Michael Singer: Jai guru dev, jai masters. What we are used to and become accustomed to, and learn to accept, tolerate, however you want, is a very, very, very noisy mind. We call mind a problem when it’s negative and it’s bothering us. Let’s discuss that for a moment. Just a moment. Mind can latch onto something. It’s not you, it’s mind.
It gets a habit of thinking about something negative or something fearful, or something in the future that you’re afraid of, or something happened in the past that you didn’t like. And for some reason, which we’ll discuss it, fixates on it, it’s very, very difficult to work with the mind when it’s doing that.
You’ll see, just try saying mantra on top of it. It’s gonna drown it out. It’s gonna keep pulling back into that negative state, into that fearful state, into whatever. That’s a very problematic mind and people do have minds that do that, especially after breakups and, you know, major changes in life that are not comfortable.
It’s hard to get the mind not to fixate on that. So let’s start with the truth. Does any know anything about that? Ever gone through anything like that? Ever seen? Mine can do that. Yes or no? It’s not a lot of fun, is it? Try meditating. Mayor Baba actually once taught when your mind is really disturbed. I’m not telling you this is not me.
Sim don’t meditate. Why? ’cause you’re taking all of your energy and consciousness and focusing on that fixation. And the best you can do is try to push it away and suppress it. Okay? And say, he said, okay, play piano. Okay, run. You know, do something to release the energy, but don’t think that you’re supposed to sit there and cogitate that junk because it just creates a habit.
Has I noticed? It’s stronger and stronger. Alright? Mind isn’t always that bad. It can’t get that way. It’s not always that way, but one way it always is, is to worry mine. You don’t call it worrying. You call it normal. Mine worries. It worries about what might happen, like when you analyze what might happen and what to do about it.
You’re worrying. There are people that think about what you’re thinking about and they don’t ever think about it. It might rain tomorrow, oh my God, what if it rains tomorrow? I’d, you know? And it just doesn’t do it for ’em. But in particular circumstances, you worry about the future and you only were the future.
You worry about the past, which I find hilarious, why it already happened. You made it through not very well of the fact that you’re worrying about it. You worry what will happen because in the past, or why did you do something or what is somebody gonna do? How much is it a worry about? Do you see how much of your thoughts are based on worry?
’cause the attempt to solve what you’re worrying about is worry. It keeps the mind busy here. Your girlfriend or boyfriend or spouse, whatever, seeking an other says to you in the morning, listen, I need to talk to you. This afternoon is very important. Is really important. Make sure you’re back here. Holy mackerel.
That’s not a very nice thing to tell a mind. Is it the whole day? What do they wanna talk about? What do they do wrong? What they, what They find out? That they find out they have it six years ago that what’s gonna do in it, and it tries to figure it out. It tries to think, well, if she says he or she says this, I’ll, I can say this.
I think, no, it is just. Ah, I want you to understand that the attempt to solve something you’re worrying about is part of worrying. We don’t see that. We think, no, I need to know what I’m gonna say if they say this. But what if they say that? I need to know what to say. If they say that, what? What if they say this?
They’re just trying to constantly coate over it till what happens. Till it it the same mind that’s creating the worry decides that it came up with something that it feels good about. Very unlikely. ’cause what I’ll do is say, yeah, I can say that. Oh yeah. And I can say that and say that. Okay, that’s what I’m gonna do.
If you’re lucky a minute or two later, really 10 seconds later, nah, that’s not gonna work. Alright? Am I talking to anybody? Do you like that mind? That’s a problem. Living with that. I care for you. We’re gonna have a talk that says to you, it does not have to be like that period. To live like that. That’s why Buddhist said, all life is suffering.
That’s suffering. You found a problem, which didn’t even happen yet either. It didn’t happen yet, so you worry about it or it already happened and it bothers you, so you try to figure out how to make it fit. Well, yes, I know I said that a few years ago and I wish I hadn’t said that, but I did. Maybe I should call.
No, no, no. Don’t call. That’d be stupid, right? Well, maybe I, maybe I could. Could say 15 Hail Marys over and over again. It’ll go away. What are you trying to do? You’re trying to solve a problem that isn’t even there. The only reason it’s there. ’cause your mind will let it go. It’s okay if we talk like this ’cause you have to live with this.
And what you try to do is use your intellectual mind to rationalize. What you’re worried about or thinking about that’s bothering you so that you can come up with an answer that makes you more comfortable live with yourself. Believe it or not, it does not have to be like that. You do not have to live like that.
It’s a much higher way to live your life. It’s way more comfortable than trying to placate a neurotic mind. Why is it neurotic? Because it’s thinking about something that hasn’t happened yet. Asteroids could fall on your head tomorrow. Well, what will I do? What hospital will I go to? Have fun. Anything you want can go wrong.
Anything you don’t want can go wrong to think about something you don’t want to happen in the future and then use your thoughts to think about what you will do if it happens. How many things could there be like that? Infinite. You just happen to fix it on a few, my son to worry about. Open the dictionary.
Take a word, worry about it. There’s always something that can go wrong. Do you know that there’s always something that can go on in the future that’s not the way you want it to be. That will not be the way you want it to be. Okay? And there’s always things that happened in the past that you’re not comfortable with, that you wish hadn’t happened, that you, anything you’ve dealt with, right?
Your mind thinks about those things, doesn’t it? I’m not talking about fixating, but they float through and when they float through, they create your moods. You’d be in a good mood having fun. All a sudden you see a poster and it makes you think about something that happened to your sister 10 years ago and now you think it might happen to me.
Wait, do I have those genes? Oh, I don’t have those genes. Did she ever get a genetic test? She’s dead. They buried her before I got gene testing. Trouble is this Sounds rational to you, doesn’t it? It’s not rational. It’s ridiculous. You do not have to live like that. You do not want to live like that. And if you live like that, it will guide your life.
