~ Waylon Lewis {Walk the Talk Show Podcast, Video}
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Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis presents:
This week on our long-running “Walk the Talk Show” podcast and video series, with awards and millions of views over the years…
Waylon speaks with the Elephant community about the very real reality that many people in cities across the United States are dealing with the endless, overwhelming onslaught of outright lies, disinformation, political retribution, and loud-and-proud discrimination we are living in during Trump’s second term in office.
The attacks are never-ending, and they naturally lead to a feeling of overwhelm, and overwhelm can lead to…you guessed it: burnout.
After speaking to a friend in Minneapolis who has seen and experienced this firsthand, he’s here to offer a Buddhist perspective on burnout plus three specific things we can all (un)do right now if we want to climb out of the burnout hole.
“Remember that your basic goodness is fundamental. It is not conditional. Beneath the clouds of burnout, it is there all the time and expresses itself in empathy—naturally.” ~ Waylon H. Lewis
Any time we find ourselves burned out, there’s three things we can do:
“Burnout is the product of ‘extra,’ not the product of basic goodness and the empathy that rises from it. Burnout is an invitation. Burnout is actually a healthy reminder that we can take a step back and re-set, touch-in with ourselves. All of us can rest in the present moment very deliberately, even in the midst of chaos.” ~ Waylon H. Lewis
Can’t watch the video? Why not listen?
“The point of all this is not just to help ourselves. It’s not spiritual materialism: the ego can take anything and make it about ourselves. The point of all this is—like the Buddhist aphorism says: ‘If you want to be happy, think first of others. If you want to be unhappy, think only of oneself.’
Others ultimately includes ourselves. That’s the trick.” ~ Waylon H. Lewis
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“What I am requesting is participation. Elephant has 13 million fans on social media and millions of readers, but we are only able to bring folks together around caring, fact-based conversation—people who disagree but can do so agreeably or respectfully—if you participate and right now independent media is getting killed by Facebook, etcetera.
They smother and suppress links. So when you go to elephantjournal.com, when you go to elephantjournal.com/best and get our free newsletter, when you go to elephantjournal.com/post and write something and share it—you keep independent media live, but more importantly, you keep respectful conversation, community, and caring facts alive.” ~ Waylon H. Lewis
You make what we do sustainable.
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