This week on Waylon’s “3 Mindful Tips every Friday”: Drama , Letting go isn't Dropping, & Equal Appreciation. Oh my! "Even if something is negative—negative is hard, it's scary—if we can be brave, if we can be open, if we can be vulnerable, if we can care...then we can actually become truly fearless. The Buddhist definition of fearlessness is not being without fear, but going through fear and actually relaxing and being comfortable. So drama, if it happens to us once in a while, is probably ...
Dec 30, 2022•15 min
Inside a new Walk the Talk Show conversation this week with Waylon Lewis: he shares a short, basic meditation that can be used during the holidays, or any big moments in our lives, to help with stress, anxiety, drama , fear, and all the ucky stuff. “If you do it all the time, your problems will be solved because you’ll turn into a Buddhist superhero—so watch out..! There’s no prerequisites to this meditation. There are meditations in Buddhism where it’s really important we do them in order, and ...
Dec 26, 2022•6 min
This week on Waylon’s “3 Mindful Tips every Friday”: Being Late, Buddhism’s “Drive all blames into one,” & Expressing Appreciation. Waylon Lewis is back with his award-winning video series and podcast. He's starting out with three mindful tips each week. Want to ask a question, or submit a mindful tip? Comment on YouTube , or DM @waylonlewis on Insta .
Dec 23, 2022•8 min
Inside a new Walk the Talk Show conversation this week with Waylon Lewis: he speaks about why the choices we make around our habitual patterns and what we do with them matter. We wake up and get on our phones. When the day is done, the TV’s on. “ Thank you so much. Hope you’re all very well. Try to inject a little more mindfulness into your day…and that’ll help your brain deal with stress, deal with drama, deal with burnout, deal with depression. A lot of times people say you can’t help depressi...
Dec 19, 2022•6 min
This week on Waylon’s “3 Mindful Tips every Friday”: Repeating Names, Conscious Xmas Tree & Mindful Holiday Gifts. Waylon Lewis is back with his award-winning video series and podcast. He's starting out with three mindful tips each week. Want to ask a question, or submit a mindful tip? Comment on YouTube , or DM @waylonlewis on Insta .
Dec 17, 2022•9 min
Inside a new Walk the Talk Show conversation this week with Waylon Lewis: he speaks with Jolene Beaton as they discuss dating today, reaching out to community to find meaningful connections, and how to begin to share yourself with the world, whether you’re looking for a date or not. “I super casually posted [on Instagram]. I post this thing about being ready to date and honestly, I thought it might be kind of exciting and fun and maybe it would have 20 comments and it turned out to be hundreds o...
Dec 12, 2022•32 min
This week on Waylon’s “3 Mindful Tips every Friday”: prejudice, anti-Semitism, composting. You know, #themindfullife mix. Waylon Lewis is back with his award-winning video series and podcast. He's starting out with three mindful tips each week. Want to ask a question, or submit a mindful tip? Comment on YouTube , or DM @waylonlewis on Insta .
Dec 09, 2022•19 min
Prejudice is complicated: anti-Semitism is real and yet there are different layers of privilege and racism and sexism and homophobia and many more virulent forms of “othering”—you know, ignorant hate. Prejudice is simple: we dissolve it when we open our minds and hearts. That’s how we know it isn’t true, it can only survive in the clouds of that ignorance and hate. I’m half-Jewish. Whenever I post about anti-Semitism on Facebook, over the past years, my own friends and community have dismissed m...
Dec 05, 2022•4 min
This week on Waylon’s “3 Mindful Tips every Friday”: Hot Water Bottles, the Art of the Cameo, Moths. Waylon Lewis is back with his award-winning video series and podcast. He's starting out with three mindful tips each week. Want to ask a question, or submit a mindful tip? Comment on YouTube , or DM @waylonlewis on Insta .
Dec 02, 2022•8 min
Inside a new Walk the Talk Show conversation this week with Waylon Lewis, he speaks with Hedieh Safiari as they discuss protests & cause for basic freedoms in #Iran. Please care, please share. Consider using these hashtags on social media when you share in order to make our collective voices heard: #democracy #womenlifefreedom #beourvoice #mahsaamini #iranprotests #unicef #unitednations
Nov 22, 2022•14 min
This week on Waylon’s “Three Mindful Tips every Friday”: Ukraine/Democracy, Climate action for all, Veganism. Waylon Lewis is back with his award-winning video series and podcast. He's starting out with three mindful tips each week. Want to ask a question, or submit a mindful tip? Comment on YouTube , or DM @waylonlewis on Insta .
