This is Singer's core teaching manual. He walks you step‑by‑step into “the seat of the Self,” the quiet awareness behind thoughts, emotions, and life’s dramas. Through stories, metaphors, and simple instructions, he shows how clinging and resisting tighten around your heart, and how relaxing, feeling, and letting energy move can open you to a stable, underlying peace.​

What you can get from reading it

• A clear experience of “the inner roommate” (the voice in your head) and the shift into being the one who notices it instead of being run by it.​
• Practical guidance on taking the “seat of witness consciousness,” so thoughts, emotions, and triggers are seen as passing weather rather than your identity.​
• Simple practices for relaxing and opening when your heart contracts — especially around fear, hurt, or anger — so old pain can release instead of re‑circling.​
• A deeper understanding of how internal resistance to “what is” creates most suffering, and how surrendering to reality as it unfolds brings spaciousness.​
• A foundational framework for energy and consciousness that underpins Singer’s other books: who you truly are, what blocks that knowing, and how to live from it more often.​

About the author

Michael Singer is a spiritual teacher and entrepreneur who underwent a profound spiritual awakening in his twenties, leading him to a life of intense meditation and self‑inquiry in the woods of Florida. He later founded a billion-dollar medical software company and a spiritual community called The Temple of the Universe in Florida, teaching from the tension between deep inner practice and full engagement with worldly life. He shares his story in his book The Surrender Experiment.

Start with his second book The Surrender Experiment... just trust us!