Elephant Meditation

09/03/2025

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09/03/2025

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This week on our longrunning, ongoing “Walk the Talk Show” podcast and video series Waylon shares a reminder:
“We gotta walk our talk. So that’s the name of this video series, Walk The Talk Show.

It’s exhausting.

It’s exhausting to talk about the same thing.

So this is just a reminder, if you do care—let’s deeply care. Let’s be willing to care, willing to expose our hearts and actually make some changes.” ~ Waylon H. Lewis

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09/03/2025

👉🏼 Traditional meditation wasn’t designed for my kind of brain.

If stillness-based meditation doesn’t work for some of us, can we reach the same outcome through a different doorway?
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09/03/2025

"These aren’t bad habits. They’re brilliant, adaptive strategies. Your body remembers what it once took to survive—and it’s still trying to protect you, even if the threat is no longer there."

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09/03/2025

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09/03/2025

"Have you ever noticed yourself holding your breath before you speak? A tightening in the jaw. A subtle shrinking. That micro-second scan of the room to decide if it’s 'safe'..."

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09/02/2025

"I learned that his happiness gave me happiness. Seeing him happy meant everything to me. Now, when I do things for my person and see her smile, that means everything and what does she have to do in return? Not a thing."

The love we get from dogs is that true unearned love we hear about and see in the movies. The excitement they show us when we come home, the wagging tail, the smile on their faces…yes, they smile.

09/02/2025

“What if we admit it when we’re unhappy? What if we tell someone we’re not feeling great? What if we stop saying we’re fine when we’re not?”

Read it here 👉 https://elejrnl.com?p=4192377

09/02/2025

"So how do we shift this? Not with a magic wand. With practice."

I notice, as I sit down to write this, a flicker of self-consciousness. Shame, even. My inner critic mutters: “Haven’t you already written three articles about manifesting and money?

09/02/2025

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09/02/2025

How do we begin to know ourselves from the inside out?

The resounding meditation bell rings, the echoing soundwaves attuning our nervous systems to the task ahead—quietude and stillness. The dimly lit spare room

09/02/2025

"What if we paused? What if we allowed ourselves to experience what is here entirely?"

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