Hello and welcome to season three of Mindfulness Plus. I'm your host Thomas McConkey. Thanks for downloading us today. I'm so happy to be back. I've

gotten a lot of love from listeners during the break and have had some time to kind of gather my

thoughts and take some notes along the way and share a few findings at the frontier of my practice with you all.

So if you're listening, thank you.

Thanks for being a part of the community.

Today, I want to talk about matters of the soul.

I had a different little something in mind for a season opener, but I've really been

steeping in this material. The last couple of months, our community lower lights, we held a gathering

retreat down in central Utah, Spring City that we called Soulcraft, and it was this exploration of what is the life of the soul.

How do we feed the soul?

Why should we feed the soul?

It was just this deep dive into the life of the soul and soul work.

And I was pretty amazed getting into the preparation, how difficult it was

to like really wrap my head around and formulate what even is the soul. I mean, to even

attempt a definition stumped me immediately. And I found myself pouring through texts across different

traditions over the course of many weeks and I'm coming out the other side from Spring City today

just feeling really worked, you know, exercised in a beautiful way but in an exhausting kind of way.

I'm just feeling it's like when you go to the

gym and all of your muscles ache the next day because you haven't lifted weights in a while,

I'm feeling a kind of full being soul ache today. And I think that's why I wanted to, you know,

keep up the practice and keep up the inquiry. I want to just investigate the soul a little

bit with you on this first episode of our new season. So the first thing I'll say is that

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