The word €simple living€ has different meaning and values for individual. It can be define as living a simple life that is outwardly simpler and inwardly richer. Or in other words it just mean dispensing with the trappings the concept of modern life and homesteading a remote piece of land, raising goats and chickens, planting and gardening or hunting your food with a gun.
One of the best examples of simple living is €Amish group€. Amish people or Mennonites live in Pennsylvania and surrounding states. They form a cohesive cultural structure that is religiously observant and reject many trappings of modern culture. They are well-known for their piety, resistance to violence through nonresistance and their prizing of family and manual labor.
Amish people perception toward simple living is as follows:
€ They do not use electricity and modern technologies
€ They used travel on horse and buggy
€ They used to Buy fewer clothes
€ They generally avoid unnecessary material things.
€ They take part in many volunteer activities.
€ They prefer eating their dinner in candlelight.
€ They do gardening and farming
€ They use to make handmade gift items for special occasions
€ They regularly do prayer or meditation
€ They prefer home-cooked meals.
€ They wear simple, plain clothes, and wear no jewelry.
€ They light their homes with propane or kerosene lanterns.
Simple living concept could vary from religious communities to communities like intentional communities that adopt primitivism living standards, while suburban families decide to minimize their certain luxuries comfort. Some other famous personalities who believe in simple living concept are monks, nuns, Buddhists, and spiritual leaders such as Gandhi, Mother Theresa, St. Francis, and many more.
Since from past, there are many people who in search of spiritual growth and inner peace have established themselves arena that consists of simple space, clothing, and food to enhance their living standard. Simple living is not about just following some orthodox practices, but it stems from a desire to take control of one’s life, instead of taking the poisoned gifts of modern living.
Simple living has many benefits. Some of them are as follows:
€ It help in Lowering sown the consumption of goods and services that benefits the environment.
€ It helps in maintaining more economically sustainable lifestyle.
€ It help in enhancement of personal development
€ It help in reducing many crucial disease
€ It help us to live a stress full live
Simple living is very broad concept that one may adapt it to whatever suits their needs and empathetic. Someone Once Said – €Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.€