The Untethered Soul
What would it be like to be free from limitations and soar beyond your boundaries? What can you do each day to find this kind of inner peace and freedom? The Untethered Soul offers a simple, profoundly intuitive answer to these questions. Whether this is your first exploration of inner space or you've devoted your life to the inward journey, this book will transform your relationship with yourself and the world around you.
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Yoga teacher Michael A. Singer walks readers through the inner voice always running in their head, the stored emotional energies he calls samskaras, and the practice of stepping back as a quiet witness. Across short chapters he points toward a self that watches the mind without being run by it.
The Untethered Soul is Michael A. Singer's 2007 framework for spiritual freedom through observing thoughts rather than identifying with them. The book draws on yogic and meditative traditions but is presented for general audiences.
Either works as an entry point. Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now (1997) and Michael A. Singer's The Untethered Soul (2007) cover overlapping territory. Both address present-moment awareness and dis-identifying from thoughts.
The Untethered Soul was written by Michael A. Singer, published in 2007 by ReadHowYouWant.
The Untethered Soul is 232 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Untethered Soul takes most readers 3 to 5 hours to finish.
The Untethered Soul is a standalone novel by Michael A. Singer, not part of a series.
The Untethered Soul is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
