The Paradigm Shift | Consciousness Expansion Through Letting Go

In this soul-stirring mini-episode of The Skeptic Metaphysicians, Will takes us on a journey through Chapter 27 of Living Untethered by Michael Singer, the profound follow-up to the best-selling The Untethered Soul. Titled “The Paradigm Shift,” this...

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In this soul-stirring mini-episode of The Skeptic Metaphysicians, Will takes us on a journey through Chapter 27 of Living Untethered by Michael Singer, the profound follow-up to the best-selling The Untethered Soul. Titled “The Paradigm Shift,” this short but mighty chapter challenges everything we think we want in life — and reveals what we actually seek beneath it all: unconditional love, joy, and inner freedom.

Will breaks down the elusive concept of samskaras — the thought patterns and emotional imprints that shape our reactions, expectations, and attachments — and explores how releasing them is the true path to lasting fulfillment.

This is consciousness expansion at its finest, served with Will’s authentic reflections, real-life applications, and a relatable story about getting cut off in traffic that’ll have you rethinking your next road rage moment.

If you’ve ever felt trapped by your own reactions, desires, or emotional loops, this episode will absolutely resonate.

In this episode, you’ll discover:
• Why what you want might not be what you really want
• The true meaning of spiritual freedom and how to attain it
• How samskaras shape your reality (and how to release them)
• The real “paradigm shift” that leads to a joyful, untethered life
• Will’s candid reflections on applying these insights in daily life

Living Untethered is a game-changer — but it’s not light reading. As Will explains, it’s dense, deep, and transformational… if you’re ready to let it in.

Have you read Living Untethered? What did YOU think of this chapter?
We’d love to hear from you!
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Keyword Highlights: Spiritual Awakening, Consciousness Expansion, Mind-Body Connection, Letting Go, Samskaras, Energy Healing, Skeptical Spirituality

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Until next time… stay curious, stay open, and take care of yourself.

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Hey there, Welcome back to the Skeptic Metaphysicians. I am grateful,

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so grateful that you have decided to join me once

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again on this shorter episode of the Skeptic Metaphysicians. Today,

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I'm reading another chapter from Living Untethered Beyond the Human

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Predicament by Michael Singer. Living Untethered is a, I guess,

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an unofficial sequel to The Untethered Soul, which was Michael's

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breakout New York Times bestselling book, which I loved. And

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as I'm reading through this book, certain things jump out

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at me. And one of these chapters I felt was

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so strong that I felt the need have to share

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it with you. It's chapter twenty seven in the book.

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It's very short, and it's called the Paradigm Shift, and

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I think, before I get started, need to mind you.

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He talks about something called sam Scarow's and sam Scarow's

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are thought forms that we form in our intellect, in

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our minds, in our bodies, that lead the way we

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live our lives. A sam scare is a mental impression,

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a recollection, or psychological imprint that shapes our thoughts and

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actions and the influence future actions and circumstances. For each

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one of us, and we do that to ourselves very naturally.

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We've been programmed to do it, and it is a

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very organic way that it happens. He explains it in

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the book, but he touches on sam scares in this chapter,

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so I wanted to make sure that you understood what

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that means. For a deeper dive into sam scars and

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how they work, I would strongly encourage you to pick

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up the book Living Untethered. It's a fantastic exploration of

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how we can learn to release these sam scaros and

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break free from the metaphorical imprisonment that we are all under. Okay,

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here is chapter twenty seven, the paradigm Shift. Everyone wants

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to improve their experience of life. People are always looking

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for more joy, love, inspiration and meaning. The question is

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how to achieve this. Let's do an experiment. Imagine an

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all powerful force has asked you to write down some

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things that need to happen for you to totally enjoy

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your life. If you're like most people, you'll write down

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things like a new house, a special relationship, a higher

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paying job, maybe a year long vacation to your favorite

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spots around the world. When you're done, you will be

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so excited to turn in that list and get your

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wishes granted. Unfortunately, you're gonna have to wait a moment

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because we're gonna go deeper with this experiment. If you

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examine your list more closely, you'll see that it's not

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what you want. Let's say you wrote down that you

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want to get married to the person you love, and

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you want a wedding in Maui with birds of paradise

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surrounding the ceremony. After the wedding, you want to live

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in a beautiful, mortgage free house overlooking the ocean with

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two fancy cars in a driveway. It's the dream you've

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had since childhood. The problem is that that's not what

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you really want. See, your mind has played a trick

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on you. Say you have the wedding, the house, and

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the cars just like you wanted them, but your new

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spouse turns out to be a real jerk. You're treated

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terribly and it's obvious right from the start that this

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is going to be the worst marriage in human history.

