E33: Choosing Joy: A Life Without Psychological Pain

Michael Singer Podcast

Michael Singer

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

While some physical suffering is unavoidable, most psychological suffering is self-created. We do this through resisting reality and clinging to preferences, attachments, and past experiences. By learning to let go of these stored emotional responses and fully accepting each moment without judgment, you can overcome this inner suffering. Embracing the present with openness allows for a life rich in genuine experiences filled with love and deep compassion for yourself and others.

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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. Dragitive, Jamestors.
1:00.0	What causes suffering?
1:04.0	One type of suffering is very easy to explain.
1:10.0	Physical suffering.
1:11.8	You have a nervous system.
1:13.9	It's sensitive to touch.
1:16.3	It's sensitive to passing signals.
1:19.6	And some of those signals are difficult.
1:23.5	They're painful.
1:24.5	They come back and by the time they come back to you, they hurt.
1:27.4	They're difficult. That's physical pain. physical suffering. What do you do about it? Whatever you can. You go to the doctors, you eat better, do what you can to keep the body healthy, do yoga. I don't need to tell you what to do. There's so many things you can do.
1:48.1	And there are things you can do that make it worse and things you can do make it better.
1:51.9	People ask me, what if I just have terrible chronic suffering?
1:52.8	That's terrible.
1:56.5	Such compassion for people that are being forced to suffer.
1:58.3	Maybe they have to take narcotics.
2:00.6	Maybe they have to take things that make it bearable.
2:04.8	Maybe they can try different techniques, holistic things, and so on.
2:05.9	Don't judge people.
2:08.5	Different people have different tolerances to pain.
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