Light Watkins has been living a minimalist lifestyle for 4 years, living from a backpack, and has found this to be one way to enhance his spiritual evolution.
Light is a renowned Vedic Meditation teacher, bestselling author and keynote speaker who is now integrating Spiritual Minimalism into his life and teachings.
The Spiritual Minimalist approach differs from “mainstream minimalism” and creates impactful positive change in our communities and the world at large.
You’ll hear about the backpack that Light has been living from for the past few years, and get a peek into the minimalist lifestyle he embraces.
This episode is filled with insightful and rich wisdom, where simplicity meets abundance, and deeper contentment is found in the smallest of places.
ABOUT OUR GUEST: LIGHT WATKINS
Light Watkins is a bestselling author, an accomplished meditation teacher, founder of The Shine Movement, and an inspirational keynote speaker and workshop leader. He has delivered over 500 wellness-themed talks around the globe since 2007.
He also has been living out of a backpack for the past few years and is a nomadic. You wouldn’t know it.
But there are lessons to learn from these practices and minimalist philosophy.
IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS:
Table of Contents
Exercise As An Essential Component Of The Daily Routine
Lights experience with exercising during the C-19 pandemic and developing a minimalist & yet very effective workout routine that doesn’t involve weights.
The importance of working out or performing some type of physical exercise for the body and mind.
Spiritual Minimalism
The idea of living and pursuing a minimalist lifestyle while actively experiencing an expansion of consciousness.
The focus is not so much on the “getting rid of most of your things” part, but on finding true contentment and peace while living the minimalist lifestyle.
When you go from a state of comfort to one of discomfort but your internal consciousness state remains unchanged, that’s when one has mastered the art of Spiritual Minimalism.
The Life Of A “Modern-Day Hunter-Gatherer”
Light’s approach to life resembles that of the ancient hunter gatherers.
He doesn’t stay for too long in one place, carries with him only the things that are relevant for him to have during that period, and sheds all the things which are no longer useful in that time and place.
He has been essentially living for the past 4 years off a backpack + objects he borrows or rents for a short while.
Inner Guidance & How To Reconnect With Our Purpose In Life
The mechanisms by which one becomes capable of listening to the faint voice of the Inner Guidance and the tools that allow one to dial up the volume of that voice.
How to make Inner-work fit our busy daily routines.
Meditation & How To Create Positive Change In The World
Light has made it his life’s mission to bring the gift of Vedic Meditation to as many people as he possibly can. Not only by teaching it regularly, but by writing books about meditation and its core principles and speaking in far-reaching platforms like TED Talks and various podcasts world wide.
Light eloquently breaks down the impact that meditation and doing the inner work can have on our communities and the world at large.
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