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Michael Singer
8 essays feature or mention Michael Singer, newest first.
Why Old Pain Keeps Coming Back: The Pain-Body
Someone says one small thing and you go up like dry paper. We follow Tolle's pain-body through one whole round while Griff snaps at a friend over a loose chair joint. Michael Singer, David Hawkins, Bessel van der Kolk, Joe Dispenza and Brené Brown add their views along the way, and the post ends on what to do the next time the heat rises.
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Why You're Afraid to Become Someone New
Joe Dispenza, Maxwell Maltz, Gay Hendricks, Eckhart Tolle, Michael Singer, Marshall Goldsmith and Carl Jung come at identity from very different places and describe the same two fears. What a hermit crab knows about moving house, why feeling good can trip an inner thermostat, and three weeks' worth of small experiments.
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The Power of Focus: Why Attention Shapes Your Life
Charles Haanel and Robert Collier both compared the mind to a magnifying glass. Eckhart Tolle, Michael Singer, Joe Dispenza, Abraham-Hicks and Marcus Aurelius describe what happens when you hold it still. Three directions to point your attention, what the research does and doesn't support, and three practices to start this week.
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The 7 Hermetic Laws You're Already Living By
In 1908 a small book signed "Three Initiates" laid out seven laws it called a master key. They aren't ancient Egyptian, and none can be proved in a lab. But each one names something you can catch happening on a plain Tuesday.
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The One Step Every Manifestation Technique Secretly Depends On
The techniques keep almost working, and there's a reason. Each one borrows its power from a step nobody names, and teachers from unrelated fields keep pointing at the same one.
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What Is Shadow Work? Jung, Tolle, Brown and Singer Agree on This
Carl Jung called it the shadow. Eckhart Tolle calls it the pain-body, Michael Singer calls it samskaras, and Brené Brown finds it under shame. Here is the one mechanism they all describe, and a four-step practice for the next time a reaction is bigger than the moment.
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How to Find Your Passion, and Actually Live It
A Zen philosopher, a best-selling novelist, a success researcher and a monk who built a company by accident all describe the same move: read the signal, make it a definite aim, then commit to the step while surrendering the outcome. Here's the whole process.
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Why You Never Feel Good Enough
A neuroscientist, a plastic surgeon, a presence teacher, a Zen interpreter, a meditator and a mystic arrive at the same answer: the "not enough" feeling is a mechanism, and you can work with a mechanism.
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