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On top of that, you're Catholic, so you can't get divorced.

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Do you still want that wedding? Unlikely, so it wasn't

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really the marriage you wanted. You wanted the beautiful experience

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that you thought the marriage was going to give you,

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So why didn't you ask for that? The same thing

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holds for the new job, the million dollars in the bank,

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and the respect of the other people. Fine, you can

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have it all, but what if it creates so much

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stress and worry that you're miserable. You'd wish you could

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have your old job back. You didn't really want the job,

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the money, or the acceptance. You wanted what you thought

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they would give you. You wanted happiness, joy, and a

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sense of total well being. How about a constant innerstate

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of love, beauty, and inspiration at the highest level you've

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ever experienced. Why didn't you ask for that? What you

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did was allow your strongest past experiences to define what

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you think will make you feel happy. It doesn't work

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that way. There are plenty of people who have what

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you wrote down on your list, and they're not always happy.

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There's nothing you ever experienced that left you totally fulfilled

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for any length of time. You've always needed more your

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entire life. You've been saying, if I get this thing

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I want, I'll be okay, and if I don't have

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to get what I don't want, I'll be fine for

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your whole life. There's been a list. When will you

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realize that doesn't work? If you've been doing something every

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minute of your entire life and you're still doing it,

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root and say, what I want is to feel love

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and joy. What I want is every moment of every day,

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to feel complete well being as high as I've ever

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felt before, and to be inspired by everything I do.

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The interesting result of our experiment is that it has

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led us away from worldliness and into the essence of spirituality.

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Not that worldliness is a negative term. It just means

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you think the answer is in the world. You think

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the answer lies in what's unfolding in front of you.

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It isn't wrong to go to the world for what

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you think you want it it doesn't work. You're trying

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to find something outside that matches your sam scare of

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the day. Once you get what you want or avoid

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what you don't want, that will no longer be your

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major desire or greatest fear. Once that's out of the way,

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there will always be the next time or the next

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issue coming to the surface. Eventually you wake up you

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realize that you want to feel love, not that you

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want to love someone or have someone love you. You

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just want to feel love all the time. If your

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love is not dependent on anything or anyone, it can

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last forever. We call that unconditional love. The great Yoga

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master Mayor Baba taught that love must spring spontaneously from within.

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It cannot be coerced, and it cannot be dependent upon anything.

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That is what pure love is. Otherwise, you have a

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temporary situation that just happens to match your stored patterns. Unfortunately,

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this won't last, and you've got lots of sem scarows

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in there. In addition, if you're in a relationship, the

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other person has lots of patterns of their own, quite

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different from yours. This is why relationships are so complicated.

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both people have different experiences every day to add to

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the collection. If somebody yelled at your partner at work,

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they're different when they come home than if somebody was

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nice to them. You of course had your daily experiences.

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If your feeling of love is dependent upon your partner

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behaving a certain way when they come home. You're in trouble,

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and so were they. You have enough difficulty dealing with

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your own sam scarrows, now you have to deal with

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theirs also. Now, don't get scared. This doesn't mean you

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don't have meaningful relationships. There are beautiful relationships and they

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can last forever. In fact, they can get more and

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more beautiful all the time. But they are not sam

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Scara relationships. They're not based on the world outside matching

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your inner patterns. They're based on unconditional love. Once love

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is always flowing freely inside you, you'll be pleased to

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share it with another person. Such love is not based

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on needs or expectations. It's based on pure love wishing

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to express itself unconditionally. So how do you reach such

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a state of unconditional love and well being? Instead of

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trying to get the world to match your blockages, you

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work on letting go of the blockages. That's the secret

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of real spiritual growth, That is the real paradigm shift.

