Elephant Journal: The Mindful Life With Waylon

This week on Waylon’s “3 Mindful Tips every Friday”: Being Late, Buddhism’s “Drive all blames into one,” & Expressing Appreciation. Waylon Lewis is back with his award-winning video series and podcast. He's starting out with three mindful tips each week. Want to ask a question, or submit a mindful tip? Comment on YouTube, or DM @waylonlewis on Insta.

Inside a new Walk the Talk Show conversation this week with Waylon Lewis: he speaks about why the choices we make around our habitual patterns and what we do with them matter. We wake up and get on our phones. When the day is done, the TV’s on. “Thank you so much. Hope you’re all very well. Try to inject a little more mindfulness into your day…and that’ll help your brain deal with stress, deal with drama, deal with burnout, deal with depression. A lot of times people say you can’t help depression with these things—there’s literally a study that came out recently about how depression is seriously alleviated and sometimes even prevented by going for a walk in nature. So, yes: what we do with our habitual patterns matters.” ~ Waylon Lewis

This week on Waylon’s “3 Mindful Tips every Friday”: Repeating Names, Conscious Xmas Tree & Mindful Holiday Gifts. Waylon Lewis is back with his award-winning video series and podcast. He's starting out with three mindful tips each week. Want to ask a question, or submit a mindful tip? Comment on YouTube, or DM @waylonlewis on Insta.  

Inside a new Walk the Talk Show conversation this week with Waylon Lewis: he speaks with Jolene Beaton as they discuss dating today, reaching out to community to find meaningful connections, and how to begin to share yourself with the world, whether you’re looking for a date or not. “I super casually posted [on Instagram]. I post this thing about being ready to date and honestly, I thought it might be kind of exciting and fun and maybe it would have 20 comments and it turned out to be hundreds of comments. And you know, the best comments were people saying, 'you know what, this inspires me to reach out on to my community and be open. This is maybe an effective way to connect with my people and there’s nothing shameful about it.' I love that.” ~ Waylon Lewis 

This week on Waylon’s “3 Mindful Tips every Friday”: prejudice, anti-Semitism, composting. You know, #themindfullife mix. Waylon Lewis is back with his award-winning video series and podcast. He's starting out with three mindful tips each week. Want to ask a question, or submit a mindful tip? Comment on YouTube, or DM @waylonlewis on Insta.

Prejudice is complicated: anti-Semitism is real and yet there are different layers of privilege and racism and sexism and homophobia and many more virulent forms of “othering”—you know, ignorant hate. Prejudice is simple: we dissolve it when we open our minds and hearts. That’s how we know it isn’t true, it can only survive in the clouds of that ignorance and hate. I’m half-Jewish. Whenever I post about anti-Semitism on Facebook, over the past years, my own friends and community have dismissed my personal concerns. Whatever, you’re white, they say. Read my response on Elephant Journal: My name isn’t “Waylon Lewis.” ~ Waylon Lewis

This week on Waylon’s “3 Mindful Tips every Friday”: Hot Water Bottles, the Art of the Cameo, Moths. Waylon Lewis is back with his award-winning video series and podcast. He's starting out with three mindful tips each week. Want to ask a question, or submit a mindful tip? Comment on YouTube, or DM @waylonlewis on Insta.

Inside a new Walk the Talk Show conversation this week with Waylon Lewis, he speaks with Hedieh Safiari as they discuss protests & cause for basic freedoms in #Iran. Please care, please share. Consider using these hashtags on social media when you share in order to make our collective voices heard: #democracy #womenlifefreedom #beourvoice #mahsaamini #iranprotests #unicef #unitednations

This week on Waylon’s “Three Mindful Tips every Friday”: Ukraine/Democracy, Climate action for all, Veganism. Waylon Lewis is back with his award-winning video series and podcast. He's starting out with three mindful tips each week. Want to ask a question, or submit a mindful tip? Comment on YouTube, or DM @waylonlewis on Insta.

