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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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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"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

— Ferris Bueller

This week we're going to talk about finding the space in between the chaos. Where it comes from, why it's gotten so hard for us, and how to actually find it in the middle of a Tuesday.

"Peace isn't the absence of chaos. It's the space you find within it."

Our tradition has been building this in for thousands of years. Long before anyone called it wellness.

Paired with Soul Practice: A Meditation on Entering the Sacred Pause.

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"Do you take regular visits to yourself?"

— Rumi

Ten minutes to pause and return to center. Follow along as I guide you through stopping, taking a breath, observing what's here, and proceeding back into your day with a little more space than you had before.

If you're driving or walking, keep your eyes open and stay safe. Just listen along.

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Everything you're looking for is already here. And now.

In this episode: what happens when the striving stops. The difference between becoming and being. Where the sacred actually lives, and why it's closer than you think.

Soul Practice this week is a ten minute sit on presence.

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A ten-minute sit on presence.

Where are you? Here. What time is it? Now.

A guided practice for coming back, returning to the breath, to the body, to what's actually here. Whatever the heart brings is welcome.

Sit upright, eyes gently closed, and join me.

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We are all seeking refuge. Most of what we run to holds for a while and then gives out. The phone, the drink, the busyness. True refuge is the place that holds every time you come to it.

Arei miklat tihyena lachem — "they shall be cities of refuge for you." (Bamidbar 35:11)

"Be a refuge unto yourself."

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