Choosing Joy: A Life Without Psychological Pain | The Michael Singer Podcast

Welcome to the Michael Singer podcast presented by sounds true in partnership with Shanti Publications for more information about Michael singer's work access to all prior episodes and information about upcoming releases we invite you to join us at Michael Singer podcast.com [Music] dtive G Masters what causes Suffering one type of suffering is very easy to explain physical suffering you have a nervous system it's sensitive to touch and sensitive to passing signals and some of those signals are difficult they're painful they come back and by the time they come back to you they hurt they're difficult that's

physical pain physical suffering what do you do about it whatever you can you go to the doctors you eat better you do what you can to keep the body healthy do Yoga just I don't need to tell you what to do there's so many things you can do and there are things you can do that make it worse and things you can do make it better people ask me what if I you just have terrible chronic suffering it's terrible is such compassion for people that are being forced to suffer maybe they have to take narcotics

maybe they have to take things that make it bearable right maybe they can try different techniques holistic things and So on don't judge people different people have different tolerances to pain don't judge just do the best that you can to keep the body healthy to keep the nervous system healthy healthy and how you go about it is your business it's just you need to take care of yourself but that's not most of your pain that's not most people suffering there's this inner suffering psychological suffering mental suffering emotional Suffering look at me you have complete control

over that 100% you are the cause of it and you are the solution to it and they will not tell you that they will tell you the world is causing your mental and emotional suffering somebody else is causing your mental and emotional suffering things that happened to you 20 years ago are causing your mental emotional suffering yes obviously it's true but it Doesn't have to be true that's the nice thing about getting to talk to you you do not have to suffer period ever not that type of suffering are you listening to me you just

have to understand just like we understand what's going on with physical suffering we have all kinds of things that can help with it and we study it we understand the nerves and the neurons and all the chemicals and all kinds of things right well inner suffering those who have come to Understand it the Buddha taught it Buddha is for Noble Truth all life is suffering okay it's like it's been studied for a very long time by very very great beings and you can study it yourself why because you're you you're in there you live in

there listen to me you do not have to suffer you do not have to suffer all right so what causes suffering let's take modern times some of you all were very happy with the Election some of you all very unhappy with the election the same election I understand well you walked into it with a set of preferences expectations preferences Okay the third Z patriarch said the following the great way is not difficult for those who have no preferences in other words if you walked into it like a martian you didn't know what was going on

you just walked into This thing and this stuff's going on you'd be fascinated oh look look up and you're open you have no preferences now don't close down you're no prefer I talk like this don't close down until you hear everything okay do you understand that if you didn't not have a preference you would not suffer you may have been disappointed you know how you get disappointed by appointing something okay you got disappointed you appointed something and it didn't happen So that that's what's going on so that's the bottom line and again I know you

don't want to live like that I you can't live like that I know you don't understand I just want you logically to understand that if you did not have a preference you would not suffer you would not be disappointed okay so there's the basics so where did you get your preferences I know you think you made them up that is not true that is Absolutely not the truth you are programmed with your preferences exactly the same I'm a computer guy you know that exactly the same as we program computers we put lines of code in

and it behaves accordingly when it runs by the lines of code your mommy treated you a certain way they took your blanket away too soon your first husband left you your child died things happened to you they programmed you psychology says man is a sum of his learned experiences That's not true that's not who you are but that is what your psyche is that what your mind and emotion your personal self your ego your preferences your hopes your dreams your Concepts your views your beliefs they are things that were programmed in you in your mind

and emotions based upon your past experiences if I take a computer matter how brilliant it is and has no data guess what it knows nothing the only data you took in was what you took in What you have inside of you is what you took in where'd you get it I read a book you took it in I saw a movie you took it in I had an experience you took it in how much do you know about what you know nothing about as funny as it sounds you need to listen to me you have

had experiences how of do you have an experience every moment of your life you have an experience did anyone else have the same experiences exact same experiences as You've had during the sequence of your life no one did did they not your exact twin not your parents not your husband not your wife not your kids no one not only did no one no one ever has and no one ever will moments don't repeat themselves it's just coming and going it keeps changing keeps changing and you see the moments that you see you experience the moments

you see I'm asking you a question I know if you get it because it blows your mind you've Experienced a certain number of things how many of you missed how many things you not experienced that actually took place 700 billion zillion quillion and you are only programmed with the one line of code of the experience that you had then you had another one then another one then another one okay now you understand where your preferences come from they are not holy they're not evil Vil they're not sacred they are the sum of Your learned experiences

