Coaching practices for The Untethered Soul in Practice at Work

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  • I get so pulled into whatever I’m thinking or feeling that I lose any sense of solid ground
  • I hold on to everything all day long
  • There’s this voice in my head that never shuts up
  • I live almost entirely in my head, totally cut off from the neck down, and when I try to get present I just end up thinking about being present
  • I’m drawn to this kind of deep contemplative prayer but I have a job, kids, a full life

Practices that may help

  1. The Untethered Soul, In Practice
    Michael Singer’s teaching is that you are not your thoughts and emotions but the awareness that observes them — "the seat of awareness." The practical moves are noticing the inner voice, choosing to relax and release stuck emotional energy rather than suppress or indulge it, and keeping the "inner gate" open through whatever arises. These are experiential teachings; some overlap with studied mechanisms like decentering and acceptance, but Singer’s framing is not a clinically tested protocol.
  2. Resting in the seat of awareness
    Settle back into the center of consciousness that is simply aware, behind all experience.
    The Untethered Soul, In Practice
  3. Letting go as a moment-to-moment practice
    Make releasing — rather than gripping — your default response to whatever arises during the day.
    The Untethered Soul, In Practice
  4. Noticing the inner voice
    Recognize the constant mental narrator — and the fact that you are the one hearing it.
    The Untethered Soul, In Practice
  5. Feeling the inner body
    Sense the subtle aliveness inside the body as a stable anchor for presence.
    The Power of Now, In Practice
  6. The mixed life: contemplation alongside action
    Practice the Cloud’s method within an active life — Keating and Merton both affirm it is possible.
    The Cloud of Unknowing: Contemplation Beyond Concepts
  7. The Power of Now, In Practice
    Eckhart Tolle’s teaching is that most suffering comes from compulsive thinking about past and future, and that presence — full attention to the now — dissolves it. The practical moves are watching the thinker, feeling the inner body, accepting the present moment, and recognizing the “pain-body.” These are experiential teachings; some overlap with studied mechanisms like decentering, but Tolle’s specific framing is not itself a clinically tested protocol.
  8. Not building life around your sensitivities
    Stop arranging your whole life to avoid your “inner thorns” — face them instead.
    The Untethered Soul, In Practice
  9. Tend to unburdened parts over time
    Unburdening is a beginning, not a conclusion — check in with the part in subsequent sessions.
    IFS Unburdening, Made Practical
  10. The value of emptiness — making space
    Deliberately preserve unscheduled, unstructured time as the space from which clarity and creativity arise.
    The Tao Te Ching, Made Practical

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