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A Threshold for Right Relationship
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✴ Cultural Attribution Protocol for Living Practices ✴
Regarding: all Mindful Soul Practices authored by Wil Oliver (Transcending)
Authorship
All practices titled and originated under the banner of Mindful Soul Practice are the intellectual, spiritual, and cultural property of Wil Transcending. This includes Laughing Joy Into Life, a practice developed through lived experience, ancestral listening, and sacred relational discernment.Relational Use Only
These practices are shared in trusted containers. Any use outside of those relational spaces requires direct permission from Wil Transcending. This includes quoting, referencing, teaching, adapting, or naming the practice in public or private settings.No Extraction Through Proximity
Hearing about a practice from someone who once heard it does not constitute permission to share it. Attribution is not a formality, it is a practice of cultural integrity and relational fidelity. The work does not circulate ethically without that.Formal Naming Requirement
Whenever a Mindful Soul Practice is referenced or engaged with in writing, teaching, or conversation, the following citation must appear clearly:
Laughing Joy Into Life, a practice created by Wil Transcending as part of the Mindful Soul Practice body of work. Shared with permission or within a space held by the originator.
Violation Response
Misuse, misnaming, or decontextualization of this work causes cultural harm. Should it occur, a public correction and reorientation may be requested. Cultural clarification is not conflict; it is stewardship.
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WHAT’S INSIDE?
✍🏾 Mindful Soul Writings
Prose that lives where practice meets the page.This tag collects reflections, essays, and poems that arise as a body of work from Wil's lived experience. It includes teachings, field notes, and transmissions across mindfulness, Black identity, and Sankofa theory.
Relation to others: Functions as a general tag to archive textual work across the Sankofa 7 and relational themes.
Expect to find: Full-length pieces, poetic meditations, and the kind of fierce writing that refuses polish when presence is more true.
Example: A paragraph that sounds like a sermon. A sentence that carries the sting of memory. A closing line that makes you whisper "yes."
→ Access Mindful Soul Writings
https://wiltranscending.substack.com/t/mindful-soul-writings
Core Offerings: Rooted Writings & Meditations
This is where practice begins. With return, not with explanation.
🌬 Mindful Soul Meditations
The breath doesn't need fixing. It needs witnessing.This tag holds audio, guided meditations, and soul practices to bring you back into breath, body, and ritual. These offerings are a grounding pathway to wholeness.
Relation to others: Closely aligned with Presence & Remembering, Embodiment, and Restoration. Breath is the first remembering. Live in your body again.
Expect to find: Pre-writing meditations, grief breathwork, Sankofa practice tracks, and sensory return rituals.
Example: You press play. Wil's voice says, "Close your eyes. Let the darkness hold you." And somehow, for the first time today, you let go.
→ Access Mindful Soul Meditations
https://wiltranscending.substack.com/t/mindful-soul-meditations
and Look… I’m a Podcaster now!
Wil Transcending Reclaiming New Life Meditation Series
Welcome to the Wil Transcending Reclaiming New Life Meditation Series, a sacred offering of breath, voice, and grounded imagination for liberatory recovery. These meditations guide listeners through an inner landscape of rest, reconnection, and radiant protection. Rooted in mindfulness and diasporic knowing. These practices invite you to release what no longer serves, call forth your own creative source, and dwell in a field of warmth, spaciousness, and energetic renewal.