we're moving into a world now where we have ai which pretty amazing what I can do if I took I won't do it I promise if but they will believe me they will all right if we took every experience you ever had and you fed it into that AI it would act like you if I change one experience that I put into it it will behave somewhat differently if I changed one experience that you had you had a different one you didn't have that one you could be Different I try to show you how tenuous

this is because you believe that what you think is truth yeah it's true to you because those experience you had to take the most amazing computers ever built brilliant and put in one set of data and keep asking the questions you will get the same answer it's the only data it has and that's the only data you have I'm talking about you right I told you it's not true that you are the son we learned experiences your mind your Emotions your psyche are the sum of your learned experience they were programmed who knows this psychology

knows this all right Freud figured it out that's what got put in there then that's what's going to come out but that's not who you are why because you know you're the Su of your learned experiences you can watch your mind tell you stuff and you know where it came from can't you you are the Consciousness that's who you are you're the Consciousness watching your Mind and your emotions be the sum of your learn experiences and out of that you've developed a mindset a mental set all these experiences don't neily mesh together properly right you

met someone in high school named Ben you really got along then you got married to a Ben didn't work out so good so you're kind of bifurcated about Ben's and so you're sitting in there programmed and you got to live in there the self-c Consciousness has to live in there but It's very Trier B for quattra Trad all right it's all over the place it's hard to live so you make up a set of those learned experiences and you say that's me this is what I believe until I met somebody that believ something else I

really love him and so I Chang my beliefs yes or no have you ever changed your mind have you ever changed your mind that's how tenuous the stupid thing is it's just you took pieces of stuff we'll talk about it more a little later You just took piece of stuff of your learn experiences you put them together and you created an ego you created a voice inside your head that's telling you what you believe and what you don't and what you like and what you don't what should happen what shouldn't happen and it's constantly talking

that's where it came from that's what it is so it's been programmed in that so it's not true that you are the some learn experiences but it is true that your psyche that you Live with every moment is the some learn experiences so you have preferences you ended up with preferences why why why do you like this and he likes that and you don't like that why and by the way you're married you better laugh so okay why because some things that came in from the outside world it comes in your experience comes in when

they come in they feel good don't they and some things when they come in they feel bad We can get into that a little later I I get into this very deeply in the new book living in tether all right very down to detail right why this happens so they come in they feel good I'm going to make a prediction cuz I'm a psychic I'll bet you prefer that the ones that feel good happen again I'll bet you prefer the ones that feel bad don't happen again did I get it it's just so logical it's

so ridiculous you're being programmed but It's coming in and the problem is that if you don't like something I know please listen to this things are going on all over the place and things are going on in front of you all there's people here there's clouds there's weather there's there's everything going on some of it just comes right in and goes through what part I haven't figured it out I know it's at least 95% it maybe 99% of every single thing that ever came Through your sens has passed right through the white lines on the

road the cars on the road that you never owned one you don't think about it the trees the this the weather the cloud what come I just coming in but some of it like the car I do that to the soul right the car that looks like your girlfriend's car and there's somebody snuggling in there at least it looked like it really they were just bending over to pick up a kleena right but that's not what you saw All right somehow that car stays in there somehow all the other cars drove by all the other

people drove by but next time you see your boyfriend or girlfriend something be talked about and it wasn't all the other cars and it wasn't the white lines and it wasn't the clouds if it doesn't feel when it comes in and you separated it by the way right that car is same as any other car to everybody else it comes in if it doesn't feel good you don't want to feel it I Have to qualify but explain it to you there are times you really do want to feel something like you turn the corner in

the sunset is so gorgeous you just melt it blows your mind you use words like this it touched me to the core of my being I felt like was in the presence of God a hug can do that a kiss can do that nature can do that music can do that it can just take you away and melt you completely into it can't it it's beautiful that is because you let it Come in you let it come in that's its nature it comes in comes in through your senses passes through your psyche it doesn't get

blocked it doesn't hit anything in your psyche from before all right you're open that's what the words mean you're open you're clear you let it in all 60s words okay it comes in and it touches you it literally touches you in there your soul your Consciousness the essence of your being and it pours into there and it's the most beautiful Experience you ever had there's no experience more beautiful than being touched to the depth of your being is there you know how many times you been touched to the depth of your being I can count

on my hand it's always there what is your Consciousness is always there why doesn't everything touch you to death of your being because you don't let it there's no way if it starts coming in and it don't feel good you're pushing it away you have hands in there Don't you have you ever pushed away a feeling or a thought because you didn't want to have it no way that's going back to the depth of your being is it I let that all the way in there no way it happened I can't stop from happening I

have to let it all the way in you're in there doing this are you not how often every moment of your life it doesn't feel good then I don't want to feel it it's just a form of suppression I call resistance do you resist things in there Let mecl you if you resist them they ain't coming all the way back that's the purpose of resistance isn't it I don't want it coming all the way in I don't want to one my favorite senten is this I don't want that to have happened what does that mean

