If you've been studying Law of Attraction and manifestation but still feel anxious, reactive, or mentally exhausted — this episode is for you.

Tina Brinkley Potts explores Michael A. Singer's The Untethered Soul and shares how this modern spiritual classic changed the way she relates to her own mind. Through her personal journey of surrender, Tina breaks down how to let emotions move through you instead of managing them, how to sit in awareness instead of anxiety, and how to live from openness instead of fear.

Letting go isn't weakness. It's wisdom. And it might be the most powerful manifestation practice you've been skipping.

In this episode:

• The difference between reacting and releasing
• Why stillness is strength, not passivity
• How to find the sacred pause before reaction
• What Jesus modeled when He said "Peace, be still"
• How awareness becomes your greatest protection and deepest freedom

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Welcome back to Happy, Healthy, Whole and Rich.

I'm Tina Brinkley Potts. And say it with me.

I know who I play for. If the

magic of believing showed us how conviction

creates reality, then the Untethered

Soul by Michael A. Singer reveals what

happens when you stop trying to control reality

and instead learn to witness it.

This book is a masterclass in freedom.

Not the kind of freedom the world sells. The freedom

of the soul. When I first read the

Untethered Soul, it felt like someone had

turned down the noise in my head and

turned up the volume of peace. It wasn't

telling me to fix, chase, or achieve

anything. It was teaching me how to release everything

that blocks awareness of who I already am.

You are not the voice in your head. You are the one

who hears it. That sentence

changed everything for me. Because for most of my

life, I'd been in conversation with my thoughts,

arguing with them, believing them, defending myself

against them. But when I learned to observe that voice

instead of obeying it, I found peace.

This book teaches that true liberation isn't about

changing your life. It's about changing your

relationship to life. It's learning to watch

without resistance, to surrender without fear,

and to let go of, without losing yourself.

For me, that's the essence of spiritual maturity.

When your peace stops depending on what's

happening outside of you. When you stop trying to

manage outcomes and start mastering energy.

And as I read it, I realized this

isn't just a book about detachment. It's a guide

for presence. It's about sitting inside your

own awareness long enough to see that every thought,

emotion and experience is just energy

passing through. I live both

sides. The striving, the proving, the

manifesting, the constant doing. And I can

tell you there's another level. It's the

level where you don't just believe you're connected to

source, you feel it all the time.

That's what this book did for me. It helped me

remember that stillness is strength, silence

is power. And surrender is not weakness.

It's wisdom. So today, we're

stepping into that space together where you no

longer live, tethered to your thoughts

or your fears. But Anchored in the awareness

that you are the observer, the consciousness behind

the experience. The calm within the storm,

that's the stillness beyond thought. That's the

untethered soul letting go.

Sounds so simple until you're in the

middle of something you don't want to release.

I remember reading the Untethered Soul and feeling

called out lovingly, but deeply.

Because if you're anything like me, you've spent a

lifetime mastering control. You plan,

you organize, you manage outcomes to

protect peace. You work to keep things together.

Your family, your business, your team, your vision.

And then you realize that's the tether.

The thing that keeps you exhausted isn't life.

It's the tightness you hold around it. It's the

resistance, the grasping, the

fear that if you stop managing everything,

it'll all fall apart. Michael Singer says,

the only thing you have to do to free yourself is

to stop participating in the melodrama of

your mind. And that line hit me like

a truth bomb. Because most of my stress

wasn't coming from what was happening. It was coming

from the story I was telling about what was happening.

That's what tethered me. So I started practicing

something radical. I stopped trying to fix every

discomfort and started letting it pass through.

When anger rose, I let it rise,

breathe, and fall. When fear

whispered, I listened, but didn't move from it.

When disappointment came, I let it have space

without letting it take over. At first,

it felt unnatural, because for so long,

my peace was tied to performance, to how well

I could manage outcomes or maintain control.

But the untethered soul taught me that control

doesn't create safety. Awareness does.

When you start observing instead of reacting, everything

shifts. You start realizing that you don't

need to shut down emotions. You just need

them to move. You don't have to escape

pain. You can let it dissolve through presence.

You don't have to chase happiness. You can notice

it when it arrives naturally.

That's what freedom feels like. Not a lack of

challenges, but a lack of resistance to

them. Now, I live by a

phrase that came from this practice. Stay

open. Even when it hurts,

even when it's uncertain, even when

everything in me wants to close. Because

openness is how energy completes its

cycle. It's how life moves through

you instead of getting stuck. And that

openness has changed my relationship to everything.

