#249: Detox Your Mind by Stepping Into Minimalism with The Minimalists

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Dhru Purohit

Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 25 November 2021

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Detox Your Mind by Stepping Into Minimalism | This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and Cozy Earth. Imagine a life with less: less stuff, less clutter, less stress and debt and discontent—a life with fewer distractions. Now, imagine a life with more: more time, more meaningful relationships, more growth and contribution and contentment—a life of passion. What you’re imagining is an intentional life, and to get there, you’ll have to let go of some clutter that’s in the way. This week on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru sat down with Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus, known to their audience as The Minimalists, to talk about how to live a fuller, more meaningful life with less. In this episode, we dive into: -Consumerism (8:48) -The Packing Party (12:47) -The No Junk Rule (17:44) -The Just in Case Rule (22:35) -What is essential (34:24) -Not getting caught up in the next big thing (47:42) -Wait for It Rule (1:08:58) -Spontaneous Combustion Rule (1:10:45) -The 5 things to ask ourselves before buying something (1:16:59) -Setting boundaries around social media use (1:30:31) -Why debt-free is the new American dream (1:41:55) For more on The Minimalists, follow them on Instagram @theminimalists, on Facebook @theminimalists, on Twitter @theminimalists, on YouTube @theminimalists, and through their website https://www.theminimalists.com/. You can find their book, Love People, Use Things at https://www.theminimalists.com/lovepeopleusethings/. Listen to their podcast The Minimalists at https://www.theminimalists.com/podcast/. This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and Cozy Earth. InsideTracker looks at everything from metabolic and inflammatory markers to nutrients and hormones. Traditional lab tests can be hard to read on your own, but InsideTracker makes their results easy to understand and provides tips on how to use food first for optimal nutrition. Right now, they’re offering my podcast community 25% off. Just go to insidetracker.com/DHRU. If you’re looking for super comfortable and stylish men’s and women’s pajamas, joggers, robes, pullovers and hoodies, basically all the stuff we’re all wearing working from home these days, Cozy Earth has got you covered! So what’s Cozy Earth’s not-so-secret fabric that powers their superior comfort? It's the miracle plant bamboo! Right now, Cozy Earth is offering my audience 40% off. Just head over to cozyearth.com and use the discount code DHRUPODCAST. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And yet we're going around all the time trying to improve our lives by accumulating more, more, more, more.
0:07.4	We never stop to consider less and subtracting quite often uncovers that happiness, that piece,
0:14.2	that tranquility that's already there inside us.
0:16.6	Hi everyone, Drew Prod here. I have a question for you. Is the clutter in your brain potentially caused
0:24.0	by the clutter in your life? Maybe they're often can be a link. That's why we have the minimalist
0:32.7	Joshua and Ryan on the podcast day to talk about how minimalism, which is really all just about
0:39.5	essentialism, having the right things in your life, but not too much that it clutters your freaking
0:45.8	world, pollutes the environment, but also most importantly for this podcast, clutters your brain.
0:51.8	If you need a little detoxification, these guys are going to show you how to do it right by stepping
0:58.3	into minimalism. Stay tuned. Have you ever gone to your doctor for your normal annual physical?
1:05.9	And after sitting with them for 10 minutes, they quickly look at your labs and tell you,
1:11.4	hey, everything looks normal. Keep it up and I'll see you again next year. Maybe even give you a nice
1:16.8	little pat on the back. I can't tell you how many listeners the podcast have told me that they've
1:21.5	had this exact experience and how honestly how frustrating it can be. Now, we all know that normal
1:28.8	isn't always optimal just because something's not wrong doesn't mean that we feel great.
1:35.9	So traditional medicine is great at finding out when something is blatantly wrong, but they don't
1:41.8	always do the best job when we need to highlight how we can do better. So what if you could get
1:48.2	detailed nutritional and lifestyle guidance based on your individual needs? That's what inside
1:56.0	tracker does. Inside tracker was founded in 2009 by top scientists from acclaimed universities
2:02.9	in the field of aging, genetics and biometrics. Its mission is to help people live long, healthy,
2:09.3	productive lives by optimizing their bodies from the inside out. Inside tracker is cutting-edge
2:15.6	technology and it looks at your blood, DNA, lifestyle and it has fitness tracker data and they give
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