I don't want that to have happened it happened if it didn't happen you wouldn't not want it to have happened it did happen but you can't accept it you can't allow It to come in and pass through so you resist it you push it away you do it every moment about all kinds of things don't you doesn't take much for you to push away that I didn't feel good it's raining I don't want it to be raining push it away why I have to rain on my birthday it didn't know it was your birthday I

swear to God it did not know but you you push it away anything here's psych I'm going to cover every single psych course from 101 to 6,422 Advanced graduate PhD postgraduate you ready here's the cite course if you push it away stays in there anything you push away stays in there you're supposed to go camping it starts raining I guarantee you two hours later or five hours later on the phone you're going to tell someone that rain when you wanted to go camping well white liines went by clouds went by all kinds of things happened

but that stayed in there didn't it you didn't talk about Everything but you talked about that didn't you why because it stayed in there and it came back up it Disturbed you and you kept the disturbance that's why I try if I can get this through to you why would you want to make a storehouse of your mind and your heart of every single thing that ever bothered you if you store every disturbance that you ever had inside of you did you have any disturbances in high school they're still in there how do I Know

go to a high school unit I would advise I advise against it okay but go to High a 20 year High School reunion and you way do you feel how you feel about those different people it will be exactly what you stored in there and don't call that memory the computer has memory it doesn't throw it back up by itself it doesn't keep the I don't like it it's just memory White Lines people things age things people said store them fine By all means they store naturally you have you have a built-in memory system in

there hypnotism says they can go down there and find it every single thing every experience in there you have a memory system that's not what I'm talking about I'm talking about some stuff came in that you didn't want to experience and so you push it away that gets stored in a different place than pure memory pure intellect that's yoga Koso Sim scarus patterns of energy that Didn't make it through sort of like the Hoover Dam stopped the Colorado River when whenever it did it's still happening that River wants to flow through anything you ever afraid

to tell you this anything you ever pushed away is still in there and not just still in there as memory it's that if you drive by a sign and some pictures on the sign or drive by a McDonald's or anything like that and you had some experience 20 years ago in high school and you Embarrassed yourself you Dro some catchup and kids laugh at you all right it's coming back that's not pure memory that's a a mcara as a pattern of energy that you stored inside and so it stayed in there as like I explain

it again the books I try to write it to you you have will you have will you can do things in there can't you all right you push things away you can express will out here you can lift your arm up it's will you have a power called will somebody You'll understand you will deep out of meditation you understand that is a Power Of Consciousness concentrated Consciousness has a power of will for you to apply will you have to concentrate you have to apply the focus like like a magnifying glass out on a field there's

everywhere put a magnifying glass out there it's burning the leaf underneath it concentrated energy your will is your Consciousness focusing and you have this power of will You just used it to block the energy that was coming in from outside so it's a pattern's coming in it comes in it's supposed to make it through and feed you it doesn't make it through why you stopped it it will keep I always teach the same thing I feel bad but you need to listen all right that will is like the Hoover Dam that energy needs to keep

going through the universe it's trying to make it through you but it can't they hit a Blockage that's what a blockage is is you asserted will no I don't want to feel this what happened to the energy that was passing through it's circled around your will that's how energy stays in one place it circles around itself that is what a some scar is as a very deep understanding of yoga as essence of deep yoga teachings or get rid of these scars why because they're in there waiting and trying to come back up that thing that

you stored in there from high School from 10 minutes ago somebody sat where you wanted to sit or was wearing what you wish you had bought and you couldn't afford it you do this junk in your head don't you okay and so it the energy of it the discomfort of it is blocked by your will and now it circles around and stays there you have stored that stuff in there and so it keeps coming back up and you have to keep fighting with it and struggling with it this is inner Suffering I told you there's

