Elephant Journal: The Mindful Life With Waylon

This week, instead of his usual weekly three mindful tips…Waylon is sharing three things he’s noticed (during his trip to Halifax to visit his Mama) that he has learned and been taught by his mom over the years. “There’s all these weird things that I do in my life and…sometimes I feel [self-conscious] about them. Like, why do I do these [weird] things? And then I see my mom do that thing…and there’s a moment of humor, and tenderness, and appreciation, and gratitude for the kind of parenting I had.” ~ Waylon Lewis Enlightened Society. She creates the thread of community wherever she goes. A connection with nature that is resilient.

Waylon talks with Ailey Jolie, who describes herself as a human first, and a psychotherapist second. We discuss maitri, dating culture, communication, and masculinity. “Most ruptures and harm happens in intimate connection. And so if we are to repair that or restore a sense of resiliency, it’s our relationships that are going to have to change for our life to change, as well.” ~ Ailey Jolie 

This week on Waylon’s “3 Mindful Tips every Friday”: Sidewalk & Road Salt, Fruit Labels, & Mom’s tip about Mail. "Hey friends, every Friday I share three specific, useful, fun, interesting—at least to me—mindful tips. They're probably kind of nerdy, but they're applicable to our daily lives from a mindful point of view, an eco point of view, and from a point of view of caring about society." ~ Waylon Lewis Read the full article on elephantjournal.com and support independent media.  Want to ask a question, or submit a mindful tip? Comment on YouTube, or DM @waylonlewis on Insta. 

Waylon talks with Glyphosate Girl Kelly Ryerson. We discuss the dangers of glyphosate, alternative healthy organic pesticides, and Monsanto. "When when glyphosate first came out, in those early days before it was an herbicide, it was actually used to clean  boilers—metal boilers and metal pipes because it could chelate minerals, bind them together. And then you could clean 'em out really easily. So now you apply this to the soil...and it's doing the same thing where it's chelating and binding minerals, making 'em bio-unavailable in our crops. And we wonder why we're all so nutrient deficient?!" ~ Kelly Ryerson

This week on Waylon’s “3 Mindful Tips every Friday”:  "I’ve been awfully lonely, lately, on the inside."  "Hey friends, every Friday I share three specific, useful, fun, interesting—at least to me—mindful tips. They're probably kind of nerdy, but they're applicable to our daily lives from a mindful point of view, an eco point of view, and from a point of view of caring about society." ~ Waylon Lewis Read the full article on elephantjournal.com and support independent media.  Want to ask a question, or submit a mindful tip? Comment on YouTube, or DM @waylonlewis on Insta. 

Waylon talks with publisher, author, activist (and gardener!) Maria Rodale. We'll discuss her humorous and surprising conversations with the spirits of plants and animals via shamanic journeys, as discussed in her new book: Love, Nature, Magic. "I had been doing shamanic journeying on my own for about 10 years and I was out gardening one day and really annoyed. Totally annoyed by this one weed, right? Mugwort. Like, I wanted to kill it—to the point where I was almost ready to use [Monsanto's poison] Roundup, which is crazy.  So I decided to do a shamanic journey to see if I could talk to this plant and find out why it was so annoying. ...And that opened up a whole new world for me." ~ Maria Rodale

This week on Waylon’s “3 Mindful Tips every Friday”: “It’s Never too Late to Fall in Love with your Life.” "Hey friends, every Friday I share three specific, useful, fun, interesting—at least to me—mindful tips. They're probably kind of nerdy, but they're applicable to our daily lives from a mindful point of view, an eco point of view, and from a point of view of caring about society." ~ Waylon Lewis Get Waylon's two books at: elephantjournal.com/books. They make great eco gifts and mindful, hopefully-life-changing reads. 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 with Waylon Lewis: he and longtime Elephriend and author, Danielle LaPorte, discuss love, reverence, making friends with ourselves, and metta meditation. Waylon: “With your new book, you decided to tackle a little subject….” Danielle: “Yeah.”  Waylon: “Not a big, big deal. Just a little thing. A little thing called ‘Love.'”

This week on Waylon’s “3 Mindful Tips every Friday”: Eye Glasses, the Only Shameful thing, +...Tea Kettles. "Hey friends, every Friday I share three specific, useful, fun, interesting—at least to me—mindful tips. They're probably kind of nerdy, but they're applicable to our daily lives from a mindful point of view, an eco point of view, and from a point of view of caring about society." ~ Waylon Lewis 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 presents (well, actually, this one isn’t hosted by us, but) Debra Silverman, psychotherapist, author, and astrologist, featured Waylon Lewis as a guest in her Astrological Immersion. During their conversation, Debra read Waylon’s astrological chart and they spoke about how Waylon’s life experiences and personal tendencies can be found within it. Learn more about Waylon, and hopefully yourself, by listening in. Waylon’s chart… Waylon Lewis: “What I don’t know about astrology could fill the rest of this seminar.”  Debra Silverman: “Well, that’s perfect because that’s why I’m here.” 