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If you don't have the sam scaros, nothing will be

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blocking your inner energy flow. You'll feel love, joy, and

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inspiration all the time, willing to experience the moment unfolding

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in front of you. You'll have the opportunity to be

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inspired by everything. The simple fact that things exist will

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be sufficient to move you. You only have two choices.

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Either you devote your life to getting the world to

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match your sam scarows, or you devote your life to

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letting go of those sam scaros. If you choose the ladder,

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you don't end up with both a worldly life and

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a spiritual life. You end up with one life. Work, meditation, retreats,

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taking out the garbage, sweeping the floor, driving, showering through

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all the same The same thing is going on in

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all your activities. You are letting go of your blockages.

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It's equally beneficial to be letting go of your blockages

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at work, when you're driving the kids to soccer, picking

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up the groceries, or doing whatever it is that you're doing.

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Every single moment of your life, you are either naturally

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enjoying what is or letting go of what's keeping you

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from enjoying what is. If you let go of the

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wants and fears that are limiting you, you'll always be

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okay letting go of yourself instead of serving yourself. That

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is a real paradigm shift. That's the end of the chapter.

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I hope that you got as much out of it

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as I did. This whole book is mind blowing. It's

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not an easy one to break into. But once you're

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in the right mindset and you let it speak to you,

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like truly speak to you, the wisdom is unbelievable. It

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makes so much sense. Things that I have experienced are

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causing me to react to the world in a certain way.

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And how many teachers and yogi's across the world have

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always said that. I think it's the Buddhist thought process

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of philosophy that says the sources of all suffering is attachments. Well,

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in essence, that's what a simska is. I guess right.

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You're attached to a particular outcome. Someone cuts you off

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in traffic. Your experience in the past has been a

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negative one, so you react negatively. But if instead you

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think about the fact that, oh, they just cut me

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off in traffic, Thankfully nothing happened, everybody is safe. It

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really doesn't affect you if you allow it to feel

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that way. Of course, our first reaction is to let

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it affect us. In buoy in a big way. But

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what good does that do. It's not going to make

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that person not have cut you off. It's not going

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to teach the person a lesson if you suddenly get

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all road raging on them, right, what's the good in it?

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All it does is hurt you inside. It makes you

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feel bitter and angry and resentful, and then your entire

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day is led from that energy perspective. And that's no

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good for anybody. If instead we said, ooh, okay, this

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person's in a hurry, or maybe they got in the

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wrong lane and they were trying to get over didn't

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know how or anything that you want to. When you

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assume good intent, good things happen. But even further than that,

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what the book is talking about, with what the chapter

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is talking about is I'm not even assuming good intent,

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but rather not letting it phase you. It's just an

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action that someone has taken because of their own Sam

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scarows that doesn't affect you unless you allow it to,

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unless you want it to. And I believe me, it's

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a much easier thing said than done. I've been working

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on this since I started reading the book. It is

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not easy. The good thing is later on in the book.

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It does give you very specific ways of how to

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release thee Sam scarows these energies are being blocked inside

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your emotional system throughout your entire life, and so I'm

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starting to get it. I'm starting to see it. I'm

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starting to make changes inside myself, release certain things, some

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situations that in the passive call me to be super anxious.

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By utilizing the steps he is showing me in the books,

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I have found a way to deactivate those situations, and

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that anxiety is not as strong for me anymore. I

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got a long way to go, but boy, I've come

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a long way, all right. If this spoke to you

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in any way, I encourage you to pick up Living

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Untethered by Michael Singer's It's remarkable if you allowed to,

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if you're ready for it. So curious if you're reading

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Living Untethered, or if you've read it, what your thoughts

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are on It'd love to hear your thoughts. You can

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always reach us at Skeptic Metaphysician dot com. You can

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always email me directly at will Will at skepticmanaphysician dot com.

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Like I said at the very beginning, I'm very grateful

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that you choose to join me on these journeys. Every

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time that you hit play, I hope that you have

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received as much out of this as I have, and

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I look forward to a lot more connections like this

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one with you in the future. Until next time, please

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take care of yourself.