☾ Learning to step outside the noise of your own mind
✦ Why I Recommend It
The Untethered Soul is one of those books that makes you look at your own thoughts completely differently. It explores the idea that we spend so much of our lives caught up in the constant voice inside our heads — worrying, replaying, judging, predicting and trying to control what happens next.
What I loved about it is that it doesn't tell you that you need to somehow stop thinking. Instead, it teaches you how to notice your thoughts without automatically becoming them.
✦ What I Took From It
The biggest thing I took from this book was:
I am not every thought that passes through my mind.
I can notice a thought without following it.
I can feel an emotion without letting it become my entire world.
I can allow something to pass without needing to analyse it, fix it or hold onto it.
For me, that's where the idea of becoming untethered really landed — loosening the grip of all those stories, fears and expectations we unknowingly attach ourselves to.
Sometimes freedom isn't about changing what's happening around you.
Sometimes it's about changing how tightly you're holding onto it.
☾ Best For
Overthinkers, seekers and sensitive souls.
✧ Gentleness Rating
★★★★★
Gentle, thoughtful and something you can take at your own pace. Some of the ideas are quite deep, so I found it better to actually sit with them rather than race through them.
☾ Emotional Impact
This one stayed with me.
Not because it gave me a huge list of things I needed to change, but because it changed the way I looked at the activity happening inside my own mind.
✦ Nova Reflection
There will always be thoughts.
There will always be noise.
There will always be things outside of us that we cannot control.
But we don't have to chase every thought, carry every fear or keep reopening every story.
Sometimes we can simply notice.
Breathe.
And let it pass.
You are the sky, not every cloud that moves through it.
✧ Book recommendation by Nova Rising Soul
Artwork inspired by the themes of the book. All rights to the original work remain with the author and publisher.