In this interview, Dr. Aravind Padmaraju recounts his personal collapse in late 2021—deep depression, suicidal thoughts, loss of personal savings and investors' money, and termination from a senior IT role in Dubai. He describes how conventional self‑help advice that emphasizes relentless positivity and surface‑level meditation only intensified his suffering because it denied the reality of his pain. Turning to a spiritual surrender and hiring a personal coach, he realized that he himself was the root cause of many of his life’s challenges. Drawing on insights from Eckhart Tolle, he concluded that inner state determines outer reality: you attract what you are, not what you want. He critiques mainstream positive‑psychology and coaching for staying at a superficial level and being dismissed as pseudoscience. To address this, he built a systematic, science‑informed healing framework that targets the root level of inner conditioning. Over the past two and a half years, this framework has helped more than 40,000 participants across 67+ countries, offering a three‑day breakthrough program that claims to produce lasting change. The approach also enabled Dr. Padmaraju to recover financially, creating eight income streams, an investment firm, and a global coaching business. He emphasizes that the current knowledge‑overload era suffers from an implementation gap; his system aims to translate knowledge into deep, sustainable inner transformation, thereby reshaping outer outcomes.
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And fix my own life. I think that 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 one crore rupees of my investors' money trusting a friend. And that hit into a 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. Head of IT in one of the reputed companies in Dubai. And during that time, I was trying for the jobs, nothing is happening. And one of the biggest things is whatever has happened, I, I did not share with my family. So my wife and my kids doesn't 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, 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 there, when you're really in a depression, when you're 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.
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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 a Dubai. been 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.
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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 am 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? 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 during this process, I found one of the powerful things. Your inner state reflects your outer state.
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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, there is some 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 thinks 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 a 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 2 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 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 a lot of people right now, the knowledge is not a problem, but the problem is they don't know how to use that knowledge in a right way to whatever the problem you have in your life.
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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're just juggling, and a lot of people are doing a healing, but they're 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. So drawn. 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 two years I've been doing a healing. So we have so far more than forty thousand plus people across the globe, and we have sixty seven plus 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. The breakthrough experience where if anyone 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. Is that, uh, anytime you overcome something, it becomes your responsibility to share it with the world. 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.
