The natural ups and downs of life can either generate personal growth or create personal fears. Which of these dominate is completely dependent on how we view change.

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book review: The Untethered Soul

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The natural ups and downs of life can either generate personal growth or create personal fears. Which of these dominate is completely dependent on how we view change.Michael A. Singer, The untethered soul p. 71

When a problem is disturbing you, dont ask, What should I do about it? Ask, What part of me is disturbed by this. You will not be able to solve anything outside until you own how the situation affects you inside. Michael A. Singer, The untethered soul p. 15-16

The sun does not shine differently on different people. If youre good, it shines on you. If you did something bad, it shines on you. Its the same with the inner-energy. The only difference is that with the inner energy, you have the ability to close up inside and block it. Michael A. Singer, The untethered soul p. 44

When you are unable to allow lifes events to pass through you, they stay inside and become a problem. These patterns may be held within you for a very long time.Michael A. Singer, The untethered soul p. 53

You will get to a point in your growth where you understand that if you protect yourself, youll never be free. Its that simple.Michael A. Singer, The untethered soul p. 61

The reward for not protecting your psyche is liberation. You are free to walk this world without a problem on your mind. You are just having fun experiencing whatever happens next.Michael A. Singer, The untethered soul p. 62

You are not your thoughts; you are aware of your thoughts. You are not your emotions; you feel your emotions. You are not your body; you look at it in the mirror and experience this world though its eyes and ears. You are the conscious being who is aware that you are aware of all these inner and outer things.Michael A. Singer, The untethered soul p. 128

Consciousness has the tendency to focus on disturbance, and disturbed energies inside are no exception. These disturbed energies will draw your consciousness to them, but you do not have to let this happen. You really do have the ability to disengage and fall back behind them.Michael A. Singer, The untethered soul p. 63

The key is to understand that if you dont let go immediately, the disturbing force of the activated energy draws the focus of your consciousness. As your consciousness gets immersed in the disturbance, you lose your clear seat of Self. It happens instantaneously.Michael A. Singer, The untethered soul p. 75

Once you fall from your seat of relative clarity, you are under the mercy of the disturbed energy. If that blockage is stimulated by an ongoing situation, you may stay down there for a long time You may feel that you have to do something drastic. You may want to leave your husband or wife, or move, or quit your job. The mind starts saying all kinds of things because it doesnt like this place, and it wants to get away from it any way it can.Michael A. Singer, The untethered soul p. 77

Only you can take inner-freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can. It doesnt matter what others do, unless you decide that it matters to you Play with letting go and falling behind this sense of being bothered.Michael A. Singer, The untethered soul p. 65

The prerequisite to true freedom is to decide that you do not want to suffer anymore. You must decide that you want to enjoy your life.Michael A. Singer, The untethered soul p. 89

Events dont determine whether or not youre going to be happy. Theyre just events. You determine whether or not youre going to be happy.Michael A. Singer, The untethered soul p. 143

Its bad enough that your happiness is conditional upon your own behavior. When you start making it conditional upon other peoples behavior, youre in serious trouble.Michael A. Singer, The untethered soul p. 145

As you grow spiritually, you will realize that your attempts to protect yourself from your problems actually create more problems.Michael A. Singer, The untethered soul p. 72

The purpose of spiritual evolution is to remove the blockages that cause your fear.Michael A. Singer, The untethered soul p. 73

The spiritual journey is one of constant transformation. In order to grow, you must give up the struggle to remain the same, and learn to embrace change at all times.Michael A. Singer, The untethered soul p. 81

Blocked energies from the pastcan be released. The problem is, you either completely avoid situations that would cause them to release, or you push them back down in the name of protecting yourself.Michael A. Singer, The untethered soul p. 85

You are not your thinking mind. You are aware of your thinking mind Your way out is to just notice whos noticing. Its really that simple.Michael A. Singer, The untethered soul p. 86

Your mind is always telling you that you have to change something outside in order to solve your inner problems. But if you are wise, you wont play this game.Michael A. Singer, The untethered soul p. 92

You have given your mind an impossible task by asking it to manipulate the world in order to fix your personal inner problems Your mind is not qualified for that job. Fire it, and let go of your inner problems instead.Michael A. Singer, The untethered soul p. 94

Every time you do something in the name of avoiding pain, that something becomes a link that holds the potential for the pain you are avoiding Your attempt to avoid this pain has created layers upon layers of sensitivities that are all linked to the hidden pain.Michael A. Singer, The untethered soul p. 100-101

To be free, simply view pain as a temporary shift in your energy flow If you relax when the pain comes up inside your heart, and actually dare to face it, it will pass.Michael A. Singer, The untethered soul p. 105

Remember, if you close around something, you will be psychologically sensitive about that subject for the rest of your life. Because you stored it inside of you, you will be afraid that it will happen again.Michael A. Singer, The untethered soul p. 106

Memories collected from your past form a boundary that you intuitively want to avoid. Thats natural. Its what we do with walls. We avoid running into them. But because you avoid running into them, they lock you inside their perimeter. They become your prison because they are the boundaries of your awareness. Because you are not willing to approach them, you cannot see what is beyond them.Michael A. Singer, The untethered soul p. 116

Your views, your opinions, your preferences. And your beliefs are all ways of bringing the infinite universe down to the finite where you can feel a sense of control If you want to go beyond your model, you have to take the risk of not believing in it.Michael A. Singer, The untethered soul p. 120

You can devote your whole life to making sure everything fits within your limited model, or you can devote your life to freeing yourself from the limits of your model.Michael A. Singer, The untethered soul p. 122

Stress only happens when you resist lifes events If you have no preference, if the only thing you want is to remain centered, then life unfolds while you simply feel for the center.Michael A. Singer, The untethered soul p. 149

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