Your mind will think about things that will make it feel better, and then you’ll try to make those things happen, or your mind will think about things that could make it way worse, and you’ll try to make them not happen. You’re living your life based upon the mess that’s going on inside your mind. You are gonna find out, right?
I’m gonna give you a technique. I dare to do it ’cause I know you won’t. Anytime you want, just stop and look and see what your mind’s doing. Yeah. Like what you see. Why is it thinking about what it’s thinking about? Why are you thinking, well, I don’t know. My biological clock seems to be ticking. And what age is it?
32? I don’t know. They’re saying now maybe three, six. Well, I don’t know best at 28 and a half, how old am I? Oh my God. I’m 28 and three quarter. Can I think about stuff like that?
Tami Simon: Come and
Michael Singer: smile. Okay, well, well, what if I lose my job? Peter lost his job, okay, but he wasn’t doing well, but I’m doing well. But I don’t know with these layoffs, well, what will I do?
Where will I work? I guess that. It’s thinking about stuff that hasn’t happened. It’s making up its own problem and then trying to solve it in the mind and then in the outer world, okay, this is how to solve it. Solve what? What had happened? Okay? Start getting ready for it, and you’re gonna find out that mind is not really doing very well, and it controls your moods.
If it happened to think of a solution, something hasn’t happened, a potential solution, and it feels good about it, you’ll be in a good mood. Why, just, Hey man, it’s working. If it didn’t figure it out, and it’s still caught a different level, your whole mood changes. Your heart changes. Everything changes.
Your relationships change everything. I am here to tell you. It does not have to be like that. It is not supposed to be like that, and you don’t want it to be like that. If you had a choice. And you could instead be here now. That’s what it means, not what happened before. Now, what might happen in the past.
They’re both gone. And our exist in reality. No thoughts you have about the future. Has happened by definition, and guess what? It probably won’t either. Okay? How many things have you thought about, worried about that ever happened? That’s the kind of stuff I’m talking my technique. There’s a technique. Just step back and see what’s going on in there and you’re not gonna like it, but I dare you to look and see.
Are you causing yourself trouble? Is the problem real or is the problem that your mind says it could be real or it did happen? If it’s about the past, you’re wasting your time. The past will never be redone, ever. It’s finished. So to do anything like that and ruin your life about the past we finished, you’ll see it.
It’s just absolute absurd. And we do it all the time, don’t we? Fears, regrets, guilt, insecurities about things that happened in the past, everything like that. We just. Made a mess. It can be fixed, period. You do not have to live like that. What would it be like to get up in the morning and say, I’m back. I wonder what will happen today and not care.
I’ve been through so many moments in my life. I’m still here. I guess they did okay and I’m smiling. Hear me. When you’re smiling, the whole world’s smiling with you, and so why would I create a mess? I just, here I am, bring it on, and then let’s be here now and then what do you do? Then? The moments that unfold in front of you are part of your dance with creation.
How do you know? Because they’re there. Well, what if I want something else to be there? Too bad, Charlie, it’s not, by definition, the very faith that you want it to be means it’s not. What is there? What’s there? It’s raining out. Okay. That’s what’s there. I’m here now. It’s raining. It’s not raining. It’s hot.
It’s cold. My car didn’t start. Isn’t that terrible? No. It’s an experience. You’ll meet new people, you’ll learn about cars. You meet the tow truck driver. Life unfolds. You interact with it, you don’t complain, you know, grab it and push it away. I quoted you from John Lennon the other day. Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans.
What if you weren’t? What if your plan is to enjoy your life? What’s wrong with that? I know your parents said you can’t. You can only enjoy your life. If you’re succeeding, be the person I want you to be and do what you should be doing. Earn a lot of money or do this right? Woo hoo. You were born and you’re gonna die.
I hope you have a good time. Have the period in between. My prayers for you is not that you get what you want. That’s ridiculous. My prayer is that every single moment of your life, what’s happening is a challenge. It’s fun, it’s like a sport, and you’re just, man, let’s dig it. Let’s see what we can do with it.
And you are happy every moment, but when if something terrible happens, you will feel the terrible emotion and be honored to experience that human emotion. If somebody dies, you’re open. You’re experiencing it. You’re honoring the feeling of loss, the feeling of sorrow. Can your heart feel sorrow? Can your heart feel lost?
What’s wrong with that? There’s the problem. You’re saying there’s something wrong with that. It can feel great joy. It can feel sorrow. You are the one who’s experiencing that. You’re back in here and it’s just an experience you’re having. Isn’t sorrow an experience and guilt and experience insecurity ever feeling insecurity.
It’s just an experience. We’ll talk about where it comes from. These experiences can change over time. You’re feeding them by suppressing everything. I get that over right away. Why does a mind do all this stuff? Because it is made of energy. Everything’s energy, and if you take energy, any energy, love, loss, guilt, insecurity, passion, whatever it is, and you suppress it, it can’t release.
It doesn’t go up anymore. It stays down there and it becomes a major problem. It spreads like a virus underneath, and so now all of a sudden you have all this stuff down there. You do the events that that happened in your life that you couldn’t say, okay, bring it on. Let’s deal with it. You said, no, I don’t wanna experience this.
I don’t like this. What I wanted didn’t happen. What I didn’t want did happen. And what do you do with that energy? It’s just energy. It’s the energy of reality. It’s coming in. What do you do with it? You suppress it. Make believe You don’t ’cause you do. You have hands in there. And when things are not comfortable to you in there, you push things away.
