, which are inside. The path…
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E195: There Are No Problems, Only Experiences
Problems are not objective realities but labels we place on life experiences when they do not match our preferences. Suffering comes when these preferences lead to attachment to desires, expectations, and fears. In…
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E194: Witness Consciousness and the End of Suffering
People suffer because they view life through the lens of stored past experiences, projecting fears and desires onto the future. Because of this, they become trapped in endless cycles of worry, resistance, and fear. Our…
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E193: The Path from Personal to Impersonal
The personal life is driven by ego, preferences, and the attempt to make life conform to what one wants. In contrast, the impersonal life begins when one stops being governed by these inner dictates. Spirituality is…
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E192: Waking Up to Witness Consciousness
Spiritual awakening begins when a person realizes they are the witness of the mind rather than the mind itself. This awakening evolves as one objectively notices the inner voice and realizes how it creates suffering by…
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E191: Living Inside—The Spiritual Science of Learning to Let Go
We live as the inner experiencer of both sensory reality and internally created thoughts and emotions. Inner suffering comes not from the world itself but from our resistance to experiences. By clinging to what we like…
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E190: The Seat of Consciousness—Freedom Beyond the Ego
You are not your thoughts, emotions, preferences, or psychological patterns—you are the consciousness that is aware of them. Suffering comes from holding onto experiences, building an ego out of what you could not…
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E189: The Spiritual Art of Handling Life
Spiritual growth is not about escaping life or reaching for God outside oneself, but about letting go of the ego self that constantly tries to resist and manipulate reality. Human suffering comes from the inability to…
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E188: The Illusion of Self—Breaking Free from Ego
Ego is the false self, created from past experiences, that constantly judges, fears, and tries to control life to feel okay. Suffering comes from identifying with these inner patterns instead of recognizing oneself as…
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E187: Love Is Not Found—It Is Unblocked
Love is an inner energy that flows naturally when the heart is open, but people block it by holding onto past pain and resisting reality. The external world does not cause the absence of love—our internal reactions and…
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E186: You Don’t Need to Rise—You Need to Release
Spiritual growth is not about rising higher but about releasing the inner attachments and conditioning that hold you down. Your suffering comes from resisting reality and clinging to preferences formed by past…
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E185: The Truth About Acceptance—Why Resisting Reality Causes Suffering
Reality can be defined as that which has already happened; after all, no one can make it not have happened. Suffering comes from resisting reality rather than accepting it. But acceptance does not mean passively…
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E184: Acceptance—For Everything There Is a Season
Suffering is not caused by external events but by our resistance to reality and our inability to handle what has already happened. Acceptance means acknowledging reality and our internal reactions to it, not through…
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E183: The Impersonal Nature of Reality
The personal mind creates suffering by taking everything personally and forming preferences about how life should be. In truth, life’s events are the outcomes of vast chains of cause and effect stretching through time…
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E182: Stop Closing Your Heart—The Real Path to Love and Freedom
The key to opening the heart is learning not to close it. The heart is very sensitive, and it closes due to stored past impressions that create a sense of fear and the need for self-protection. Thus, people seek…
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E181: The Art of Handling Reality—The True Inner Work
Suffering comes from resisting and then holding on to life’s experiences, not from life itself. By practicing witness consciousness and allowing experiences to pass through, you stop creating inner disturbances. This…
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E180: From Ego to Freedom—The Path to Liberation
The personal mind creates suffering by making everything be about “me,” which generates fears about the future and attachments to the past. These stored impressions form the ego, which distorts reality and causes…
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E179: Stop Struggling to Fix the Outside—Clear the Inside
Suffering is not caused solely by external events, but by the internal impressions we have stored from the past. Spiritual growth comes from letting go of these stored disturbances by relaxing through discomfort…
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