Viral Mindfulness the Podcast Alexander Smith | Mindfulness Teacher

LIVE from Santa Fe, New Mexico | Conversations On Fear by Alexander Smith | Mindfulness Teacher

This is the second year I'm celebrating the New Year at the Spring Equinox. I thought March 25th, being the full moon and all, would be the perfect beginning. Do you know about my Guided Meditation Starter Kit? I'll tell you about it. Don't just take my word for it, Bryce Orvin recently left me a comment after practicing one of the guided meditations: "What a soothing, gentle introduction to making sit happen. Your love resonates with every soft word, encouragement, and thoughtful soundscape. Thank you Alexander for sharing the gifts you’ve developed and the powerful peace you have cultivated. My anxiety has evaporated and restful slumber awaits.Yahoo!" Harvey Rose Cates, my almost 5.5 year old Goddess Daughter has her iPad set up for communication. We're in the beginning phases, and you're luck has it, because today she audio texted me for the very first time, and I've copy and pasted some of the fun for your lovely ears to enjoy. We'll finish the podcast talking about taking your time to build your life, sobriety, creative projects, relationship, next career endeavor. All of it! "Good things take much longer than you think" (Sean Einhaus). Viral Mindfulness has taken me years to build. I'll introduce you to someone I love following. His name is Julian Curi, known on socials as "Righteous Robot." He makes art and movies and just launched his newest papercut Short Film called GRUFF. It's divine. He cuts and films and make paper people. You have got to see this! We'll finish this episode with the gorgeous prose of Brianna Weist for gentle encouragement: "Happiness is something that is gently built. It is what you make ritual within your life, what you allow yourself to get used to. You think of happiness as a constant forward motion, a kind of growing that looks a lot more like reaching — always toward some newer, brighter horizon. Yet, happiness is consistent effort in the same direction. It is the way you strengthen bonds, uncover beauty, and grow to become most comfortable with yourself. It is how you learn to trace the lines of your innermost desires outward into the world, to find within them the pockets where you most belong. It is to live in a way that makes you feel grateful you are here, that affirms how connected you are to something greater, that makes you remember you are working toward something that will one day add up to be more meaningful than all of its parts." Show Notes → viralmindfulness.com/march25 Guided Meditation Starter Kit → viralmindfulness.com/meditate May of Mindfulness Spring Offerings → viralmindfulness.com/circle

Watch the CNN interview, explore pictures from my World AIDS Day Keynote (2011), and learn more about Dime Stories (today's reading) → blessyourvirus.com

Winter's Edge: My Melancholy and a Public Service Social Worker Announcement (PSSWA) by Alexander Smith | Mindfulness Teacher

In this episode I talk about my Midwinter Melancholy and how music is at the top of my "treatment plan." I read an essay I wrote in 2002 applying for an international Summer practicum in Eastern Europe (Bulgaria). It's called, MUSIC LESSONS. I got the internship and had an epic summer (circa 2002). I finish the episode offering you a blessing from John O'Donohue entitled: As A Child Enters The World. Explore my Spring Wise Circle and Piano Recitals at viralmindfulness.com.

Snotty tales of mucus, textiles (my new bedding) and cashmere of course. I've emerged from a January whirlwind. Let's start with the cold/flu/covid which drop kicked me into bed for seven days. Thank Goddess I bought new flannel sheets and two down pillows (with Mulberry silk cases) in December. I'll share a juicy quote from Katherine May's WINTERING and details about Midwinter Wise Circles which start the week of February 17. viralmindfulness.com