To money, to love, to creation,

even to faith. Because I finally understand

that the point of surrender isn't to lose power.

It's to let divine power move through you

without interference. That's what it means to let Go.

Not giving up, but giving over. Not

collapsing, but allowing, not

abandoning, but trusting. So

now, when I feel myself tightening, whether it's

about a bill, a project, or a person, I

pause, I breathe. I

remind myself this moment is just energy.

Let it pass. And every single time,

peace returns faster than I expected.

That's what the untethered soul taught me. That peace

isn't a reward for getting life right. It's the

natural result of releasing what's not yours to

hold. Letting go isn't something

you do once. It's a practice, a

rhythm, a return to stillness. And the more

you do it, the freer you become.

When I think about the untethered soul, I can't help

but see its reflection in Scripture. Because the

teachings of awareness and surrender are not new.

They're ancient. They are the same truth.

Jesus lived, David sang, and Paul wrote.

10 says, Be still and know

that I am God. That verse is the essence

of the untethered soul. It's the invitation

to stop grasping, stop worrying, stop

running, and simply know.

Stillness is not emptiness. It's awareness in its

purest form. It's the space where the

noise of thought fades and the voice of

spirit becomes clear. For years

I read that verse as an instruction to pause.

Now I understand it as a way of being.

To be still doesn't mean inactivity.

It means inner non resistance. It means

living from the calm center that no circumstance

can shake. That's what Paul meant in

7. And the peace of

God which passeth all understanding

shall keep your heart and minds through Christ Jesus.

That kind of peace isn't logical, it's energetic.

It doesn't come from fixing your life. It

comes from remembering who's truly living it.

It's what happens when you stop letting every thought dictate your

mood and start resting in the awareness

behind the thought. That's the peace that passes

understanding, because it's not of the mind.

It's beyond the mind. It's the quiet confidence

that even in uncertainty you are held.

Even in chaos you are covered. Even

in silence you are seen. And then There is

34, where Jesus says,

take, therefore no thought for the morrow, for

the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.

He wasn't telling us to be careless. He was telling

us to be conscious. He was saying, stop

living in anxiety about tomorrow and start

living in awareness of the eternal now.

Because awareness is where God lives. Every great

spiritual teacher has said the same thing in

different language. The moment you stop trying to Control,

you start to commune. The moment you stop fighting

reality, you start flowing with grace.

And that's what the untethered soul showed

me. That God doesn't only speak

through revelation and miracles. Sometimes God speaks

through stillness, through silence, through the

exhale after surrender. When Jesus calmed the

storm by saying, peace, be still, he

wasn't only speaking to the waves. He was

modeling how consciousness commands energy.

He was showing us that the same stillness that quiets

the sea can also quiet the mind.

And when you access that stillness within yourself,

you realize the storm outside never had

the power to define you. That's the untethered

state. The realization that peace was never

missing. It was just buried under thought.

So now, when I feel turbulence in my spirit,

I don't try to fix it. I sit in awareness

of it. I breathe until I remember

I am not the storm. I am the sky.

Because true surrender isn't collapse.

It's communion. It's trusting that the same

God who created the tide also

created the calm between the waves and

that peace, that stillness, is what keeps

me happy, healthy, whole and rich.

The greatest shift this book gave me wasn't theoretical.

It was physiological. It changed how

my body responds to life. It changed how

my energy moves when things don't go my way.

It taught me to live untethered, to stay open,

no matter what. Living untethered

isn't about avoiding pain or floating above

problems. It's about choosing to stay in the center of your

awareness, even when everything around you is spinning.

It's remembering that your soul doesn't need to be

protected from life. It's here to experience it.

For me, that started with noticing the tension

when something triggered me. An email, a

delay, a difficult conversation I

used to instantly move into reaction, fix

it, explain it, defend it. Now I

pause, I breathe. I ask myself

what. What's tightening inside me right now?

Because the moment I notice the tightening, I've already

created space between me and the moment.

That space is freedom. It's the small

but sacred gap between stimulus and

response. And the more I honor that space,

the more peace fills it. This is awareness and

practice. It's noticing your inner world

before you manage the outer one. It's remembering

that no event, no person, no problem

has power over you unless you give it permission.

I do this everywhere now. On calls,

in traffic, during launches. Even in

silence. I feel the contraction. I don't

push it away. I breathe into it until it

softens. Because energy just wants movement.

It's never personal. It's just passing through.

That's Why? I always say, stay open. Openness

is how you stay connected to source in the middle of the

storm. It's how you let love flow through

situations that once made you shut down.

