Touching in with caring Community.
Let's talk and listen and mourn and share.
A little Buddhist meditation for your day, courtesy of Elephant's Editor-in-chief Waylon Lewis🙏🏼🐘💗
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Our enemies are our greatest teachers.
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A tender heart has the power to transform the world.
Cheerful New Year, Eles 🐘💛🌈🧘🏼Enjoy this clip from "Take the Anti-New Year's Resolution with Waylon Lewis."
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Writer's block is the boogieman of writing.
But it's a quiet, firm message that we're going about our writing in the wrong way.
Instead of trying to "tackle," "conquer," "defeat," "kill" writers' block, let's listen to it. Take a step back. Start anew, in a fresh way, from a place of integrity, from our voice. To do that, we'll have to find our voice, and know our mission, our "why."
So let's tackle writer's block, together...and by "tackle" I mean be nice to it, and hug it out.
November is writing month. #Nanowrimo2023 is upon us—and in honor of this worldwide community writing challenge, I've bundled together four of my most-loved writing resources to get you through any and all obstacles writing your novel.
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The point of writing.
Writer's block is the boogieman of writing.
But it's a quiet, firm message that we're going about our writing in the wrong way.
Instead of trying to "tackle," "conquer," "defeat," "kill" writers' block, let's listen to it. Take a step back. Start anew, in a fresh way, from a place of integrity, from our voice. To do that, we'll have to find our voice, and know our mission, our "why."
So let's tackle writer's block, together...and by "tackle" I mean be nice to it, and hug it out.
November is writing month. #Nanowrimo2023 is upon us—and in honor of this worldwide community writing challenge, I've bundled together four of my most-loved writing resources to get you through any and all obstacles writing your novel.
Wherever you are in your writing path, get helpful advice from someone who's gone through writing heaven and hell, successfully (twice): elephantjournal.com/bookbundle
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We have the sun of basic goodness within us.
Fundamentally we have the sun of basic goodness within us. 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
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Just in case you forgot. ❤️
Elephant Academy offers a weekend course: 108 Buddhist Ways to improve* your Work, your Love, your Life. 👉🏽 elephantjournal.com/108mindfultips
*"Each of you is perfect the way you are...and you can use a little improvement.” ~ Suzuki Roshi
Meditate with Elephant.
"Sit down. Good posture, then relax. Eyes open, gazing gently at the ground four feet in front of you. Breathe in, gap, breathe out, gap. Repeat (of course). When (not if) you find yourself distracted, that's okay: label the thought 'thinking,' silently, to yourself, and return your attention to your breath, gently. Repeat until you find that your attention naturally and fully rests on your breath. Thoughts are fine. Adjusting your legs is fine. Just come back to the breath, again and again. To finish, bow to yourself and the world and dedicate your practice to the benefit of all." ~ Waylon Lewis
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✔️ Vipashyana is the basic foundational meditation in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
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7 guided meditations, including:
✔️ A meditation for sadness, letting go of conflict, drama, and seeing through thoughts.
✔️ A non-meditation meditation you can do whenever the chaos of our everyday strikes—at your desk, on your dog walk, and anywhere in-between.
✔️ A meditation for "strengthening the mind" or "strengthening your ability to rest in the present moment," which is precisely what we need for efficiency in business.
