![]() Start seeing everything you do (big and small) as an opportunity to reinforce the minimalist mindset, and make choices that support your desired mindset. In other words, you recognize that every choice you make is either supporting the lifestyle or taking away from the lifestyle. Like being in shape, minimalism continues to inform what you do, how you do it, where you go, why, and pretty much every other choice you make in life. It doesn’t end once you get rid of your stuff. Minimalism is less of an act, like Spring cleaning, and more of a lifestyle, like getting into shape. It’s minimalism practiced from the inside-out.ĭon’t treat minimalism as a one-time experience This is what is meant by Spiritual Minimalism. And until you start doing deeper work on yourself, you can live in the most minimal-looking setting, but still feel cluttered inside.Ĭommit to daily meditation as a means of efficiently releasing stress, and engage in other inner work, such as therapy, journaling, seva (service), and daily gratitude practices to clear away the internal clutter. And some of that could be the root cause of why you engage in retail therapy or why you may cling to stuff you don’t use or wear. Getting rid of clutter doesn’t resolve deep emotional wounds or past trauma. Otherwise, going too fast could prove to be unsustainable and discouraging. Maybe get a storage room and put a handful of items in it each week until you run out of things you don’t use. Decide what sort of end result you desire, and start experimenting with what it would be like to only use what you envision keeping. So in 2018, getting rid of my stuff was merely the final step in a long progression of steps. If this approach intrigues you, I want to share five common mistakes many new minimalists make-and a handful of simple recommendations to get you started on a more mindful, purposeful minimalism journey:Īlthough I completely emptied my entire two-bedroom apartment within 30 days, I had been intentionally prepping to live from a carry-on bag over the previous year by experimenting with taking only what I actually used while on my dozens of work trips. Truth be told, there are numerous ways to start, depending on your individual situation. Travel Light is written for those who also feel called to live with less, but you’re not sure where or how to start. And now, five-plus years later, I’m still happily living from a backpack as I continue to hop around the world, from hotels to Airbnbs to friends’ extra bedrooms. So I got rid of the carry-on bag and downsized into a backpack. It took me 30 days’ worth of yard sales and Craigslist posts to get rid of over four decades of furniture, art, photo albums, yearbooks, letters, clothing, knickknacks, winter coats, books, my cars, Vespa, and everything else.Īnd about six months into my nomadic journey, I realized something: I still had too much stuff. ![]() My bag would effectively become my new apartment as I would begin living nomadically around the world. Long story short, in 2018, I was living in a beautiful two-bedroom apartment in Venice Beach when I felt an inner calling to get rid of everything that didn’t fit inside of my 22-inch carry-on bag. ![]() My recent book Travel Light is a how-to guide for the practice of what I call “Spiritual Minimalism,” which is not to be confused with regular old minimalism. In addition, they discuss Tara’s teachings on the “trance of unworthiness” and how we can break free from it recognizing the secret beauty in others and mirroring it back relaxation for the go-getters working with difficult emotions how shame can become a portal to freedom the RAIN practice for self-compassion the power of the phrase “this belongs” the practice of “softening” in response to contractions of fear or anger and seeing the sacredness in all things. In this podcast, Tara Brach speaks with Sounds True founder Tami Simon about rediscovering the inner “gold” of our intrinsic goodness, love, and purity. She has a PhD in clinical psychology, is the founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington (IMCW), and is the author of Radical Acceptance, True Refuge, Radical Compassion, and most recently, Trusting the Gold. Tara Brach has been practicing and teaching meditation since 1975, as well as leading workshops and meditation retreats throughout North America and Europe. ![]()
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