It took me 2 years, many books, then Mickey got me there. The more trauma and abuse you have been through, which I have experienced as much as anyone I have met in 57 years on earth, the more work you have to endure. I finally love pain like pleasure. It goes right through me. Thank you Mickey, love you for my life back. I know now and practice 24/7.
His voice is so calm as he describes the feeling of and response to suffering, that appeal to the mind and its programs. I have watched this feature of life over and over again. I studied it intentionally with an uncommon intensity. Why do people lie? As he describes this feature of life, 02:00, and how one is to watch one's emotions instead of lying - ultimately, to decide to feel okay by intention, not by experience. 07:00 We can live in any way we want to live so long as we stop looking for the reasons why as answers in the mind. 08:25 The appeal to the mind is the cause of suffering. By 09:30, the cadence and tone of the presentation have changed. How does one get past the fear, that deeper point from which the appeal to the mind originates in the first place? We admit we can be okay, calm, happy, and enjoying life. We ignore the unavoidable sensation of lack that is apparent in the experience as we search for completeness. 13:58 I am whole and complete already. Why am I not experiencing that part of my being which is always okay? I am whole and transcendent with sole, individual accountability. 15:45 Don't get lost in fear. Avoid going to the mind in a mental appeal to make it all okay. Ignore the options presented by the mind. Just assume we are okay from the outset, because we are. The deeper problems are found inside. Solving the heart cannot be done in the mind. 17:50 What is the alternative? For me, it is in the daily pursuit of a silent mind. That's where my sense of being fine is found. My mind doesn't go silent. I stop listening to it. Silence ensures.
I come from an abusive, traumatizing childhood and admire. I would love to enjoy everything that happens and not be in perpetual fear and dread. Can you tell me exactly how you were able to learn to love pain?
@@plumeria66It’s not that we seek out pain, but we understand that everything in life is beautiful and has its place. We don’t get reactive if things aren’t going according to our ego’s plan. We enjoy the show and watch it unfold. Keep listening to Mickey with an open heart and mind, and you’ll get there! ❤
@@divinemergerI have been listening but still want to ask: can you tell me how you apply this approach when it comes to physical debilitation and discomfort? How do you find that experience beautiful? I am open and willing to do this. Just want to know how stay undisturbed when your body is being badly affected and day to day activities are a struggle. Thank you so much.
When the shakti is flowing, you have what you need...the starting place. Use the discomfort of life experience to show you the energy blockage (inner thorn) inside you as it arises. When working with the inner thorn, observe that inner energy, the emotion and feeling of it inside of you. Simply witness it without labeling it good or bad, without any inner resistance. Instead, completely relax, accept, open, and view with compassion. Relax all tension at various points of resistance in the body (feet, legs, groin, anus, glutes, gut, chest, heart, shoulders, hands, jaw, tongue, neck, forehead, scalp, mind). Rescan to feel the tension relax and leave the body. In the absence of resistance, the uncomfortable energy will travel from lower in the body upward. It may feel more challenging as it moves through you, but remind yourself to stay focused on relaxing and opening the heart and mind, trusting even more and more. Yes, it's counterintuitive, but just stay with it. It may feel like taking your hands off the steering wheel. As the energy gradually rises inside, just watch. Simply be the neutral observer. Release the energy as completely as possible. Even if the energy becomes more intense as it rises, the pain will eventually become diffuse and dissipate if you let it be.
Perfectly said. This is exactly it. The power of observing our bodies and thoughts is a superpower we all have and once we tap into it life starts to take care of itself in ways that feel magical.
I discovered this particular talk while suffering from COVID. I can’t count how many times I’ve listened to it. All the Singer talks on this channel are great, but it’s this one I find most comforting and inspiring. I can’t count how many times I’ve listened to it. Thank you for making it ad-free!
