Ep 156 - How to find inspiration everywhere with Light Watkins

My guest today is internationally acclaimed meditation teacher, speaker, and author Light Watkins.

I’ve been looking forward to this conversation for a really long time having followed Light’s work for a while now. I think you’ll agree with me that he has an incredibly calming and grounding energy that I hope in turn helps you feel those qualities while you listen.

Light explains how he committed to sending out a daily dose of inspiration everyday to his email list beginning from 2016. Some of those emails have now come together in Light’s new book, Knowing Where to Look, 108 daily doses of inspiration.

We talk about the power of consistency and what it took to send out a daily email like that. And also how it is possible to find inspiration wherever we look. Light shares how we can all find inspiration just by training ourselves to look for it. I talk about that a lot, that what we focus on gets bigger. This isn’t about ignoring those challenging feelings and the hard stuff at all. We have to process that. We just also need to be able to hold the duality of focusing on what is good as well.

We chat about:

• The power of consistency

• How to find inspiration wherever we look

• His new book Knowing Where to Look, 108 daily doses of inspiration

Follow the expansive voice over the contracted voice.

- Light Watkins

As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram, so come and join us there.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• More about Light - website

• Knowing Where to Look: 108 Daily Doses of Inspiration - book

• Tunnel, Light’s podcast

• Daily inspirations - Instagram
  

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About Light Watkins

Light Watkins first began attending yoga and meditation classes in the late 1990s in New York City while working as a fashion model. In 2003, after a chance encounter with a very gifted meditation teacher, Light felt inspired to become a meditation teacher himself.

He apprenticed with his teacher for several years in Los Angeles, and in 2007, he joined his teacher in India to be trained in the ancient ways of teaching meditation.

Since 2007, Light has personally taught thousands of people from all walks of life how to enjoy a daily meditation practice in a self-sufficient way, and he's positively impacted many more practitioners through his books, videos and popular TEDx talk on the 5 Most Common Meditation Myths.

His current book Knowing Where to Look: 108 Daily Doses of Inspiration is based on the popular daily inspiration emails that light has been sending out each morning since 2016.