inner suffering what inner suffering is things happened outside that's what happens it rains it does it kind all kinds of things comes in there's roaches run across the floor yes things happen don't they have we noticed they come in they're supposed to pass through that doesn't mean you don't deal with them if a roach runs across the floor in your kitchen you don't freak out you know oh my God it's terrible thing has happened No terrible going happen a roach ran across the floor you feel it you see it you have understand I told you

once before that's one of the oldest living creatures on Earth they were around with the dinosaurs were here did you know that they are serious stuff those roaches okay that's why they they survived and live in your kitchen so it runs across the floor you deal with it but you feel it you experience it it's a real thing that Happened you have to block it never go back in your house again all right or yell at everybody or do something right it's just an event that took place you want to kill it that's your business

you want to spray it it's your business you want to pick it up and carry it outside I pick them up in cups she picks up in her hand she picks the thing up I can't get him to do it so we all deal with it differently but the point is first you accept it first you accept That it happened you have no right not to accept something that happened why because it happened you're a very intelligent person you can't make it not have happened I don't want that roach to have run across my floor

I'm sorry it did what you do about it is your business but to sit there and don't want it you denight and let it ruin your life that something happened that's crazy so energy comes in and because we resist it it stays stuck inside and if you store It with pain somebody asked me I said if you store it with pain it's coming back with pain I said why why does have to come back with pain take the color red and put it in a cup and go back in 3 days later it's it's going

to be read why why is that to be read you store it that way if you take pain and you push it away it stays pain it doesn't become love so if it's stored with pain it's going to come does it not come back with pain if you had a bad experience in the Past and you suppressed it or resisted it and some reminds you of it don't you feel happy they're all excited and they came back oh I miss you so much thanks for coming back up do you do that so it's happening is

you're storing pain that's what psychological pain is it's events that took place that you couldn't handle so you pushed them away and stored them and so now you have all this stored pain in there and so if different things happen that bring the pain back Up you don't like it you don't like it the first time I don't like the second time so what do you do you devote your life if you're a normal human you don't want to be one of those you devote your life to manipulating the world outside of you so it

doesn't hit your stuff do you understand that it is literally nothing should say anything to remind you of your stuff you know we don't talk about that around your father why because ddy couldn't handle his past and So we don't talk about anything that reminds him of that because don't believe me it won't be a very nice evening if you do you're sensitive you're not sensitive you store garbage inside of you and it's sensitive why because it's trying to come out it comes out by itself doesn't it in your dream does it come back up

I love it psychology is beautiful just go a little deeper and realize you don't need to do this you did as I said you if you suffer Mentally or emotionally I'm not don't feel guilty enough problem right you didn't it's not the nature of things the nerves have a nature yes things push them too hard they send pain up okay but the psychology stuff you did you're the one who couldn't handle the reality that took place if you could handle the reality took place I I was married I was in love it was wonderful I

fell love then who knows what happened but he's a schnook I'm a schnook I don't know but Boy did it get ugly but you seem perfectly comfortable talking about of course what happened six months ago why would I not talk about it every you're healthy you're a healthy human being you handled the situation that took place isn't that what health is what did Darwin say about Evolution but survival F adaptability the creatures adapted and then survived how's your adaptability to reality terrible you can only handle What you want and if anything happens that bothered you

before bothers you again we're not adaptable do you see that somebody once asked me what is spiritual Evolution that's spiritual Evolution just like physical Evolution you evolve inside to be adaptable to be able to handle reality if you can't handle reality ask Darwin if a species as it was evolving couldn't handle reality is it still here see is not so complicated is it the Ones that couldn't handle reality are not here anymore the ones that adapted and could handle reality and humans supposedly are the highest level of this thing I don't understand it at all

right being able you can live in the desert you can live in the rainforest you can live in the cold you can live in space my you guys are amazing you can eat vegetarian you can be a breatharian I I heard about that anyway it's cheaper right Say you're so adaptable it's amazing okay what about inside this is spiritual Evolution you evolve by being adaptable you're able to handle reality we just said you are the sum of your learned experiences so as everybody else but we also said nobody had the same experience as you therefore

no one is the same as you no one looks at the same as you they don't they can't not your husband not your kids they're all Having different experiences they've had different experiences are you adaptable enough to handle that fact that not everybody sees it the way you do that they can't possibly see the way you do or do you sit there and say how could you do that I never would have done that I never would have said that to you well you didn't have the experience as I did maybe if you had the

experience as I did you would have said it to me it's called wake up to reality so if you're going to Sit there and push away the things you didn't like then you're GNA be very sensitive and you're not going be able to handle things because they hit the things you don't like and So eventually you get to the point you catch on that's what suffering is suffering is that I stored pain inside of me I didn't have to but I did because I couldn't handle it when it happened I couldn't handle the reality of

the moment I stored pain inside of me and now I need events to Unfold outside that don't touch that and I also stored nice things inside of me there are moments you've had in your life that were very special how many compare to the moments that bother you you're bothered all the time how when was the last time the driver in front of you turned you on what was the last time that you driving down the road and the lights just you went ecstasy cu the red lights were when was the last time you caught

