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Michael Singer Podcast

Michael Singer

247 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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  1. E180: From Ego to Freedom—The Path to Liberation

    · 46 min

    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…

  2. E179: Stop Struggling to Fix the Outside—Clear the Inside

    · 50 min

    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…

  3. E178: The Dance Between Mind and Heart

    · 50 min

    The mind is constantly trying to solve disturbances that originate in the heart, but the mind cannot truly resolve them. These disturbances come from stored emotional impressions that must be released through…

  4. E177: Handling Reality—The True Path to Inner Peace

    · 52 min

    Suffering arises because we try to make reality match our conditioned preferences, which are based on past experiences stored in the mind and heart. By identifying with these inner patterns, we become reactive,…

  5. E176: From Distraction to Liberation—The True Spiritual Journey

    · 48 min

    You are not your thoughts, emotions, or experiences—you are the consciousness that is aware of them. Spiritual growth is the process of ceasing to be distracted by all the inner commotion and learning to let go of the…

  6. E175: Letting Go of Yourself—The Real Spiritual Path

    · 51 min

    Spiritual growth is not about reaching for higher states; it’s about releasing the ego that keeps pulling you down. The mind and heart are conditioned by past experiences, and reacting to them creates endless…

  7. E174: Reality Is Not a Problem—Your Preferences Are

    · 56 min

    The world around us unfolds in accordance with the vast universal forces of cause and effect, which have been going on throughout time. In contrast, our inner world is created by the tiny sum of our individual…

  8. E173: The Life that Leads to Liberation

    · 42 min

    Suffering is created by the mind’s demand that reality match its preferences, and the attempt to control the world only deepens the sense of disturbance. Spiritual growth comes from letting go of these egocentric…

  9. E172: Stop Chasing Happiness—Remove What Blocks It

    · 46 min

    People rely on external goals for their inspiration and happiness. But the sense of happiness is actually experienced inside and, with right understanding, can be an unconditional state of being. Conditions for our…

  10. E171: Why Love Stops—The Real Cause of Inner Closure

    · 56 min

    There are times when people experience deep love, joy, and inspiration. But these states disappear the moment we close ourselves because life does not match our expectations. We end up storing every uncomfortable…

  11. E170: From Control to Freedom—The Spiritual Art of Handling Life

    · 55 min

    Human suffering comes from trying to control the outside world so that our inner state feels good, all of which is based on impressions from our past experiences. Spiritual growth begins when we stop clinging to these…

  12. E169: The Spiritual Practice of Doing Your Best

    · 53 min

    The essence of a spiritual life is to do the absolute best you can in each moment and renounce attachment to the results. This is the core teaching of the Bhagavad Gita. When actions are motivated by the desire to gain…

  13. E168: Letting Love Flow—The Practice of Relaxing and Releasing

    · 57 min

    In its natural state, the heart contains a constant flow of love, but ego-based preferences, judgments, and fears block that flow and cause the heart to open and close conditionally. Spiritual growth comes from…

  14. E167: The Real Meaning of Life—Inner Evolution

    · 54 min

    Success, money, relationships, or reputation cannot be the sole meaning of life—because all these can come and go, especially at death. People walk through life trying to be conditionally okay by making it match their…

  15. E166: The Clouds That Block the Inner Sun

    · 57 min

    Spiritual growth is about removing the inner blockages that prevent us from experiencing the joy, love, and spiritual energy that are always present. The problem is that the mind becomes disturbed because it…

  16. E165: Living with Clarity Instead of Fear and Desire

    · 52 min

    People suffer because they try to control the outside world to fix the disturbances they carry inside. Fear and desire are natural emotions, but when we resist or cling to them and project them into the future, they…

  17. E164: The Fall from the Garden—Distraction, Identification, and the Birth of Ego

    · 1 h 00 min

    Consciousness is the experiencer of all things, and spiritual growth means realizing you are that consciousness, not what you are conscious of. When our awareness is consistently distracted by objects, be they outside…

  18. E163: Dive Deep—The Root of the Mind Is in the Heart

    · 53 min

    The mind’s noise is not the real issue—it is simply the surface ripples created by the fears suppressed in the heart. Your spiritual path is to relax, let go, and repeatedly dive inward past the mind into the heart,…

