Reinvention, Meditation and Bliss: Light Watkins
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2018
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Former Gap fashion model, Light Watkins, began yoga and meditation in-between casting calls in New York City during the late nineties. It opened him to a different worldview and set of practices that would change not only the trajectory of his career, but also his path in life. Deepening his practice, traveling and spending time in India and then apprenticing with his Vedic Meditation teacher, Watkins became a full-time Vedic Meditation teacher in 2007. He now travels the world speaking on happiness, mindfulness, inspiration, and meditation. Light’s most recent book, Bliss More: How to Succeed in Meditation Without Really Trying invites people into meditation in a very accessible way. And, he also produces The Shine—a global pop-up inspirational variety show with a mission to inspire that actually started as a local dinner gathering.
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:03.0 | Concepts like, you know, money can't buy love, money can't buy happiness. |
| 0:08.0 | We all agree with that, you know, intellectually, but that's not how we live our lives. |
| 0:12.0 | Because that's not how it looks in the movies we watch. |
| 0:15.0 | That's not how it operates at work. |
| 0:17.0 | We don't get rewarded for being the most fulfilled person. |
| 0:20.0 | We get rewarded for achieving bottom line goals. |
| 0:24.0 | Music |
| 0:27.0 | So my guest today, Light Watkins, lived the entire first part of his life under a different name. |
| 0:34.0 | And then in his mid-20s, he had a bit of an awakening, moved west, and started to ask the big questions. |
| 0:41.0 | But truth is, he started to ask the big questions from the time he was pretty young. |
| 0:46.0 | This was just sort of a fiercer commitment to discovery. |
| 0:51.0 | And that led him down the path of yoga and eventually meditation and many trips back and forth to India. |
| 0:57.0 | He has since become a highly sought after meditation teacher and explored a lot of different paths and really devoted himself to trying to understand |
| 1:06.0 | how do you create an on ramp for the average person to experience this thing in a way where they feel something, they feel welcome to it, they feel successful. |
| 1:19.0 | That led him to write a book called More Bliss. |
| 1:22.0 | We dive into some of the ideas in that book today, but a bigger picture we dive into his journey. |
| 1:27.0 | We also explore how somebody who kind of started off his early career as a model, sort of making a name as one of the faces of gap. |
| 1:37.0 | And then went on this path of seeking. |
| 1:40.0 | Also, what was really happening when he chose the path of modeling? |
| 1:45.0 | The reason he went into that career may surprise you. |
| 1:49.0 | I'm Jonathan Fields and this is Good Life Prom. |
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