So powerful, too bad this teaching couldn’t be shown in schools instead of the garbage they have to listen to. I would love this for my 10 year old grandson and all children
this man is one of the greatest gifts to the human beings❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ I would love to meet him in person I live in South Florida, and I'd give anything as a senior to spend time with him for just a hour or more would be better❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Imagine a world if everyone truly lived like this! This should be taught in elementary school! I'm so grateful this man's teachings found me a year ago! 🙏🏻 🥰
If you read comments on YT videos of singer -you’ve read my story of discovering him when I was in despair after the traumatic and sudden death of my fiance. The stress and grief drove me out of my mind and the only relief I could find was in plotting how to make my own death NOT look like suicide. But singer transformed that for me and continues to do so. I’m bummed that he gets sarcastic, that his examples of life situations are often very dated and trivial (and for the life of me I don’t get his preoccupation with space or why millions of earths fit into the sun is revelatory) but this talk today is exactly - and I mean exactly what my soul needed today. I’m struggling with some minor but dumb addictions to caffeine and nicotine gum and see how I use them to fuel my insecurities and doubts. Jai Guru Dev
@jenmdawg So sorry for the loss of your fiance.❤ I lost someone very dear to me on May 31. It was unexpected. The emotions just exploded in me, ugly crying uncontrollably for hours everyday for over a week. Gradually, the length, severity, and frequency of these episodes have decreased. Then depression and occasional tears. But after a week of eating little, I told myself to decide whether to live or die. I chose living. So I made sure to eat something healthy a little at a time, showered or bathed twice a day. Reframing my loss by expressing gratitude for our life together as the answer to my sadness helped. I resumed exercise, breath work, mantra, meditating whenever possible. I often look at the connection we had and considered loosening the grip of attachment a little at a time is a possibility. I constantly work at witnessing, relaxing and letting go. Every little bit makes a difference.
@@susanswinny588 your journey is so remarkably close to my own that I have to believe that we are guided by the same grace through such unbearable grief. I, too, chose to live - at first as only a tribute to the person I loved so much (if I destroyed myself even just through neglect that wouldn’t be much a tribute) but now it’s because I know each life is precious and to behave indifferently or destructively towards our own is the only real “sin”. I’m grateful to hear from you!
@@jenmdawg working through grief or energy blockages as Mickey guides readers in Living Untethered or some of his talks using Relax and Release method was a way to heal for me. I did yoga and Zen shikantaza meditation since 1971 at 19. It helped me a lot. I was lucky to find people and books to get me that far early on. It's always stuck with me that all in the universe is indeed connected. It's brought me to the place that the universe unfolds perfectly, exactly as it should and nothing should be taken personally. It's much easier to see this, zooming out to have the more panoramic view of everything from a distance. I believe that Mickey refers to the very large (universe) and the very small (quantum mechanics) because it reminds him (and me) that loads of events continually occur beyond our limited perceptions. When we become very attached or entrained on something from our limited point of view and discursive thinking, we can't see the perfection and unity very easily. In Living Untethered, he goes on about these sciencey things because it's a way to remind us that we and our experiences are but a small part of everything. It helps me appreciate what I have that others may not. And to understand how people can do mindless behaviors that appear unforgivable.
Thanx michael and whoever created this channel!!! Its all INTERNAL. We think all happiness is external. New car. Happy relationshipa Wrong!!!! Its all internal. All that energy and happiness is inside Gotta find it Wow. Gonna get a singer book tomoroow and a workbook tooo Spirit growth Wow
25:00 I'm whole and complete unto myself. I'm not running to the mind to ameliorate my suffering in reaching to manipulate and control the situation. Instead, I will ignore the potential represented by my thumbs (I manipulate; therefore, I am). I will say, "Never again will I go through the avoidance of spiritual growth. I will let go of the shadow, darker parts of my being that are not okay. 28:50 The witness is watching all this. I will simply rest in the witness, the highest and deepest place in life. 30:00 Have fun between now and then. Just stop suffering. Fight the impulses. Decide what we will not do and then set about not doing it. 31:00 I am perfectly capable. So do it. Is it fun? No, but do it anyway. Break the habit. Just don't do it.
Which of Michael Singer’s books books does this talk come from? Thank you so much for posting his talks right now I am listening to his very first book so I’m curious about these talks and how recently he did them. And do you know what keep saying at the beginning then something like Jai master? 💖🙌💝
Michael does three talks per week. They are posted on the Temple of the Universe website on Sunday, Monday, and Thursday. You can listen to those talks here: tou.org/talks/. Their website only has two weeks of audios at once so I post the ones that they remove on this channel. At the beginning of his talks, Michael says “Jai Gurudev. Jai Masters.”
Thanks for giving credit where credit is due. Michael Singer podcast is also a source for these talks. His books are the best though. They work best for me in sequence. It also allows me a way to support his spiritual mission. If you cannot afford this, your local library will have them. Well...maybe not in Texas, but you catch my drift...😊
