139. You Are Your Own Guru: Meditation For The Masses with Light Watkins

The Life Stylist

Luke Storey

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Spirituality, Alternative Health, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2018

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

I didn’t start meditating to be cool – I started meditating to save my life. By 26 years old I loathed my very existence, and was trapped in a downward spiral of self-destruction. I’ve tried numerous methods of finding peace of mind using various practices of meditation, but Vedic meditation has been my Holy Grail.

I also know that meditation is one of the things you all are hungry to learn more about, so I sat down with Light Watkins, an author and Vedic teacher who wants to empower the everyman to meditate.

To help, Light wrote one of the best books I’ve ever read on the topic: Bliss More: How to Succeed in Meditation Without Really Trying. You can think of Bliss More as the meditation version of the The 4-Hour Workweek: lean, effective, and at home on a bio hacker’s bookshelf near you.

Some meditation practices and techniques are very specific and rigid, both physically and mentally. This is what a lot of people think of when they hear the word “meditation,” and in all honesty, those practices can be a struggle for the amateur who sincerely wants to make a daily practice out of meditation.

If you want to sit with your legs crossed on the floor for an hour, that’s fine! But that’s NOT necessary to achieve the best or most efficient results from meditation – you can’t focus your way to bliss.

Vedic meditation, on the other hand, is about reshaping the relationship with the mind to effortlessly experience fully-awake restful consciousness and its many physiological benefits.

“The mind is not the enemy. The mind is not the obstacle. The mind is actually your ally. The mind is noble.”

–Luke

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

Urban escape room & evasion course
How to succeed in meditation (without really trying)
Changing the conversation around meditation
Why Light’s book is accessible for the everyman & experienced practitioners
Reframing writing as a practice
Dealing with criticism (& laughing at negative reviews on Yelp)
How Light (a young man from Alabama) first got into meditation in the 90s
Experiencing Light’s first “meditation orgasm”
Thom Knoles, a maharishi (or pre-eminent master-teacher) of Vedic Meditation
Why meditation is only effective when it’s a daily practice
Becoming a good teacher (“You don’t have to beat Michael Jordan to coach him to a championship.”)
Training in India
Listening to our intuitive voice
Your energetic economy
Having many choices VS knowing the right choice (for you)
The early, rocky stages of a meditation practice
Stress relief & meditation
Fun fact: we all have the same number of thoughts
Appreciating beauty
Calming the fight or flight reaction
Why Light keeps his services accessible and affordable
How Light prays

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0:00.0	The Lifestylist, Episode 139, featuring Light Watkins.
0:26.1	I'm Luke Story, a former celebrity fashion stylist and founder of School of Style.
0:37.4	For the past 20 years, I've been relentlessly dedicated to my deepest passion, designing the ultimate lifestyle based on the most powerful principles of health and spirituality.
0:42.2	The Lifestyleist Podcast is a show dedicated to sharing my discoveries and the experts behind them with you.
0:52.1	You know where you are?
0:53.3	You're in the vortex of a little place called the Lifestyleist
0:56.4	podcast. And you're sitting here with perhaps the luckiest man in the world, myself, your host, Luke
1:01.4	Story. What makes me so lucky? The fact that I get to sit down with the most fascinating
1:06.5	people in the world and dive deep into their souls, their minds, and their knowledge basis,
1:12.3	and then share that information with you. And today's episode is no exception, because our
1:17.3	guest is Light Watkins, one of the world's foremost experts on Vedic meditation, which is
1:23.3	something I've been practicing for a number of years. But before we jump into that party,
1:27.7	I want to tell you about next week's episode with our lovely guest, Ms. Jasmine Hemsley,
1:33.1	from the UK. She's got a fantastic accent. She's brilliant. She's beautiful. She's an amazing
1:38.3	woman. And the episode is called East by West, Iyerveda meets paleo, conscious cuisine. Really cool stuff. So she's got a new
1:46.2	cookbook out and we talk all about the Ayurvedic approach to eating while adding animal products
1:51.6	into that system. Very interesting stuff. So you want to make sure and catch next Tuesday's show.
1:57.5	And an easy way to do that is just by subscribing to the podcast. It's kind of a no-brainer.
2:01.8	So open your podcast app right now, click subscribe, and you're done. Next up is my event at Bulletproof
2:08.3	Labs in Santa Monica, California at 6.30 p.m. on June 14th. That event is free. That's right.
2:14.5	Hala, can I get a witness? F-R-E-E-free, but you must RSVP. And to do so,
2:20.8	you can easily find that information at lukestory.com forward slash events. Next up, I want to let you
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