I had a somewhat uncomfortable realization the other day while reviewing my Substack.

Going through my posts, I saw a pattern. While every word I have written comes from my true lived experience, taken together, my writing could still easily leave the impression that somehow, I have “arrived” in life with some kind of finality… all on my own, unassisted.

The moment I noticed it, something within me felt incomplete.

No meaningful realization comes about in isolation. Of course, I’ve had guidance and help… more of the unseen kind than the seen. We all do! And yet, in writing about my life and lessons, I have said very little about the teachers and great ones who continue to shape the person I am, and the life I live.

That omission feels worth correcting.

As I sit here mentally debating whether this omission was conscious or unconscious, I also find myself energized by the thought of finally introducing you to my key influences, whose work has had the deepest impact on me.

So, here it goes:

Since childhood, I’ve had an innate quest to know the Absolute Truth. Call it God, the Universe, the Highest Power, Supreme Intelligence, or anything else you like.

Growing up in India, where daily life often feels infused with a spiritual undercurrent, while my inner quest itself never felt unnatural, I was rarely expressive about it. People in India are generally quite open about their belief systems (at times, a little too much!). I, on the other hand, carried a certain unease and intensity that I kept largely to myself.

Looking back, my spiritual quest was at its peak during my late teens. I was inwardly convinced then (and still am today) that whatever and whoever this Higher Power is, IT HAS TO BE ALL-INCLUSIVE… that it cannot belong exclusively to one religion, one tradition, one culture, or one path.

I had always known within unquestionably that any path that proudly declares itself as being superior while looking down on another is probably not the right path to the Supreme Power at all. What troubled me deeply was the differences and divisions between religions, belief systems, and anything with a superiority-inferiority play.

In the midst of that inner confusion in the late 90s, I encountered my first breakthrough influence.

While working on a university assignment, a classmate introduced me to the book, “Autobiography of a Yogi” by Paramahansa Yogananda. The book arrived at exactly the right time. It cut through the spiritual turbulence I was experiencing, and showed me a definitive path to the Absolute Truth that I was seeking. The book answered numerous questions that I had been carrying for years, and introduced me to the spiritual side of Yoga (a term that goes far beyond physical postures/asanas, and quite literally means union with Self, the God within). I even discovered the actual meaning of my name, Rishi, in a footnote of the book!

I don’t claim to be a model student of the path of Self-realization Paramahansa Yogananda teaches. Yet his influence has remained one of the most enduring forces in my life.

To this day, Autobiography of a Yogi remains one of the very few books I have read cover to cover. That says something, considering I have always preferred experience to theory.

My second major influence arrived much later, in 2016.

I was between jobs at the time, and yet in a strangely calm and transformative phase. I wrote about this period of my life in my first Subastack post, “The Quiet Shift that Changed Everything for Me”. In that post, I referred to “a chain of seemingly serendipitous events” that drew me into a dimension of understanding I knew very little about.

That chain began with a friend in Australia who suggested I explore the work of Bob Proctor, a leader in personal development. I watched several of Bob’ videos on YouTube. Intrigued, I enrolled in one of his programs and ended up in a Facebook group for participants.

Here’s where things got interesting: During a discussion about books, someone in the group mentioned “Ask and It Is Given” by Abraham Hicks. Again, intrigued, I bought the book. While I greatly admired Bob’s work, and still do, I found myself resonating much more deeply with the teachings of Abraham Hicks, soaking all the wisdom like a sponge.

I also learnt that the law of attraction isn’t about brute-force visualization, affirmations, dream boards, and mental gymnastics. Your Inner Being is your deeply invested partner in the manifestation process, and your emotional state is an indicator of your alignment with your Inner Being.

Through Abraham’s teachings, I finally saw how our emotions are guidance from Source itself, and how by consciously learning to be happy and appreciative, we can be in the receiving mode that lets in what we want to achieve. Seeing from Abraham’s lens, I gained a new understanding of how the concepts of “surrender” and “unconditional happiness” that the ancient Indian scriptures emphasize, are not about painful renunciation, but the giving up of inner resistance. I could see the results of the teachings first-hand, leaving no room for mere intellectual theories.

