Spiritual minimalism takes the principle of minimalism, which is essentially doing more with less.

Can you be more authentic by doing less? Can you find your path and your purpose by doing less?

And so the spiritual part is getting your cues from the inside as opposed to the outside.

Don't try to be present. Don't try to be happy. Don't try to be fulfilled. Just be yourself.

Give yourself permission to be yourself more, more, more, which means follow your curiosity.

And you'll end up along your purpose, which is what we all want. We all want to live in more

purposeful, more fulfilled life. It's just that you can't try to live a purposeful fulfilled life.

So minimalism. It has been a thing for the last, I don't know, decade or so,

getting rid of a ton of stuff in order to feel lighter, more empowered, less encumbered and free.

But oftentimes, even the giant stuff purge, it doesn't end up making you feel the way you hoped

you'd feel. So what's going on there? Well, my guest this weekend, old friend, Lightwackens,

suggests a bit of a different approach to lightening your life that he calls spiritual minimalism,

which is all about applying the ideals of minimalism and more, but in a deeper, more internal way.

And light would know, leaving behind a two bedroom apartment in LA and packed meditation

in yoga classes, he downsides his life into a single backpack and has been living that way joyfully

without yearning for more than five years now, while simultaneously traveling the world,

teaching, speaking, facilitating retreats, writing books and more. The thing is,

light's external shedding of stuff wasn't the real unlock key. It was the internal letting go,

the deeper spiritual practices and inner cleaning that laid the foundation for so much more

freedom, peace, and ease in his life long before the external shedding really took root.

In today's conversation, Light and I discuss this concept of spiritual minimalism shedding

internal distractions that prevent us from being fully ourselves, as shared in his wonderful

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