
The whole idea anchors on the process of uncoupling your identify from your thoughts, emotions, and physical form. The Untethered Soul puts forth a potentially radical idea about the nature of consciousness and what it means to identify as “you.” My day-to-day tethers are that of many normal people’s work pressures, maintaining friendships, seeking romance, pursuing hobbies, exploring a relationship with myself.īut what this book releases you from is the idea that any of these day-to-day things that we put so much mental and physical energy into really matter. “Untethered” is defined in the dictionary as being released or freed from something, and I can’t express how much I need to be reminded to untether and release on a regular basis. Pages: 180 relatively quick read if you enjoy philosophy What I took awayĪs the title suggests, there’s something vastly freeing about this book. Tone: Matter-of-fact, conversational, masculine Themes: Consciousness, awareness, being, energy, spirituality, transcendence, pain, happiness, the tao te ching, god, identity, the self, freedom, openness, enthusiasm Singer lays out a framework that will help the reader detach from their thoughts, emotions, and physical form to relax into life and gain a greater sense of ease and resilience. Singer also wrote “The Surrender Experiment”Ībout: This book explores the nature of the Self and how we as individuals come to identify with it.