Every single red light on your way into town you're freaked out and told everybody about it how could it be like that program these lights is ridiculous or the driver in front of you bothered you nice blinker buddy it's fun to laugh okay because everything has to be the way we want it to be for us to be okay sometimes it is sometimes you meet somebody and they just man right don't worry it won't last because you've had 800 million dlion Other experiences or you have another one at work you come home and not like

the way he or she's right even though I I can't even finish the sentences because it's so absurd the way we live is it not okay so you are now out there with very few really nice things in there that you want to happen again and a whole bunch of stuff that you don't want to happen again and you out there attempting to manipulate the world so that what you want to happen happens and So what you don't want to happen doesn't happen anybody guilty and that is not a fun life and by the way

it's all predicated on fear fear that something I don't want to happen will happen so I'm very busy out there trying to protect myself trying to earn the right money trying to look the way I want to look trying to do this trying to do that trying to always say the right thing I don't disappoint anybody you see what I'm saying you're Very very busy my God it's almost like every person you meet you have to sell yourself you got to make sure they like you you got to make sure accept it make sure it's

this and that you don't like rejection at all do you so because you're in there carrying this bundle of problems of pain that you stored inside of yourself you have to make sure nothing touches it and then even the positive stuff is a problem why because you want it to happen again you just Appointed it as a positive thing so you get disappointed you disappointed that it doesn't happen again you you came and you told me you love me so much and it was so beautiful I just melted so much then can you do it

again it didn't sound the same as last time I'm not sure I believe you okay it can never be the same because you've already experienced it the first time it was a surprise you're totally open you're not expecting it there's no in there blocking the Experience and it comes in someone walks up to you say you know I haven't told you since kindergarten I just thought you walk on water you're so beautiful you're so special I was just embarrassed to ever tell you that that's pretty nice isn't it okay what if he does it every

time ever since kindergarten every time I say again I want you to laugh how true is what we're saying now do you want to live like this spirituality says to you You do not have to live like this it is not about coping that's ridiculous it's about waking up to what's going on in there and you're participating part of that and how to work with yourself at a higher level and evolve to where you're not doing this thing of storing every single thing ever bothered you and storing everything that turned you on because I'm telling

you it's just as bad someday you'll catch on it's just as bad because if you really really want it to Happen again it's not going to happen again some of you know I went through over dissertation doct economics they taught us a law I'll never forget such an important law you know it's called the law of diminishing returns ever heard of it guess what it's true the more you experience the thing that you like the less you care one I OD about it don't mean nothing to you anymore so it's not about getting what you

want because what You want is just the stuff you stored in there that made you happy last time it's not about avoiding what you don't want because what you don't want is the stuff you stored in the maor head last time now you I'm saying be here now are you willing to come into the moment and honor it respect it appreciate it get blown away it even exists that's why I take you on that trip you know 1.3 million Earth inside the Sun in the whole galaxy it's so big it's so big so You stop

being caught in yourself you stop living your life say everybody has to be the way I want come on it's bigger than that or we talk about Quantum quantum physics nothing's here anyways see you understand that they proved it there's nothing here they built giant super colliders to prove there's nothing here it's just light there's a WAV lights of light and it appears to to be this and you're getting upset about what you can use your mind for greater Things than screwing yourself up really there are higher things you do with your mind then think

about what I want and what I don't want how to get and how to manipulate and control everything and get all upset because I didn't get it and get scared because I know I didn't get it this time but it might happen last time anybody worry about anything you know what you're worry about you're worri that what you didn't like will happen Again or you worried that you won't get what you like last time again you don't have to do this and this is spirituality this is why we have these talks that's what it's about

you can have a beautiful life and not even struggle to have it you do not have to suffer inside like I said physical pain okay I respect I understand do what you can be healthy do what you can help each other yes we should help each other with physical pain psychological pain is Self-inflicted you did that by setting aside what you like from what you dislike you decided I want this to happen I don't want that happen What happens if what you want to happen doesn't happen I get disappointed and I get depressed because I