Yes or no? Do you push things away in there? Have you done it your whole life? Okay. You did different things when you were young. You pushed that stuff away. The lower that stuff away, when you dated, pushed that stuff away. When you got married, it didn’t work out. You pushed that stuff away. You just couldn’t handle the energy that was coming up.
The energy of reality. Here it is. It’s coming up and I’m not comfortable with it. So your solution is get outta my face, push it away. I always talk about that, so I leave that minimized in this discussion. That’s the cause of every problem, that energy. There’s nothing wrong with that energy. There’s nothing wrong with feeling lost if somebody died.
Nothing wrong with feeling joy because some beautiful thing happened in front of you. There is a major problem of not letting it pass through. You have three choices with any energy that arises inside of you. Push it away. I don’t wanna feel it. That’s the self in their consciousness. I don’t wanna experience this.
Push it away. That’s suppression, repression, denial, whatever you want. I don’t wanna experience this. You do it all the time with the weather, the car in front of you, what somebody said, what somebody didn’t say. You are like a bird and a hawk in there watching this stuff. And the slightest thing that doesn’t feel right.
Bam. Push it away. And by the way, pushing it away is not just something you do inside. You do it outside. So she says something that you don’t like. Yes, you try to push it away, but you also tell her, don’t you ever say that again to me. I’m now gonna push it away outside so the energy doesn’t come in and cause a disturbance inside.
I always tell you that you do do that, don’t you? Attempt to manipulate people, placing things so that when they happen, they feel good when they come in, and make sure you punish them or you yell at them or clinging to them or do something outside. So you control the outside. So when it comes in, it doesn’t cause those problems when you can’t do that.
It comes in, you push away. Inside. Your first line of defense is your external will of trying to control what’s going on, isn’t it? Right? Trying to control everything. Oh my God, he got fired. How do I not get fired? I, no one’s saying about firing you, but if you get weird enough, they’ll fire you. Okay? But so you try to push away outside, but manipulating, controlling everything with thoughts.
Everything. When you can’t do that and it comes in, which is very often ’cause you can’t control the outside when it comes in, then you push it away inside. I shouldn’t have to deal with this. No, he was wrong. I shouldn’t do it. You use your rationalization, you use so much to keep it down there. So I don’t have experience it, but everyone of you know darn well it’s coming back up.
There’s no way it does not come back at some point in your life, okay? And pretty often, by the way, all it takes is a word or somebody’s facial expression. I know that expression. My mother looked at me that way. I’m not Your mother happened to be a man. It doesn’t matter. It hit that you hear me, and now you are just so sure that that’s what was going on.
Am I covering you guys in a fun living like that? No. It’s suffering. It’s ridiculous. You do not have to live like that, period. You weren’t meant to live like that, right? It is something that nobody taught you how to deal with the interstate better and teach at all. Just go to your room. Stop doing that.
Don’t say that. You shouldn’t have said that. Don’t say it again. Bam. I’m the youngest age. Just push it away. Peer group pressure. Everything is what? You’re gonna have trouble if you don’t behave the way I want you to. Alright. I keep telling you this, a solution I haven’t told it to yet, but I wanna make sure the groundwork, I make sure I’m talking to the right people, okay?
Because I don’t want it to be like that in there. So now. You have three choices. When the energy comes in, one, push it away. That is what you normally do. If it’s not comfortable, you push it away, push it away, yelling, screaming, complaining, hiding. I don’t care. You do something to push it away so you don’t have to experience it.
The second thing you can do with it is express it. What do you mean, anger, fear, loss, greed, whatever. It’s, I don’t care what it’s came in. I know I don’t wanna push it away, or I don’t have the ability to push it away. It can be strong enough, right? Next thing you know, it kind of leaks out, right? Leaking outta your mouth.
It’s leaking outta your fist. It’s leaking out from pot and pans flying over the place. It’s leaking out. I’m leaving. I’m never gonna talk to you again. Door slammed. That’s called expressing. It’s all the same energy. If you suppress the energy, it’s the same energy. It’s all Shakti, but it’s disturbed.
Shakti. Shakti hit your stuff down there, so now it doesn’t feel good. So you try to push it away or either leaks out or you willingly, willingly. So I, I, I know. That I am gonna talk about this and they’re gonna have to listen ’cause I have something to say. I watch this need expression. I’m going to give you a piece of my mind.
Whoa, no thank you. Piles. Hey cake. But not a piece of your mind. But you do do it, don’t you? Okay. And part of expression, by the way, and don’t, don’t take this literally, is what you call sharing. So you have a best friend and you’re used to it. If something goes wrong at a house and husband, wife, this, that, and whatever, and you can’t wait to get over there and talk about it, I’m not telling you not to do it.
Don’t listen to me. But it’s true, isn’t it? What are you doing? You’re releasing the energy that’s disturbing you, and you do feel better. Depending on how it’s received. If you start saying something and they turn to you and say, stop dumping your stuff on me, I’m not interested in that at all. Whoa. Then that energy bounces back and it gets more disturbed inside, doesn’t it?
But if somebody’s a good listener, I’m not telling you not to be. Just listen. I just want truth on the table. I’ve not told you what to do about it or not do about it, but can we talk truth? So this thing about being a good listener, meaning somebody’s gonna dump and you’re able to sit there and let them feel better ’cause they dumped.
Right. That’s the classic thing I always talk about. Somebody’s got a major problem, they come in and talk to you and oh, and then you, you have no idea every detail, whether they want the details, every detail, what happens. ’cause he’s just letting go of the energy. It won’t sit in there. I don’t want to have sit in there.
Right. And when you’re done, you look at your friend and you say, God, thank you so much. I feel so much better. To which they say under their breath, I don’t, they just dumped on you. That’s how it passes around like a virus. They dumped on you and they talked about different situations with their husband or wife or whatever it is.
