E136: The Root of All Stress—Resistance to Reality

Michael Singer Podcast

Michael Singer

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Stress and suffering arise not from external events but from our internal resistance to them—based on our inner preferences, fears, and desires toward what is happening. The outer world manifests from vast cosmic forces beyond our control, while our inner reactions are shaped by past impressions we have held onto. The path to liberation lies in relaxing and letting go of resistance, allowing life to flow through us without obstruction, thus opening to inner peace, joy, and spiritual freedom.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Michael Singer podcast presented by Sounds True in partnership with Shanti Publications.
0:22.5	For more information about Michael Singer's work, access to all prior episodes, and information
0:28.7	about upcoming releases, we invite you to join us at Michael Singer Podcast.com. Gygardive, Giamasters.
1:00.0	We use words sometimes in our language to very very different meaning, but they have the same core.
1:08.0	For example, there's a word that knows know something about it called stress. If you do
1:12.3	mechanical engineering and you're working with eye beams and structural members, there's also
1:19.5	a word called stress. But what is stress in that world? Stress is that if two forces
1:26.2	are in opposition to each other, they put stress on each other.
1:31.2	One force is pushing down, the other forces pushing up are trying to hold, and they can measure
1:36.2	the amount of stress that's created. Obviously, I'm the one of talk about mechanical engineering
1:42.0	or building. I used to be a builder, But I'm interested in how you use stress.
1:47.9	People feel stress.
1:49.5	People feel stress.
1:52.0	What is that internal stress?
1:54.4	It is exactly the same as external stress.
1:58.4	Two opposing forces are pushing against each other, and it will create stress,
2:04.8	period. It can create stress in the body, because stress is inherited by the forces pushing down.
2:12.9	It's not just what it's pushing against, it feels it, everything below it, it feels the tendency to push
2:18.0	down, the air to compress, it passes through. So if you feel stress and your body tightens up,
2:24.3	it's due to this pressure, this opposing two forces. So people talk about, I don't want to feel
2:29.7	stress, I feel stress, what do I do? They should talk about what are the opposing forces.
2:33.8	What are the forces that are pushing against each other to create this stress?
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