don't think it will ever happen again she love me I don't think anyone will ever love me okay or I I'm scared to death that something will happen I'm so scared I wake up every morning scared and I and I Try to see what I can do to make sure it doesn't happen again I devote my life to the lowest part of my being the part of your being that was not able to handle reality as you grew up all the way up you have now devoted your life to make sure it doesn't happen again

you want to go back and visit your house where you lived before no I do not why it was a terrible experience I don't want to go back to the state there are therapists I don't blame them I'm not Picking anybody there are therapists that if somebody had a bad relationship and got divorced and really got hurt by it and it's fixated on it and so on so forth they literally tell them you have to move you can't live in this town anymore because every time you drive by the restaurant reminds you every time you

go here reminds you when you get hurt over and over no you're too sensitive just find another place to live and it's Perfectly logical why because you are too sensitive but that is not the answer the answer now already can you live a life with no psychological suffering forget that that's non- negative that's not good enough for me can you live a life that every single morning you wake up and you're so excited that you woke up and that the pressure is still there and that everything's still there and you basically just get excited to

go through the day you don't know what's Going to happen but going to be exciting well I guess something's going to happen can you be that open would you like to be that open would you like to enjoy every moment of your life but what if somebody says something and it doesn't feel good can you be open enough that reality fits inside of you well people say to me but what if someone you love dies you can't be happy that someone you love dies you can honor and respect and appreciate the experience of Pain of

that type of pain of Sorrow your pain that you feel because that person and died is equivalent to saying I love you the same heart that said I love you is saying I love you I miss you you can honor and respect just because it isn't what you like feeling it's a deep feeling I always tell you like the funeral March you know that one right was written by one of the greatest composers to ever live shopan wrote That what are you telling me I'm telling you he caught beautifully that vibration didn't he and it's

beautiful in his own right he caught a beautiful vibration it's a low vibration rights of spring is much higher vibration why can't you honor them all why can't you be open and let it pass through you it doesn't mean you're laughing but it means you're you're richer if you never ever had anyone die in your life you don't know squat somebody who's experienced the Death of a loved one is more educated is more whole they've had a richer life that's true of every single experience someone who's kid took drugs to school and got expelled that

person had to deal with something other people don't deal with is it difficult yes is it special yes it's special it's a special experience every single experience is a special experience did you grow from it did your child grow from it how you handle it if you honor and respect that This experience is the one that was picked it's the one you're having it must have been pick for you is it karma I don't like one I ow that people talk like that karma is not a punishment it's a teacher if you're going through something

and you're having difficulty with it it's teaching you how to go through something and if you go through it you learn from it look back and say thank you though I had bad karma oh my God I don't want to live because I think Built all this bad karma from the past don't do that don't do that just learn and learn and learn and learn and learn learn and learn and learn that's what you're here for that's how you evolve by handling reality and if you didn't handle it before don't judge yourself from before if

you were not as conscious before in high school when you were growing up with your parents when you were 8 years old and things you did were not nice were not pleasant you look back At them you should be saying thank you if you look back at him now you say I can't wait to do them again no then you have Karma but if you look back now said I can't believe I did that I feel so bad right good then you learned you grew don't feel guilty be grateful when you went through algebra you

know how to do calculus so maybe maybe you failed math in fifth grade and then you became a math professor don't look back and judge yourself look what a psychological mess We make ourselves you're building that junk inside yourself learn to walk into the day every single day wake up and say a come back come back and experiences are going to happen you bet on it but don't I have control I don't have time to tell you what I going to tell you 25 to 30 trillion living cells make up your body liver pancreas pineal

gland every single part of nerve cell every single part of your body is a living cell right did you Do it which which one of those did you make which one do you do you don't do anything you do 1% of what's going on and you think you're the doer that's ego like some people have Minds that are smart did they do it I tell them what they learned just some minds are smarter than others some people are taller than others some people more athletic than others you didn't do it it was a gift that

was given to you your whole body was a gift That was given to you your mind was a gift that was given to you your heart is a gift that was given to you do you have feelings did you make them did you decide I'll create feelings no all of these are gifts start by waking up and honoring the reality that you're living with so you wake up and you say I'm awake thank God I don't know how I woke up I don't want my body thanks cells you might try it sometime you get All

upset if the liver has a problem or if you're have a problem when last time you thank them they are living cells working for you day and night and they communicate with each other there's a whole system going on in there when was last time he said thank you this is what it means to grow spiritually you get out of your head of what I like and what I don't like which is just stuff you made up based on your past experiences you suppressed and held on to and you start Living in the now you