Waylon Lewis reads chapters one, two, and three from his newly released book “It’s Never too Late to Fall in Love with your Life.” Included is commentary on each chapter. “A collection of precious wisdom that I learned along the way. I pass it on to you, to make use of every day.” ~ Waylon Lewis 

This week on Waylon’s 3 Mindful Tips Fridays: How to Write Every Day, Permaculture, To-Go Coffee. Waylon Lewis is back with his award-winning video series and podcast. He's starting out with three mindful tips each week. Want to ask a question, or submit a mindful tip? Comment on YouTube, or DM @waylonlewis on Insta.

Waylon Lewis talks with Renee T. Bavineau about ecofashion, fastfashion, climate crisis, brands we can support, thrift…all from the perspective of an industry insider who cares. “Someone asked the room, ‘Where do you stand on sustainability?’ And some [CEO] stood up and said, ‘We can’t afford to be sustainable.’ Even being the shy girl that I am, I couldn’t help myself. I stood up, "You can’t afford not to be sustainable.'” ~ Renee T. Bavineau

This week on Waylon’s 3 Mindful Tips Fridays: Space, Vintage, Vote (+ bonus tip). Waylon Lewis is back with his award-winning video series and podcast. He's starting out with three mindful tips each week. Want to ask a question, or submit a mindful tip? Comment on YouTube, or DM @waylonlewis on Insta.

The Connection between Vegan & Feminist & Toxic Masculinity & Consent isn’t just a woke joke. It’s obvious. Waylon Lewis talks with Ethan Bishop about …. “So, someone I work with sends me amazing videos from around the interwebs all the time. And the other day she sent me one of yours. And first of all, I want to thank you for it ’cause in this speedy, crazy age of social media, you tied in like 18 different issues in however long that Reel was.” ~ Waylon Lewis

Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis features: Waylon Lewis is back with his award-winning video series and podcast. He's starting out with three mindful tips each week. Want to ask a question, or submit a mindful tip? Comment on YouTube, or DM @waylonlewis on Insta.

Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis features: Let’s talk The End (?!) of Democracy with Kelly Krout. Waylon Lewis talks with Kelly Krout, aka Kelly for Arkansas, about, you know, partisanship, the end of democracy, mindful use of social media, how to empower children to ask questions and get inspired, and transgender rights. Waylon: “What the heck inspired you—a mom of seven boys—to, you know, run for anything? And why?” Kelly: “I’ve had people kind of challenge [it] like “Hey, you know, you’ve got young kids. Why wouldn’t you wait and do this later?” But I wanna be a part of changing the world that they are growing up in, not the world that they grew up in.” Find Kelly on most major social media platforms, such as Twitter and TikTok, and check out her campaign website. Give her a follow and help spread the word. May it be of benefit!

Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis features: Waylon Lewis sat down to talk with Carmen Pratt, on vegan/climate crisis issues. She's a young activist/influencer and she's both inspired, and knowledgeable, and fun to talk with and listen to.   Follow Carmen on Instagram for continued climate crisis news and ways you can get involved.   May it be of benefit!

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Sarah Wilson is a mindful entrepreneur, sugar quitter, climate queen, activist, and New York Times bestselling author. Her new book, "This One Wild and Precious Life," is a soul exploration through the complexities of climate change, Covid, racial injustice, our loneliness and our disconnection from ourselves and the life we ought to be living. Writing while hiking the world for three years, she shares wild, hopeful wisdom and vibrant solutions to arrive at a true path through the despair.⁠ Get her book: sarahwilson.com/books Read more: https://elejrnl.com?p=2769352

Waylon and Elephant reconnected with famous writing teacher Natalie Goldberg about the practice, the way, of Haiku. It’s far more than three simple lines—but it’s far less, too. We touch on finding your voice, Allen Ginsberg, Hemingway, Zen, and mortality. Read the article & watch the full video: https://www.elephantjournal.com/2021/03/waylon-talks-with-natalie-goldberg-writing-teacher-extraordinaire-about-her-new-book-three-simple-lines/ Buy Natalie Goldberg's book: https://nataliegoldberg.com/books/