If you practice cultivating happiness, cultivating fulfillment inside, you never have to think about your purpose.

You never have to think about your path. You never have to think about being comfortable and discomfort.

You never have to think about trying to be free when you don't have many choices.

You never have to think about giving what you want to receive. You never have to think about following your inner guidance.

And all the principles are experienced just as a byproduct of cultivating more fulfillment inside.

In other words, cultivate more fulfillment inside and just be yourself. Just be natural.

Welcome to the Drew Pro at Podcast. Each week we explore the inner workings of the brain and the body with one of the brightest minds and wellness medicine and mindset.

This week's guest is Light Walkings and we're here to talk about the seven core principles of spiritual and inner minimalism.

Now a little bit more about light. Light has been operating in the meditation space since 1998, first as a practitioner and then as an apprentice to his Vedic meditation teacher and finally as a teacher himself.

Light travels around the world, giving talks on happiness, mindfulness, inspiration and meditation, as well as leading popular meditation trainings and retreats.

Light's also the host of the popular podcast, the Light Walkings Show, and he has a daily email called Light's Daily Dose of Inspiration, which has hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

Light's TEDx Talk has generated nearly a million views, light's written multiple books in the past and his latest book is called Travel Light.

Spiritual Minimalism to Live a More Fulfilled Life and that's the topic of today's podcast.

Stay tuned for a fantastic conversation on how to lower stress and find more inner peace through the practice of spiritual minimalism.

Light Walkings, welcome back to the podcast, give a new book out, it's called Travel Light Spiritual Minimalism to Live a More Fulfilled Life.

Give us the big picture elevator pitch on spiritual minimalism. There's seven principles, but before we get in those seven principles, what's the elevator pitch and how can it make people's lives better?

The way we're doing minimalism is backwards, a lot of people are getting rid of stuff, maybe they read a book about minimalism or something, they say, I've got to get rid of all the things in my closet and I've got to go clean out the garage and they're thinking that if they get rid of everything externally that they're going to bring more peace internally.

Spiritual Minimalism is the opposite, it's becoming a minimalist from the inside out. In other words, be intentional about clearing out the internal clutter first and as a result, that'll inform how you move through your life externally.

And maybe it includes cleaning out the garage, maybe not, maybe it includes finally letting go of this toxic relationship you may be in or a soul sucking job you may be holding onto or an outdated belief system.

And so if you can have the most zen like external space, but if you're still holding onto an old outdated irrelevant relationship, then you're always going to be carrying that around with you, that clutter, that baggage and you're not going to really fill the peace that you think you're going to get from cleaning out the closet.

What are some other examples of clutter in our life that get in the way of us having inter happiness and peace?

Mostly trauma, you know, and what people would call stress, you know, so we experience stress on a daily basis and it can come through a variety of different ways, just maladapting to changes that you're experiencing, being under certain pressures, experiencing certain demands, overreacting, and so over time, you start to get rid of the pain.

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