The Power of Acceptance: Evolving Beyond the Ego | 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] chive CH Masters the spiritual path is your life your whole life is a spiritual path that's why you're here every moment of your life that's what's happening doesn't matter if you're young old Rich poor male female married single do matter what is happening is the spiritual path what if I don't know this a spiritual

path it's still the spiritual path that's all you're going to go through what you need to go through bump your head against the wall and eventually you start to catch on what's going on all right so if the entire path and meaning of life is your spiritual growth what does that mean it means that you are of God I don't use the word lightly I don't even like using the word because it's become so bastardized everybody has their beliefs but there are those who come to know God who come to have self-realization and realize who

they are and what the relationship is with God and everyone who ever got there said the same thing of every tradition of every religion period and you will say the same thing as you get there so it's nice to hear from them like like signposts along the way giving you some idea of how you're doing but your life is your path so what does that mean first why do you need a path why are you not enlightened you should ask that question why am I not enlightened if it's true that really it's God that's inside

of me the god self my high self is of God is of god Consciousness there's only one Consciousness and of course you're conscious and only one Consciousness then you're of that Consciousness all right why don't I experience it I usually spend my talks talking about that we won't we'll do it very quickly you don't experience your true being because you're being distracted by your false being by your psyche by your ego by your mind by your emotions this thing that you built around yourself and you did build it around yourself your psyche is something you

built you knew the self the Consciousness dropped down and got scared got disoriented couldn't figure it out and so it started building a false self that's what the ego is a self-concept I do it very quickly because I do it all the time you have experiences some of those experiences are Pleasant some of them are not pleasant that's just the nature of things a butterfly is Pleasant a rattlesnake is not but you can handle both you can learn to handle both you have to live your life avoiding Ratt snakes are clinging to butterflies so basically

we haven't learned that we don't know that if something's not pleasant we don't want to experience it something is pleasant we want to experience it very natural so how do we not experience that which happened very quickly what we do is resist it you resist it having happened no it already happened otherwise you wouldn't know that you didn't like it it already got in there experienced it so what do I do when it comes in there I don't let it come all the way in I practice resistance I practice pushing it away I'm in here

I have hands in here I have will and I don't like that experience so it doesn't matter that already happened I don't have to experience it fully and so I push it away and when you push it away everyone you push it away and you push away a lot all the time becomes a building block of your psyche you hold on to it again why would you want to hold on to that what you didn't like because you weren't able to handle it so the only way you knew to protect yourself from having experienced it

is to keep it at a distance to push it away when you do that it becomes stored inside of you and you start picking these pieces up very quickly all this stuff you stored in there you start putting it together into I like this I'm the person who likes this a person doesn't like this and the person in love with this person and person had this bad experience and you start defining yourself not as you but as the experiences that you had that's what your ego is it's what you the LA self used its will

to put together this concept of itself a mask a false self and then you have to present it to the world and what happens if the world doesn't like it you freak out when the world does like you get all excited and so you're just sitting there presenting this thing all the time and trying to get What It Wants trying to repeat what made you feel good and stay away from made you feel bad and you have all these views and opinions and preferences and hopes and dreams and Concepts they're just all a collection of

thoughts that got built based on your past experiences psychology says man is a sum of learned experiences it's not true you are the self the Consciousness that's experienced the experience but you're keeping them and therefore your psyche which is what they're studying their psyche your mind and emotions that part of your being is the sum of your learn experiences fine so what does it mean now that I have this thing what is my life like hell you suffering how do I know you're suffering because you're doing every single thing you can every minute of your

life to not suffer you're trying to find someone that will help you not suffer you're trying to have finances so you can do things you want to do so you don't suffer every single thing you do is stay away from suffering stay away from not feeling good stay away from jealousy stay away from Fear stay away from all this stuff why because they don't feel good because you're suffering and so you're busy busy all the time doing what staying away from what's not nice inside and so we get lost in the outside world so now

