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It exploded onto the scene a few years ago following author Michael Singer’s appearance on Oprah’s “Super Soul Sunday” show. I call it my magical little book of truth bombs. What you’re doing at any moment is something that someone was doing when they died.Not only is Michael Singer’s book The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself (New Harbinger Publications, 2007) a lovely addition to any truth-seeking yogi’s shelf, but it’s also a book that truly stands out.Life is giving you a gift, and that gift is the flow of events that takes place between your birth and your death.Events have happened and we continue to hold their energy inside of us by resisting them.You have to decide to be unconditionally happy. Any condition you create will limit your happiness.What you’ll see is why you’re doing them. See what happens to you when you don’t do the things that make you comfortable.Real growth takes place when you finally decide to deal with the pain.Everything will be okay as soon as you’re okay with everything.Live and experience life rather than trying to use life to fix what’s wrong inside of you.In order to grow you must give up the struggle to remain the same and learn to embrace change.Consciousness goes to the place that distracts it most.It’s the root of all prejudices and the negative emotions of anger, jealousy, and possessiveness. Thoughts and emotions get stronger the more attention you give them.If you aren’t centered, your consciousness is just following whatever catches its attention.You must buy that there isn’t anything worth closing over.Anytime you want to close, ask if you want to cut off the energy flow.Your thoughts and emotions synchronize with what’s happening on the screen.We become lost in objects we’re focused on, like TV.If it concentrates enough, your sense of awareness loses itself in the object. Consciousness can focus on different things.Consciousness = awareness = attention + memory + judgement.The way to catch on to what your inner roommate is really like is to personify it externally.You are the one that notices the voice talking.If you can’t get world how you want, you verbalize it and then decide what to do.The ones you discuss in your mind are the ones that matter to you. There are many things you see at a given moment, yet you only narrate a few of them.Narration makes you more comfortable about the world around you.That voice talks because your’e not okay inside and talking releases energy. When energy builds up inside, you want to do something about it.My question: if a person doesn’t know language, what do they hear?.They are simply making you feel better or worse what is going now now, what has gone on in the past, or what might go on in the future. Your thoughts have no affect on anybody except you.There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind.The voice in your head is just a voice talking and you are listening.I recommend reading through the entire book if you’re interested in getting a clearer insight into how the mind works. Kudos to his success in the spiritual niche.īelow, I’m going to share some of my notes from the book. I am willing to bet he put a lot of money into his book launch.
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I started learning a bit more about Singer and was surprised to find that he also had a pretty successful business career. While I still stick to those assertions above, the book did come to grow on me over time. The more I dived into the book, the more I liked it. It was basically introducing NLP to a broad audience through the guise of spirituality. This book also has many commonalities with the Power of Now by Echartolle. I recognized that the author, Michael Singer, drew a lot of his ideas from NLP or neuro linguistic programming. On first glance, it seemed kind of esoteric and very “woo woo.” To be candid, I didn’t think that I would like the book. I was given this book to read by my aunt who thought that it would be a good fit given my liking for spirituality.