It's how you release judgment and let grace take the

wheel. When something difficult happens,

I don't rush to assign meaning anymore. I let the

experience unfold. Because sometimes the

lesson isn't in the fixing. It's in the

feeling. And when you allow yourself to feel

fully without resisting, you free yourself

faster. This has changed how I lead,

how I. How I love, how I live. When clients

are overwhelmed, I don't rush to rescue.

I help them breathe through it. When conflict arises,

I don't armor up. I anchor down. Because

stillness is strength. And here's the beauty.

The more you live untethered, the more intuitive you

become. When you stop reacting from fear,

you start receiving from wisdom. Answers

come, opportunities flow.

Peace becomes your default vibration.

Living untethered isn't about floating away from life.

It's about being fully in it without being consumed

by it. It's what happens when you learn that

freedom doesn't mean escape. It means

expansion. So now my practice is

simple. When something arises, I let it.

When it peaks, I breathe through it. When it

passes, I give thanks. That's all

awareness asks of you. To stay open,

to stay still, to stay true.

Because peace isn't something you have to find.

It's what you uncover every time you release, or

what you were never meant to hold. That's living

untethered. And that's the real work behind happy,

healthy, whole and rich. Take a deep

breath. Let it be slow.

Let it be sacred. And as you exhale,

notice how the body softens when the mind isn't

driving. This is the stillness Michael Singer

was pointing us toward. The awareness that exists

before thought, behind emotion, behind

circumstance. You don't have to go find it.

It's been waiting under all the noise. These

reflections will help you touch that stillness.

Not to add more to your to do list, but to help you

remember the freedom that's already there.

Number one. When was the last time I truly felt

peace? Not relief, but stillness.

What was happening in that moment? What was not

happening? How can I recreate that internal

environment today? Number two.

What triggers tend to close my heart

or tighten my body? When those arise,

can I breathe before reacting? Can I

witness the discomfort instead of rushing to fix it?

Number three. What am I still carrying

that I was never meant to hold? A worry,

a resentment? A story about who I should

be? Can I let one of Them go right now,

just for this breath. Number four.

What does my inner voice sound like when it's gentle?

Can I let that version of me be the one that leads

today? Number five. How

can I practice openness right where I am?

Maybe it's listening without interrupting. Maybe it's

pausing before responding. Maybe it's

simply saying, I'm willing to see this differently.

Now place your hand over your heart. Breathe in through

your nose and exhale through your mouth.

As you breathe. Repeat these affirmations softly

to yourself. Not to force anything, but to

feel your awareness open. I am the

awareness behind the thought. I am

safe to feel. Stillness

is my strength. I release what I

was never meant to carry. I stay open

even when it's uncomfortable. I am the

calm in the middle of the storm.

Peace is my natural state, and I return

to it easily. Now breathe again.

Let this truth settle in your body. You are not the

waves. You are the ocean. You are

not the thought. You are the thinker.

You are not the story. You are the space

that holds it. That stillness,

that's freedom. That's the untethered

soul. Here's the sacred truth.

Peace was never missing. It was just buried beneath

all the noise. You don't have to fight for

stillness. You only have to stop wrestling

with what is the moment you do.

Awareness rises, and with it comes a

calm so complete it doesn't need

words. That's the message of the untethered

soul. You are not your thoughts. You are

not your pain. You are not even your

personality. You are the one who

witnesses it all. You are the consciousness

behind the story, the sky behind

the storm. When I finally understood that,

my entire nervous system changed. I stopped

reacting to everything life threw at me. I stopped

needing to fix every problem. Before I could rest,

I learned that surrender doesn't mean weakness. It

means remembering who's really in charge

now. I walk slower. I breathe deeper.

I choose softness over speed because awareness

moves differently. It doesn't chase, it

allows. It doesn't control. It

observes. It doesn't strive. It simply

is. And from that stillness, life

unfolds effortlessly. Opportunities appear.

Answers arrive. Peace multiplies.

So if you're in a season where it feels like you're holding too

much, release your grip. You're not losing

control. You're gaining clarity.

You're remembering that freedom was never outside of you.

It's been breathing with you all along. Let

go. Let it move. Let it pass.

Because what's meant for you won't need to be clutched.

Say it with me. I know who I play for

and I live untethered, open and

free. Stay happy,

stay healthy, stay whole, and stay

rich in awareness, in stillness,

and in the peace that surpasses

understanding. If this

message spoke to you, don't keep it to yourself. Share

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