Right. And now. When they walk away, good. They listen. They shared. You now think more about whether your husband or wife was cheating or doing something else, or that you could lose your job. They just passed it on. That’s why the world is the way it is. It’s passing this garbage on, this disturbed energy.
You look at it, look at your politicians, look at this. Look at, look at all this stuff. He is passing on the disturbances and if you have power, people have to eat it or they push back. That’s two things you can do with the energy when it comes in. Suppress it, express it. Now there’s nice expressions. A therapist will tell you, run, run.
Don’t throw pots and pans. Run or do some exercises. Take a hobby. They tell you stuff like that, don’t they? What are they telling you? Find a way to channel that energy. To express the energy to where when you’re expressing it doesn’t come back on you and cause all the trouble. Reasonable fine. There’s a third thing you can do with the energy that only yogis know about.
It’s called transmutation. Whoa, that’s a big word. I understand. I can suppress it. So I can try to live with it, cope with it. I understand. I can express it. All these different ways to express it. What is transmutation? So transmutation is when you is centered enough inside, meaning the consciousness is present.
The energy comes in, you see it as disturbed. You see it. You don’t wanna push it down. Believe me, you do not wanna push it. Sometimes you have to, but you don’t wanna push it down. It is a mess down there. That’s why the mind behaves the way it does now. ’cause you shoved all that junk down there and it just keeps leaking up.
It’s trying to release the energy and so your voice talks about things and thinks about things. That’s why negative stuff keeps coming back. So you stored it, you made a storehouse of it. Well, we’ll sit down there. There’s expression. Then what is transportation? It is recognizing that you are in there and this energy is you’re trying to do something with this energy, and the tendency is to protect yourself from it, push it away.
But you know better than that. You’re centered enough, you’ve meditated enough, you breathed enough. You work with yourself enough to where you are present. When this is coming up and it comes up and then you say, okay, then there’s a tendency of, I’m not gonna suppress it. I need to talk to somebody. I need to let it go.
I need to do something to express it. So what’s transmutation? You’re centered enough and you better do it the minute it happens. ’cause the energy’s gonna be very strong. You know that it comes up, you notice it. You see it. Trying to pay attention. This is not something I want to suppress. I don’t want this in here for the rest of my life.
That’s how you think about pushing it away. I did that for 50 years. Don’t beat ’em up. Just tell ’em you’ve pushed that down there. Have fun. ’cause it’s gonna be down there fresh of your life until you finally let it up. It’s harder to let it up later. It’s easier to let it go right at that time, but to shove it down there, let it link over and tie into everything else.
So I would just say to him, you wanna keep it? You’d say, no, we’ve gotta be quick, very present while you see it. If you wanna keep it. No, well then don’t push it down. What do I do? Right. And then a tendency is to find a way to express it. There’s a third choice. It’s called transmutation. It’s just energy.
It doesn’t look like, it looks like anger or fear or lost or greed or insecurity. Well, it’s energy. It it is energy releasing it’s vibration like that. ’cause you shoved it down like that. Somebody rejected you in fifth grade. Now you got that stuff down there. Afraid of being rejected it down. Don’t know saying I don’t read the paper out loud to the class.
’cause what I did, they laughed at me. Well that was 25 years ago. No, it’s still down there. Every time I have to give a talk sauce. You’re listening. I don’t wanna suppress it. I don’t wanna express it. What can I do? It’s just energy. It’s energy releasing itself in the form that you stored it and remembered everything about it.
The smell, the taste, the touch, the thoughts at the time. It’s a packet of energy. It’s like network packet. You package that thing I told you, walk into a a, a kitchen 30 years after your mother’s dead and take a smell and have a smell like something she used to cook. She’s back. Hi mom. And if you liked your mom and everything worked out during those cooking times together.
Something beautiful comes back up immediately. It’s like that one smell because you stored it down there as a packet, right? If you didn’t get along so well with mom, you’re in a bad mood for the rest of the day, if not weak Now, to understand what’s happening, okay? So when you push it away, it stores everything about it.
It’s very high. You got a high network going on in there, okay? You shove your packets, can oved down there, then they try to release. You get to a point where you’re centered enough, where you don’t put more down there, you try not to, you do best. I know the cost of putting it down there. It’s way harder to let it go than to deal with it to begin with.
And I don’t wanna release the energy. It’s hard for me to talk about, because let’s say you’re having an argument, you come home and there’s an argument with your, your friend, your spouse, whatever, right? And you just. Let it go. There’s you say what you got to say. Give a peace of the mind. You just express it.
Totally. Alright. And you feel better, right? I’m telling you. If that same type of situation happens again, the tendency to tell them off has increased, not decreased. Yes. The moment you released it, you may be hugging and kissing. It may be you released energy. So now there’s room for something different to come up.
Don’t you dare think that in the future the situation kind of repeats itself, that that stuff not come back up. You didn’t get rid of the cause. The cause with what you shoved down there. You found a way to release the energy that’s shot up at this time. It’s coming back up. Do you know that? I wanna ask you, have you noticed that that stuff comes back up?
It doesn’t take much to trigger the thing back up. Okay. Yes. You released it temporarily. Yes. It feels better. Of course it does. But the cause was the suppressed stuff that’s down there. It did not get rid of that. It just allowed that to release like a bubble popping at that time. So suppression expression.
Eventually you’re clear enough that even in midst these strong tendencies to express, you look at it and you say. Is there something higher I can do with this that doesn’t keep me on the wheel of keep running around, you know, the hamster wheel and just running around a circle? Is it not true that if you’re not getting along with somebody and you’re kind of working out for a minute, that the tendency’s very high is gonna come back?
