Elephant Meditation

12/11/2025

This has helped me get through pretty much any hard part of my life:

Inner peace, physical, emotional and spiritual wellness comes from an absolute commitment to taking personal responsibility for the quality of your life.

12/10/2025

A Pema Chödrön quote is always a good idea: 👉 https://elejrnl.com?p=4229605

12/10/2025

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12/10/2025

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12/10/2025

"I often tell my students now that meditation is less about forcing silence and more about allowing softness. When we stop trying to quiet the mind, the mind eventually becomes quiet on its own."

I have spent years teaching meditation and sound in Rishikesh, the place where many people come to find peace. Yet the most surprising thing I have learned is this:

12/10/2025

"It is difficult to quantify how much this practice has helped me in the past six months. It has helped me get out of bed when the world looks bleak and kept me going in circumstances that would have broken me. It has gently gotten me out of really dark spaces more times than I can count."

The practice itself is very simple. It is an EFT practice of silently tapping on all of the EFT points which is usually used by practitioners to bring clients back to grounding when they are overwhelmed

12/10/2025

“But I look at tangled Christmas lights and know there have been many before that I managed to untangle, ripped or thrown in the bin, and yet Christmas always happened and life moved forward. That’s middle-aged wisdom with a small ‘w.’ And it makes me laugh.”

Because the challenges we face and the love we experience, the joy and the sorrow, they are all like the spring skies—sunshine, clouds, more clouds, sunshine, and out of nowhere showers and a sudden rainbow. It’s all so unpredictable. You are just the sideshow.

12/09/2025

How do we get through stress, anxiety, fear, panic?⁠
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Not by avoiding them. Not by suppressing them. Not by trying to defeat them.⁠
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👉🏼 Read: "Fear >>>————> Fearlessness" on Elephant. 💛 🔗 https://elejrnl.com?p=160495

12/09/2025

Meditation is one (little, but big) way that we can take care of ourselves in this big, wide, messy, wonderfully bittersweet world. 🐘🌞👉🏼 https://bit.ly/meditation_for_crazy_busy_people

12/09/2025

20 powerful quotes that remind us to let go and start afresh:

Every year, I hope and pray to the universe to take it a little easy on me. I mean I want to learn and grow of course! But, a little gently perhaps. But the universe is like...No!

12/09/2025

Harness the power of guided visualization, soul-goal strategies, and creative support for 2026:

It’s not an easy time to be a sensitive human. Suffering abounds. I’m stricken by

12/09/2025

"I used to believe that if I worked hard enough, and dug deep enough, I could be 'done' with the parts of myself that hurt. But every time I thought I’d healed a wound for good, life would hand me a new situation that poked at it from a different angle. And I’d find myself right back in the work. Was I broken? No. I was human."

Somewhere along the way, many of us bought into a subtle but persistent myth: that one day, after enough journaling, therapy, yoga, or soul-searching, we’ll be fully healed.