Waylon talks with Cara Cifelli about diet culture/dating/thin privilege/beauty privilege and maitri—the Buddhist path of making friends with ourselves and how we feel about how we look. “You deserve a partnership where you can relax and be your whole self. A partner who loves and accepts you fully. So does believing you have to diet and change yourself to find a relationship the best strategy to finding the type of relationship you most desire? Or are you objectifying yourself in the same way you resent being objectified?” ~ @caracarincifelli 

This week on Waylon’s “3 Mindful Tips every Friday”: Birdfeeders, Big Fonts, & Little Free Libraries—oh my! "Hey friends, every Friday I share three specific, useful, fun, interesting—at least to me—mindful tips. They're probably kind of nerdy, but they're applicable to our daily lives from a mindful point of view, an eco point of view, and from a point of view of caring about society." ~ Waylon Lewis Want to ask a question, or submit a mindful tip? Comment on YouTube, or DM @waylonlewis on Insta.

Waylon Lewis and longtime friend and yoga teacher, Faith Hunter, discuss careers, burnout, moms, as well as tokenism and access within the yoga community. Waylon: “What’s your helpful advice for whoever who are dealing with burnout and trying to take care of themselves while on the whole treadmill of being busy? Parents, entrepreneurs, students, everyone?” Faith: “I think the thing that I’ve learned and I probably would’ve told myself 10 years ago is to try my best to get rest and create some level of balance. When I was young, I was vibrant and I was excited and things are popping…and…it’s hard to say no! And so I was probably saying ‘yes’ to way more than I should have said ‘yes’ to.” 

This week on Waylon’s “3 Mindful Tips every Friday”: Buy button, Vegan v. Aggression, Cycling every D*mn Day. “A lot of us get depressed about climate change, depressed about our future, depressed that our politicians aren’t taking action quickly enough, but we fail to be accountable to changes we can make.” ~ Waylon Lewis  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 talks with Tuwe Inu Bake, an indigenous chief of an Amazonian tribe in Brazil about how we can work together as a human family to help his tribe, the Amazon, and our planet. Our thanks to Ari Brasil of Earth Medicine Alliance for the assistance in translation to make this conversation possible.  “Tuwe Ina Bake is the son of the traditional chief of the Huni Kuin Kaxinawá peoples of Brazil. He is an indigenous leader, a spokesperson for his peoples and their issues domestically and internationally, and is also a film maker who is documenting an emerging issue on the border between Peru and Brazil – peoples in voluntary isolation are forced to leave their lands and are approaching the territories of the Kaxinawa peoples of the Western Amazon.”

This week on Waylon’s “3 Mindful Tips every Friday”: Fidgeting from a Buddhist pov, Idling, & Salt sucks. 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 and Jamie Logan discuss answers to common questions around veganism,⁠ as well as “why,” is vegetarianism a thing, what to eat/cook, health, and the benefits of veganism for the planet.⁠

Cheerful New Year! I send love and luck and healing and kindness and caring to you all, pass it on! May we all be genuinely happy, content, and full of benefit for others.⁠ For those of us who survived 2022 mostly intact, may we rest in gratitude—and share any kindnesses we have received, in this life, with others who have been made more vulnerable, this year. Support local, please. Boycott Amazon, please. Climate Change is here, and gathering power—please engage in micro and macro actions to reverse it, like protecting mature trees, going vegan, going zero-waste, offsetting your travel, and when you travel, supporting local. May this year help heal us, and bring us together, even as our very real differences continue to wake us up to important questions: can we continue to progress toward equality, and equity? Can we promote truth, not lies? Can we find respect for science, not “youtube research” and conspiracy theories? Can we feel our defeat, our cynicism, dig deep, and be the ones we have been waiting fo

This week on Waylon’s “3 Mindful Tips every Friday”: Drama, Letting go isn't Dropping, & Equal Appreciation. Oh my! "Even if something is negative—negative is hard, it's scary—if we can be brave, if we can be open, if we can be vulnerable, if we can care...then we can actually become truly fearless. The Buddhist definition of fearlessness is not being without fear, but going through fear and actually relaxing and being comfortable. So drama, if it happens to us once in a while, is probably because we're surrounded by some neurosis. If it happens to us regularly, however, it is time to take some responsibility. Which is what we talked about last week. You can find all the videos on my new brand new YouTube channel." ~ Waylon Lewis 

Inside a new Walk the Talk Show conversation this week with Waylon Lewis: he shares a short, basic meditation that can be used during the holidays, or any big moments in our lives, to help with stress, anxiety, drama, fear, and all the ucky stuff. “If you do it all the time, your problems will be solved because you’ll turn into a Buddhist superhero—so watch out..! There’s no prerequisites to this meditation. There are meditations in Buddhism where it’s really important we do them in order, and we have some preparation and study. This one, however, is basic. That doesn’t mean it’s light. It’s quite powerful, but it’s basic, and you can do it at any moment.” ~ Waylon Lewis