The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer is, compared to most self help books, one of the most wisdom filled texts you could ever read for wanting to know more of life’s secrets and lessons.

The Untethered Soul is divided into five parts, with a few chapters in each part. Representing the spiritual path the book claims will lead to you enlightenment, each part is shown to be a phase in that path, and the chapters in that part are portrayed as steps you can take to move forward.

The Untethered Soul teaches the importance of taking observations into your life and realizing that some aspects are not worth your time and energy. For example, you could be having a relatively nice day until you make a “mistake,” whether that could be doing something deemed embarrassing in front of your crush or getting into an argument with your friend. That can change your perspective of your day from being great to being absorbed in the mini-crisis you cannot stop thinking about it, and how to solve it.

Instead of continuing down this road, and this particular way of thinking that becomes your go-to when something bad happens, Singer instead challenges you to sit in your “seat of consciousness,” and invites you to think deeply, considering questions such as “Why should I still be worried about that small thing that is now in the past? Why not take this time to live in the present instead?”

Another lesson that The Untethered Soul considers to be very wise but not talked about enough is the art of freeing yourself. Singer brings this idea into light by explaining how we let our fears, expectations, and imperfections get the best of us, not allowing us perform at our very best.

Singer’s solution to this self-imposed limitation, as is the solution to many of his lessons in The Untethered Soul, is to be aware of the life you are living now, on this planet we call Earth, in this year, of this time in the universe. If there is more to life than what we only see and think about, why allow these fears, expectations, and imperfections to create boundaries that limit ourselves and our experiences?

The Untethered Soul is very well written and insightful. After reading this book, it will leave you more positive, fearless, and ready for anything as time goes on. No matter what you are going through in your life, anyone and everyone without a doubt needs to read this book and apply it to their life as this is one of the only books that could change our society as a whole for the better.