Michael Singer Podcast

Michael Singer

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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May 25 · 46 min
E184: Acceptance—For Everything There Is a Season
Suffering is not caused by external events but by our resistance to reality and our inability to handle what has already happened. Acceptance means acknowledging reality and our internal reactions to it, not through suppression, but through allowing stored emotional energy to release. Through this process, one becomes peaceful, free from ego-driven preferences, and capable of living in harmony with life as it unfolds. © Sounds True Inc. Episodes: © 2026 Michael A. Singer. All Rights Reserved.
May 21 · 49 min
E183: The Impersonal Nature of Reality
The personal mind creates suffering by taking everything personally and forming preferences about how life should be. In truth, life’s events are the outcomes of vast chains of cause and effect stretching through time and space. Suffering arises when we deny the reality of these causes and resist the events that are unfolding before us, as well as those that have unfolded in the past. Spiritual liberation comes from learning to align with reality as it is and then working to raise it as it passes before us. © Sounds True Inc. Episodes: © 2026 Michael A. Singer. All Rights Reserved.
May 18 · 54 min
E182: Stop Closing Your Heart—The Real Path to Love and Freedom
The key to opening the heart is learning not to close it. The heart is very sensitive, and it closes due to stored past impressions that create a sense of fear and the need for self-protection. Thus, people seek external conditions for the heart to feel safe enough to open. But as conditions change, the tendency to close is still there. The true path to living with an open heart is learning not to close, by handling life’s experiences without resistance. Through awareness and practice, one can release stored impressions and live in a naturally open, loving state. © Sounds True Inc. Episodes: © 2026 Michael A. Singer. All Rights Reserved.
May 14 · 54 min
E181: The Art of Handling Reality—The True Inner Work
Suffering comes from resisting and then holding on to life’s experiences, not from life itself. By practicing witness consciousness and allowing experiences to pass through, you stop creating inner disturbances. This leads to unconditional wellbeing, where you can handle anything that happens without fear or attachment. © Sounds True Inc. Episodes: © 2026 Michael A. Singer. All Rights Reserved.
May 11 · 46 min
E180: From Ego to Freedom—The Path to Liberation
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 continuous psychological disturbance. Liberation comes from letting go of these patterns and practicing acceptance—learning to handle whatever arises without resistance. © Sounds True Inc. Episodes: © 2026 Michael A. Singer. All Rights Reserved.
May 7 · 50 min
E179: Stop Struggling to Fix the Outside—Clear the Inside
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 instead of trying to control life to match our preferences. True surrender is internal—it is the process of releasing what we hold inside and allowing natural peace, love, and energy to flow.. © Sounds True Inc. Episodes: © 2026 Michael A. Singer. All Rights Reserved.
May 4 · 50 min
E178: The Dance Between Mind and Heart
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 awareness, relaxation, and non-resistance. Spiritual growth occurs by working at the level of the heart—allowing energy to rise, be processed, and ultimately transformed into higher states of consciousness. © Sounds True Inc. Episodes: © 2026 Michael A. Singer. All Rights Reserved.
April 30 · 52 min
E177: Handling Reality—The True Path to Inner Peace
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, disturbed, and unable to find lasting peace. Liberation comes from stepping back into the seat of awareness, handling reality without resistance, and consistently letting go of stored impressions so they no longer control our lives. © Sounds True Inc. Episodes: © 2026 Michael A. Singer. All Rights Reserved.
April 27 · 48 min
E176: From Distraction to Liberation—The True Spiritual Journey
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 stored blockages that keep you identified with the personal self. When you release these blockages, consciousness naturally expands back into the state of freedom, peace, and unity. © Sounds True Inc. Episodes: © 2026 Michael A. Singer. All Rights Reserved.
April 23 · 50 min
E175: Letting Go of Yourself—The Real Spiritual Path
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 suffering. By observing and letting go instead of resisting or controlling, you naturally rise into peace and alignment with something greater. © Sounds True Inc. Episodes: © 2026 Michael A. Singer. All Rights Reserved.