Now, getting back to addressing whether not mentioning Yogananda or Abraham was a conscious or unconscious thing. I am able to see the following three reasons at play:

• Centuries of abuse of religious and spiritual authority has taught us to keep our belief systems either scientific, or strictly private. So, the part of us that seeks external validation shies away from acknowledging “abstract influences” for fear of being socially ostracized.

• In striving to carve out a place for ourselves in this world, we tend to project ourselves as experts who’ve discovered answers to difficult problems “on our own”. We quietly fear that the world will think less of us if we attribute our wisdom to a Higher Source, the Universe, or other great ones.

• Sometimes, it may be too early to acknowledge those who’ve influenced our journey, as we’re still exploring and testing various teachings and belief systems. Endorse an influence then would be premature.

For me it was a mix of all three reasons. Thankfully, I am at a place in my journey where I feel comfortable sharing the influences that have shaped me. In fact, writing this leaves me with an unexpected sense of relief.

I can’t thank enough all these wonderful teachers and Masters whose paths have intersected with mine.

Perhaps that is how guidance often arrives.

Quietly at first. Then, one day, you look back and realize it changed everything.

If this resonated, don’t leave it here. You’re welcome to share it, reflect on it, or tell me what it stirred in you. I read every reply personally.

Rishi
@thefeelingeye

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Most high-achievers have a productivity obsession.

They wake up at 5 AM. Track metrics. Optimize workflows. They read seven business books a year and attend five conferences. And yet, something still feels off.

The thing they want doesn’t arrive. Ideas stays stuck. The career pivot feels perpetually 2-3 months away.

What I’ve realized after watching this pattern in myself and dozens of successful people is this:

Your action strategy… the algorithm you follow… is never the problem. Your state is.

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Why You Fail Despite Following Precise Algorithms

We’re taught that getting what we want works something like this formula:

1. Identify what you want (clarity)

2. Measure where you are and where you want to be (gap)

3. Make a plan to close this gap (strategy)

4. Execute the plan (action)

5. Receive the result (win)

Clean, linear, and logical… right?

Except reality doesn’t work that way.

Reality is more like a mirror. It reflects back the state you’re in. It has little to do with the plans you’ve made or the hours you’ve worked.

You can have the perfect plan and stay stuck for months (or years) because you’re executing it from a state of urgency, pain, doubt, desperation.

Or you can have no plan at all and watch opportunities appear because you’re operating from a state of ease, trust, and alignment. This is a place where you aren’t necessary clear about everything, but feel inwardly reassured that the outcome will be favorable for you.

Same effort. Completely different results. This is what nobody talks about in productivity and hustle culture.

Two People, Same Action, Different Outcomes

Let me give you a concrete example.

Two professionals send the same email to the same client, word for word.

One was sent by someone thinking: “I hope they respond. I really need this deal. What if they don’t like my pitch?” (Desperate state)

The other was sent by someone thinking: “This is a good fit. They’ll see the value. If not, someone else will.” (Aligned state)

Both emails are identical. The outcome? Completely different.

One gets ignored. The other gets a response within 2 hours. All because the vibration behind the email was different.

Reality responds to your vibration… to your feeling as you do things, not your raw effort.

You can’t think your way into alignment. You have to feel your way there. Most people do the opposite. They think harder, plan continuously, visualize more, repeat affirmations louder… all trying to think themselves into the right state.

But thinking about being confident is not the same as being confident. Thinking about abundance is not the same as feeling abundant. The gap between thinking and feeling is where most people get stuck.

Why This Matters

I’m sharing this because I’ve been there. I spent years overthinking my way out of alignment.

I had the knowledge. I knew what I wanted. I read the “manifestation books.” But I was thinking about alignment instead of being in it.

And, of course, nothing moved until I realized that the state arrives first. Everything else follows.

