#108 - Light Watkins: The Man Who Taught Meghan Markle to Meditate
The Higher Self with Danny Morel
Danny Morel
4.6 • 780 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever wondered what coaches celebrities hire to help with their mindfulness journey?
Well, this week you're in for a treat as we feature the man who taught Meghan Markle how to meditate: Light Watkins. Light Watkins is a long-time meditation teacher and thought leader who has spoken and consulted at Fortune 500 companies around the world on the topics of wellness, purpose, and enlightened leadership.
This week, Light joins us to talk about how to master meditation in your daily routine and the common myths behind meditation.
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Light Watkins:
Light Watkins is a long-time meditation teacher and thought leader who has spoken and consulted at Fortune 500 companies around the world on the topics of wellness, purpose, and enlightened leadership.
He is the author of three best-sellers: The Inner Gym, Bliss More, and Knowing Where to Look, as well as the newly released Travel Light: Spiritual Minimalism to Live a More Fulfilled Life. Light has written a daily dose of inspiration email to his tens of thousands of subscribers.
He is the host of The Light Watkins Show, which is a podcast that features the backstory of luminaries who’ve created platforms for social good.
And in his online community, The Happiness Insiders, Light has created masterclasses and challenges to help spiritual practitioners around the globe embody the principles of “inner” work.
Light is a “one-bagger” who has been living nomadically since 2018.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lightwatkins
Website: https://www.lightwatkins.com/
Travel Light: https://www.lightwatkins.com/travel
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| 0:00.0 | Meditation, spirituality, and spiritual minimalism. |
| 0:04.0 | That's beautiful, to live a more fulfilled life. |
| 0:07.0 | That's what we're going to be talking about today |
| 0:09.0 | with my guests on this week's episode of the Higher Self, Light Watkins. |
| 0:14.0 | By the way, what a wonderful name. |
| 0:15.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:16.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:17.0 | What's the story behind that? |
| 0:18.0 | Let's start there. |
| 0:19.0 | Ah, man, I have been, okay, so first of all, I'm from Alabama. |
| 0:24.1 | So you know nobody's being called light by their parents. |
| 0:27.7 | Nobody's being, yeah, exactly. |
| 0:29.0 | In Alabama. |
| 0:30.2 | But no, it was the name that I actually took on back in 2005, so it's almost 20 years now |
| 0:36.6 | when I moved to Los Angeles. |
| 0:38.1 | Okay. |
| 0:38.8 | There's a little bit of a story behind it. |
| 0:40.1 | I'll give you the brief version of the story. |
| 0:41.6 | Okay, so I wasn't out looking to change my name, |
| 0:45.3 | even though that's what a lot of people do when they move to places like LA. |
| 0:48.1 | They rebrand themselves as something else. |
| 0:50.2 | I was actually having a conversation with a friend of mine in the farmer's market |
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