I’m asking you, do you have trouble in a relationship? Does it just go away? Has you had an argument? No. There’s a reason you had the argument. The argument didn’t solve anything. It just released, oh, I feel so much better. Come a hug. It’s wonderful. Thank you for letting me share. So on, right? Wait. You see what happens in a week or two weeks, or three weeks or a year?
That stuff building back up, it builds back up and now you got all that pent up energy inside. It’s gonna come back up one way or another. Alright. What is transmutation? Is that you are centered enough to notice? I don’t wanna suppress it. Yes. It doesn’t feel good. I don’t care. I’d rather eat it, feel it, let it come through than push it back down, than a tendency now to came up a little bit more, you know, push it back down is to.
Express it through your mouth, your actions through something. Alright? I don’t wanna do that either. It’s just releasing the temporary energy. I want something more permanent. But you gotta be pretty centered to be in there like that and you can. Meditation helps. Mantra, helps. Yoga helps all these techniques help.
They help you maintain a center. Any time you, let’s say, I don’t care if you take 15 minutes in the morning, 15 minutes in the evening, that changes your life over time. Because you bothered to say, I want to handle this day better and process a little bit more instead of going to sleep and let that stuff build up and wake up in the morning while the garbage inside of you.
There are things you can do. You can figure out your techniques. I don’t wanna give techniques to you. You’re all different. Things will work for one person, don’t work for the other. ’cause you dare think that one person meditates a certain way and all of a sudden everybody’s getting enlightened. Alright, so what is transportation?
Now that you’re centered enough to be present, when this energy is doing its thing, you know what I’m talking about? You decide. I don’t wanna push it down. I don’t want it leaking out. I want to release the energy inside. That’s transportation. I wanna release the energy inside. I wanna push it back down. I don’t wanna leak it out.
Either in the mind thinking about stuff, I wanna bring it up. I want to welcome it up. Ultimately, that’s what I got. It’s not enough to even say, I wanna bring it up. That energy is difficult to work with. It was stored with pain. It’s coming back with pain. You have to get to the point where every single time that starts coming up, you say, thank you, thank you, thank you for releasing this.
I do not want this inside of me. I don’t care what it costs. I don’t care what it is. My entire life is devoted to letting go of this garbage that I stored inside that’s causing all this commotion. That’s where a great being gets, right. Well, how do you get that way? How do you let it go? First of all? Okay, there we go.
Mickey’s favorite words, let it go. How do you surrender? How do you let it go? Don’t resist. The opposite of letting go is resistance. The opposite of acceptance is resistance. The opposite of surrender is resistance. They’re all the exact same energy. Don’t worry about it outside. I don’t talk about, I really don’t mean that you surrender outside, that you accept outside as you let it go outside.
Yes, you’ll end up doing that. It’s good practice. It’s in here that matters. When that energy comes up, are you willing to let it go inside? Or are you gonna push it away and try to deal with it? Okay, I, I talk about it, right? You gotta do this dance inside that the energies are bothering me, but I won’t say it is.
So I can rational rationalization as good. You might rationalize away the problem. You don’t wanna do that talking real mature. Now you wanna sit there and say, I don’t want that in me. I’m sorry. I shoved it down when I was five or 10 or 30 or 50. I don’t want it in me. I wanna be a free being. I wanna wake up in a morning, bring it on, baby.
Right? Let’s have fun with every moment of our life, no matter what it is. I’m sorry I shoved you down there. I reached a point in various stages of my life where I realized every single energy. That came up and you couldn’t handle, so you pushed it down is a fragment of your psyche. You pushed the person down there at that time, mommy said something, daddy did something.
Her husband said something. You heard me. And there was a feeling and thoughts that were associated with that. That’s like a part of your egos, part of your psyche and you push that part down. And so now it, I talked about this last time a little bit, so now it’s kinda stays down there while other things take priority, but it’ll come back up.
And it’s like, that’s how you get to where you don’t even know who you are. I’ve had people say to me, I’ve worked on this for so long, but there’s so many parts of it. I don’t know which one is me. None of them are you. You are the one who’s in there noticing that there’s stuff in there, right? You’re the self, you’re the Oman, the consciousness, that’s stuff you shove down, fragments your psyche.
So now that’s down there. This is down there. There everything I, I could use examples that would just make you blush. There are people who just all of a sudden be different. Okay. Or wake up and realize, oh, I’m not the way I thought I was. I feel all this attraction or repulsion for something that used to be okay with me.
I used to go to church and now my parents made me go out. I hated it, and now I’m not going anymore. You think now I found myself? None of that is yourself. You know, I was watching yourself be weird. You know the consciousness that’s watching you take these different aspects of your being and shove them down there, and no wonder nobody gets along in there.
Is it weird in there? Answer me. That’s the right word by the way. Is it weird in there? If you really watch what’s going on in there, real stable. It’s stable. ’cause you try to make it stable. You try to do what’s politically or socially acceptable or not. Purposely don’t, don’t do this anymore real good and throw the chains off.
It’s the same thing. It has basically taken different energies that were stored down there. Transmutation says, I now am wise enough. I’ve worked myself enough. I see that life is unfolding in front of me and I want to be able to let it pass through. I don’t wanna store it. I don’t wanna have to express it.
Doesn’t mean you can’t express it. We’ll talk about that. But my first impulse is can you handle this energy? Yes. Then let it go. What do you mean let it go? Let it go. Doesn’t mean push it away. Let it go means welcome it up to pass through you. You’re, you got a relationship, somebody’s not working.
Somebody says something, or the kids something and it just creates this disturbance inside. Are you conscious enough to say, thank you, I should be able to handle this situation? Kids are kids. Husbands are husbands, wives or wives? Yes or no? Okay. Politics, politics. Sickness is sickness. Health is health.
