174: Light Watkins Solo Episode: Why Changing Your Internal Story Will Change Your Life

The Light Watkins Show

Light Watkins

Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Education

4.9 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Everything in life is a story. From birth, we project stories onto our lives of what we want, how we think the world operates, and what we think we deserve from our time on Earth.These stories may be our own, but we often adopt the stories of those around us usually in the hopes of fitting in, and often to detrimental effect. How we interpret and use these stories will determine whether we are living a life of presence and gratitude or one riddled with avoidable tribulations.Welcome to Light’...

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0:00.0	When we start to delve deeper into these more esoteric philosophies, you know, it's really easy to pick those apart and look for evidence at the surface level to discount or discredit this idea that we're all one.
0:16.0	Okay, well if we're all one, then why are people killing each other?
0:19.0	If we're all one, then why is there so much suffering in the world?
0:24.3	Who would choose to be sex trafficked if reincarnation
0:28.9	was an actual thing, or if spirits were an actual thing, or if
0:32.6	Carmel was an actual thing or if Carmel was an actual thing.
0:34.2	Who would choose to have some of these really horrible experiences?
0:38.2	Who wouldn't want to be a billionaire and be comfortable and have a mansion and
0:42.1	fleet of Ferraris and assistants and all of the things
0:46.2	that we now equate with success in our society. Hey friend, welcome back to the Light Watkins show where I interview ordinary folks just like
1:00.0	you and me who have taken extraordinary leaps of faith in the direction of their
1:04.3	path, their purpose, or what they've identified as their mission. And in doing so
1:10.1	they've been able to positively impact and inspire the lives of many other people who've either heard about their story or who've witnessed them in action or people who've directly benefited from their work. And today we have a solo episode where I am going to talk about the power of story.
1:28.0	There was an incident that happened to me when I was just a young child that made me realize how powerful stories are and I want to share that experience with you in this episode, but I'm also sure that similar things have happened with you as well.
1:43.0	Maybe as a child or as a teenager as a young adult,
1:46.0	you bought into a story that as a mature adult,
1:50.0	you now are able to question and when we realize that we've been misled by a story as an adult,
1:58.0	the tendency is to discount or even reject all of the stories as BS or fake news.
2:05.0	But the other way we can go with it is we can use stories to empower ourselves
2:11.0	and to begin creating the type of life that we ultimately want to live.
2:16.0	Because scientifically speaking, there's this thing called the placebo effect, which is really just a story.
2:22.0	And it's reported to be, get this, 40% effective, which means that
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