244: How Shifting to a Spiritual Perspective Can Help You Find Clarity and Balance in Life: A Solo Episode with Light Watkins

The Light Watkins Show

Light Watkins

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

4.9 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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In this special solo episode of The Light Watkins Show, Light dives deep into the idea of looking at life from a broader, spiritual perspective. Drawing from over 20 years of experience as a meditation teacher and spiritual practitioner, Light shares insights on how to shift from the everyday “ground-level” view of life to what he calls the “spiritual perspective.”He explains how the ground-level perspective focuses on who did what, when, and why, often leading to stress, anxiety, and judgmen...

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0:00.0	From a spiritual perspective, there are no victims. There are no villains. There are no
0:08.6	villains. There are circumstances and situations that allow you to learn more about yourself.
0:17.0	And that takeaway that you may have from the experiences,
0:20.0	oh, I've been playing the victim, or I didn't have strong enough boundaries. I have done
0:26.4	that to someone else before in the past and now I get to see what it's like to have
0:30.3	it done to me. So that's the broader perspective to an ordinary life situation. It's not that you're
0:36.6	bypassing what happened, it's that you're just looking at it through a larger, broader lens. And this is a very intentional thing that we can do and
0:48.0	oftentimes when we read quote spiritual books a lot of times these books will echo the same general principles.
0:57.6	Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
1:01.8	And they resonate deeply. We hear hear it we read it and we go yeah that's
1:06.7	right that's definitely how I would like to be it's aspirational but in day-to-day
1:12.0	life we tend to get caught up in the ground-level experiences.
1:17.0	Hello friends, welcome back to the Light Watkins Show, I'm Light Watkins, and I love to interview
1:28.3	ordinary folks just like you and me who take an extraordinary leaps of faith in the direction of their path, their purpose,
1:35.6	or what they have identified as their mission in life, and in doing so, they've been able
1:40.6	to positively impact and inspire the lives of many other people who've either heard about their story or who've witnessed him in action or people who've directly benefited from their work.
1:51.6	And what I found after conducting hundreds of these
1:53.8	interviews with luminaries who have found their purpose in life is that there is
1:57.8	usually a moment where they hit upon some sort of internal crossroads where they could either go in one direction of fitting in, or they can go in another direction of being themselves.
2:08.0	And 99.9% of the time, the people who ended up finding their calling are the ones who chose
2:14.4	sometimes against all odds to be themselves. It's really that simple and think we
2:19.9	need to hear these stories over and over to build up the courage and the confidence and do the same thing in our lives,
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