Everything has its nature. And right now, obviously I’m dealing with this because this is the one this I’m dealing with. Can I welcome it? Can I say thank you for coming up? ’cause I don’t want you down there. I want you to be able to pass through now just so you understand. Passing through doesn’t mean you don’t deal with it.
Lately, I really stressed that ’cause you have misunderstanding. Okay? Let’s say you transmute transmutation means the nature of the energy did not get stuck on its way up. And believe me, if you let it pass through, it will turn into love. It’ll turn into compassion. It came through a higher chakra. You let it, it came up to a higher state, and you basically welcome it.
That doesn’t mean you don’t deal with it. It means once you have let go, at least you know 80% I 60%, I’ll give you 60%. You’re not gonna do a hundred percent every time, but at least 60%. Let the thing go a little bit, will get stuck. That’s easier to handle. It comes up, you let it go to rest your ability, you offer it to God, you welcome it.
And ultimately you will get to the point when you see the effect of doing this, how beautiful your inner being becomes. You will love every single thing that comes up from down there. ’cause it is what stands between you and God. And it’s the only thing that stands with you and God. It’s the blockages that you built in there that created a cloud.
That match the sun that’s down there. And so the more you let it go, the more you welcome it, you honor it, you respect it, and you say thank you. And even help it. Put your hand down, help it up. Make me cry. Now you’re doing some serious work. You hear me? You’re, you’re bringing a part of your being that you splintered off.
You are saying it’s good or bad, or right or wrong, you just, if it needs to come up, bring it up. Help it up. Help it up. That’s trans. Well, what happens after that? Then you look and see if there’s something you’re supposed to be doing about it. There are energies that happen outside when they come in are disturbing.
First, handle them. Use ’em to go to God. Use the energy to transmute. Then look outside. See if there’s something you’re supposed to be doing, not supposed to be doing ’cause you can’t handle it. So is he doing? ’cause you can handle that. Now he say to you, when you say, I can’t handle that, I can’t handle what you said, I can’t handle what you did, well then you’re not the right person to deal with it, are you?
He said, admit it, you can’t handle it. Then you’re the wrong person to be dealing with it. Anybody else who do better? Okay? Because you got all this personal junk in there and the only way you’re handling it is to try to manipulate it so you feel better. You’re trying to bind a way to that doesn’t hurt as much or bother you as much whether you get what you want.
Right. Eventually you don’t do that. You let it go. Then when you look outside, the world’s a totally different place. It’s not about you. It’s about what actually happened. It’s impersonal. And impersonal doesn’t mean cold. It means you’re present, you’re present, be here now, and you’re able to look at it and say, is there something I’m supposed to be doing about this?
If your husband or wife comes home, they’re in a bad mood and a bad day, it’s okay. You don’t have to feel rejected. How can they treat me like that? They didn’t treat you like anything. They brought their garbage from the office home and they had trouble with it. And so you look at it, you see what it is, and you say, finally, okay, well stop slamming the doors.
They’ll come out and when they come out, you’re there. Wouldn’t it be nice? I you like a relationship with someone like that? Not yelling at you, not blaming you. Don’t you ever do that again? You’re just compassionate. Just, okay, what can, what you do? What’d you like to do tonight? Wouldn’t that be nice? So from clarity comes right, action.
The boost, talk about right. Action. Okay. Transmutation allows you to do that. That’s I way ahead of you. And that’s a lot of work. It’s enough to not suppress it. You hear me? Suppression is a form of protecting yourself. You are in there. I don’t like what it feels like. Put it away. Expression is a form of I don’t wanna push it away.
I don’t like it. Right? And then all of a sudden it boom. Who knows? What does it leaks out? Uh, here’s an example. You have a profession. You’re doing it when you’re young. You wanted to be a musician. That fell off a long time ago. You weren’t that good, right? And so now you’re a chemist in a major laboratory.
And what I do this for, people shouldn’t take pills anyways, right? And all of a sudden, a whole nother attitude starts coming up That wasn’t there. Yes, you, you were glad to get the job and got money off of, and this and that, taking care of your family, and then all of a sudden you meet somebody. Who lived their dream.
They went out there and tried to be a musician, right? They’re totally successful. I don’t making a lot of money, but they’re, they’re expressing that part of their being, you’re gonna have a problem having met that person because there’s a part of you that you’re suppressed from the before you understand that.
Don’t say, that’s me. None of it’s you. You’re the consciousness that’s in there experiencing these things, and you did all this stuff with them. Right. And so basically now all of a sudden you leave your family like a run. I don’t know. I could come with stories, couldn’t I? You’re explaining why the world is the way it is, aren’t I?
Because you have this junk in there and everybody’s got different stuff. But then if you say, well, what should I do? Should I follow my dream? You should let go to the best of your ability of any energy that’s coming up. Let it pass through to touch you to the depth of your being. The truth of the matter is if you were to let go of that need to express in music rather than expressing yourself as a chemist, which is just as honorable.
Every single thing is honorable. Master once said, if not for the want of a safety pin, the universe would fall apart. I never understood that, but you understand if something’s not there to clip something together, everything starts falling apart, right? Like every single thing has its place. Everything has its nature.
So it’s not like you found yourself. It’s like you let go of a part of your being that needs to express itself and you didn’t not express yourself. You first let the energy pass through. When it passes through, it can touch the depth of your being so deep that it feels as though you’re the most successful musician that ever lived.
And it takes two seconds to feel that. ’cause you let go of the energy, it wasn’t able to express itself. You hear me? And it touched. Have you ever had an experience that you said, it touched me to the death of my being a, uh, intimate hug can do it. A sunset can do it. A song can do it. What does that mean?
