Elephant Meditation

11/04/2025

To those who make fun of voting: nihilism is not the flex you think it is. It's lazy. If voting didn't matter, Trump wouldn't be trying so hard to rig it and discourage it.

Vote like the world is hanging on a thread above a vast abyss, and that the fate of the planet lies in your hands...

11/04/2025

"I think we can all give each other a chance and treat each other like fellow human beings." ~ Waylon Lewis
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Everything that happens in our lives is available to teach us if we only regard it openly. 👉🏽 https://elejrnl.com?p=3804411

11/04/2025

If you have the opportunity in your state, don't forget to vote!⁠
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Old Benjamin Franklin famously said something like “it’s your democracy, if you can keep it.”⁠
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His point? We can do better. We can progress. We can care for one another. We can vote.⁠
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And if we don’t—democracy is a fragile blessing, best appreciated daily, no matter how imperfect. Democracy itself is in peril, this year, and we urge you to vote, and make sure your friends register to vote.⁠
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We may want to avoid politics, but it will not avoid us.⁠
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For “politics” affects every inch of our lives: education, health care, food, travel, basic rights, clean air, safe homes, even the weather. Who we can love, our Social Security, our Post Office, our pre-existing conditions. Honesty, our income, a fair economy.⁠
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So don’t leave politics to the corrupt, bullying, aggressive, immoral, or greedy. Politics should be the playing field of those who are kind, those who are meek, those who are decent.⁠
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Let’s vote our hearts out! ~ Waylon Lewis

11/04/2025

"We don’t need to choose between gratitude and appreciation. We need both."

When I wrote “This Thanksgiving, Forget Gratitude. Try Appreciation,” I meant it. I had watched someone I love suffer through multiple life-threatening diagnoses. Well-meaning people

11/04/2025

4. The need to please

This year pushed me out of my comfort zone in ways I didn’t see coming. The universe has a strange way of shaking things up when you’ve stayed still for too long, and before I knew it

11/04/2025

"We weren’t just learning poses. We were learning to stop—to feel, to observe, to breathe. To be in the moment instead of constantly escaping it. It sounds simple, but it changed everything."

I was strong. At least, that’s what everyone said. I started my first business at 19. I built success with persistence, strategy, and grit. I pushed forward without asking for permission

11/04/2025

“The ability to keep an open and kind heart while dealing with feelings of self-hatred is exactly what makes self-love so great, so real.”

That's how we progress and grow. That's how we embrace our whole identity without criticism or resentment.

11/04/2025

There is nothing more intimate than working with family.

“Whatever occurs in the confused mind is regarded as workable. It is a fearless proclamation; the Lion’s Roar.” ~ Chögyam Trungpa Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis presents: This is a ch...

11/03/2025

"We are taught to be agreeable, to be available, to be 'nice.' Especially as women, we learn early on that our worth is tied to how much we can give, how much we can smooth things over, how much of ourselves we can stretch thin for the comfort of others..."
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Find The Power of “No.” on 🐘⁠👉🏼⁠⁠ https://elejrnl.com?p=4207649

11/03/2025

"Two nights ago, a somewhat bad movie (I'm a movie snob with a secret penchant for rom-coms) led me to a more-than-somewhat profound realisation: if I could travel back in time and redo my life, would I?"

ike the unnamed character from the movie we shall not mention, Zheng believes that all our experiences—both good and bad—contribute to the person we are, and if we change even

11/03/2025

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11/03/2025

"Healing isn’t about talking endlessly. True transformation happens when you choose to show up differently in life and in your relationships moment by moment."

We need to start talking about therapy differently. Somewhere along the way, therapy became synonymous with emotional dumping, a place to unload every frustration