Michael Singer Podcast

E230: From Trying to Be Okay to Being Okay

Spiritual growth begins when you recognize that trying to satisfy your preferences offers only temporary relief from the uneasiness you carry within. By honoring reality

E229: Stop Chasing Life and Start Living It

Because your awareness has become absorbed in thoughts and feelings built from your past experiences, you keep chasing what you want and avoiding what you fear. Freedom b

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

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

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 no

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 th

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 min

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

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 ou

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

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 experi

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. Uncon

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

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 exp

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

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

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 experi

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 ours

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 des

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 trapp