  19. E162: The Stairway to Heaven

    · 59 min

    The steps on the stairway to heaven are not paved with temporary highs or fleeting inspirational experiences. True spirituality begins with self-honesty about your fears, insecurities, and the mental and emotional…

  20. E161: Transmutation—The Spiritual Art of Letting Energy Flow

    · 56 min

    The mind becomes disturbed due to unfinished emotional energies from past experiences, which lead to fixation, worry, and suffering. There are three possible ways to deal with these energies: suppression, expression,…

  21. E160: The Path to Integration—Releasing the Fragmented Self

    · 48 min

    Your psyche becomes fragmented because of suppressed emotions and unintegrated past experiences. These suppressed energies block the natural upward flow of Shakti, which leads to psychological suffering and confusion.…

  22. E159: How Consciousness Becomes Trapped in Thought

    · 1 h 01 min

    The most basic function of mind is to receive messages from the senses so the indwelling consciousness can experience the outer world. Suffering begins when consciousness fixates on certain experiences and refuses to…

  23. E158: Making the Paradigm Shift from Fear to Freedom

    · 47 min

    Spiritual liberation is not about rearranging the contents of the psyche but about stepping back and observing the psyche with clarity. If you do so, you will see that most emotional and mental suffering is rooted in…

  24. E157: Understanding Mind—The Vibrations of Thought and Emotion

    · 1 h 00 min

    The mind and heart are vibrational fields shaped by past experiences we’ve clung to or suppressed, resulting in the reactive inner world we live in. Liberation begins by stepping back into witness consciousness, seeing…

  25. E156: Mind Is Not the Enemy—What’s Stored In It Is

    · 56 min

    The mind becomes a problem when it is filled with stored emotional impressions (samskaras) that we resisted or clung to, shaping our preferences, beliefs, and ego. These inner patterns distort reality, create…

  26. E155: Mind as Vibration—The Root of Suffering and the Path to Freedom

    · 56 min

    The mind is not the brain but a subtler field of vibrations that consciousness becomes distracted by and clings to. It identifies with these mental and emotional impressions and creates a false self (ego) resulting in…

  27. E154: You Are the Ocean—Escaping the Limits of the Ego

    · 1 h 01 min

    This spiritual teaching uses the metaphor of ego-consciousness as an upside-down glass submerged in the ocean. The water (consciousness) within the glass is really the same as all the water outside the glass, but it…

  28. E153: Evolution—The Divine Dance of Consciousness and Form

    · 54 min

    The purpose of life is for divine consciousness to merge back into unity through the expression and experience of its interaction with form. Human suffering arises when we resist this process of evolution and demand…

  29. E152: The Art of Spirituality—From Practice to Liberation

    · 52 min

    True spiritual growth naturally evolves from a disciplined practice into a spontaneous art, where life is experienced and expressed without inner resistance. For example, working off one’s karma is actually done…

  30. E151: Living Untethered—The New Year as a Doorway to Freedom

    · 56 min

    As you enter this new year, reflect upon how clinging to past experiences and resisting reality leads to suffering and prevents you from knowing the true meaning of life. Spiritual growth is about learning to let go of…

  31. E150: Why You Do What You Do—The True Path to Inner Freedom

    · 52 min

    Spirituality is not about what you do, but why you do it—and most of our actions stem from a place of inner discomfort, driven by clung-to past experiences. This inner resistance distorts our perception and leads us to…

  32. E149: Following the Spiritual Path of Nonresistance

    · 59 min

    True spirituality is not about getting what you want or fixing the outside world, but learning to be okay inside by letting go of preferences, stored pain, and inner resistance. Reality unfolds through universal…

  33. E148: Not My Will—The Path from Ego to Liberation

    · 52 min

    Human suffering arises from the belief that life must match our inner preferences, which are simply selectively stored past experiences. This attempt to control reality leads to anxiety, resistance, and endless…

  34. E147: The Voice in Your Head Is Not You

    · 55 min

    Your inner mental voice is not your true self but a reflection of stored emotional preferences and unresolved experiences from the past that surface as mental chatter. Suppressing this voice only leads to deeper…

