Nothing is Required: Trauma-Informed Gong Listening
Nothing Is Required is a trauma-informed sound podcast designed for nervous systems that live in brace mode.
Hosted by Navy Veteran and Sound Alchemist Julie Jules Smoot, this podcast offers structured gong listening sessions created to support regulation, grounding, and reduced overwhelm. Each episode is paced intentionally — with gradual entry, predictable resonance, and space to soften without pressure.
These are not performance-based meditations.
There is no emotional outcome to achieve.
There is nothing to fix.
Through Chiron Gong, planetary gong sessions, and steady vibrational sound fields, listeners are invited to practice un-bracing — gently and at their own pace.
This podcast is designed for individuals living with trauma histories, CPTSD, chronic stress, sensory sensitivity, and nervous system dysregulation who are seeking contained, non-verbal support between therapy sessions.
Nothing is required of you here.
You are not asked to go deeper than your body wants to go.
You are simply invited to listen.
Nothing is Required: Trauma-Informed Gong Listening
Arriving Without Instruction
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Peripheral Listening • Orientation Without Effort • Non-Demanding Sound
Arriving Without Instruction is a podcast devoted to listening that does not require focus, effort, or direction. These episodes offer sound as a place to land—without guidance, correction, or expectation. You are not asked to listen in a certain way or to arrive at a particular state. You are simply allowed to be here.
This podcast centers peripheral listening—sound that can be received at the edges of awareness rather than pulled into the center. It supports nervous system orientation without demand, making space for settling, sensing, or drifting without needing to pay attention.
Additional episodes may include related works that explore presence, orientation, and listening without instruction or outcome.
You may listen while resting, moving, working, or doing nothing at all. You may come and go. There is no need to concentrate, reflect, or notice anything specific. If your attention wanders—or never settles—the listening is still complete.
Arriving Without Instruction is especially supportive for those who feel overwhelmed by guided practices, verbal prompts, or techniques that ask the body to perform. This podcast offers another option: sound that meets you where you already are.
Aligned with the philosophy of Nothing Is Required of You, this is a space where arrival happens on its own—or not at all.
The opening moments of this episode include a short excerpt from Regulation Before Release.
This excerpt is offered as orientation and stabilization before the main content begins. It is not an exercise and does not ask the listener to relax, process, or change anything. The sound is shared as structure—something steady that can be present while the nervous system settles at its own pace.
Regulation Before Release was created for moments when grounding and co
The opening minutes of this episode feature an excerpt from Nothing Is Required of You, a listening piece that anchors the tone and ethics of this podcast.
This excerpt is offered as orientation—not instruction. There is no exercise to follow, no breath to control, and no expectation to relax, heal, or change. The sound is shared as presence—something that can be nearby without asking anything of the listener.
Nothing Is Required of You was created for nervou
You’re free to listen for any portion of this episode.
You’re free to drift, rest, or stop at any time.
Nothing is required of you here.