Elephant Journal: Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis

Everyone's suddenly doing webinars. We're spending more time online than ever. But if all we do during this Coronavirus time is find a new way to create busy, we'll have lost this once-in-a-lifetime chance to connect through boredom and busyness into our hearts, into active empathy, active love, into making a real change. You can do it.⁠ Thank you for joining—from all over the world! That was so joyful to see and feel. Hope you found joy in this community, in the meditation and tonglen. ~ Waylon Lewis In that spirit, next Friday's contemplative Writing exercise is not about more. It's about heart, community, joy. Now is the time for our world to connect, gather, and figure a way forward, together, so we can live every day from our good heart. We'll also answer your questions.⁠ ⁠ If you didn't make it live this time, join us next Friday at 11 a.m. MT: elephantjournal.com/retreat If you're inspired to go all the way, and join the Elephant Academy community and get all the lessons therein, it's far more affordable than it's ever been, or ever will be again, right now, for now.⁠ I'm offering 60% off an already affordable program, because now is for going deeper. Use code​: WRITINGCLUB⁠ 60% off Elephant Academy, here: elephantjournal.com/writingclub

This is our trailer for The Mindful Life with Waylon Lewis, a new weekly podcast from the good folks behind Elephant Journal.The Mindful Life is about walking our talk—every day, in every moment. It ain’t about being perfect. Waylon Lewis, founder of Elephant Journal, talks about everyday Buddhism, meditation, eco-actions large and small, and features conversations with leading mindful thought leaders, both famous and overlooked.

Music by Adam Agee, recorded live during our Walk the Talk Shows.

For more bits of daily wisdom from Waylon Lewis and Elephant Journal, visit elephantjournal.com.

Empathy transforms stress and difficulty and even suffering into joy, generosity, and love. ⁠ Empathy is the world's most transformative emotion—and we can write our way to it. 💔❤️ Write your Heart Out with us this fall. Our full, live, original, classic Elephant Academy is back and is $200 off through September 13th with code SHAREYOURHEART: elephantjournal.com/academy Join our Maitri: How to Fall in Love with your Sweet Self at 50% off during pre-registration (for not much longer!): elephantjournal.com/maitri For the articles referenced in this video & Waylon's "Lately, I've struggled with...", head to the article "Lately, I've struggled with..." on elephantjournal.com: https://elejrnl.com?p=2594299 ~ Writing isn’t for writers—it’s for anyone with a beating heart, anyone who cares about our world, anyone who truly cares about their sweet self. That's maitri—making friends with yourself, and that’s a path we can all engage on.⁠ Writing through our neurosis, writing our story, finding our voice, writing to catharsis...to a place where what has held us back transforms and becomes like a flower opening to the world...that's our heart, opening, genuinely inspiring others to do the same thing.⁠ ⁠ Take a leap into loving yourself and re-inspiring your purpose: elephantjournal.com/academy ($200 off for the early brave foolish joiners among you with code SHAREYOURHEART). ⁠ For you. We don't know if, or when, we'll do it again.⁠ ⁠ Join Mentors, peers, Elephant Editors, and Waylon for 6 weeks this Fall. We're coming together to write together, and learn how to fall in love with ourselves and our lives through our craft. ⁠

Waylon offers a cheerful New Year’s message and reminder about "the only fundamentally important or worthwhile resolution."

"I rarely make resolutions, 'cause I don't think they really matter. But if we are going to make one, the only resolution that really matters is a fundamental one—to make friends with ourselves.

That's not to say that other resolutions can't be fun, worthwhile, and important—but let's make sure that we're making that fundamental one: to make friends with ourselves, in the new year." ~ Waylon Lewis

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In the latest episode of Elephant's long-running, award-winning podcast and video series Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis, Waylon meets Dain Heer. They speak about (toxic, unhealthy, unkind and genuine, grounded, grownup) masculinity, unrealistic expectations, parenting—about what it means to be a man in today's society.

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