April 20 · 55 min
E174: Reality Is Not a Problem—Your Preferences Are
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 experiences. Human beings create suffering by filling the space between themselves and reality with their likes and dislikes. By practicing acceptance, surrender, and non-resistance, one can live freely, engage fully with life, and act from a place of openness rather than personal preference. True peace arises when one stops resisting reality and instead honors and participates in it fully. © Sounds True Inc. Episodes: © 2026 Michael A. Singer. All Rights Reserved.
April 16 · 41 min
E173: The Life that Leads to Liberation
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 demands, accepting reality as it is, and refusing to engage with the inner voice that insists things should be different. When this letting go occurs, life becomes an act of effortless service, where actions arise naturally from the unfolding moment rather than from personal desire. © Sounds True Inc. Episodes: © 2026 Michael A. Singer. All Rights Reserved.
April 13 · 45 min
E172: Stop Chasing Happiness—Remove What Blocks It
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 happiness exist because we have stored past disturbances that must be avoided if we want to feel okay inside. True liberation comes from letting go of these inner blockages, staying open to life, and choosing happiness regardless of what happens. © Sounds True Inc. Episodes: © 2026 Michael A. Singer. All Rights Reserved.
April 9 · 56 min
E171: Why Love Stops—The Real Cause of Inner Closure
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 experience inside, and these suppressed impressions create the fears, judgments, and egocentric thoughts and emotions that block our natural openness. Spiritual growth is not about achieving something new but about letting go of stored inner disturbances so that the natural state of love and energy can flow freely again. © Sounds True Inc. Episodes: © 2026 Michael A. Singer. All Rights Reserved.
April 6 · 54 min
E170: From Control to Freedom—The Spiritual Art of Handling Life
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 impressions and instead learn to handle whatever reality presents. By letting experiences pass through without resistance, inner energy rises naturally, eventually dissolving the personal self and leading to liberation. © Sounds True Inc. Episodes: © 2026 Michael A. Singer. All Rights Reserved.
April 2 · 53 min
E169: The Spiritual Practice of Doing Your Best
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 something or avoid loss, the ego creates anxiety, disappointment, and endless striving. True fulfillment comes from giving your whole being to the moment as an act of service to the Universe, allowing growth, freedom, and inner expansion to arise naturally. © Sounds True Inc. Episodes: © 2026 Michael A. Singer. All Rights Reserved.
March 30 · 56 min
E168: Letting Love Flow—The Practice of Relaxing and Releasing
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 observing these inner reactions, relaxing instead of resisting them, and allowing stored emotional impressions from the past to release. Through consistent awareness and practice, the heart becomes increasingly open, allowing unconditional love and inner energy to flow freely. © Sounds True Inc. Episodes: © 2026 Michael A. Singer. All Rights Reserved.
March 26 · 53 min
E167: The Real Meaning of Life—Inner Evolution
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 preferences and protect their ego. The real meaning of life is self-realization through evolution—learning to handle reality as it unfolds rather than resisting it. Every one of life’s experiences—pleasant or painful—is calling on us to expand our boundaries. Growth comes not from controlling life but from increasing one’s capacity to handle it with awareness, honesty, and openness. © Sounds True Inc. Episodes: © 2026 Michael A. Singer. All Rights Reserved.
March 23 · 56 min
E166: The Clouds That Block the Inner Sun
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 accumulates stored impressions—samskaras—from past experiences that were never fully processed. These impressions shape our preferences, fears, desires, and judgments, causing us to react to life through the lens of our past. Suffering arises when we expect the outside world to conform to our internal preferences. It naturally dissolves when we let go of these blockages, allowing clarity, peace, and spiritual awakening to flourish. © Sounds True Inc. Episodes: © 2026 Michael A. Singer. All Rights Reserved.
March 19 · 51 min
E165: Living with Clarity Instead of Fear and Desire
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 distort perception and drive poor decisions. True wisdom comes from letting experiences pass through without leaving lasting impressions, allowing decisions to arise from clarity rather than from fear or desire. © Sounds True Inc. Episodes: © 2026 Michael A. Singer. All Rights Reserved.