the self has fallen down into the psyche and the psyche goes out into the world to try and get things the way it needs so that it's not suffering too much and maybe sometimes is happy all right feels a little bit better either feels better or feels worse but you have to work at that doesn't just happen by itself and you're taught to work at that that is the state of a human being wasn't that complicated would take five minutes that's your state you know that that is your state okay well what does it mean

that there's a p path there's a path toward Liberation there's a path in which you in there are not so scared are not so addicted to staring at your psyche your ego and then giving in and doing everything you can to let it run your life you can free yourself from that freedom is not freedom for yourself it's freedom from yourself true Freedom so basically your path through life your entire path through life is learning that you are not your ego you're the self and that you can live in this world without suffering you can

live in this world at peace you can live in this world in harmony you live in this world and bring Beauty and light and love and compassion no matter what's happening no matter what's happening no matter what is happening you're capable of achieving that state where that is a state of your being but it's not the one you're living in not the one humans live in humans live in their egos they live in their psyche and that thing gets we talked about the other day that thing is so sensitive somebody say one word it doesn't

like it freaks out somebody says one word it does like freaks out the other way and so you're trying to do everything you can you're struggling to make life be something that you can tolerate in the end life is what it is and you're a piece you're whole you're complete nothing can touch you you still interact with the world but you're transcended you're whole you're you're of God that is your natural state that dis between those two things your humanness and your Divinity are the spiritual path and everybody's on that path a murderer yes a

murderers on that path people in jail people that do terrible things they're all every one of them is capable of Liberation if you have taken human birth it means you are what I described you are the light the consciousness of God dropped down lost within your psyche lost lost within your ego lost within the lower part of your being which is made up of this garbage that you created inside and then you like I said you go outside to try and feel better everybody's out there trying to feel better why are there Wars because somebody's

trying to defend themselves so they feel better somebody's trying to get something they feel better and that's why there are relationship problems that's why there are Nation problems that's why every single thing is that so as you go through your life that way you're going to suffer you're going to have high and lows it's like sandpaper remember brother call this sandpaper back and forth back and forth trying to sand off this psyche sand off this garbage that you've gotten caught in and so life will bring you things and you feel good about them and you

get all excited and then they disappoint you and you get all depressed and you go up and down and things happen maybe you've noticed has anybody noticed okay and what you tend to do if you're human and you are is you try to control the world so it doesn't happen and nobody has ever succeeded that no possible way you can't control the world the world is the result of everything that ever happened before creates the moment that's in front of you I I've lectured that so often I can't talk about it I hope you get

it the moment in front of you is not yours it has nothing to do with you it is the result of all the forces that made it be the way it is it is the result of all the forces the weather is the way it is not because it's your birthday or not because oh God thank you it didn't rain on my wedding no it has nothing to do do with your wedding has nothing to do with your birthday stop it it has to do with you know the ELO and L and the winds going

across the Pines mountains the point is it has nothing to do with you it has to do with nature it has to do with reality it has to do with the laws of cause and effect things are the way they are because of everything that made them be that way did you have some influence of course you did how much 01 that's how much influence you had on the weather okay I said something I said something now he's leaving me why did I have to say that he's not leaving you because you said this one

thing he's leaving you because his mother beat him he's leaving you because his father left his mother he's leaving you because you know his first girlfriend dumped him there's an entire psyche sitting inside that guy you don't have anything to do with it by the way right everybody is the sum of their learn experiences how much influence were you on the sum of that person's learn experiences you met them three months ago they're 30 years old they've had experiences every single moment of those 30 years have they not and you're taking responsibility or credit for

what happened in front of you go study science study biology study psychology study anything everything and you're going to find out I ain't the one who did it the planet's been here for 4.5 billion years having influences on everything how long you been here you going to wake up someday and realize you're out there trying to manipulate the universe of cause and effect you're not going to do it no one's ever done it it can't possibly happen you can have some influence but then what what did John lenon say life is what happens to you

while you're busy making other plans things unfold because of the laws that happened for billions of years oh my God and so there's a moment in front of you but we can't handle it life is about teaching you to wake up and realize there are ways you can handle it there are ways you can resp respect it there are ways you can honor it there are ways you can serve it there are ways you can raise it but not there are ways that you can decide in your mind based on your experiences how everything's supposed

