How to Stop Overthinking and Tune Into Your Inner Guidance with Light Watkins

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Dhru Purohit

Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 16 June 2022

⏱️ 107 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by Cozy Earth and Pendulum. A lot of people have fear around meditation. They don’t want to sit alone with their thoughts, and many times people give up because they feel like they can’t turn off their minds. But meditation isn’t actually about what happens while you sit with your eyes closed, and it’s not about turning off your mind. It’s about mind-full-ness—the noticing of the ebb and flow of your thoughts—and the benefits you get throughout the rest of your day. Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru sits down with our friend Light Watkins to talk about overcoming fear around meditation, creating space from our critical thought patterns, and getting intentional about our values, time, and relationships. Light has been operating in the meditation space since 1998, first as a practitioner, then as an apprentice to his Vedic Meditation teacher, and finally as a teacher himself. Prior to the pandemic, he was traveling the world from a single backpack and giving talks on happiness, mindfulness, inspiration, and meditation, as well as leading popular meditation trainings and retreats. In this episode, we dive into: -Breaking through hypercritical self-talk (1:11) -Why our mind is so active at night (12:32) -Light’s minimalist approach to social media (20:06) -Why self-discipline is about honesty (35:17) -How to tap into your inner guidance (37:18) -The importance of inner work when it comes to relationships (45:31) -How to cultivate happiness (1:07:15) -Light’s approach to meditation (1:11:51) -Spiritual minimalism (1:25:45) Also mentioned in this episode: -The Inner Gym: A 30-Day Workout for Strengthening Happiness -Knowing Where to Look: 108 Daily Doses of Inspiration -The Happiness Insiders For more on Light Watkins, follow him on Instagram @lightwatkins, Twitter @lightwatkins, and through his website, lightwatkins.com. Listen to his podcast, The Light Watkins Show at lightwatkins.com/podcast. This episode is brought to you by Cozy Earth and Pendulum. Cozy Earth are the most comfortable, temperature-regulating, and nontoxic sheets on the market. Right now, get 40% off your Cozy Earth sheets. Just head over to cozyearth.com and use code DHRU. Pendulum is the first company to figure out how to harness the amazing benefits of Akkermansia in a probiotic capsule. To receive 20% off your first purchase of Pendulum’s Akkermansia probiotic supplement, go to Pendulumlife.com and use code DHRU20. 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	People who have been insomniacs for years and after a week or two, they're sleeping at night.
0:05.1	And then do anything different other than sit down in the chair, close your eyes for 20 minutes
0:09.2	twice a day and meditate. Hi everyone, Drupal out here on today's podcast, we're talking about how
0:15.1	to step out of negative thought patterns, negative thought patterns that grip you, that take you over
0:22.7	critical, hyper-critical patterns that you not only have towards others, but mostly towards
0:28.8	yourself. How do you step into more kindness with yourself and not beat yourself up all the time?
0:34.1	This conversation that we're having today with my dear friend, Light Walkins, best-selling author
0:39.5	and meditation teacher to many high-profile individuals out there is a fascinating conversation
0:47.1	about how to step out beyond your mind to squash negative thought patterns, to stop becoming
0:54.4	hyper-critical of yourself to reduce comparison if you're constantly comparing yourself to other
1:00.1	people thinking that they have it figured out and you don't, this conversation is for you.
1:07.7	Light, welcome back on the podcast, it's a pleasure to have you here. I want to jump right in and
1:12.3	I want to talk about when people come to you and they say, I'm hyper-critical of myself.
1:18.1	I beat myself up all the time. What do you as a meditation teacher for now? How many years?
1:25.6	I've been doing a skyish man for over 15, almost 20 years. So as a best-selling author, meditation
1:33.2	teacher for 15 years, somebody comes up to you and says, I'm hyper-critical on myself. I beat myself
1:38.4	up all the time. Why do I do that and what should I do? What do you say? Well, first of all, we're all
1:45.5	somewhat critical of ourselves. What a practice like meditation does is it creates space in between
1:52.8	the criticism and our true identity. If someone hasn't created that space, then there's a good
2:01.2	chance that they're attaching their identity to those hyper-critical thoughts. If I hear someone
2:10.0	who's doing that, what it tells me is that they haven't really been investing in their inner work.
2:14.9	Let's just be completely 100 about it. We spend so much time, attention, energy focus on
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