Welcome to episode 278 of Live Happy Now. This is Paula Phelps, thanking you for making us part of your week.

Mindfulness is something that pretty much all of us have heard of and many of us want to practice.

But sometimes just the idea of learning how to be more mindful seems daunting.

Today's guests are experts in mindfulness, and they're also good friends.

That friendship and shared passion for mindfulness resulted in the book A Mindful Year,

365 ways to find connection and the sacred in everyday life.

This week, Aria Campbell Dinesh and Seth Gilehan are joining us to tell us how this book came

about and how you can use it daily to start or reinforce your mindfulness practice.

Seth and Aria, thank you so much for coming on the show today.

Thank you.

It's a pleasure to be here.

Well, you know, it's an interesting book that the two of you have written, and what's even more

interesting is the way that it came about, and that was with you two sharing mindful messages

with each other.

So, Seth, to start, can you talk about how the whole email and the sharing of messages began?

Yes.

Well, Ari and I knew we wanted to write a book together, and we had decided that we wanted it to be a daily practice of finding ways of connecting to what's most important to us so we can really find that that sense of

spiritual connection that's so often missing from our days, but that each of us had experienced

so many times and sometimes together and we suspected that it was something that we could deliberately foster.

So the idea of writing all these injuries just sitting down and writing a bunch of invitations

or concepts for an entire year, you know, like a book is normally written a big chunk

at a time, it just didn't really seem like the way we

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