to be from now on everywhere and guess what no one agrees with you no one agrees with you they can't possibly they didn't have the same experiences did they every single moment of your life you had experience that no one else had and then they're all linked together on a pearl necklace and those are your views and your opinions and your prefence and your hopes and your dreams and your Concepts and you go out there and you dump them onto the world and try to fight with everything to try to make it be the way

you want because that's the only way it can be okay life is here to teach you that that is not truth and you will never succeed in doing that and someday you will wake up why because you suffer too much or because something happened that raised you above it love can do that that all of a sudden I don't care what happens I'm in love I just feel love I just feel peace it's okay what happens I'm okay with what happen right not my will but thy will be done and all of a sudden you

start to wake up in certain areas right but close in other you have a relationship really happy at home but boy you fight at work you're okay most people are not but you're okay with a one toone relationship you're not okay with money you're not okay with this you're not okay with all kind life is here to teach you to be okay with absolutely everything that is why because reality is reality and what you made up is meaningless he just made it up based on your past experiences okay everybody's got one but reality is reality

if there's a storm there's a storm if there's Sun there's Sun if a person's nice they're nice person's mean they're mean now what are you going to do about it eventually you catch on what you're going to do about it as you evolve that's what happens life causes you to evolve I hope you're learning what's it like if you evolve events unfold in front of you and you understand that's the nature of things very Buddhist that's the nature of things this is the result of all the forces that's how you should look at things the

moment in front of me is not mine it is the result of all the forces from the beginning of creation that caused it to coales into this moment if anything was different it'd be different I told you if your car is made in Japan and the Japanese person has put in the brakes and had a fight with his wife and because he had to fight with the wife he didn't torque the bolt tight enough on the brakes but it took four years for it to get loose and you're driving down the street and you steeping

your brake and you Veer off to the right and you get an accident that's not an accident it's the result of what he did what the wife did every single thing is so complicated you know want to talk about it that's how many causes and effects there are every single thing that ever was causes the next thing then they all coales together to create the moment in front of you and eventually you wake up and you sit there and say oh that's what happened and you're okay you're at peace you're in Serenity you feel understanding

okay this is the nature of things now what it doesn't mean you don't deal with it it does not mean you don't deal with it it means you deal with it out of compassion out of understanding what can I do to help this moment not how mad can I get because it wasn't fair I didn't deserve it had nothing to do with Fair has nothing to do with Justice just allow life to be life the result of all the forces that ever were Co lless together to come in front of you and don't worry it

won't stay nothing stays it all just comes and goes but not in you it doesn't because if you didn't like it you keep it inside of you can't keep it outside it just comes and goes but you keep it inside and you make a mess of yourself but then you go blame everything I don't need to tell you what it's like to live in there so life is about evolving Earth is a place where souls are sent to evolve and that's what's happening to everybody but what about people who are not evolving they are so

they're having experiences and it's just having an effect on them and it may be over time like somebody's an alcohol they drink a lot so their family leaves them this happen they end up in AA and all of a sudden something happens a little bit something happens and they have a sponsor and this happens and they at least try to get themselves together it happen because life put them through that it did not leave them alone I did 30 years of prison work Maximum Security Prison there people just like you me they just did things

they lost themselves they acted based on some very low energy within themselves and many of them talked to me and said the best thing ever happened to me was being in here my life was on a total collision course there's no way I'd be alive right I didn't understand anything this caused me to stop for a moment not not everybody's that way but it caus me to stop and and look and learn and there's people in here that help me it's amazing there's a there's a subculture inside of Max security prison and it's not all

fighting there are things that get pulled together and so you're here to evolve they're here to evolve every's here to evolve was it take I nothing to say right it takes everything there is how's that it takes from the lowest thing that can possibly be to the highest thing that can possibly be be in every single thing in between that's the year and the young so you're here to evolve how do you do that you can either just let it happen and then you get knocked to pieces and chips off pieces maybe you wake up

maybe this maybe that maybe had a relationship and it didn't work out well because you were doing this or somebody's doing that and then so it got ugly and then maybe next time you learned something understand it's like go to school maybe you learned something maybe you didn't okay you can go to school and take a test and get a d and get all upset and yell at the teacher and never go back again you can do that you learn much or you can sit there and realize oh my God I'm not going to pass

