Coaching practices for The Untethered Soul in Practice During Conflict

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  • The moment an argument heats up I either shut down and flee or cave just to make it stop
  • I get so pulled into whatever I’m thinking or feeling that I lose any sense of solid ground
  • The protectors have stepped aside and I’m finally face to face with the young, hurt part of me, and everything in me wants to rush to fix it and make the pain stop
  • I hold on to everything all day long
  • When something hurts I feel my whole body clamp down against it, like if I tense hard enough it won’t get in

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. Use fierce self-compassion to stay in hard conversations
    Stay present in conflict by meeting your own distress with compassion, so you don't flee or attack.
    Fierce Self-Compassion, Made Practical
  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. Witness the exile fully before any release
    Let the wounded part show you everything it has been carrying — without rushing to fix, resolve, or move on.
    IFS Unburdening, Made Practical
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. Working with Multiple Selves (Chair Work in CFT)
    Give voice to different internal parts — the critic, the anxious self, the compassionate self — to understand and change the dialogue.
    Compassion-Focused Therapy: Calming the Inner Critic
  8. Practice loosening identification with the ego-self
    Train the capacity to observe your thoughts, feelings, and roles without completely being them.
    The Perennial Philosophy, Made Practical
  9. Exercise the last human freedom
    Between what happens to you and your response, there is a space — and your freedom lives there.
    Man’s Search for Meaning, Made Practical
  10. Accessing Self
    Find the calm, curious, compassionate core from which healing leadership happens.
    Internal Family Systems (IFS), Made Practical

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