In this interview, Dr. Aravind Padmaraju recounts his dramatic transition from a senior IT executive in Dubai to a global healing coach. He describes a series of personal crises in late 2021—including deep depression, suicidal thoughts, massive financial loss, and the death of his wife—that forced him to confront the inadequacy of conventional self‑help advice such as "be positive" or "time heals". Through intense self‑reflection, surrender, and hiring a coach, he discovered that his outer circumstances were a direct reflection of his inner state. Drawing on teachings from Eckhart Tolle and other mentors, he argues that most healing work stays at a surface level and fails to address root causes, which he frames as a scientific process. Over the next two and a half years he rebuilt his life, creating multiple income streams, an investment firm, and a coaching business that now serves over 40,000 participants across 67+ countries. He explains core healing principles—acceptance, deep cleaning of internal "dead elements", and moving beyond time‑based or suppressive coping—and introduces his "breakthrough experience" program that promises root‑level change in three days. The conversation also touches on the broader problem of knowledge overload and the need for actionable implementation in personal development.
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Superb. So first, let us begin with very important question. How did your journey start? You know, you were working in IT, and from there, how did you land up becoming a global healer?
Yes, so the initial plan was I did— I never had a thought of becoming a healer or a coach. I think my own life journey, the majority of my work to learn the healing is to work on myself and fix my own life. I think the back in December 2021, when I was going to lowest phases of my life, I went into a deep depression, suicidal, and I had one of the financial breakdown. I lost majority of my savings, and on top of that, almost ₹1 crore of my investor's money trusting a friend. And that hit into the lowest moments of my life where I could not able to take. And the same month, I also asked to leave from the corporate job where I was working for a head of IT in one of the reputed company in Dubai. And during that time, I was trying for the jobs, nothing is happening. And one of the biggest thing is whatever has happened, I, I did not share my family. So my wife and my kids even know that what's going on. And I was going through alone and tried multiple methods, and I've gone through every self-help, uh, the book, and, you know, a lot of free content to consume. But what used to happen is everyone says be positive, everything will change. Yes, life will heal you, and, you know, try to divert your mind, everything will be correct. But, um, and also be positive and do a meditation therapy and everything will change. I started doing a lot of free content, I started used to consuming, and during this journey what I understood is When you are really in the painful layer, when you are really in the depression, when you are really in the deep lowest moments, positivity becomes a more painful part because you're not accepting. The pain is so real inside you, and I cannot just say be positive can change everything. That was the biggest frustration for me, and I tried every method— active meditation, passive meditation. During the time, whenever I do, I feel normal, but the moment I complete that meditation, I used to come back to the same pain again. The overthinking consistent. I was stuck in a constant overthinking, self-sabotaging, deep fear. All of these things were there. And after so much of research, and finally, I always do one thing from my childhood is anytime there's something happens, I surrender to the God. The God, please help me. I really want to come out of this because I, that was one of the lowest moments of my life. During that time when I was started discovering, finally I thought, Enough is enough of free content. Let me hire a coach. So that's how my journey started. From there, I understood that majority of the problems which has happened in my life, I was the reason. And then during this time, I unlocked the healing. What is the power of the healing? Why do we attract the things which we don't want? And I was very successful from outside. If anyone sees living in Dubai, being there for 10 years and having a very beautiful family and have the properties and everything and have a very good Position and everything, but there was always the emptiness inside. There is always proving to someone else. There is always looking for the validation, and this is what was driving. But during this phase, what I understood is majority of my life situations are happened because of me. Yes. And that was the most painful realization of my life. I always used to blame the world. The God is very hard on me. The God is punishing me. my other people are cheating me, because of them I'm going through the— and I always put the blame on others. And I thought that is why maybe my life— because I have multiple incidents like that. I lost my life partner in 2013, and I always, every incident happens, I used to say to the God, what else he can give?
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He's tested me everything, from me being into a small village where I came from a Telugu medium, not even having a good financial condition where I could not do the study. From there, I started with maybe ₹400 as my first salary, and from there to growing and everything. But there was always something unsettled inside. And during this process, what I identified is the healing is one of the foundational things which help you to change your inner state. And in— during this process, I found one of the powerful things. Your inner state reflects your outer state.
Exactly.
