Episode 11: Paul Chek—Listening to the Soul, The Pain Teacher & Balancing the Feminine

On this episode I speak to Paul Chek, expert in holistic health, fitness, personal development. He's your coach's coach, your therapist's therapist. Having worked in the industry for 36 years and starting his own institute, he has one of the most expansive and deep experiential teaching methods for holistic health, and has used, invented and experimented with countless innovative tools and paths to true healing and optimization. In this conversation Paul shares his thoughts on the Soul and Spirit, and how they work together, how the Ego can get in the way when it thinks we're giving up control and how reckoning with the pain teacher taught him to embrace his feminine side, which unlocked a deeper ability to listen, to himself and others.

Paul Chek is an internationally-renowned expert in holistic health, fitness, personal development and host of Living 4D with Paul Chek podcast, founder of the CHEK Institute and recently he launched CHEKIVA, a new online video and audio streaming platform featuring an incredible resource bank of instructional and information content for individuals and coaches.

Paul also wrote How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy!, one of the best single resources for living a balanced, healthy lifestyle and learning to take responsibility for your life.

“Your love of others comes at a sacrifice to your own spiritual growth, which halts your growth and it also creates complications in relationships because you’re ultimately codependent.”

— Paul Chek

SHOW NOTES

• 3:30 Learning to listen to your Soul

• 6:15 Development of the Ego-complex

• 7:55 Paul’s concept of spiritual courage

• 12:00 How Paul speaks to his Soul

• 18:15 Creativity vs ego-driven derivatives

• 21:05 How the ego can create a paradoxical love-hate relationship

• 22:05 Osho says, “Freedom is the most dangerous thing you’ll ever experience”

• 23:15 Need to look inside at what we judge outwardly

• 25:10 Evolution of self-love and signs to look for co-dependence

• 29:25 The importance of the empty space and silence

• 34:00 Silence is explosive, action without action

• 37:30 Spirit is the process by which change emerges

• 41:40 Soul is the dance floor and Spirit is the dance

• 43:35 How to let creativity flow through us, with responsibility

• 48:10 Meeting the pain teacher, and experience crisis of self

• 52:15 Leaning into the feminine and softening to find more balance

• 54:20 Ass-kicking vs listening to what people are really saying

• 60:10 What happens when you don’t listen to your Soul

• 61:25 Listening is the foundation of any healthy relationship

• 62:20 You can only love others as much as you can love yourself

• 66:10 Why are you feeding everybody else’s dog?

• 67:45 Getting help to grow beyond your own idea structure

• 68:40 We don’t inherently want to go backwards in our spiritual development

• 69:45 By loving ourselves and loving others, we are loving God

• 70:35 The launch of CHEKIVA

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