Loy Young

All the world’s a stage

And all the men and women merely players.

They have their exits and their entrances

And one man in his time plays many parts.

William Shakespeare

Let us first review the definition of the game that I am using for the Soul Game.

GAME: A competitive activity in which players contend with each other according to a set of rules, providing entertainment or amusement.

Now we come to discuss the players in the game, the way they contend with each other, and the rules they abide by. Get ready; no longer can you stay in your head, looking at everything through your mind’s eye, in a comfortable, detached way. The players in the Soul Game are the people in your life, your friends and family, and you are dealing with feelings.

Shakespeare’s famous lines above very aptly describe our emotional nature that fuels all our actions. Our emotions drive not some, but all our actions in the Soul Game. The Game is only to be mastered by taking off your kit gloves, by getting down and dirty, perhaps even raunchy as you get embroiled in the drama.

Our emotions are less well understood than our brain or our body about which a wealth of literature has been written. Our feelings feed on conflict and controversy. Arguing is futile. No logic, facts or figures can ever reach our sentiments as they need action - plays, songs and stories - to learn and change. Indeed, in the soul’s game that is our life drama, sometimes comic, often tragic, prevails.

Remember, Goodness Triumphs Over Evil is the script for our life. Ah, ‘Triumph’ - do you not hear the music of ‘Chariots of Fire’ in the background, setting your pulse racing? The great prize is luring your emotional nature into war with other players in the game you hope to win.

However, if you bottle up your feelings and keep the Pandora’s box of your dark side under lock and key you are playing Solitaire, not the Soul Game. I, too, was taught to stay in the frequency of the light. Yet by delving into my emotions with their dark disguises I unraveled the Soul Game and trained my intuition as I went along.

First I used L. Ron Hubbard’s Dianetics techniques, later I developed my own form of past life regression to find all those emotional stories that were locked in our consciousness. In the end it made little difference whether past lives were true or not, what yielded the fruit was the emotional stories that were waiting to be expressed.

Without a doubt, bringing those to light changed many people’s lives: my own and those of hundreds of my clients. Releasing those hidden feelings allowed us to become fully alive.

Same Story Over and Over

I found that all players in the Soul Game shared the same feelings, no matter the culture or gender. Our emotions keep all of us unconsciously playing the same old roles again and again like a broken record. We change the scenarios and the cast of characters, but we will not change the script.

In fact, the more familiar the story sounds to us the more it appeals to the emotions. By displaying love, joy and laughter, tears, fears, anger and hate we not only satisfy the desires of our sentiments but also allow the other players in the game to identify the role we are currently performing.

So far I have counted thirty-six versions of Goodness Triumphs Over Evil, although all those can be reduced to just one story line.

First I would like you to meet the cast of characters. Then we will find out how they contend with each other every minute of their lives, revealing the thirty-six scenarios.

Inertia - Activity - Balance

Hopefully you remember the cycle of all energy in the Soul Game – inertia, activity, and balance. If you skimmed past that part thinking it was dullsville, I urge you to go back and try to understand the concept. It will make playing the Soul Game much easier. When you get caught in one emotional drama after another and start to flail about, there is only one way out: you must become aware of the emotional trance you are in. Each time you do get off the stage for a moment you will understand a little better what you just went through. Only then can you begin to integrate your mind and your emotions, which will give you the tools to win again and again.

In the plot of Goodness Triumphs Over Evil the energy cycle remains no longer abstract. Inertia turns into the victim role. Activity becomes disguised as the villain. And balance is learned in the hero role.

Victim - Villain - Hero

Now we have the villain who abuses the victim, the victim who is saved by the hero, and the hero who defeats the villain. Every person’s emotions are always auditioning for one of these three roles.

Relationships are arguably our favorite emotional game. We act out the script every day of our lives, with our loved ones, with friends and strangers, and even with ourselves when we are alone to express the whole range of our feelings from ecstasy to despair. Yet our true feelings are often skillfully hidden from the scrutiny of the mind.

Once the curtain comes down there is no rest from the game which sees us back on stage in no time at all. This section puts a spotlight on the three roles you play with other men and women every moment of your life. You will become aware of your entire repertoire and everyone else’s.
Although your emotions will keep you on the world’s stage, you may well want to choose your entrances and exits.