Why Was I Losing Interest in Everything—Career, Family, and Friends?

And One Practice That Ended My Anxiety and Saved My Life

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Faced Profound Failure, Loss, or Pain Recently?

This article is for you if you are slowly losing interest in everything: Interest in the World, Career, Family, and Friends.

You might have faced profound failure, loss, or pain that awakened you from the mind's suffering and almost forced you to explore spirituality. It might also be possible that even your greatest success felt hollow and meaningless to you, so it turned out to be a failure, and you lost interest in everything.

-Aby Vohra

How I Lost Everything in August 2008

In August 2008, near my 30th birthday and during the financial recession, I lost everything I had worked so hard to achieve. This profound loss and suffering drew me to the spiritual dimension, leading to a profound shift in my consciousness. It's been almost sixteen years now.

Slowly and gradually, I lost my mind and its conditioning, literally.

I spent much of my past life as a real estate entrepreneur in several countries. Born into extreme poverty in India, I grew up struggling to meet even the basic necessities of life. In 1980s my dad was an auto-rickshaw driver in an Indian city called Ahmedabad. He used to earn the equivalent of three dollars every day. He was a God figure to me. My dad was uneducated but one of the most selfless, humble, and caring people I know. This challenging upbringing conditioned my Ego to feel scarcity and fear around money, driving me to work tirelessly to become "somebody" and achieve various goals.

In hindsight, I feel blessed by those harsh childhood conditions, seeing them as God's grace in disguise.

Intense Awakening While Reading the Book "The Power of Now"

Coming back to August 2008 in Dubai, UAE, when I was 30 years old, I was feeling absolutely miserable and did not sleep well for three months or so. My real estate company was going down due to the financial recession after years of my efforts. My mind was creating horror stories about the destruction of my business, one after another, and I had no peace!

During that intense suffering, I encountered one moment that changed my life forever. I realized my first spiritual awakening shift while reading a sentence on page 53, in the book "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle.

That statement was, “Focus your attention now and tell me what problem you have at this moment.”

Here is the page 53 of the book

To explain my awakening in short:

As I read that statement with intense attention in the book The Power of Now

My Mind Suddenly Stopped.

No Thoughts.

Just Still Silent, and all thoughts Disappeared.

After that awakening experience, the financial recession destroyed my business, and it was indeed a blessing in disguise.

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