I got get this together and all of a sudden you're study a little bit more anything can happen that's what life is that's what your life is that's what it's always been that's what it is all your past that you don't like all your past that you do like it's not about avoiding what you didn't like it's not about getting what you do like it's about did you learn it's like when you're playing a sport look at the Olympics which you had the Olympics do they study do they study very much do they try very

hard four years totally devoting themselves every second to their sport they're sitting there making something great of themselves are you doing that are you looking at your past and make those terrible things that ever happen in your past that you can't even think about them you suppress them so deep they freak you out did you learn because if all you did was hate them and push them away and never talk to somebody again and How could somebody do that to me and all you did was need to learn more that's all I can say you're

like that kid that got the D and ran away and never went back to school as opposed to you're able to look back at your life every bit of it and you're all different you all went through what you needed to go through and if I say that you get offended you all go through what you needed to go through why because you didn't need to go through it you wouldn't have gone through it you wouldn't even knew you went through it if somebody else went through it they didn't even know it you went through

it because you had this garbage from your bup ringing or something like that and it freaked you out completely everybody handles things different because of what they built inside themselves and so you eventually get to the point where you look back at your past and you know what you say thank you thank you thank you thank you for the third grade teacher that failed me at math because now I have a master's degree in mathematics it inspired me very very good thank you for the coach who yelled and screamed at me every time I hit

into the net when I was trying to learn to not that way turn your this way or football any sport you're trying to learn coaches yell at you right to try to wake you up to encourage you not yelling at you they're encouraging you to do better to bring the best you have and if you run away you lost because that which you're already good at you already know I read that once somewhere right the spiritual path is not about the things you're good at it's about the things you aren't good at you're already good

at the things you're good at and you want to sit there here go learn tennis and really suck at your backand and get a coach only his forehand you love him he great I'm doing so well no you're not so you wake up and you realize I am here to be challenged I am here to be pulled through the mud I am here to let go of anything I stored inside myself that couldn't handle whatever happened to me I'm here to grow to learn every moment every second of my life it's not about getting what

you want it's about find finding out why you don't like the rest you're on a planet it's an unbelievable is it not an unbelievable Planet come on go to Mars then come back after a little while and tell me how much unbelievable Earth is oh don't bother with Mars go to anyone of any single place in the entire universe the James web telescope and the Hubble they really see pretty far what have you seen if they found an amoeba it' been on the front page of the entire newspapers all over the world they never found

anything any sign I even a sign of Life they make big oh maybe these chemicals might someday make life on that planet we ain't seen any and you got any life around you now there's grass there's trees there's animals of every sort and you live on the planet it's pretty unbelievable there's whales and dolphins and snakes and things and people there's people and there's things to do you can go play with a computer you can listen to music will you wake up there's nothing anywhere El have we found and all you do is complain if

it's not exactly the way you want it to be you complain how did you decide what you wanted to be I made it up you made up how you want it to be and now you've ruined your life all right and the purpose of life is saying hey guys I'm bigger than you are I'm life I'm all of creation I came for the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago and every single thing that got created happened since then and you guys showed up and made a mess so life is teaching you that's God it's teaching

you Earth is a place where souls are sent to evolve but we don't get it we're still out there trying to say there are things that I like and things I don't like and now I want to make life be the way I like and I want to make sure it's not the way I don't like and I'm going to struggle and I'm going to lie and I'm going to cheat and I'm going to steal I'm going to do every single thing I possibly can to manipulate everybody and everything so it's the way I want

it to be in other words I don't want to grow do you understand if every single thing was exactly the way you want it to be you're stagnant if every single thing every minute is exactly the way you want it to be it means that the stage all right I'm going to take you back to when you were 12 how' you want it to be I don't know I like this and I like Barbie and I like this and I play with my dolls and I do this and I do the thing talking right okay

