He proposes to lead readers to the journey of exploring this self but unlike other self-help books, he refrains from using the methods of psychology, religion, or surveys. Singer says happiness can be achieved by first looking into our concept of the self. Spiritual teacher, author, and successful businessman Michael A. Just see it as energy and let it go.The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Let go and give room for the pain to pass through you. Relax your shoulders and relax your heart. As you relax and feel the resistance, the heart will want to pull away, to close, to protect, and to defend itself.
You will feel tremendous resistance to doing this, and that’s what makes it so powerful. This is very deep growth and transformation. You must be willing to be present right at the place of the tightness and pain, and then relax and go even deeper. Stay open and receptive so you can be present right where the tension is. Relax your heart until you are actually face-to-face with the exact place where it hurts. Do the opposite of contracting and closing. Just start seeing these inner experiences as energy passing through your heart and before the eye of your consciousness. “When you feel pain, simply view it as energy. The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself To spend your life avoiding pain means it’s always right behind you.” You may not think that you feel pain that often, but you really do. What kind of life is that? It is a life of pain. You had better not spend your life worrying about whether people like you or whether your car impresses people. From that perspective, do you really care what people think about your clothes or your car? Do you really need to feel embarrassed if you forget someone’s name? How can you let these meaningless things cause pain? If you want out, if you want a decent life, you had better not devote your life to avoiding psychological pain.
You’re just standing on one little ball of dirt and spinning around one of the stars. And that galaxy would look like one star to us, if we could even see it. In fact, it is estimated that there are over a trillion stars in the Spiral Galaxy. Though you can only see a few thousand stars, there are hundreds of billions of stars in our Milky Way Galaxy alone. You are sitting on a planet spinning around in the middle of absolutely nowhere.
Walk outside on a clear night and just look up into the sky. “To get some distance from this, you first need to get some perspective.
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