Welcome to JoJo Elephant. Short, meditative journeys for creativity, problem solving, and the intuitive you.

I’m Jo Taylor. An elephant, among its many meanings, is a vehicle — not the journey itself, but what carries you. That distinction is everything. JoJo Elephant is a series of three-to-five minute imagination exercises that take you somewhere you didn’t know you were going. Neither did I, when I recorded them.

These are not meditations. You don’t have to clear your mind or reach a state of calm. What you do need is focus — a willingness to follow a series of directions with your eyes closed and your imagination open. Go through a doorway. Look to your left. Move forward. Your brain will fill in what it finds there. It always does. That filling-in is the whole point.

We live inside an overwhelming amount of information, and we’ve learned — we’ve had to learn — to filter most of it out. The problem is that we’ve also learned to filter out the subtle things: the quiet signal, the image that arrives uninvited, the sense that something means something. Elephants are practice in paying attention to those things again.

What comes through will be different for everyone, because the journey takes place in your mind. You may find memory. You may find metaphor. You may find creative solutions to problems you’ve been circling. You may find something you don’t have a word for yet.

You don’t have to believe in intuitive ability for any of this to work. Think of imagination and intuition the way you think of speaking and singing — they come from the same place, use your physicality differently, and one can flow into the other. The mind is more than sufficient. And if the universe wants to leave something for you along the way — it will.

A few practical notes: do these sitting, lying down, or even walking — anywhere you can give your full attention. Not while driving. Not while operating anything that needs you elsewhere. Journal afterward if you’re inclined. The name of each journey is chosen without intention — look it up if you’re curious; symbols have a way of meaning something.

These are a gift. I hope you enjoy the journey.