Coaching practices for The Untethered Soul in Practice During a Big Change

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  • I hold on to everything all day long
  • I get so pulled into whatever I’m thinking or feeling that I lose any sense of solid ground
  • I had this real release a while back, but lately under stress I can feel that old part getting heavy again and I’m scared the whole thing failed
  • A big change is coming and I’m so focused on what’s next that I’m treating the last weeks of this chapter as a waiting room
  • Some parts of my day leave me feeling alive and like myself and others leave me weirdly drained and small, and I usually just push past both

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. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. The last chance before a transition
    Before a major life change, fully inhabit what is ending, rather than only anticipating what comes next.
    The Last Time Meditation
  6. Notice the feelings (consolation and desolation)
    Pay attention to where you felt energized and connected versus drained and pulled away.
    The Daily Examen: Reviewing the Day
  7. Keeping your inner gate open
    Choose to stay open and present rather than closing down when life pushes on your sensitivities.
    The Untethered Soul, In Practice
  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. Relax and release stuck energy
    When emotion grips, consciously relax and let the energy move through instead of clamping down.
    The Untethered Soul, In Practice
  10. 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

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