start sitting here saying wow I'm on a planet really nice Planet would rather go to Mars you rather go to Jupiter or or or Saturn the gas just FL right through there's nothing happening anywhere else did we not send the James web and the Hubble telescope up they can see from millions of lers billions of L years away now there was no sign of any living thing ever we went we we had probes run around these planets what have we found that Would interest you in more than five minutes I us the story when we

first flew one of those robots of Tamor and they showed it because it was the first time we landed on Mars right I'm telling you the truth they had little shovels little robots had shovels so they could dig and little ones like a toy shovel that they could dig in and get soil samples it was so boring after a while that they gave names to the Ditches Snow White they really they did the snow white names okay that's really interesting what was the last time you named the the scuff you put on the the dirt

all right you are on the most exciting planet that anyone ever could dream of is like Goda Disney World that's what you're on every minute there's something going on there's all kinds of things to do why can't you live like that why does it have to be that you couldn't handle some of the things That happened you stored them now you don't want to happen again so now you're not accepting and honoring reality you want reality to be what you want I'm telling you it ain't about getting what you want it's about honoring and respecting

and appreciating reality because it's pretty far out in it every bit of it the fact that you have a mind the fact that there is a heart the fact that there's a body fact other people have them the fact that you can talk oh My God there's so many things every second should blow you away that's because you got your Consciousness out of yourself it's no longer attached to I can't handle this therefore I have to think about it all the time and so what do you do the bottom line of everything we've talked about

so far is you resisted reality throughout your life your childhood High every day you are resisting reality you don't want to experience this you cling To what you want and you resist what you don't want and they're both stored in there and then you've made a whole you out of them you want to grow spiritually real spirituality don't do that if you don't do that it won't be in there if it's not in there you'll be in the now naturally you'll be here present blown away that there are clouds not oh it might rain I

don't want it to rain or it's hot right it's hot because you're so close to a star you are so close to a Star you feel it heat it should blow you away you sit there oh my God this is unbelievable right imagine being close to a star one of those big burning gorgeous things and then think you're 93 million miles away from that star how hot is that star how are you not blown away by this why just go oh my God this is far out I'm circling a star this is called using your

abstract intellectual impersonal mind that's what we talk about yoga there's a personal mind that Which you stuff you kept from the past and stored in there and built a you out of the thing and then there's this great mind and you all have it you all have the ability to think about that the star is up there posss can't think about that you're evolved enough to have a mind that is that evolved use it okay think about that kind of stuff like I say to you what' you do today oh you're this I like this

and this happened to me no you did a 360 on your Axis 1 360 on the axis of the earth that's what you did today wouldn't that be fun if that's how you looked at it how was your day it's great what went wrong nothing what' you do this year I took a little lap around the Sun that's what you did this year didn't you took a lap around the Sun now put your whole heart and soul in the moment don't nod it's not renunciation you you interact it's an interactive sport but you don't interact

cuz you're not okay if I can Get one thing across you don't interact with life because you're not okay with the way it is and you need to manipulate it to be the way you can handle which is how we all interact with life you interact with life because I am okay I'm filled with love and joy and I'm going to express it have fun because you will I'm going to sit down and play the piano and I'm not good at it and if everybody laughs and walks out I had just as much fun as

If they clapped CU I wasn't doing it for them to clap for me I was expressing the Beauty and the music that's inside of me I'm just not as good as beeth over or chowski and you're just having a blast expressing the beauty that's inside of you cuz that's what's inside of you and if you're not experiencing that beauty it's CU you blocked it with that garbage you stored in there if I take dark glasses and put them on the whole world turn dark if I store garbage inside of Me that I'm afraid of and

I look out through that aura into the world it's dark if you really want to grow stop storing this stuff in there and that's what the great Masters taught you purification getting rid of some scars if you stop storing the stuff how do you do that you can't start with the hardest part of course you can't handle the stuff you couldn't handle and stored in there by the way it doesn't just store down there it rots down there it gets Worse and worse it's like stowing a virus inside the computer just touches everything you had

a bad experience in the past and now somebody else says something it has nothing to do with it but it reminds you obviously you don't like that person and then yes it's just all you it's yicky so don't start with that stuff don't start with that stuff start with the simplest tiniest little things that there is no reason in the world you need to resist but you do Anyways you're driving down the street and a skunk was around before you got there ah oh oh oh okay that's right that's a Perfectly Natural reaction for a

