Michael Singer Podcast
Religion & Spirituality
About
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.
Episodes
- E179: Stop Struggling to Fix the Outside—Clear the Inside
This episode of the Michael Singer Podcast explores the idea that suffering is caused by internal impressions and how spiritual growth comes from releasing these disturbances by relaxing rather than controlling external events.
- E178: The Dance Between Mind and Heart
This episode discusses the relationship between the mind and heart, focusing on how disturbances from stored emotional impressions in the heart can be addressed. It emphasizes releasing these impressions through awareness and non-resistanc…
- E177: Handling Reality—The True Path to Inner Peace
This episode discusses how suffering arises from trying to make reality match conditioned preferences. It explores the path to inner peace through stepping into awareness and letting go of stored impressions.
- E176: From Distraction to Liberation—The True Spiritual Journey
This episode discusses the spiritual journey from distraction to liberation. It focuses on releasing blockages to achieve expanded consciousness and a state of freedom, peace, and unity.
- E175: Letting Go of Yourself—The Real Spiritual Path
This episode discusses spiritual growth as a process of releasing the ego and past conditionings. It emphasizes observing and letting go to achieve peace and alignment, rather than reaching for higher states.
- E174: Reality Is Not a Problem—Your Preferences Are
This episode discusses how suffering is created by individual preferences that resist reality. It suggests that practicing acceptance and non-resistance can lead to a life of openness and true peace. The episode explores the dynamic betwee…
- E173: The Life that Leads to Liberation
This episode discusses how suffering arises from the mind's demands on reality and the attempt to control the world. It explores how spiritual growth comes from letting go of egocentric demands and accepting reality as it is, leading to an…
- E172: Stop Chasing Happiness—Remove What Blocks It
This episode features Michael Singer discussing happiness as an internal state rather than something to be pursued through external goals. He explains that true liberation comes from removing inner blockages and choosing happiness uncondit…
- E171: Why Love Stops—The Real Cause of Inner Closure
This episode explores how inner closure occurs when life does not meet our expectations, leading to repressed experiences that block our natural state of love. Michael Singer discusses how spiritual growth involves releasing these stored d…
- E170: From Control to Freedom—The Spiritual Art of Handling Life
Michael Singer discusses how human suffering stems from the desire to control life based on past experiences. He explores how releasing resistance and accepting reality leads to spiritual growth and inner liberation.
- E169: The Spiritual Practice of Doing Your Best
This episode explores the concept of doing one's best in each moment while letting go of attachment to outcomes. It discusses how focusing on service rather than ego-driven desires can lead to inner growth and fulfillment.
- E168: Letting Love Flow—The Practice of Relaxing and Releasing
Michael Singer discusses how ego-based obstacles can block the natural flow of love in the heart. He explains that spiritual growth involves practicing how to relax and release these inner reactions to allow for a freer state of unconditio…
- E167: The Real Meaning of Life—Inner Evolution
This episode explores the concept of the meaning of life, suggesting that true self-realization comes from inner evolution rather than external success. Michael Singer discusses how handling life's experiences with openness allows for pers…
- E166: The Clouds That Block the Inner Sun
Michael Singer discusses how spiritual growth involves removing inner blockages, or samskaras, to experience joy and peace. He explains that suffering occurs when we react to life based on past experiences instead of letting go of these in…
- E165: Living with Clarity Instead of Fear and Desire
Michael Singer discusses how fear and desire can distort perception and lead to poor decision-making. He proposes that true wisdom involves letting experiences pass through without attachment to achieve clarity.