Nov 18, 2022•8 min
Waylon Lewis reads chapters one, two, and three from his newly released book “It’s Never too Late to Fall in Love with your Life.” Included is commentary on each chapter. “A collection of precious wisdom that I learned along the way. I pass it on to you, to make use of every day.” ~ Waylon Lewis
Nov 14, 2022•28 min
This week on Waylon’s 3 Mindful Tips Fridays: How to Write Every Day, Permaculture, To-Go Coffee. Waylon Lewis is back with his award-winning video series and podcast. He's starting out with three mindful tips each week. Want to ask a question, or submit a mindful tip? Comment on YouTube , or DM @waylonlewis on Insta .
Nov 11, 2022•8 min
Waylon Lewis talks with Renee T. Bavineau about ecofashion, fastfashion, climate crisis, brands we can support, thrift…all from the perspective of an industry insider who cares. “Someone asked the room, ‘Where do you stand on sustainability?’ And some [CEO] stood up and said, ‘We can’t afford to be sustainable.’ Even being the shy girl that I am, I couldn’t help myself. I stood up, "You can’t afford not to be sustainable.'” ~ Renee T. Bavineau...
Nov 07, 2022•49 min
This week on Waylon’s 3 Mindful Tips Fridays: Space, Vintage, Vote (+ bonus tip). Waylon Lewis is back with his award-winning video series and podcast. He's starting out with three mindful tips each week. Want to ask a question, or submit a mindful tip? Comment on YouTube , or DM @waylonlewis on Insta .
Nov 04, 2022•11 min
The Connection between Vegan & Feminist & Toxic Masculinity & Consent isn’t just a woke joke. It’s obvious. Waylon Lewis talks with Ethan Bishop about …. “So, someone I work with sends me amazing videos from around the interwebs all the time. And the other day she sent me one of yours. And first of all, I want to thank you for it ’cause in this speedy, crazy age of social media, you tied in like 18 different issues in however long that Reel was.” ~ Waylon Lewis...
Oct 31, 2022•27 min
Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis features : Waylon Lewis is back with his award-winning video series and podcast. He's starting out with three mindful tips each week. Want to ask a question, or submit a mindful tip? Comment on YouTube , or DM @waylonlewis on Insta ....
Oct 28, 2022•10 min
Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis features : Let’s talk The End (?!) of Democracy with Kelly Krout. Waylon Lewis talks with Kelly Krout, aka Kelly for Arkansas, about, you know, partisanship, the end of democracy, mindful use of social media, how to empower children to ask questions and get inspired, and transgender rights. Waylon: “What the heck inspired you—a mom of seven boys—to, you know, run for anything? And why?” Kelly: “I’ve had people kind of challenge [it] like “Hey, you know, you’v...
Oct 21, 2022•29 min
Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis features: Waylon Lewis sat down to talk with Carmen Pratt, on vegan/climate crisis issues. She's a young activist/influencer and she's both inspired, and knowledgeable, and fun to talk with and listen to. Follow Carmen on Instagram for continued climate crisis news and ways you can get involved. May it be of benefit!
Oct 19, 2022•53 min
Get Andy’s Book: https://bit.ly/3vvBUR7 An Elephant-approved must-read. In Grappling, Andrew Horning helps you identify the best man you can be in a rapidly evolving world. By focusing on intrapersonal and interpersonal elements, Andrew provides you with practical tools for navigating today’s complex issues and balancing masculinity with accountability. Learn how to utilize compassion and courage to rewrite your story, understand your true strengths, and realize the freedom that comes with self-...
Jun 05, 2021•49 min
Sarah Wilson is a mindful entrepreneur, sugar quitter, climate queen, activist, and New York Times bestselling author. Her new book, "This One Wild and Precious Life," is a soul exploration through the complexities of climate change, Covid, racial injustice, our loneliness and our disconnection from ourselves and the life we ought to be living. Writing while hiking the world for three years, she shares wild, hopeful wisdom and vibrant solutions to arrive at a true path through the despair. Get ...
