Vishen Lakhiani

But of course it’s not just authority figures on the largest scale who dominate us. Interestingly, some people express feeling a sense of freedom after their parents die, because they finally feel able to follow their own desires, opinions, and goals, free of parental expectations and the pressure to conform to rules their parents approved of.

I sat down every morning and visualized my sales doubling. I felt the excitement I’d feel in advance and I’d celebrate hitting my targets as if it were already a done deal. I breathed deep and connected to my newfound relationship with my gut feeling. I started listening quietly for inner guidance so I could use it at work.

The meditation helped massively with my stress levels too, so I was on the ball from the get-go. I used my newfound levels of energy and empathy to connect, properly, with whoever picked up that phone, which did wonders for my customer rapport. Guess what happened?

You see, something somewhat inconvenient happens when you start to meditate.

You start to become a better person.

Meditation and intuition, I explained. There was a long pause.

Silva called this
approach “active” meditation

I left that seminar with the most peace I’d ever had in my life

Instead, I’d relax, go into my meditative state, tune into my intuition, and run my finger down those yellow pages; I’d stop when I got to a name that “felt” right.

Your life becomes more than just a question mark over how to get rich and impress your parents. When you meditate on a regular basis,
your focus slowly shifts from your own ego to something more meaningful. The most common but unexpected side effect of meditation is that you end up caring about humanity way more than you ever thought you could.

If meditation had brought me this far, maybe I could rely on it to take me where I was meant to go