- E164: The Fall from the Garden—Distraction, Identification, and the Birth of Ego
This episode explores how identifying with external and internal objects leads to the formation of the ego. Michael Singer discusses how maintaining witness consciousness and letting go of stored disturbances can help return to a state of…
- E163: Dive Deep—The Root of the Mind Is in the Heart
In this episode, Michael Singer discusses how surface mental noise stems from suppressed fears within the heart. He explains that spiritual progress involves letting go and diving inward to release these fears and achieve liberation and un…
- E162: The Stairway to Heaven
This episode explores the path to spiritual growth and liberation, emphasizing the importance of witness consciousness and self-honesty in overcoming daily emotional patterns. It discusses finding the strength to remain grounded when facin…
- E161: Transmutation—The Spiritual Art of Letting Energy Flow
This episode discusses the spiritual practice of transmutation, a method for managing unfinished emotional energies. Michael Singer explains how to release past experiences by consciously relaxing to allow these energies to flow through in…
- E160: The Path to Integration—Releasing the Fragmented Self
Michael Singer discusses how suppressed emotions and unintegrated experiences fragment the psyche, leading to suffering. He explains that spiritual growth involves releasing these disturbances through non-resistance to achieve integration…
- E159: How Consciousness Becomes Trapped in Thought
Michael Singer discusses how human consciousness becomes fixated on thoughts and experiences, leading to the formation of the ego. He explains that liberation is achieved by letting go of this identification to allow experiences to pass th…
- E158: Making the Paradigm Shift from Fear to Freedom
This episode explores the concept of spiritual liberation, emphasizing that moving from fear to freedom involves observing the psyche rather than rearranging its contents. Michael Singer discusses how letting go of internal fears, such as…
- E157: Understanding Mind—The Vibrations of Thought and Emotion
This episode explores the mind and heart as vibrational fields shaped by experience. Michael Singer discusses cultivating witness consciousness to release stored impressions and attain freedom through inner purification.
- E156: Mind Is Not the Enemy—What’s Stored In It Is
Michael Singer discusses how stored emotional impressions, or samskaras, shape our perception and cause suffering. He explains that liberation involves releasing these inner patterns rather than attempting to control the mind.
- E155: Mind as Vibration—The Root of Suffering and the Path to Freedom
This episode explains how the mind functions as a field of vibrations that can lead to the formation of an ego and inner conflict. It discusses the process of detaching from these mental impressions to achieve liberation through witnessing…
- E154: You Are the Ocean—Escaping the Limits of the Ego
This episode explores the metaphor of ego-consciousness as an isolated glass submerged in the ocean to illustrate how individuals can transcend a limited sense of self and realize their nature as the infinite ocean of being.
- E153: Evolution—The Divine Dance of Consciousness and Form
This episode explores the concept of evolution as the expression of divine consciousness through form. Michael Singer discusses how human suffering stems from resisting reality and advocates for letting go of the ego to align with the pres…
- E152: The Art of Spirituality—From Practice to Liberation
This episode explores how spiritual practice develops into an art form through the release of inner resistance and past impressions. Michael Singer discusses how letting go of these blocks allows for the natural flow of life and leads to t…
- E151: Living Untethered—The New Year as a Doorway to Freedom
Michael Singer discusses using the new year as an opportunity to let go of past experiences and inner disturbances. He explains that true spiritual growth comes from conscious awareness and releasing blockages to achieve unconditional love…
- E150: Why You Do What You Do—The True Path to Inner Freedom
This episode explores how actions often stem from inner discomfort and past experiences, suggesting that true liberation comes from relaxing into divine consciousness. It emphasizes moving toward a state of acting from unconditional wellbe…
- E149: Following the Spiritual Path of Nonresistance
Michael Singer discusses the spiritual path of nonresistance, emphasizing internal detachment from personal preferences and pain. He explains that enlightenment involves witnessing inner experiences and embracing reality as it unfolds.
- E148: Not My Will—The Path from Ego to Liberation
Michael Singer discusses how obsession with personal preferences and ego leads to suffering. He advocates for surrender and acceptance to achieve spiritual freedom and peace.
- E147: The Voice in Your Head Is Not You
This episode explores how the inner mental voice is not the true self, but rather a reflection of past experiences. Michael Singer discusses how letting go of inner resistance and mental chatter can lead to a state of peace and natural joy.
