The Untethered Soul

Three of the ideas you’ll keep

The Clif summary of The Untethered Soul pulls out 7 insights. Here are the first three.

1. Stop identifying with your inner voice. The mental chatter is not you; you are the one quietly listening to it. The moment you notice the voice as a separate object, you regain the freedom to choose how to respond.
2. Take the 'seat of the witness.' Practice watching your thoughts and emotions pass by like clouds, instead of being swept along by them. Awareness is your true home, and it never gets disturbed.
3. When an old wound (a 'thorn' or samskara) gets touched, relax and let go instead of contracting. Treat the painful feeling as energy moving through you; release it on purpose rather than storing it.

The other 4 — and the full 11-minute summary — are in the app.

What’s inside: 10 chapters

The whole summary runs about 11 minutes, read or listened to.

1. You Are Not the Voice in Your Head
2. Your Inner Roommate
3. Who Are You? Finding the Seat of Awareness
4. Energy, the Open Heart, and Why You Close
5. Thorns and Samskaras: Healing Stored Pain
6. The House the Mind Built
7. Leaning Into Your Edges
8. Unconditional Happiness
9. The Middle Way and Letting Go of Control
10. Contemplating Death to Truly Live