we'll make it all be like that for the rest of your life CU you're a going to change if it is the way you want it to be you just keep it that way it's wonderful I'm happy it is the challenges in life that challenge you to look at yourself and say why don't I like things why don't I appreciate things why aren't I happy you ask yourself why aren't I happy but your answer is because I need to find somebody because I need more money I need to travel that's not why you're not happy

the reason you want to do those things is you're not happy it's not why you're not happy I tell you the example I always give you go eat some food and get really really really sick and then somebody comes around a friend comes in what are you doing you're running like a maniac I can't find the pep abismal that's my problem my problem is I can't find the pepis no your problem is you ate something made you sick the pep abismal it does not fix that it hides it that's all everybody's doing is trying to

hide the in problems they have of why they're not okay I'm lonely need to find somebody pepis I don't feel respected I need to have a Ferrari or now Tesla or something right Pepto Bismol it's a placebo it's just something to Plate the fact that you're not okay a spiritual person asks not what can I do to make believe I am okay or to feel better why am I not okay and you start to look the life will hit you over the head enough so you start to catch on you guys are here you start

to catch on I'm not okay for one stupid reason because I made up however they're supposed to be and I'm not okay because it's not that way I made up don't you tell me I'm right everybody thinks they're right but I have evidence look at all the facts what happened to me yes what happened to you totally different things happen to everybody else take a major event in your life that help mold your psyche but what if it didn't happen would you be different would you think different of course you would therefore you just made

up while you were having that one experience how many experiences were you missing every single place on the planet in the whole universe there's something happening all of time space Einstein time space continuum there is something always was happening so you had one moment it was a moment in the time space Contin I got in a car accident now I don't drive and I don't like anybody who does I know it's fair okay great you let one moment Define your life do you hear me and boy probably in a car accident probably was your 12th

grade girlfriend or something High School is really good at screwing you up because that's you forming yourself right form yourself concept and then you go through life thinking it's supposed to be the way you want that's why you're not okay I don't need a big lecture you are not okay because you decided how everything needs to be and now you think if it be that way I'll be okay and if it's not that way I'm terrible and you're not looking inside you're not looking inside saying I did this I set this game up I'm the

person who ruined my life life didn't ruin my life life just went about its business I'm the one who decided it shouldn't it should not have rained yesterday I was going hiking with somebody I really like a lot and I finally got a DAT with him and then it rained it should not have happened go check out meteorology it had to happen yesterday but not for you no you made up this thing inside your head that's why you suffer so life is a place for Souls s to evolve that's what we're talking about evolving you

eventually evolve you say what am I doing getting mad at God because it rained so what life is here to teach you is you shouldn't ruin your life over any event every event in life is an event you experience in life if you're evolved enough you can handle things you can handle things I told you I love the quote from the Gita it's very deep and so it's godhead Krishna and he's talking to his disciple Arjuna and and he tells him about these very high beings that there can be enlightened beings in this world not

not just humans just much higher and Arjun asked him how would I know such a person sits he walks he talks like any other man and Krishna says to him oh yes he sits he talks he walks like any other man if you would know him know him like this enjoys he's not overjoyed and Sorrows not with Sorrows he lets goodness come when it will and when it will depart and lets Darkness come come when it will and when it will depart he sits as a Sojourner a stranger in the midst of the qualities of

natures he said just as all the waters and streams of the world pour into the oceans and the ocean does not overstep its bounds so the world of sense pours into the yogi and leaves him as it found him Serene content equinity is yoke that beautiful you are capable of that just start right now you need to that's a very evolved Soul that's able to handle through what Christ handled he sat there in the garden he saw what's going to happen to him and he said may I pass this cup the minute he said that

he said no not my will but thy will and he just let it unfold he was able to you're capable of that state but you have to understand what it means to assist Evolution instead of fighting Evolution so our normal state is to say if things are not the way I want they're wrong they're wrong you should not have said that why it hurt me sounds logical doesn't it it's not you said it because your father died yesterday and you're upset and you didn't sleep at all and so you said something stupid now I hate