- E146: Reality—The Doorway to Liberation
Michael Singer discusses how aligning with reality and letting go of inner resistance can lead to spiritual liberation. He explains how past experiences create suffering and how relaxing into the present moment helps purify the inner being.
- E145: From Personal Preference to Universal Harmony
Michael Singer discusses the principles of true spirituality, emphasizing the importance of letting go of personal preferences, inner resistance, and past pain. He explains how Enlightenment involves witnessing inner experiences and living…
- E144: Spirituality Beyond Rules—Transmuting Passion into Divine Flow
Michael Singer discusses how spirituality involves releasing internal blockages rather than following rules. He explains how to transmute intense emotions like passion and anger into a natural flow of energy.
- E143: Becoming Empty—The True Path of Spirituality
Michael Singer explores the concept of becoming empty to reach true spirituality, explaining how releasing attachments and resistance allows divine energy to flow. This process of letting go fosters a life characterized by clarity, peace,…
- E142: The Illusion of Problems and the Return to the Garden
Michael Singer discusses how identifying with external objects and past experiences creates the illusion of problems. He suggests that liberation is found by embracing the present and reconnecting with one's true nature as an unchanging wi…
- E141: The Logic of Letting Go—Will, Mind, and the Path to Spiritual Freedom
This episode explores the role of logic, reason, and will in spiritual growth. It discusses how identifying with past experiences causes suffering and how practicing letting go can lead to consciousness rising and inner transformation.
- E140: God Wants to Experience It All—Will You Let Him?
Michael Singer discusses the spiritual practice of experiencing life without resistance or clinging to reach a state of liberation. He explores how releasing inner blockages allows for alignment with the true Self and creation.
- E139: Gratitude as a Direct Path to Freedom
Michael Singer explores how gratitude serves as a practice to clear emotional blockages and allow the heart and mind to return to a state of peace. By shifting focus from personal preferences to appreciation, listeners can facilitate the f…
- E138: The Gap Between Reality and Preference
Michael Singer discusses how inner suffering stems from preferences rather than reality, and explores how letting go of these conditioned beliefs enables us to act with clarity and compassion.
- E137: The Sacred Art of Acceptance
Michael Singer discusses the spiritual practice of acceptance and how resisting reality creates inner blockages. He explains how letting go of control and judgment allows life's energy to flow, leading to greater clarity and harmony.
- E136: The Root of All Stress—Resistance to Reality
This episode explores how stress and suffering originate from internal resistance to external events. Michael Singer discusses how letting go of these reactions to reality can lead to inner peace, joy, and spiritual freedom.
- E135: The Yoga of Wisdom—The Path to Liberation
This episode explores Jnana Yoga, describing it as a path where contemplation leads to the dissolution of the personal mind into the infinite. Michael Singer discusses how identifying with external objects creates the ego and suffering, an…
- E134: Why You Feel Open or Closed—The Real Meaning of Spiritual Growth
This episode explores why individuals experience feelings of being open or closed and how identifying with thoughts and emotions affects one's inner state. It discusses the process of spiritual growth through relaxing and releasing prefere…
- E133: Freedom Through Surrender — The Real Work of the Spiritual Path
This episode explores the spiritual path of surrender, focusing on releasing inner blockages to stop resisting life. It discusses how working inwardly leads to restoration of energy, well-being, and spiritual liberation.
- E132: Beyond Faith — The Logic of Letting Go
Michael Singer explores how resistance and attachment to past experiences drive human suffering. He discusses the process of releasing inner blockages to achieve liberation and recognize one's true nature as consciousness.
- E131: Right Understanding — The Journey Back to the Self
This episode explores the concept of right understanding by distinguishing between consciousness and its objects. It discusses how false identification with experiences creates inner energy and suffering, and how letting that energy pass t…
- E130: Ceasing to Contract Consciousness
In this episode, Michael Singer discusses the importance of consciousness and how contracting awareness onto the ego can lead to suffering. He explains how to use daily life experiences to practice remaining open and expansive instead of f…