You don’t get into alignment because you’ve finally figured everything out. You get into alignment when you stop trying to figure it all out. That’s the paradox that changes everything.

That’s the “life work”, really.

If this resonated, restack it. Share it. Or just sit with it. All is well.

Rishi

@thefeelingeye

PS: What’s Coming

I’ve been distilling the most practical tools for creating alignment, without emotional heaviness. Simple switches you can use the moment you feel stuck.

This isn’t theory, but application. Designed for people like you—already successful but tired of forcing, or working relentlessly toward something that still feels just out of reach.

If you’ve been stuck between knowing what you want and actually being in the state to have it, this is for you. Stay tuned.

There are two versions of you.

Version 1 lives in the privacy of your mind. Real thoughts. Real doubts. Real desires. Wonders if you’re on the right path. Feels things you’re “not supposed to” feel. Has the “usual” fears and anxieties.

Version 2 is what everyone sees. Carefully built. Socially appropriate (mostly). Has it all figured out. Produces results. Looks good on the outside.

The gap between these versions is exhausting. Ever felt it?

How the gap gets created

I don’t think anyone sits down and decides to create a false self. That’s not how it happens.

It starts small. When you’re young, you learn which parts of you are “acceptable” and which aren’t. You observe that the ambitious part gets praised. The vulnerable part gets dismissed. The sensitive part is too much. The part that needs rest is lazy.

So you start editing and adjusting who you are… sometimes subconsciously. You start emphasizing the parts that get approved, and minimizing those that don’t.

By the time you’re an adult, this editing has become so automatic that you forget you’re doing it.

The ‘social’ version, Version 2, feels like the real you. And the actual you, Version 1, with all the contradictions, the doubts, the parts that don’t fit the story, gets locked away.

But it doesn’t stay quiet. The sound of the gap gets louder and more desperate, trying to get your attention through anxiety, through that nagging sense that something is fundamentally wrong.

The real cost

Living split like this drains you dry.

Nobody knows the real you. It also leaves you confused over time, and you don’t know the real you anymore.

You make decisions based on what looks good instead of what feels right. You build a career based on what you’re supposed to want instead of what actually fires you up. You maintain relationships based on acceptable social constructs instead of genuine connection.

The bigger the gap, the more exhausted you become. You’re literally maintaining two separate lives, and they’re pulling in opposite directions.

I used to think I could close the gap by becoming better at the ‘social’ version. Exceed everyone’s expectations. Get more impressive. Build a bigger audience. Achieve more. Do everything right. Be that nice guy.

I thought if the achievement was big enough, maybe I’ll feel more complete. I never did. Because you can’t fill a void by stacking things on top of it. You have to address the void itself.

How you can close the gap

The gap closes when you’re willing to be seen as you actually are. You have to find what authenticity looks like for you.

Mostly, the authentic you is somewhere between the sorted and the not-so-sorted version of you… a still-figuring-it-out person who’s part “angel”, part “devil”… at times messy and contradictory.

And that requires accepting yourself as work in progress.

To start closing the gap, you have to be willing to lose the safety of social acceptance and validation. Not everyone around you will “get it”. You may be misunderstood and judged, you’ll have to be willing to be okay with the rejections that accompany that journey.

That’s HARD, and takes REAL COURAGE. But what I’ve learned is that’s the only authentic way to live and be at peace with yourself.

What closes the gap is a conscious choice. A choice to build your life around what’s actually true for you instead of what looks good from the outside. This is a choice to let yourself be seen.

It looks like small things at first. Having real boundaries, saying no to something that doesn’t align even though it looks good. Saying yes to something that fires you up even though it’s risky. Sharing something real when your instinct is to keep peace by staying silent.

Gradually, the gap gets smaller. The outer version and the inner version start to converge.

The magical moment

Then it happens.

You realize those inner whispers… the instincts you dismissed for validation… were always right.

That’s your Feeling Eye. Your true guidance.

The world doesn’t magically fix itself.

But you discover an authenticity no external validation can touch.

The world keeps doing what it does. But you are at ease, and at home within.