It touched me to the death of my being. Everything I just talked to you about is what it’s talking about. You didn’t resist that. It’s not like every hug you get, you don’t resist. You resist plenty. Does he mean it? He’s okay. What am I wearing the right thing? What should I say? Should I come back? I don’t know.
Right? The mind gets in the way of everything, but not everything. There are times that that energy comes in so strong and so beautiful that it goes all the way back to the self. It goes all the way back and touches the depth of your being with no interference. Oh my God. How would you like to stay in that place?
Where everything just touched. The beauty, the depth expression, the inspiration of your entire being all the time, that’s where a master lives. That’s where enlightened being lives. A lot of people run around say they’re enlightened, they’re not, but a true master, true enlightened being, that’s where they live.
Every single thing comes in and touches them. Robert Krishna once said they took him Robert Krishna, as high as they got. Crazy. God, man, they took him out to a park to have a picnic disciples, and he’s sitting there and he’s cringing. Oh, oh. I said, something’s hurting him. I said, master, what’s wrong? He said, I feel the pain of the footsteps on the grass of what the grass is feeling.
That’s how open he was, right? But he did not like it. He accepted that as part of life, but reality that he was so in tune. With all the energies of life that it could feel, what, what nature felt when it’s being squished, right? So you get to the point that that’s where, that’s where a great being lives and every moment in your life is whole.
A complete, there’s nobody interfering with anything. Every minute of your life is just the expression of life expressing through you, right? We’d like to live in that state. Every single morning you wake up, oh boy, I wonder what’s gonna happen. And at first, certain things will happen. You can’t handle. If I catch on, wait a minute, what if I could have handled that?
It would’ve taken you higher. One, you would’ve learned to handle that vibration, and two, you would’ve felt the ecstasy of the pain of the grass. Okay? It’s ecstatic. I always say to you, use this example Roman, Julia. Come on. We all know Shakespeare’s Rome and Juliet. It’s called a comedy. No, no, no. They call it a tragedy.
Okay? If you go and see a troop play Rome and Juliet, the best thing you’ve ever seen, and you cry your eyes out for the pain of the last scenes of loss, you tell your friends to go watch it. You say, I’ll go back with you. It was unbelievable. It touched me the depth of my being. If it happens to you, you don’t say that.
I does. It’s just an expression of life. It’s just a feeling of wholeness, of realness, and nobody’s interfering with it. It’s the interfering that causes the problem. If you sit there, I don’t wanna feel this, you push it away. There, you just suppressed it. Now it’s hitting everything you’re afraid. You see how it happens.
If you’re open, completely open, it passes right through. Everything passes through. So how do you get open? You start with the premise that I don’t want the old stuff in there, and the reason I’m being disturbed is just the outside world hit the old stuff and that’s what’s happening. That’s why you like some people and others why you want something.
They don’t want something is it got this garbage in there that it either hits what you like or don’t like and you just learn. As I let go, as I let go, as I now, something’s gonna leak out. You can suppress a little bit. You pass some expression, will come out. Hear me fine. No problem. Nothing’s perfect, nothing.
Don’t even think about it. I found that God plays around like 60, 65%. You get it to that level, you’re ready for the next stage. Nobody’s expecting it to be a hundred percent. You can handle the last 20 to 30%. Just okay. Let it, let it go later. I’ll give you some license. Okay. You know the Gita, literally, the Gita is very, very deep.
It literally talks about exactly this. He says, lets each man do his own task. The task was given to him though done imperfectly than trying through the task of somebody else perfectly. And then it sits there and says, just as there’s no action in this world, that does not create some darkness, some reaction just as there’s no fire without smoke.
Don’t fight it. Just do your best. Do your best to let go. And don’t worry about the little remnant that. Stays there better. Not a hundred percent being down there. And so you’ll see it falls off over time. You learn more and more to not have this stuff. That’s not a problem. So now you’re there and you’re clearer.
And now just to the best of your ability do right action. What does it mean? It means I look outside and I don’t see me because otherwise you see you. He could have sent it to me. I can’t believe he sent it to me. I don’t want that. That eye shows up, doesn’t it? But when you clear, when you let it go, you don’t need the eye.
It’s hot out. Not, I don’t like the heat. It’s just a fact. It’s hot out, it’s cold out, and so you just, you just letting it go. Now when you’re letting it go, now you look outside. Is there something that’s supposed to be doing well? No. There’s nothing supposed to be doing about the cold and put another coat on.
You have to sit there and try to figure out. How to not have it happen. Okay? But sometimes you have to deal with it. You know, the child, uh, misbehaves and does something cause all kinds of trouble. It’s your responsibility to deal with it, but not, I can’t handle his behavior. It’s your difference. I am here to see how I can help, not help me.
Don’t behave like that. Embarrass me in public. I don’t want you to grow up like that. I want you to go Harvard. Anyone listening see the difference when you’re clear you’re not doing it for you. You’re clear enough to see what’s going on, and then you try to see how can I help? Does does it mean you don’t punish your kid?
I don’t know anything. I don’t know anything. I, I grew up in the sixties, there were a bunch of hippies running around, including me. Alright. Someone didn’t discipline their kids at all. They said the answer was just their free souls, that they didn’t always grow up so well. Okay. It’s like there’s a certain amount of channeling of the energy, but not because you can’t handle it.
Not because you can’t handle the way the child’s behaving. I can handle it. What can I do to help? Right? You getting it? So there’s three stages of the energy suppression, expression and trans. The more you work with transmutation. Now we can talk about what happens. You’re gonna find out that all that energy was Shakti.
