It has to start someplace and it has to start sometime. What better place than here? What better time than now?

In this first episode of The Goal Is Soul, we discuss why this show exists, who it's for, and what you'll get every week.

In creating this show, I made what I needed. Most of us are moving so fast that the day is over before we've arrived in it, carrying things we never put down. The Goal is Soul is a weekly place to stop. Every week there will be two episodes. Soul Talk is a short teaching that starts with something familiar from psychology and opens into the older contemplative and spiritual traditions. Soul Practice is a guided meditation that takes the teaching out of your head and puts it in your body, and finally into your soul. Fifteen to Twenty minutes each. That's it. And aren’t you worth that?

Every week is a return to our essential nature. Soul.

The episode concludes with our first practice together.

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Ask someone who they are and they'll tell you what they do.

In this episode of The Goal Is Soul, we look at the roles we carry and at what's underneath them. You get handed a role early. Then you choose a few more. Somewhere along the way the role stops being something you do and becomes who you think you are. That's when it gets heavy, because a role has to be held up, and you're the one holding it. IFS calls what's underneath Self. Ram Dass called it soul. Chassidus calls it the chelek Elokah mima'al, a chip off the divine block. Every tradition names it differently and says the same thing: it was never assigned to you, so it can't be taken away. It's the one in you that watches the roles come and go and stays steady through all of it.

Every week is a return to our essential nature. Soul.

This week's Soul Practice brings it from the head to the heart. Come sit with me there.

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This week's episode was sponsored by Soul Glo.

A 15-minute guided meditation for burnout, overwhelm, and the exhaustion of being everything to everyone. This is the practice that pairs with this week's Soul Talk, You Are Not a Role, You Are a Soul.

Fifteen minutes to put down what you've been holding. We settle, we notice the roles you came in wearing, and we let them rest for a little while. What's left when they're quiet is the thing we're actually after.

There's no need to sit a certain way or know anything about meditation. A chair is fine. So is your bed.

Every week is a return to our essential nature. Soul.

Somewhere you can close your eyes, please. Not the car.

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