Feeling this tension? Reply: “My gap is [x]”. I read every comment.

If this resonated, restack it. Share it. Or just sit with it. All is well.

Rishi

@thefeelingeye

If you’re like me, you’ve likely invested in innumerable courses, costing hundreds or thousands of dollars. Courses that promised to take you from wherever you are to where you dream to be, regardless of your current state.

Some worked. Most didn’t.

And I’m sure you’ve asked yourself the same question I did:

“If this course is legit, well-designed, methodical, and proven… why isn’t it working for me?”

This piece is not about the scammy stuff. We’ll leave that aside.

This is about the good courses. The sincere ones.

The ones that do work… for some people, not always for you.

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So what’s actually going on?

Let me answer from what I’ll call a vibrational perspective.

Have you ever met someone contagiously happy, and when you found out what made them happy, you couldn’t squeeze a single drop of joy from the same thing?

Or discovered someone’s “secret” business model that made them wildly successful, but the very thought of doing that work made you cringe?

Same thing. Different response.

Why?

Because they were a match to the thing. You weren’t.

Music that lifts one person can irritate another. Cars, fashion, money, spirituality… what lights someone up can leave someone else completely cold.

These examples may sound simple, almost trivial. But they point to something most of us miss entirely:

We don’t just need to resonate with a result.
We need to resonate with the path that leads to it.

And when the path feels wrong, heavy, or draining, no amount of hard work and discipline can make it satisfying.

Even if you reach the result through brute force, something feels off.

Why courses stop working for so many of us

The course material may be solid and the logic sound, but often there’s a hidden mismatch. This is where most personal transformation courses lose people.

Most people choose courses based on promised outcomes, testimonials, guarantees, logic, systems, algorithms, steps, and frameworks. And that seems reasonable. But the truth is:

Results are not enough.

The path matters more. MUCH more.

If you resonate with the result but detest the path, the course will almost certainly stall for you.

The course creator may even guarantee results, saying that if you did EXACTLY what they tell you to… still it won’t work for you.

You’ll procrastinate. You’ll inwardly resist, and “fall behind.”

And then you’ll watch other students fly past you, wondering what’s wrong with you. Nothing is. They’re not necessarily better than you. They’re just more aligned with the path the course requires.

What most course marketing doesn’t show you

Most course creators sell the destination, not the journey (even if they say they do). And this makes choosing the right course difficult.

There’s testimonial after testimonial, outcome after outcome, but very little visibility into the emotional tone of the work, the kind of energy it requires, and the inner posture you’ll need to maintain.

But you buy in anyway. Only after you access the material do you realize:

“I don’t actually like the way this course asks me to move.”

At that point, resistance sets in. And resistance is where your transformation breaks down.

Here’s a nuance, so you don’t end up rejecting every course

Even courses you feel deeply aligned with will contain parts you don’t like. Parts that irritate you, challenge you, and create some inner dissonance.

That’s unavoidable.

The moment resistance appears, the odds of the course “not working” increase exponentially, unless you know how to meet that resistance differently.

So what should you actually do?

It comes down to just two things.

1. Choose courses by resonance, not just logic.

Don’t ask only:

• Does this make sense?

• Is this proven?

• Does it have systems, steps, processes, and algorithms?

Ask instead:

• How does this course make me feel?

• Do I resonate with the actions and behaviors this course requires of me?

• Can I see myself enjoying the process, not just the promised result?

• Remember, guarantees mean nothing if the path feels wrong.

2. When resistance shows up, change your relationship to it.

When you hit a step that creates discomfort… something you don’t want to do, or fundamentally disagree with… don’t force your way through it.

Pause. Breathe. Open yourself up and ask:

“What’s a better attitude I can bring to this?”

“What is this moment asking me to see differently?”

Then proceed… from intuition, not obligation or brute force… from what your own feeling eye tells you.

If you take nothing else from this, let it be this:

Courses fail because your state of alignment isn’t addressed. And only YOU can address this. Let’s face it: embedding emotional alignment into a course is a tough ask of creators. So they mostly embed their intent instead. Sensing alignment? That’s a you thing.

