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"I love your weekly letters from the heart. Very touching and grounding. I also love inversions and as one of my yoga teachers says: ‘They help us view life from a different perspective!' Alexander, your emails are my weekly inversion.”

—Tracy

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  • I’ve been reading your Monday musings since our yoga retreat in Joshua Tree. What a sweet pleasure to look forward to each week. I especially appreciated your comments on the importance of silence in our lives. This gives me the opportunity to here my own voice and it often has some very important things to say. Thank you for sharing yourself this way, with all of us out here in email land. You’re a gift. Namaste!

    ANNA LARSON

  • I feel you need to launch a bedtime stories audiobook. Your voice is like being wrapped in a cashmere blanket! Xo

    Michelle Marie

  • You are the best human. Period. End of story. I lover getting your love letters (newsletters). Thank you for putting out such beauty and sharing you with me in this way. Take care, Dr. Blue.

    XO, T

  • Thank you so much for your emails . . . I feel your light, positivity, and smile from miles away.

    MARIANA

  • Alexander, I found you through Marie Forleo’s B-School. I loved your story, signed up for your emails, and then thought to myself (with sarcasm): ‘Another sign-up email to read’ . . . Now I realize how wrong I was. Your emails are incredible!

    JOSH

  • Alexander, your email brought me to tears (inspired & happy ones) . . . I am so excited for your mindfulness challenge this week. Thank you for being so open and honest.

    MAUREEN

  • I whisper hello through moonlight. You are deepening dear brother. Another gift you continually nurture is your way with words. Healing anthems of light. I’ve so enjoyed finding solace in all flavors of moments, smiling in the feast of you. I lay your warm words down and oft parched throat. Flowers bloom in a desert soul. Your stories freckle my life. Thank you for taking time to give. To sit. To ponder. To shine. I love the man you are!

    BRYCE ORVIN

  • I cannot tell you how much I look forward to Viral Mindfulness Monday . . . I love it! Your messages are always spot on, with photos full of joy and life (even in the midst of your recent loss). Your art is beautiful & inspiring. It’s amazing how an email can deliver so much love, joy, caring, and expressionism, straight from your heart.

    KIM D.

  • Alexander has a way of expressing himself that makes everything seem so simple. And that’s a gift for everybody.

    LISA

  • I just want to live inside your brain for a day!

    MALORY

  • You drew me into your energy with your first paragraph Alexander the Great! I loved your picture, and put it up as my screen saver. ‘Make Sit Happen’—I love it.

    SHERRY

  • Brilliant as they would say here in London with their accent! I must get back to meditating and take this challenge to do so. You my dear are an incredible writer.

    NETTIE

  • I love your spirit, message of love & courage. You let your light shine and it gives people permission to do the same.

    ALEX

  • I love reading your words. I was talking to my spirits guides and asking for help, to point me in a direction to get centered again, and then boom! There you were—right in the middle of my social media posts!

    RACHAEL

  • Alexander! Totally awesome message to get in my inbox. THANK YOU! I’ve been on a huge spiritual path for myself the last few years and I really appreciate your work.

    JOHN

  • I was very moved by your story and I’m excited to follow your journey of viral mindfulness.

    DANA

  • It’s getting juicier and juicier. You’re in the zone. Keep doing what you are doing because it’s spilling over onto me, and I really, really like it. All my love.

    MICHAEL BINKS

  • Oh how I loved your email on Monday. Thank you from the depths of me. I was in the midst of sorting out an upcoming appointment with a rheumatologist to read some blood work. I was scared, really scared, about what it all would mean. And knew that whatever he would tell me, good or bad, that the power was in my own hands, my own mind, in my own mindfulness and choices of how to treat my time here, on this beautiful planet. Then, I got your email. And, I no longer felt alone. I thought of you, and you gave me strength. I thought of your video on the beach. And wondered if you had been scared the day they read your blood work and found HIV. I wondered if you had always been brave, or if it was relatively new for you. I sat in awe and gratitude.

    JEANNIE S.

  • You're such a breath of fresh air!

    Vanessa M.

  • Thank you for your words and the love in your emails.

    Kristen

Dear Soul-Sibling,

I'm officially taste testing pumpkin oat milk lattes.

My favorite baristas and alchemists of flavor (I think they're dating) have been brewing simple syrups. They nailed it, so I thought, and then I found a better latte layered with fresh nutmeg at NEAT coffee, tucked perfectly in a quaint Costa Mesa neighborhood.

While writing last week I found a thread from my early awakening (2002-2005) that I want to share with you.

Pema Chödrön became the first major voice in Buddhism and Zen that infiltrated my heart. I've continued to bask in her wisdom, humor and perspective over the decades.

“We hear a lot about the pain of samsara, and we also hear about liberation. But we don’t hear much about how painful it is to go from being completely stuck to becoming unstuck. The process of becoming unstuck requires tremendous bravery, because basically we are completely changing our way of perceiving reality, like changing our DNA. We are undoing a pattern that is not just our pattern. It’s the human pattern: we project onto the world a zillion possibilities of attaining resolution.

Meditation provides a way for us to train in the middle way—in staying right on the spot. We are encouraged not to judge whatever arises in our mind. In fact, we are encouraged not to even grasp whatever arises in our mind.

What we usually call good or bad we simply acknowledge as thinking, without all the usual drama that goes along with right and wrong. We are instructed to let the thoughts come and go as if touching a bubble with a feather. This straightforward discipline prepares us to stop struggling and discover a fresh, unbiased state of being.”

How do you touch a bubble with a feather?

Doesn’t it pop?

This idea has always tickled my attention.

It doesn't feel like an event but rather a process. A practice in riddle and paradox. The amount of care, precision, attention, kindness, and inclusivity required to touch a bubble with a feather inspires my tender heart, and devotion. It's my vulnerable invitation to stay in relationship with my mental and emotional life.

Truth be told, I sat down with my podcast equipment and recorded a 28-minute episode pontificating this topic while providing several examples related to grief and anxiety. It's there for you when you're ready. I'd love to know how it resonates with your map on the path.

All my love to your first weekend of October.

Yours Bluely,
Alexander

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“Your stories freckle my life. Thank you for taking the time to give. To sit. To ponder. To shine.”

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What inspired my love

letters of mindfulness?

One winter day, running on the sand, along the ocean, I thought, What if send a mindfulness-centered email to my people with a suggestion for the week?

And so it began.

Your support, questions, insights ah-has and heartfelt emails quickly stole my heart. Soon we were achieving powerful practice and synchronicity together. Through email.

Love letter of mindfulness.

You are my online tribe and I claim each of you when you subscribe. I bring you into the circle of my heart and meditation practice. I aim to elevate with mindfulness. I’ll trade awesome mindfulness challenges for your email address. Start your week on purpose.

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