you I'll fight with you how dare you say that to me well you didn't understand why it came out you don't even care you only care what effect it had on you don't you you shouldn't have said that it hurt me Evolution says it's not about me it's about reality and it's about my ability to handle reality all the experien of Life come in and they pass through and they leave me at peace then I can deal with them from a higher place that's an evolved being all right fine how do I help this Evolution

participate in the process of evolution as opposed to fighting it because you don't want to evolve I want it to be the way I am leave me alone leave me alone just be nice to me and don't ever criticize me and don't say anything that bothers me all right and so that's not a very evolutionary thing to do so so what do you do you take a breath and you listen and you catch on do you want to stay which one of you all right God's going to come down here any one of you I

can touch you God says and make you stay exactly the way you are right now how would you like that I don't think one of you would say yes no I don't think so it's not so nice you hear and I'm struggling I'm constantly protecting myself and defending myself and doing every single thing I possibly can to make it not worse I don't want just stay like this very good and God says fine okay then let's put you for some growth there is no growth without change is there think of a plan think of anything

there's no growth without change so if you want to grow you have to be willing to change life is challenging you will you change about this what you do is you start to wake up told you you wake up in the morning if you meditate whatever it is I don't care your business but at least know at least sit for a moment and remember while you're here you're in a tiny little planet it's so I told you can't help myself I'm addicted 1.3 1.3 million Earths are inside the Sun 1.3 million Earths fit inside the

sun and the Sun is one of 300 billion stars in one Galaxy and there are two trillion galaxies what exactly is not okay with you and you sit up in the morning and you say okay I'm on this tiny little planet bu noers and I'm going to do a 360 that's what you I told you somebody asked you what did you do today 360 and so you wake up in the morning and you realize that's what's going to happen to you today you spend a day on the planet Earth aren't you can you handle it

of course not I mean yes and you say to yourself I'm going to go through this day and I'm going to have a good time I'm going to be on the nicest planet that anybody ever found anywhere I told you planet Earth is God's idea of Disney World there's something going on everywhere it's an exciting place a happening place you wake up in the morning you sit down and you take a breath and you say look I woke up on the planet Earth I'm going to spin around its axis once today and that's going to

be far out and I'm going to have experiences which ones how do I know whichever ones there are there which ones come in front of me but what if you don't want that one too bad it's the one that happened and you literally sit there and say I'm going to learn to have a good old time sitting on the planet spinning the middle of nowhere and that's that then you go through your day and you remember you set up little benchmarks I used to do that oh my God I don't to do it anymore but

in my early days when I first moved out here if I got into my car I didn't start my car till I stopped and remembered I was sitting on a planet Earth SP a little of nowhere about to scoot around the planet in my car all right I take a few breaths then I'd start the car before I got out of the car I'm serious every single time I do the same thing and I get out so okay I got that down now what I'm going to do I noticed that the mind was starting not

like things right away so I I need more benchmarks Consciousness points so I decided okay I noticed that I walk through doors periodically have you noticed you go through doors a lot okay before I walk through the door nobody will notice just take a second I'll do a mantra or I'll think I'm walking through a door on a planet Earth it's really funny there are doors on the planet Earth every single door front door bathroom door this door office door whatever just stop for a second take a breath and go through the door well that's

far out okay so I'm doing that it's working out then they gives me this big business to run I got all these phone calls and so I started okay here we go every time every time before I pick up the phone we're going to do that so it takes an extra ring just one extra ring I'm going to remember I am sitting on a planet middle of nowhere and there's a telephone ringing and someone's going to talk to me where that's weird it does happen on mars or Saturn anywhere right wow man and so I

pick up the phone have the phone call hang it up the moment I hung up before I did anything else remember that's what happened I was on planet Earth I talked to somebody somewhere that's all that happened all right and kept setting these benchmarks conscious moments all right guess what happened eventually this one touched that one then it touch this one then it touch that one and then you're there all the time you have to do anything you're conscious you're present you're always present okay you do what you need to do but that's called Helping

