Simplicity has been around as a spiritual practice since before recorded history – and for good reason.
Simplicity is not about poverty, deprivation, or scarcity—it’s about eliminating excess in your life.
This excess in your life may take the form of belongings or activities or maybe you choose to simplify your diet, finances or social life—all the unnecessary things you can live without.
Our modern world is a place where many people have become caught in a cycle of complexity and non stop activity.
We are very much sold the idea that ‘more’ equals happiness. More money, better career, more events and excitement, more achievements. Meanwhile anxiety, obesity, addictions and depression are reaching epidemic levels in the parts of the world that are the most materially abundant.
Filling your life with lots of ‘things’ and activities keeps you in ‘doing’ mode all the time (both mentally and physically). In other words, it can greatly hinder your ability to be mindful.
Ultimately living simply is about opening up and making space in our lives – space to simply be.
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.” ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Rather than be constantly burdened by a complex, busy lifestyle full of constant activity, material clutter and concerns, simplicity encourages us to slow down and drink life in, savour it, to live all of our moments as if they truly mattered.
The Beauty of Simplicity
Any doctor will tell you that carrying extra weight around can have adverse effects on your health and well-being. Have you ever considered, though, how all those other unnecessary things in your life might affect you? How they might weigh you down?
By living simply you’re able to shed the excess ‘weight’ in your life. It lightens your inner space and opens up some much-needed breathing room. When this happens, you’re more able to retain your attention in the moment. You can truly be here for what is happening and how you are feeling.
This new spaciousness in your life often induces a state of mindfulness by default without extra training or effort on your part.
What arises in that still, silent inner space is a sense of joy, peace and aliveness that is not dependent on external things. This unshakable deep peace is the source of true fulfillment, contentment and wholeness. Knowing this, it’s easy to see the wisdom in the old saying that “ less is more”.
If you’d like to simplify today here is effective way you might like – 18 Ways to Simplify Your Life Today
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