You Are Not the Voice #86

You know that voice inside your head, the one that narrates your day?

It plans, critiques, replays, and worries. It questions everything. It tells you you’re not good enough. That you should be more like so-and-so.

It tries to keep you safe. But often, it keeps you small.

Here’s the truth that can change everything, this brilliant wisdom from Michael Singer:

“There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind — you are the one who hears it.”

Feel into that again.

You are not the voice. You are the one who hears it.

This realization holds the power to transform our lives.

Too often, we let the voice in our mind shape our choices, drain our energy, or define our self-worth.

But what if you could step back just enough to witness the voice with compassion, not criticism?

What might shift if you lived from that place of awareness, rather than getting swept up in the thoughts themselves? What kind of growth, what kind of freedom, might be possible then?

Because if you are the one who hears the voice, then you are also the one who can choose how to respond to it.

You don’t have to believe every thought. You don’t have to obey every demand. You can pause. Breathe. And soften.

You can listen with kindness. You can interrupt the noise with curiosity. You can remind yourself: Just because it’s loud doesn’t mean it’s true.

And you can speak to yourself like someone you love. With warmth. With patience. With grace.

Because the voice probably isn’t going to go silent. But your relationship to it can transform.

You are not the voice. You are the witness.
The awareness.
The quiet beneath the noise.
The anchored presence within.

This is where our freedom and power reside.