#398 How To Find Happiness, Tune Into Your Intuition & Make Friends With Your Thoughts with Light Watkins
Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
Dr Rangan Chatterjee
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🗓️ 1 November 2023
⏱️ 134 minutes
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Summary
Could you live out of a single backpack? Not for a few weeks or months, but as a lifestyle choice? Well, five years ago, today’s guest gave up his luxury apartment, its contents, his cars and all his possessions – apart from those that fit into his trusty backpack.
Light Watkins has been practising daily meditation for 20 years and teaching it for 15. He’s a mindfulness expert and the bestselling author of four books. His latest book, Travel Light: Spiritual Minimalism to Live a More Fulfilled Life might sound like a guide to decluttering – and in some ways it is. But Light is not necessarily talking about us getting rid of our possessions, he’s trying to help us clear away our inner clutter - the mental baggage that weighs us down, so that we can better see the path to fulfilment and happiness.
Light believes that we should be following our hearts more, and our heads less. This involves knowing our values, tuning in to our curiosity and then taking small leaps of faith towards our purpose. He explains why a daily practice of stillness and contemplation is so important and shares practical advice that will help you make friends with your thoughts and turn your mind into your ally. He also explains how meditation works to dissolve stress and feed our intuition.
It really is a fantastic conversation that takes us to some really deep and meaningful places - we discuss whether time can ever really be wasted. Light talks us through his own minimalist fitness regime – and you’ll find out why he thinks meditation is like a Rubik’s Cube, as well as why he sometimes takes his showers fully clothed!
Above all, Light’s minimalist philosophy is about breaking free from the ‘achievements bring happiness’ approach to life and discovering that happiness really does come from within. I hope you enjoy listening.
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| 0:00.0 | In order to find your purpose a couple things need to happen you need to be |
| 0:04.7 | clear about your values and you want to follow through on your curiosity. So yeah |
| 0:09.7 | go work your job pay your bills and on top of that if there's anything that |
| 0:14.9 | makes you curious go and explore that it doesn't have to be some massive leap of |
| 0:20.0 | faith it's just be like a little hop of faith you know I get it the leap of |
| 0:23.2 | faith is scary but just one little action one little thing and if you can do |
| 0:27.6 | that it's going to lead you away from your comfort zone and into your growth |
| 0:31.6 | zone because that's where your path actually is. Hey guys how you doing? |
| 0:36.8 | How you having a good week so far? My name is Dr. Rungan Chatterjee and this is |
| 0:41.9 | my podcast feel better live more. Do you think that you could live out of a |
| 0:50.6 | single backpack not for a few weeks or months but as a semi-permanent lifestyle |
| 0:56.7 | choice? Well five years ago today's guest gave up his luxury apartment its |
| 1:03.0 | contents his cars and all his possessions apart from those that fit into his |
| 1:09.0 | trusty backpack like Watkins has been practicing daily meditation for 20 years |
| 1:14.4 | and teaching it for 15. He's a mindfulness expert and the best-selling author of |
| 1:20.1 | four books his mission in life is to help you discover yours. Now if you are |
| 1:26.6 | a long-time listener you may recall that light has been a guest on my podcast |
| 1:31.4 | on two previous occasions episode 23 which was a masterclass on meditation and |
| 1:37.9 | more recently on episode 195. The occasion for his third appearance is the |
| 1:44.5 | publication of his latest book Travel Light spiritual minimalism to live a |
| 1:50.2 | more fulfilled life. Now from the title you may think that this book is a guide |
| 1:55.2 | to decluttering and in some ways it is but light is not necessarily talking |
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