So whatever you're experiencing in your life, it is all happening because of the inner state condition right now. So there is a powerful thing which I also learned from Eckhart Tolle is you don't attract what you want, you attract what you are. So until and unless you are, it doesn't change inside and it doesn't fix. And during this journey, I have gone through multiple mentors. Because once I started seeing the transformation happening and I went into local, international mentors and all of them, and during the whole course what I found is majority of the work what we are doing has a surface level. No one is actually going to the root level, and that's what is fascinating me. And the majority of the healing, a lot of people think that it's a pseudoscience. You just close, do, everything happens. And I was very fascinated to understand the science behind it. So that's how I have built everything, and I found right now that, you know, healing is scientific. There is something happens. We will definitely discuss during the podcast. And I really wanted to tell the audience, if your life is in the trouble, that means universe wants to grow you beyond your current state. And there is one powerful thing which I always heard recently with one of the podcasts. Whenever there is a roadblock, it is giving you a direction, not the dead end. You need to take either right, left, up, down. You don't know. So you will unfold it if you see the meaning of it. And that's what I learned it. And then from that time, I started over a period of time when I started seeing the shift in my life, where I went from the bankruptcy being no money to even to clear my debt and all of that and that position. So last two and a half years, I have. Built 8 sources of income and then have multiple businesses. One is coaching and healing is my primary business, and I also have investment firm where we manage the HNI fund. And all these things happened magically. So there is one thing which I really understood is your inner state, as how well you nurture your inner state, creates how effort— uh, that effortlessly you create your future as well. So that's how. And then finally, during this phase, I also saw that a lot of people struggling. Because lot of people right now, the knowledge is not a problem.
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But the problem is they don't know the how to use that knowledge in a right way to whatever the problem you have in your life.
Exactly.
Yes, we are in we are in a world of knowledge overloaded. Implementation is going dead. So we want one technique to other technique to other technique to other technique. We just juggling. And lot of people are doing a healing, but they are not seeing the permanent shift. The problem. What I understood is there is a deeper level shift has to happen, and what I identified based on that, I created a system. That's what I help now, right now. And one of the things, once I started teaching this, as you already know that I started as a health coach, and then I did not find my own passion towards it, Zadran. But my, my whole journey is all about healing and how did I go on from every breakdown to how did I bounce back and how did I come back. So that's where I started working on understanding that, you know, the healing. Then last 2 years I've been doing a healing. So we have so far more than 40,000+ people across the globe, and we have 67+ countries people attend these sessions across the world. And we have the global healing community where every single day people log in. And we also created, um, the breakthrough experience where if any one of them to fix the root level So they can fix it in just three days. We just need to give three days. We go through some of the deeper practices to break them.
Wow! Such an inspiring journey, Arvind sir. And I mean that anybody who is watching this podcast, they would be like, "I want to be like you too." So thank you so much. And I truly agree with you that you know जब आपने you face something and then you bounce back. And I feel our mentors are same. Blair Singer always says this that anytime you overcome something. It becomes your responsibility to share it with the world.
Yes, ma'am.
So thank you for doing what you do. And I can just kind of imagine, and hats off to your journey that you have walked. You just said 40,000+ people, so it's like hats off. Thank you for doing what you do. So now let's talk about a very important concept in healing. You know, many people are aware about healing, but a lot of people say, I don't have time, I don't have money. So I feel still people do not Understand what exactly is healing and what is the importance of it. So could you throw light on the foundations first? Then we'll start going deeper into this.
Exactly. So lot of people thinks one of the biggest misconception what I also found is so far the society has told that whenever there is a negative experience or any kind of a breakdown happens, the first one is said time will heal everything.
Yes.
This is the first word you hear because when I when I had a biggest failure of Not failure, biggest tragedy of my life, losing my wife in the train accident. And I supposed to go with her and I was not there. And I was in the guilt that because of me she passed away. And I could not able to understand what was going my internal state. With no, for no reason, tears used to roll out. So much of pain, so much of everything. People used to say time will heal everything. And I left like that. And that pain is repeated 3 times after that incident. Because that guilt was never gone. And the second thing people will say, forget everything, which is no need. Forgetting is not a healing. And the third one, we people— a lot of people is they'll suppress it, they don't express it. I tried all these 3 things, and over a period of time, what happened, what I understood during this journey, is healing is all about accepting the part of you and letting go the perception you created because of that incident. That's a real healing. So for example, if you want to give it as a small analogy to— so that every audience who is watching to hear, just example, you're living in a home and you did not clean that home, or you did not there for maybe 6 months. While you're coming back, there's so much of bad smell is coming. There's dead elements inside your home. Maybe a dead rat is there and maybe a lot of dust is there. Will you be able to stay in that home?
No.
And you may be taking— thinking that I have a perfume, let me fix this with a perfume. So you applied a perfume one time, 2 times, 3 times. You may feel 2-3 minutes of relaxation. After that, you again feel it.
Yes.
And you maybe forget— you cannot forget this. Time will not heal that, uh, smell, whatever is there. And suppressing will not heal it.
Yes.
The shit is whatever is there inside the home, the bad Smell will never go. What, what should actually we need to do? We need to identify where is that dead element and we need to do the deep cleaning. Then you can relive in that home.