Evolution all right so now that you're conscious and you're not reacting to what happens because you don't like it or you do like it like and dislike are the same exact thing do you not get weird if something happens that you really really like do you not get weird if something happens that you really really don't like you just get weird inside right it gets weird in there energies change and shift around right okay so if you're conscious you're the witness you watch this you notice that you have this ego that you have thing that

you're carrying so it seems like they us think I'm carrying him around why don't I carry this guy around under me once I got conscious enough he just was always talking he was always complaining he always had something to say about everything and it took a long time for me to figure out I used to beat him up no you don't beat him up that doesn't help one I single but you learn to raise it you learn to work with yourself but the point is now you're helping Evolution let's say you go home to visit

your parents that's always fun you're young enough you go home to visit your parents usually it brings up all kinds of stuff you just to you know especially your college you go home and visit your parents everything they ever said to you or your groom reminds you of this and that but you're conscious now you worked with it you notice that your ego is getting all weird it doesn't want to do it and be defensive it could actually start acting like when you were young it it start bring the same stuff back people tell me

all the time I was like my parents I'm 18 years old everything was I might as been 15 or 14 there so much resistance I didn't like this same person came up be conscious be conscious this is the time to grow that's a wonderful time to grow to be put into an environment where a past Part of Yourself starts expressing itself and coming up but you're conscious now that's the witness you see it happening so what do you do you don't give into it you don't have to throw it away or anything you just stay

centered Calm And you Let It Go that's what I found you just let it go what do you mean you're welcome to say in there what you want to say but I ain't saying out here what you're saying in there and no way no way I'm dumping you out there and polluting my environment so if you need to be sated in there I can handle it I've evolved enough so I can handle the garbage that's stored inside of there so let's say you go to sleep you have a dream and you wake up you feel

weirded out was a bad dream you're all weirded out what should I do Let It Go what do you mean it was a dream you want to analyze it and get into where it came from or you want to sit there and say wherever it came from I must have stored some garbage down there okay I stored garbage down there in the subconscious it expressed itself what should I do about it handle the fact that it expressed itself and you'll be able to handle when it comes up during your day if you can't even handle

the dream you're not going to be handled what it felt like down there if it comes back up just keep saying I can handle this I can handle this I'm evolved being I can handle this and then some things will happen to you that you say I can handle this and you lied to yourself you didn't handle it very well at all you can remember that back in the early days that may some conflict with somebody and I don't like it they didn't like it either right but we'd get into some argument or something and

i' sit there and say okay I know I have a tendency with this person about that subject so I'm going to get centered clear I ain't bring up that subject I'll talk about something else I just want to see that I can do that walk in within 15 seconds the subject comes out of my mouth it's a sport right I fell off the bouse beam okay what are you doing you fall off the bouse so you get back on you get back on you try again it's a game it's a sport it's called the sport

of evolution it's the highest sport there is all right and you're going to play it whether you like it or not okay and guess who your coach is God right and so you basically realize I'm here to work on myself I'm not here to get you all to be the way I want you to be so I don't have to work on myself I'll tell you what I'll do I'm going to go to the Olympics and if I don't get a 10 diving I'm going to change the rule book to wherever you said I did

my legs were spread a little bit they didn't go right that's the highest way to dive those are a 10 from now on that's a 10 pretty stupid is it that's what you're doing you're sitting there saying it's supposed to be the way I want if it bothers me it's wrong and so you start working on raising yourself and you do this and it's so much fun eventually at first it's not fun at all because ego is going to fight back it's like you spoil you spoil child they throw Tantrums all the time and you

spoil them by whenever they throw a tantrum you give them exactly what what color which one do you want oh my God I don't want to meet that kid that's what you did to yourself you said to the ego the lowest part of your being what do you want what do you hope he said how do I get him to say it how can I make things be the way you want you give into that every single thing she says do you understand that he completely pampered that thing to death to her now it's spoiled