  35. E146: Reality—The Doorway to Liberation

    · 54 min

    True spirituality is about aligning with reality—what is actually happening—rather than resisting or clinging to what the mind likes or dislikes. By storing emotionally charged impressions of past experiences…

  36. E145: From Personal Preference to Universal Harmony

    · 57 min

    [UPDATED EPISODE] Please note, this episode was originally released with a teaching from another recording. If you would like to ensure you’ve heard “E145: From Personal Preference to Universal Harmony,” please delete…

  37. E144: Spirituality Beyond Rules—Transmuting Passion into Divine Flow

    · 49 min

    [UPDATED EPISODE] Please note, this episode was originally released with a teaching from another recording. If you would like to ensure you’ve heard “E144: Spirituality Beyond Rules—Transmuting Passion into Divine…

  38. E143: Becoming Empty—The True Path of Spirituality

    · 55 min

    True spirituality is not about gaining or achieving, but about becoming empty—free from the personal mind, inner impressions, and resistance that cloud the flow of divine energy. As we let go of our attachments and…

  39. E142: The Illusion of Problems and the Return to the Garden

    · 1 h 01 min

    Problems occur when consciousness becomes identified with external objects and forgets its own nature as pure, eternal witnessing presence. Ego emerges when we build a self-concept based on our past experiences, which…

  40. E141: The Logic of Letting Go—Will, Mind, and the Path to Spiritual Freedom

    · 52 min

    The use of logic, reason, and will is integral to spiritual growth. The body, heart, and mind are divine gifts meant to help consciousness experience life, but suffering arises when the mind becomes identified with its…

  41. E140: God Wants to Experience It All—Will You Let Him?

    · 55 min

    The essence of spirituality is recognizing that you are not your body or mind, but pure consciousness capable of experiencing the body, mind, and all of creation. By resisting certain life experiences and clinging to…

  42. E139: Gratitude as a Direct Path to Freedom

    · 50 min

    A disturbed mind is really a problem of the heart: disturbed emotional energy from suppressed experiences rises up, hits the mental plane, and turns into the mental stories, worries, and reactions we call the personal…

  43. E138: The Gap Between Reality and Preference

    · 50 min

    Inner suffering is not caused by what happens, but by our preferences about what should or shouldn’t have happened—the gap between reality and what we want it to be. Our entire preference system is built from the sum…

  44. E137: The Sacred Art of Acceptance

    · 53 min

    Reality is simply the unfolding of countless causes across time, and our problems arise when we resist what is, rather than accept it. Our minds become disturbed due to personalization, judgment, and the suppression of…

  45. E136: The Root of All Stress—Resistance to Reality

    · 56 min

    Stress and suffering arise not from external events but from our internal resistance to them—based on our inner preferences, fears, and desires toward what is happening. The outer world manifests from vast cosmic…

  46. E135: The Yoga of Wisdom—The Path to Liberation

    · 52 min

    Jnana Yoga is the path of wisdom through which one contemplates the vastness of creation until the personal mind dissolves into the infinite. God is seen as conscious energy (Chit Shakti) manifesting the entire…

  47. E134: Why You Feel Open or Closed—The Real Meaning of Spiritual Growth

    · 54 min

    When we’re open, we feel joy, love, and inspiration; when closed, we feel heavy, sad, and lifeless. Most people try to fix these varying states by outwardly seeking what makes them feel good and avoiding what makes…

  48. E133: Freedom Through Surrender — The Real Work of the Spiritual Path

    · 56 min

    There are two viable spiritual paths: one is reaching upwardly to touch your higher self, and the other is working inwardly to release the blockages that keep you bound to your lower self. The latter encourages radical…

  49. E132: Beyond Faith — The Logic of Letting Go

    · 50 min

    Spirituality is not about blind faith but about our deep understanding of the truth: suffering arises because we resist or cling to specific experiences and then struggle to avoid them or make them happen again. Our…

  50. E131: Right Understanding — The Journey Back to the Self

    · 55 min

    At its core, right understanding means focusing on the difference between consciousness and the objects of consciousness—the one and the many. If we falsely identify with an object, we must deal with the inner energy…

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