Coaching practices for The Untethered Soul in Practice Before Bed
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- I get so pulled into whatever I’m thinking or feeling that I lose any sense of solid ground
- Now that the warm feelings have drained out of my practice, I’m forced to see how much I was in it for that glow
- I hold on to everything all day long
- I get into bed and my thoughts start racing in every direction, broad and scattered, and I can’t drop off
- Every night before bed looks completely different depending on my mood
Practices that may help
- 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. - 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 - Working with attachments in the night of the senses
Use the night of the senses to examine what you have been clinging to for identity and security.
The Dark Night of the Soul: John of the Cross - 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 - Pre-sleep trataka for insomnia and mind-calming
A ten-minute trataka session in low light before bed draws scattered thoughts into a single point.
Trataka: The Yoga Practice of Fixed-Gaze Meditation - Anchor the wind-down with a consistent starting cue
A repeated pre-sleep ritual — a specific tea, a book, a certain playlist — becomes a conditioned cue that induces sleepiness over time.
The Wind-Down Routine: Engineering Your Path to Sleep - The Pythagorean evening examination (Hadot’s version)
Before sleep, review the day in three questions: Where did I go wrong? What did I succeed at? What remains undone?
Pierre Hadot’s Spiritual Exercises - Noticing the inner voice
Recognize the constant mental narrator — and the fact that you are the one hearing it.
The Untethered Soul, In Practice - 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 - The daily examen (end-of-day review)
Spend five minutes each evening reviewing where you were most and least true to yourself today.
Svadhyaya: Self-Study as a Daily Practice
Related concerns
- The Untethered Soul Summary
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.
- The Untethered Soul In Practice At Work
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.
- The Untethered Soul In Practice For My Teenager
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.
- The Untethered Soul In Practice In A New Job
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.
- The Untethered Soul In Practice On A Budget
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.
- The Untethered Soul In Practice When Starting Out
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.
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