Overview
About the event
Even as far back as Epicurius in the fourth century BC, the paradigm was believed that a happier life came from carefully considered choices, fewer complications and fewer possessions. From the biblical Nazirites and Jesus to Confucious, Buddha and Muhammed, spiritual leaders and teachers have often encouraged their followers to embrace a simpler, more frugal style of living.
In more modern times, environmental activists have also been proponents of simple living, with the ideas that using less of the earth�??s resources helps to preserve them for future generations.
But in addition to religious, moral and environmental convictions, there is the awareness that the world today moves so fast, it can be difficult to keep up with the forces all around. Technology drives everything at a speed that can make it easy to fall out of balance and into a lifestyle of stress, unhealth, exhaustion and dis-ease.
Simplify Your Life Weeks aims to remind people about what is truly important in the whole scheme of things. The event is meant to draw the attention back to the basics, allowing people to make reductions in a number of ways, including reducing stress, lowering their amount of busy-ness, reducing the number of possessions they have, and minimizing in other ways.
