Surrender—How It Liberates Us from Suffering with Michael A. Singer

the 60s we talk about expanding Consciousness I would never use that term anymore the term is stop constricting and Contracting your Consciousness your conscious is already

fully expanded my Consciousness can see this whole room but if I focus on just a point on the floor then that's all I'm conscious up so what we're doing is

getting distracted by our thoughts

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friends welcome welcome everyone to this special webinar surrender how it liberates us from suffering it is such a

great honor and joy to be here with Michael singer for this special webinar he's the author of The untethered Soul

the surrender experience ment and a book that was published last year with sounds true and new Harbinger it's called living

untethered beyond the human predicament much of living untethered the content of the book is an expansion

and a crystallization of what Michael taught in a 9 and a half hour online course with sounds true called living from a

place of surrender he begins by saying I'm not going to Define surrender for you but by the end of this course you'll know what it is and I've now gone

through the course a few different a few different times and what I'd say is my understanding and appreciation Michael

says surrender is the deepest path it keeps increasing my own understanding keeps deepening as I repeat the course

and I would invite you if you're interested and I think in this webinar we're about to experience I have a feeling it will peique your interest to

join us for a special cohort of the course starting in September Michael will be joining the cohort for a special

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soundstrue.com and now welcome Michael singer Michael you look wonderful thank you like must like

Canada I like Canada and I like taking the time to deeply re-engage with living from a place of surrender it gave me some great gifts so let's start right

there and bring bring our sounds true audience with us you start the program and you say you start many of your teachings asking people hi are you in

there what does that mean who are you talking to you are you in there what what what is this it's an amazingly simple way for people to

realize that they're in there in other words no one ever said no how can you say no you heard me you're aware that that question got asked so that's a

starting position that yeah I guess I'm in here but what does it really mean it means that basically you heard me say are you in there and you inside thought

about something were you aware of those thoughts were you aware of the sound that my voice made coming in and that's the essence of all spirituality is who

is in there not are you in there obviously you're in there who's in there and where are you in there are you in your mind are you in your heart are you in your body where are you and that is

the entire exploration of that course from from beginning to end which is finding out it's called self-realization finding out the nature of the one who's in there because the

one who is in there the Consciousness the awareness of being is the highest thing ever walked to the face of the Earth it's the essence of all spirituality it's what it means when it says man is created in the image of God matter whether you believe in God or

not you're in there that you know all right that's all you have to know the rest goes up from there no I think for for many people when they look inside

it's hard to disentangle from our thinking like there I got a lot of thoughts going on is that what you mean no that's not what you're

pointing to well but I'm I'm glad every single thing that's that you're aware of going on in there is your teacher and it is spiritual so you just said you have a lot of thoughts going on in there my

question to you is how do you know just quietly not being insulting how do you know that you have a lot of thoughts going on in there at first it's frustrating and eventually you look at me you say because I'm in here and I see

them thank you that's the you I'm talking about the one that's in there noticing the thoughts does your heart ever hurt does it ever feel love how do

you know how do you know okay I always tell people you don't want me as a therapist I don't do one-on-one with people well they don't want to I promise you if you came to me and you said oh my God my boyfriend or girlfriend left and

having so much trouble and so on I'll listen a little bit not too much and then I'll ask how do you know and that's not you're not supposed to ask that question you're supposed to ask you know what do it feel like and what happened

no I just ask how do you know that you feel pain in your heart how do you know that you're having trouble with us and again frustratingly you will eventually have to say to me listen I'm

in here I know what it's like to being here I see what the heart feels like I see what my mind is going through okay I want to know who you are that sees that

much more than I want to know what it is that you see now I have to ask you a question Michael right here at this point that has been a huge source of

fuel for me on the spiritual journey and it has to do with this who that's in there you know people will say well who were you when you were 5 years old 10

years old 20 years old 30 that you inside that is aware of all the things that are happening in your life and I don't think it's that hard for people to

track that I I can track that I can sense that inner witness that witnessed my life when I was little and saw all the things that were going on and up to

this time but the question I have is if I go backwards I I can see that awareness at age five but then as I get younger and younger I start to lose

track and I don't know what that was before I was born and I don't know if that will continue after I die and so

This Promise of spirituality you'll get to know the the who inside I'm like okay I kind of know that who while I'm alive but I don't know what it will be like

when I'm not alive so I want to know what you have to say to that I I I'm glad you don't know and I'm glad you admit that you don't know because the truth is almost nobody knows like they

believe and I don't participate in that game I don't want to just be another person who tells you to believe something this is what I'll tell you and I know I'm right you'll find out that's

as far as you should go with I don't know whether I'll be there after I die I guarantee you will find out and if you're not there it won't be a problem it's not like I'm not here oh my God I

don't like this no you're not there if you are there which by the way you will be but I didn't say that okay you'll find out what it's like to be there and

not have a body and what's going on and where am I why think about it now live your life now be here now right you'll have that experience then and the fact

that you didn't know what you were like before you dropped down down every every Master teaches really the same truth which is when you drop you're going to

understand it like this when you drop into the body when the Consciousness drops into the body that is a traumatic experience okay all of a sudden there's all these Sensations and all the sound

and all these sights and all these feelings and things it it's freaky okay the Consciousness totally freaks out and so it's lost it's called The Lost

