Elephant Meditation

11/21/2025

These are perfect for when life knocks us down, but seriously… do them even on your best days:

Whereas the

11/20/2025

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11/20/2025

Write your way to Loving Yourself.

Now, before any more time goes by, let us commit to finally, actually, more fully befriending ourselves. ⁠

Writing and sharing our stories is cathartic.

When we go one step further and make the shift from recognizing how our writing can help our own life to recognizing how these insights can help others, your words alchemize into the world's most transformative emotion: empathy. This is writing to be of benefit.

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11/20/2025

"If we stop there and think that I am enough is a full stop, it might become a hiding place and a protective shield that keeps us from looking at the places where we can grow even more. Because yes. You and I are enough. And:"

We see it everywhere. It’s whispered in yoga classes, inked into tattoos, and printed on mugs and T-shirts: “I am enough.” And it’s true. These three healing words are medicine in a culture

11/20/2025

“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.” ~ Meister Eckhart

"You feed me well, but I can tell you're no friend of mine. Because, my dear, I greatly fear, it's near Thanksgiving time." https://www.elephantjournal.com/2009/11/a-buddhist-thanksgiving/

11/20/2025

"When the noise in your head grows too loud, you do not always have to power through it. Sometimes all you need is to step sideways into something new, into a place you have never stood before, and let your mind meet the moment it has been missing."

When the noise in your head grows too loud, you do not always have to power through it. Sometimes all you need is to step sideways into something new, into a place you have never stood before, and let your mind meet the moment it has been missing.

11/19/2025

"My 'mountain' was a long stretch of years filled with trauma, emotional abuse, and the kind of heartbreak that doesn’t just bruise you, it rearranges you.

At some point, I realized I had a choice:"

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11/19/2025

10 obvious, awesome Thanksgiving tips from Waylon Lewis 🙏🏼

Find "10 Obvious Ways to make this the Best Thanksgiving Ever." on 🐘⁠👉🏼https://elejrnl.com?p=635235

11/19/2025

Get 108 more tips for adding mindfulness to your everyday through our Elephant Academy mini course with Elephant's Waylon H. Lewis.
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What's in the Course:⁠
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✔️ 90-minute recorded class hosted by Waylon.⁠
✔️ A list of 108 Buddhist tips to improve your work, your love, and every part of your precious life.⁠
✔️ Downloadable workbook so you can take notes as you go and curate your own mindful routine. ⁠
✔️ 3 bonus videos on using Buddhism as a salve for burnout and depression, a way to lift your spirits after life's gone to s**t, and a way to appreciate every day of this precious life. ⁠
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11/19/2025

"When we engage with yoga in its wholeness—with respect, humility, and sincerity—we not only deepen our own practice, we also become part of preserving something sacred for generations to come."

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11/19/2025

Waylon speaks with the Elephant community about using our collective power for good.

I think the basic message is to take heart—to do what you can do, with what you have, where you are now.

11/19/2025

Research supports what meditation practitioners already know: grounding meditation impacts our nervous system. Grounding through meditation activates our parasympathetic nervous system—often called the “rest and digest” mode—which counteracts the fight-or-flight response triggered by stress.

Learning to quiet the mind and relax the body is a foundational life skill. In simple terms, this means learning to ground. Grounding is the practice of connecting