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EPISODE · Dec 12, 2025 · 26 MIN

The Quality In Your Approach

from Viral Mindfulness the Podcast · host Alexander Smith | Mindfulness Teacher

In this second teaching of my seven-part Winter’s Edge Soul Care series, we explore the reverence of approach. How the way we meet our inner life shapes what becomes possible in return. Drawing from Francis Weller and John O’Donohue, I reflect on why reverence, softness, curiosity, and humility open us to revelation, while judgment, rushing, and spiritual intensity close the aperture of perception. Along the way, I share the handwritten notes I leave for my future self in my holiday boxes each year, an unexpected teaching about “silent elders,” and the origins of the House of Blue. You’ll learn how to shift the stance of your attention so the sacred, the subtle, and the mysterious can come forward. This episode invites you to slow down, listen deeply, and approach your soul (and your life) with a gentler, more spacious heart. Winter Wise Circle OPEN FOR ENROLLMENT. Start Tuesday, January 6 and finish, Tuesday, February 10. Details + Save $59 on enrollment through Christmas Day → viralmindfulness.com

In this second teaching of my seven-part Winter’s Edge Soul Care series, we explore the reverence of approach. How the way we meet our inner life shapes what becomes possible in return. Drawing from Francis Weller and John O’Donohue, I reflect on why reverence, softness, curiosity, and humility open us to revelation, while judgment, rushing, and spiritual intensity close the aperture of perception. Along the way, I share the handwritten notes I leave for my future self in my holiday boxes each year, an unexpected teaching about “silent elders,” and the origins of the House of Blue. You’ll learn how to shift the stance of your attention so the sacred, the subtle, and the mysterious can come forward. This episode invites you to slow down, listen deeply, and approach your soul (and your life) with a gentler, more spacious heart. Winter Wise Circle OPEN FOR ENROLLMENT. Start Tuesday, January 6 and finish, Tuesday, February 10. Details + Save $59 on enrollment through Christmas Day → viralmindfulness.com

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