minute now oh my God where is that skunk what the Govern should get rid of these skunks what kind of go I'm G to vote this my my vote I want to go get rid of skunks what did you do you couldn't handle the bad smell for a minute you had to make a whole thing out of it let It go it's a tiny little thing the cost benefit analysis is keeping it is 100% cost then you go you there's no problem no cause zero cause that's your choice that's your choice about heat that's your

choice about rain you know who your Guru is the weather you're all busy want to find a guru off in the time of mountain you learn to let the weather be your Guru you will evolve tremendously why because you're not in charge of the weather can you handle it it's just Weather I can handle weather then do then handle it then be happy about it then appreciate it when it's raining I would say this way you know what happens when it's raining when you don't want it to be there will be food produce and Publix

okay but now when I don't want it to rain it should rain when I want it to rain no it shouldn't it should rain when it rains and you need to appreciate it work with yourself if you will work with yourself with these tiny little things You don't realize how much negativity you store in there somebody walks by you call out to them hey Sally how you doing no response that bothers you you think about that what did I do wrong she had she had earbuds on she didn't hear you just let go this is

the art of learning to let go instead of what I just spent an hour talking to you about if you can let go of things you'll learn to let go now you can let go of the rain and the weather and the driver in front of is Very important and the red lights these stupid little things that you bother yourself about you let them go and next thing you know you'll call out to Sally and she'll turn around and say I don't have time for you oh she actually responded but you know like what she

said that's bigger than she didn't respond then I have to figure out why she didn't now oh my God she dissed me handle it because to not handle it means you get another one of those in there is That what you want another samcara another thing now you can't like Sally because she said I time for you right now handle it let it go let it go once you let it go you did a great thing for you and for the other person become open with a little stuff first then you're going to find out

that you actually just like you practice a sport you get better at a sport don't you if you practice a sport do you get better at it does mean you'll be a pro but you get better at it Don't you if you practice instrument do you get better at it practice letting go practice handling reality start with the small stuff and all of a sudden you'll be better at know something will happen that's bigger than my favorite thing when someone comes to me and says I don't know mechanic I went to work and I found

myself driving home and I realize something happened at work that would have bothered me I didn't even notice oh my God I guess I'm growing yes That's growing so basically practice letting go I dare you and then there'll be something that you you can't do you didn't let go you saw I tried to let go it bothered me I dreamt about it I woke up in the morning I was just as mad I was good good notice you you couldn't handle that you weren't ready to handle that yet don't judge yourself don't get mad at

yourself just say Okay I I hit the ball into the net I thought I was better than that they went to the net Great I'll get better that's how you should live every single day every single day you're a better person than you were before the day started when you wake up every morning you should be a different person because you let go and then what's going to happen when you start handling the day now but I have to warn you the stuff that's in there going to start coming up why because you're not shoving

stuff on top of it if I can't Handle Sally she say hello and talk then I'm not worrying about my mommy did 20 years ago but if you start handling it and you're not shoving stuff back on top of it I'm telling you it's going to come up by itself and that's wonderful because you're going to start finding out you don't want that stuff in there you do not want that stuff in there not only does it cause all kinds of problems and worry and negativity and anxiety and all kinds of stuff it's blocking your

Natural shocky flow talk yoga you have a beautiful beautiful ecstatic flow of energy inside of you that's always there the only re you feel it is you push the stuff on top of it the only reason there's not light coming is you close the blinds if you stop closing the blinds light comes in and then the stuff starts coming up and you start complaining they right me I was doing so well I was so happy and I don't know what I did wrong all of a sudden this Stuff from the past I'm driving down the

street and I'm crying all right back congratulations you're growing you want that to happen you do not want that stuff in there so You' be willing to go through the growth of releasing the garbage that you stored in there and all a sudden you start feeling higher and more love and more Beauty and say who it's worth it you know women go through childbirth I hear painful they go out for seconds and thirds guess what you're Going through Soul birth going through Soul birth you're birthing your soul all right I told you i' never have

enough time I would keep at you I hope you listening life is a beautiful experience but not the way we're living it that's I started by saying that's psychological suffering we stored it in here so of course we have it let it go and you will never suffer you just have deep experiences all right Thank you for listening work on yourself [Music] Jag you've been listening to the Michael Singer podcast produced by sounds true in Partnership with Shanti Publications for more information on Michael's body of work and all back episodes please join us at Michael

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