The anger didn’t look like Shakti anger was Shakti. Sexual drive, that kind of talking about love, but that kind of energy, it shati. It. Shati needing to release itself. It’s anger shati needing to release itself. Well, why does it look so ugly as anger? Because it’s blocked and it can’t come up naturally and release itself.
So it gets blocked down there and it has, it hits rocks down there and causes currents and eddies and disturbances. And when it comes up. It shoots out. That’s what anger is. Anger is shati blocked. God blocked is that evil. It looks like evil when it comes out, doesn’t it? Because it got disturbed. It got disturbed currents and it comes out and it tries to express itself to receive, release the disturbance.
It’s all God. There’s nothing. You are God descended. You’re a God trying to flow through the expression of the creation. I’ve, I’ve gotten there. I talked to you more and more about that. God and I don’t wanna talk about God tonight, right? God is everything. Everywhere is the entire expression of the entire universe.
And that consciousness that created it is looking down into it. Why these, I played chess with yourself. It’s like I created everything. I wanna experience it. Even the same energy that created it is looking down into it. That’s who you are. God creating you your physical form and psychological form, and then the consciousness of self looking down into it.
And when you’re clean, it becomes an expression of God. You become Christ. My father and I are one. There’s nothing but the flow of divinity consciousness, looking down into form, experiencing. God wants to experience his creation, experiencing it, letting go. That’s an enlightened me. That’s called in the dao.
You’re in total harmony with all the creation. ’cause there’s nothing you’re storing, there’s no you in there. There’s just the divinity. That’s the entire purpose of your life. Why is it not like that? Because you. Made a mess. You didn’t do it purposely. You just did it because to protect yourself, you did it ’cause you couldn’t handle the energy.
Everything you’re doing is to protect yourself from the energy or to release the energy. So I could be okay in here. Eventually you catch on. Not okay. I could do without. It’s like somebody say I, I do better if I do drugs. I’m sure you do. But I’ll tell you what, if you’re, it is total ecstasy. You ain’t doing drugs and you ain’t drinking because there’s no reason to, there’s no tension, there’s no anxiety, there’s no, I wanna express myself.
You’re always expressing yourself. God is expressing himself through you, through all the creation. It’s like, whoa, man. Talk to you about a high state. Okay? That’s who you are. Isn’t that who they are? The fiction on the wall or Christ? It’s who you are. You stored all this garbage in here, and so now you’re paying the price by trying to deal with the result of all that garbage hitting your mind.
I started off by talking about the mind talking all the time. I told I would tell you why it says what it says because you store that stuff in there, and so now the world comes in and hits your stuff and the mind starts talking. What do I do? I don’t know. Should I have said something? I can’t believe if I said that right.
It’s trying to fix the disturbance you created down there, up here or out there. Alright. And you never will. It never will. Temporarily. It does. And so you catch on. I need to understand the meaning of life. The meaning of life is to let go and handle the energies that are presented to you. How do I know they’re presented to me?
’cause they’re right in front of you. They’re always right in front of you because, but I don’t know what to do. You don’t mean I don’t know what to do. What you mean is I’m not okay and I don’t know what to do to make me be okay. Should I stay with the relationship? Should I have another child? Should I try to earn more money?
Should I do something different with my money? But I can’t solve anything? Not that stuff. What does that mean? It means I’m not okay, and I’m trying to figure out how to be okay. Otherwise, you catch on. I’m not okay because I st startle this garbage in here. The answer to being okay is on a daily basis.
Letting go to the best of my ability. Letting go of what? The moment that just happened in front of me. Can I handle it? Yes, but I feel good. Too bad feels good. I love it. Right? No pain, no gain. I love it. I want it. Well, what about the stuff happened from the past? You sure don’t want that stuff in there.
It’s just nothing cause trouble. Why does it come up? Because it’s trying to release. But it must be very meaningful. I had a dream about it. It’s down there. It’s gonna sneak into your dreams. The energy is down there, and your job is to let it go. When when it comes up, you have to go down there fishing for it.
Believe me, you don’t have to. It will find you. It will find you just fine. The question is, when it comes up, are you willing to let go and your whole life becomes of letting go process, and then the Shakti starts to change direction. You start feeling the beauty of your being, and now you’re really inspired.
Now anything that happens, no matter how big you say, okay, it’s hard. Bring it on. Bring it on. If it hits something in there, I want it out. I don’t care how big it is, I don’t care what I’ve seen people sit through stuff that you couldn’t even believe. Great things, and it’s just the fire of yoga. Burn it up.
I don’t want it to be. So that’s the essence of how to grow spiritually, is you reach the place where you played around enough of letting go and you realize, hey, this works if I don’t hold the energy down there and do my best to let it go. It’s not down there. When it’s down there, pure shakte, it starts flowing.
You start feeling more and more happiness, more and more times of high, naturally for no reason ’cause you’re not blocking it. And then eventually she comes up enough. It’s a certain point, it’s a magic point. It’s called the absolute turning point. It’s called the ascent. Where instead of your, you being down there pushing the energies down or pushing them out.
They’re starting to flow up more than that. And the tipping point becomes when enough energy is flowing up to bring about the power of Shakti, the love, the joy, the clarity that you love it more than getting what you want or dealing with your stupid stuff in there. In other words, I want out, you start devoting yourself to your spiritual growth, to the depth of your being.
’cause the only thing that works, everything else, just believe me, play around, have a vacation, come back and be neuro. It doesn’t solve anything nowadays. You got a lot of rich people around, right? Do they look so happy? They don’t solve anything. Hollywood. The more divorces, the relationship problems, the Hollywood than anywhere else.
You catch on the solutions inside. Why? Guess the problems inside. You caused it by storing stuff. You start learning how to let go. Alright? Thank you for listening.
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