Consciousness it it's not like now I don't care if you think you have problems you don't have problems compared to somebody has Amnesia and just woke up from Amnesia and doesn't know who they are or where they were you understand that that's like a panic type

of a state that's what happens when Consciousness drops into the body it's disoriented completely it doesn't and so what it does it start grabbing good just

call clinging it starts grabbing to Mommy to crib to blankie to toy to you understand that it just grabs anything that's steady that can get it hands on

and starts to build some solidity inside was not really solid it's it's just thoughts it's experiences and but they're they're firm they're regular always put the baby in the same crib

don't do the experiment what happens put a baby in a different crib every night and a different mother picks them up because every psychologist will tell you that's out of the question right because you're the self the conscious is going

through this experience of trying to ground of trying to settle okay I know who I am I am this person's child I am the owner of this crib I am the one has

this blankie Okay so develop a self-concept and that gives you a sense of stability and then you keep that throughout your entire life so the fact that you don't

remember what your conscious was like before you did all that is completely understandable great Masters say they do it's none of my business okay that you're G said he was totally conscious

in the womb and they know where they were before okay so it's nice that somebody says that but I don't want you to say that I I I want you to be real

and what real is is there was a tumultous period until you started to build this self-concept and all psychology will tell you that you built

a concept of yourself and then the Consciousness rested on that and said at least now I know who I am I'm person who lives here I'm the person that has this

and mother daddy this and that right and you've done that through your whole life I'm the person that married some and some the person that got divorced that's not who you are those are the experiences you've had not the the

experiences right but you're collecting experience you had and then saying that's who I am no you're the one that had the experience so that's my level I don't want to add to the belief

structure that you're supposed to believe something about what happens when you die or believe something where you were before you were born to me it's irrelevant it should not be an important thing in your life what should be

important is finding out who's in there who's in there and why do they keep getting pulled down into the thoughts and down into the emotions and down into what's tiniest little things happen in

the world you know I talk about the driver in front of you freaking out the way they're driving every little thing pulls your Consciousness down into it I'm interested in why and what can you

do about that and what are you capable of experiencing right now inside yourself because the truth is it's so high it's not even discussible what you're capable of

experiencing all right let's talk about why why I'm in this you call it the human predicament that I keep getting pulled

into all of these disturbances yes well I love that you use the word dis I would like to call them distractions instead of

disturbances okay you know it's like to get distracted we get distracted all the time you're doing something and then something else catches your attention

correct that's what has happened in here you are being distracted by thoughts okay you're being distracted by your emotions you're being distracted what's

coming in by your senses you're so Consciousness is so distracted by these things that it it literally identifies with them it says that's who I am because that's that's where I'm hanging

out I tell people if I were to stare at a a point let's say the tile on the floor if all I do was stare at the tole on the floor that's my world because my

world is what I'm conscious of right okay and so if I focus completely on something narrow like that then I've narrowed my Consciousness I tell already in the 60s we talk about expanding

Consciousness I would never use that term anymore the term is stop constricting and Contracting your Consciousness your Consciousness is already fully expanded my Consciousness

can see this whole room but if I focus on just a point on the floor then that's all I'm conscious of so what we're doing is getting distracted by our thoughts distracted by our emotions distracted

what's coming in through our senses that's a very small part of the universe to say the least right it's like three feet by five feet high or six feet high that that's it it's just a point on the

planet Earth and you know my favorite saying 1.3 million Earths fit inside the sun 1.3 million and how much space do you take up on the earth and your

Consciousness is constantly drawn down to being distracted and focusing on these thoughts your thoughts your emotions and what's coming in through

your senses that's minuscule compared to what's going on everywhere okay and that's why you get caught down there that's our predicament that's the human

predicament which is what Consciousness which I assure you is capable of experiencing much more than just staring at yourself it doesn't have to stare at yourself what has if I don't stare at

the point of the floor what do I see everything else if you don't stare at yourself what do you see everything else and that's the great spiritual state which you're perfectly capable everyone's perfectly aable of

experiencing that but the question is how to not be distracted by our thoughts how to not be distracted by our emotions more importantly not I don't like to play how

how to not why are we so distracted by our thoughts how many thoughts do we have how many of your thoughts are meaningless how many thoughts end up being you as stupid to think it right it just didn't turn out to be real it

didn't turn out to be a problem didn't out to the person wasn't really thinking what you thought they were thinking you were just in a bad mood understand that a lot of our thoughts the vast majority of our thoughts we better off we didn't

have them they're just distracting our Consciousness from work from relationships and so on so forth so the question is why are you so distracted by your thoughts and until you learn to not

be distracted by your thoughts you're going to be distracted by your thoughts why you so distracted by your emotions until you learn not to be you're going to be pulled down into your emotions so that's the fact Foundation

to me that's the foundation of spirituality it's not all these techniques and clothes and different things which is all wonderful right but it's the reality of do you know what's

going on in there you're a conscious being that's being distracted by your thoughts and so we can go into discussion as to why are you so distracted by your thoughts I'm not

distracted by your thoughts okay you are but I'm not

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