Mar 25, 2021•43 min
Waylon and Elephant reconnected with famous writing teacher Natalie Goldberg about the practice, the way, of Haiku. It’s far more than three simple lines—but it’s far less, too. We touch on finding your voice, Allen Ginsberg, Hemingway, Zen, and mortality. Read the article & watch the full video: https://www.elephantjournal.com/2021/03/waylon-talks-with-natalie-goldberg-writing-teacher-extraordinaire-about-her-new-book-three-simple-lines/ Buy Natalie Goldberg's book: https://nataliegoldberg....
Mar 12, 2021•40 min
Yesterday, I got to talk (and listen) with one of the world’s greatest writing teachers. Writing, at its heart, is not about writing—but about listening, about finding our voice, about being of benefit—a spiritual path of catharsis, of turning confusion to wisdom. I fell in love. She listed three key simple, repetitive practices to this path of listening. Read an excerpt of her new book: https://www.elephantjournal.com/2021/02/julia-cameron-my-favorite-guest-on-walk-the-talk-show-in-a-long-time/...
Feb 06, 2021•43 min
Empathy transforms stress and difficulty and even suffering into joy, generosity, and love. Empathy is the world's most transformative emotion—and we can write our way to it. 💔❤️ Write your Heart Out with us this fall. Our full, live, original, classic Elephant Academy is back and is $200 off through September 13th with code SHAREYOURHEART: elephantjournal.com/academy Join our Maitri: How to Fall in Love with your Sweet Self at 50% off during pre-registration (for not much longer!): elephantj...
Sep 07, 2020•38 min•Ep. 85
Just had the honor to talk (listen) with Sharon Salzberg, a wonderful teacher of Loving-Kindness, or Maitri, or Metta—how to make friends with ourselves, so that we might enjoy empathy and be of real benefit to this world, instead of drowning in self-hate, pre-judgement of others, and war with our world. 📕 Get her new book, Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World: https://www.sharonsalzberg.com/realchange/ I can’t wait to read it—she’s such a darned good writer and sweet and po...
Jul 23, 2020•31 min
Elephant's weekly Community Gathering—July 17, 2020. Join Elephant's (free!) weekly Gatherings live and become a part of the conversation and community on Fridays at 10 a.m. MST: http://elephantjournal.com/gathering The weekly mindful round-up of articles and resources mentioned in the meeting: It’s my Birthday today. Guess how old I am? ~ Waylon H. Lewis: https://www.elephantjournal.com/2020/07/its-my-birthday-today-guess-how-old-i-am-waylon-h-lewis/ Eternity ~ William Blake : https://www.eleph...
Jul 19, 2020•41 min
This week, we hosted Liz Plank, one of our world’s most delightful, insightful, and incisive Feminists, as part of our Elephant Gathering & Elephant Camp (part of Elephant Academy). Waylon talked with Liz Plank about feminism, gender equality, her book, For the Love of Men , toxic vs. mindful masculinity, and how we can all join in actively in a movement to be of benefit to this world. In addition to the Elephant Gathering discussion, Liz went on to lead a writing exercise to discover our tr...
Jul 12, 2020•49 min
“If America hasn’t broken your heart, you don’t love her enough.” ~ Senator Cory Booker Read: https://www.elephantjournal.com/2020/06/if-america-hasnt-broken-your-heart-you-dont-love-her-enough-senator-cory-booker/ Support Elephant and Independent Media. When you subscribe, you'll get to read unlimited articles, and see fewer ads. It's $3/month: elephantjournal.com/subscribe This Friday, we're offering another free Elephant Retreat. Join more conversations like this: elephantjournal.com/retreat....
Jun 13, 2020•1 hr
"Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned." ~ #JaneElliott Here's the full video and the landmark exercise featured on Oprah and in classrooms across America—watch and be humbled, awaken your heart, share and educate: elephantjournal.com/2016/01/if-you-know-you-arent-racist-watch-this-blue-eyed-brown-eyed-test 🖤 Additional articles referenced: • "I am Black. This is what I Need (& what I Don’t) from White Allies." elephantjournal.com/2020/06/i-am-black-th...
Jun 06, 2020•1 hr 1 min
"It takes bravery to feel because it's unpleasant. It's scary. If you're like me at all, you might feel unempowered—which is actually a good thing for me to feel. I should not feel empowered. I should feel like learning. I should feel like listening. But that doesn't mean that I should step back. We need to all be allies." ~ Waylon Lewis Watch the full video, "I’m a white male. I’m the same age as George Floyd. Here’s what we do with our privilege" on Elephant: https://elejrnl.com?p=2530989 This...
May 30, 2020•59 min