to death it honor hly believes you and you laugh all you want you honestly believe things should be the way you want you how I know because if they're not you say they're wrong and so you just decide no I'm going to evolve I'm going to grow I'm going to use every moment of my life to the best of my ability you will do it perfectly and no see you perform just because you get a coach you don't play tennis perfect don't play piano perfect but you're work at it you work at evolving that's what

you're doing you're helping the process of evolving and if eventually you're going to come to me and say it's pretty amazing it's as though exactly what I needed happened to me exactly this book came right when I needed it and this came a thing and then I was going through this Challenge and all of a sudden this happened it's like you start noticing life was always working with you but you were working against it you thought it was bad it was wrong and it's not giving me what I want but once you catch on that

freedom is about Freedom not for yourself but from yourself you start seeing it life is on your side life's literally helping you so that if you need backand all of a sudden God sends a coach who's a backhand specialist right you start saying wow exactly what I needed showed up when you start working with the evolution you start realizing okay what is this about it's about me learning to handle reality that's what it's about me learning to handle reality why because reality always wins why because it's reality and living un tethered I had to Define

reality because I giving a discussion right well people write books are reality one line reality is that which already happened if it happened it's reality nobody has ever undid what already happened but what if what if you make him apologize it still happen it still happen there ain't no way you're making it not happen right or wrong so you make that the purpose of your life I'm going to exist Evolution I'm going to accept what takes place doesn't mean you don't deal with it acceptance does not mean you're just a doormat and everybody's running over

you acceptance means you can handle what happened now what can you do to help not help you because you couldn't handle it God if you get that you got everything I've wanted to teach you if you're out there working with it to try to make you feel better because you couldn't handle it that's terrible you're just basically say I don't want to evolve and you guys are going to pay price okay as opposed to I'm going to learn to handle it now what is there something I am supposed to be doing or can be doing

to raise the event outside that took place not because I can't handle it but because I got put in this position and maybe I can help you become a servant of reality when you can accept reality you become a servant you know when it's raining out there are some things you can do that are good to do in the rain as opposed to complaining or wishing you could be doing something else I always talked about there's a bumper sticker out there I'm sure you've seen it I'd rather be sailing I'd rather be fishing I once

said the bumper sticker I was talking about and they actually made it they used to sell the book table I'd rather be doing what I'm doing CU then you're a happy person you're doing great so you start working with Evolution and you're going to find out so much you will learn so much you will never question the presence of an intelligent Force running the universe call it whatever you want because you will start seeing it's working with you it's working with you I told you it's like let's take a giant Marble Slab beautiful marble but

it's just a square Marble Slab and that's you to start with all right and then all of a sudden something hits you it chips off a piece oh my God it hurt what's going on why is he chipping at me right another chip another chip chip oh stop it stop it and he start seeing Michelangelo's David coming out of your horable oh my God what's that arm it's gorgeous that's what's happening do you understand that now either you're assisting or you're resisting and that's life and so you learn how to do it how remember always

remember this talk this is the purpose you took birth on Earth to evolve as the purpose of it are you fighting it or learning from it assisting it working with it every minute every second there not one part of your life that's spiritual another part that's not that's ridiculous every second of your life is your spiritual journey and the more you work with it the more you grow the more you change and eventually you get to the point where it's like Bring it on Bring it on I want to grow okay so we've talked about

Evolution now you understand what happens when you evolve enough Everything Changes all of a sudden there is no sense of resistance inside of you you appreciate the path you love the path you welcome the path and therefore there's no resistance and all of a sudden you feel love and you feel appreciation and then all this energy inside of you starts going up it doesn't go down anymore just rushes up feeding you all the time you feel love joy inspiration power all coming up inside of you and you learn to work with that because then that's

the next stage of your Evolution now it's spiritual Evolution instead of human evolution all right eventually the great ones went so high that their Consciousness instead of having to deal with this thing down there it's looking at let go and merged with the source of Consciousness which is what the word god means the Oneness of the whole universe and pure ecstasy and derana and all the nice things that they all talk to you about all right evolve evolve [Music] chra you've been listening to the Michael Singer podcast produced by sounds true in partnership with Shanti

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