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E212: Living Every Moment as Its Own Reward

The Bhagavad Gita teaches that you should engage fully in life while renouncing any attachment to the results of your actions. Expectations, personal motives, and the desire to control outcomes create stress, fear, jealousy, and dissatisfaction, whereas acting simply for the joy of serving and expressing your highest self brings freedom and peace. When every moment becomes complete in itself, life is no longer about getting what you want, but about experiencing the fullness of living.

© Sounds True Inc. Episodes: © 2026 Michael A. Singer. All Rights Reserved.

The Point of Insight | “Half Human, Half Mystery...

Somewhere between the human being you know yourself to be and something you can only call mystery—that’s where this one lands.

In this Point of Insight, Tami Simon follows a thread that runs through decades of her own practice and hundreds of conversations on Insights at the Edge. It begins with somatic meditation and the discovery of the central channel—the flow of energy in front of the spine that yoga calls the sushumna, and that Richard Freeman once told her is the real yoga teacher. It arrives, years later, at a moment mid-interview when Tami felt something press up against her back and realized she had become, in her words, part regular human and part something with wings.

Follow along as Tami explores:

  • The central channel as a key that unlocks a prison of constricted thinking
  • What Richard Freeman and Qigong master Robert Peng each revealed about the inner teacher and the flow between ida and pingala
  • Energy intuitive Lee Harris and “the angel behind you”—an eight- to twelve-foot presence available to all of us
  • Why you can’t be a light warrior alone, and what that means for the years ahead
  • Thomas Moore, Thoreau, and learning to see the transcendent in the people you love
  • The chrysalis, the goo, and Tami’s obstinate refusal of everyone’s butterfly metaphors
  • What became possible only when she stopped clawing for something to hold and let herself fall back

For anyone in a stripped-down season, or anyone who has sensed there’s more to them than the person they can see in the mirror, this is an invitation to stop bracing—and lean into the support that’s already pressing against your back.

Listen now. →

Find the original Insights at the Edge episodes here:
Lee Harris, “Be a Future Human and Find the New”
Richard Freeman, “Living Yoga”
Robert Peng, “The Master Key: Awakening the Four Golden Wheels”

E211: Exploring the Nature of Will

Few people understand the source of will power. Will is the inner power created by the focusing of consciousness, and the way we use it determines whether we become trapped in ego or awakened spiritually. By using our will to resist experiences, we create samskaras that block our natural flow of energy and keep us identified with our personal self. The highest expression of will is to consciously relax, allow life to pass through without resistance, and ultimately surrender personal will to the divine will.

© Sounds True Inc. Episodes: © 2026 Michael A. Singer. All Rights Reserved.

Raj Sisodia: “Business Leaders, You Have a Sacre...

“Is it okay that we are hurting people in order to make money?”

That’s the question Raj Sisodia has been putting to business leaders for two decades—and he isn’t asking rhetorically. This week, Tami Simon speaks with the prolific author, professor, and cofounder of the conscious capitalism movement about his new book, Healing Leaders, and the seven-step spiral that took him from a successful academic career into the deepest healing work of his life at age 60.

Join Tami and Raj to explore:

  • Why “false profits” mask the real cost of business as usual—in burnout, stress, and lives
  • The four pillars of conscious capitalism, and why doing all of them together changes everything
  • Strength without love is tyranny; love without strength is ineffective—the leaders who held both
  • What happened when four women asked Raj how he could write a book on healing without healing himself
  • LIST: the acronym for love, innocence, simplicity, and truth that arrived in the Amazon
  • “Choose your past”—the counterintuitive step that moves a leader out of victimhood
  • Why your trauma isn’t your fault, but healing it is your responsibility—especially if you lead
  • How to conduct a layoff with love, and the company that furloughed instead of firing
  • Why this backlash moment is a test of how deeply we actually believe in these principles

Whether you lead a team of three or three thousand, Raj offers a bracing case that the inner work you keep postponing is the most generous thing you can do for the people who depend on you.

Raj Sisodia is guest faculty for Sounds True’s Inner MBA®, a six-month immersion program created in collaboration with the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley. Learn more at innermba.soundstrue.com. →

This conversation offers genuine transmission, not just concepts about awakening, but the palpable presence of realized teachers exploring the growing edge of spiritual understanding together, and originally aired on Sounds True One.

E210: The True Meaning of Spiritual Evolution

The essence of spiritual growth is not fixing the mind or emotions, but recognizing the consciousness that is aware of them. Suffering arises because awareness becomes absorbed in thoughts, emotions, and psychological patterns stored from the past. Spiritual evolution occurs by allowing experiences to pass through with acceptance instead of resisting them. As you release these inner blockages, your natural state of peace, joy, love, and freedom begins to shine through without depending on external circumstances.

© Sounds True Inc. Episodes: © 2026 Michael A. Singer. All Rights Reserved.

Just One Question | Shamini Jain: How Can You Heal Fro...

There’s an elephant in the room anytime someone talks about energy healing, an elephant named Placebo. 

For most of us, placebo means you got the sugar pill. It means whatever’s happening is all in your mind, not in your body. That’s even what Tami thought when she sat down to talk with award-winning researcher in psychoneuroimmunology and trained clinical psychologist Shamini Jain, PhD, in 2023. 

But here’s the thing—placebo isn’t the thing science needs to control for and throw out. It’s the measurable evidence of what our bodies do on their own, and Shamini makes the case with research most of us have never heard about.

In this episode:

  • The open-label placebo studies where patients are told outright they’re receiving a placebo—and improve anyway
  • The four elements Shamini says show up in every healing encounter: expectation, conditioning, relationship, and meaning and ritual
  • Why placebo-controlled surgery trials should make all of us ask harder questions
  • What the antidepressant data actually says—and why “we work” may be the better takeaway than “the drugs don’t”

Mallory and Chris have spent the past year and a half working on a podcast about energy healing (Phenomena) and Sounds True is offering—right now—an immersion course on energy healing featuring Shamini Jain as well as Robert Peng and Laurie Nealon…so now felt like the perfect time to bring this conversation back. And maybe rename that elephant for good.

Taken from the full Insights at the Edge conversation with Shamini Jain.