When your alignment is present, effort becomes lighter.

When your alignment is missing, even the best systems don’t work.

Refine alignment, and you refine what you attract… including the right courses, the right paths, and the right forms of synchronicity.

That’s how you choose the right course for you.

And that’s how you make any course work. Really.

If this resonated, you don’t have to keep it to yourself. You’re welcome to restack it, share it, or simply sit with it.

If something stirred—agreement or resistance—I’d love to hear. I read every reply.


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At the start of a new year, some of us feel a tension between who we are, and who we hope to become.

Yet this tension isn’t really a “problem” to fix; it’s a signal, really… a felt experience pointing you toward deeper listening.

Here’s what The Feeling Eye has taught me (and I hope it teaches you too):

The external noise (calendars, goals, checklists, etc.) can make January feel like a sprint rather than a soft awakening. But your inner world moves at its own pace. What if this year wasn’t about doing more, but about feeling more clearly?

Learn to listen to your feelings as a compass, not as obstacles.

You know that the answers you want aren’t out there in the hollow metrics of what looks good on paper. They’re right here, beneath the surface of your experience, in the subtle shifts of your inner world.

That’s real alignment. That’s where transformation actually begins. 

This year, why not consider these 3 intentions instead of resolutions:

Sense before striving

Feel your inner state first. Your inner vibration shapes your life long before your strategies do.

Listen before labeling

Feelings are information and guidance, not signs of failure or success. Learn their language.

Be present before productive

Flow can be easy. You allow it automatically when you stop resisting your own moment-to-moment reality.

You don’t necessarily need a new system, a grand plan, or an external validation to make this your best year yet. You just need to feel your way forward with curiosity, gentleness, and authenticity.

Happy 2026 and beyond! Here’s to less chasing, and more attuning… to your body, your heart, your inner truth.

With gratitude and resonance,

Rishi

The Feeling Eye | Inner Alignment, Over Algorithms

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My beloved pug, Shella, passed away three months ago. Musing over my 11 years with him, I couldn’t help but wonder: what would Shella ask for if he ever came face-to-face with his Creator?

I knew the answer in a second, and it made me chuckle.

Of course, he’d want to be back with me, but kibbles, yes, a delicious, unlimited supply of kibbles would be his top demand. He wouldn’t stray too far from his dog-food dreams.

Us humans are no different.

We struggle to conceive of possibilities beyond the conditioning of the environments we’ve lived in. Why? Because we rely far too heavily on our limited human intelligence.

In goal setting and manifestation practices, we often place enormous emphasis on imagination. But imagination itself is conditioned. It can only work with what we already know, what we’ve seen, touched, experienced, or been told is possible.

We don’t know what we don’t know. So we keep circling familiar mental tracks, trying to solve the how. We pattern and predicate everything on routes we recognize. Known paths, known timelines, known means. And without realising it, this becomes the very thing that blocks what we want to create.

We don’t just want what we want. We want it to arrive through channels we already understand.

Most of us aren’t blocked by lack of faith, but by familiarity.

In that way, we become a little like Shella. Earnest, sincere, and well-meaning—asking for kibbles while an entire universe of possibility exists beyond that bowl.

The laws of the Universe are often misunderstood

Our role in creation is not to micromanage outcomes. It is to clarify desire, tune into inner guidance, and remain willing participants in inspired action. This is very different from hustle, force, or glorified suffering and “hard” work disguised as discipline.

In my previous posts, I spoke about releasing the need to figure out the how, and about how we are never creating alone (you can read them here and here). Source is always working with us, often in ways our human minds cannot comprehend or orchestrate.

So when something you want doesn’t materialize, and frustration creeps in, there is often a deeper intelligence at play. There is wisdom in what is delayed, redirected, or withheld.

How so?

Source knows what you want at levels deeper than language. Not just the surface-level desire or the “kibbles” you’ve been asking for.

Source knows the version of you that exists on the other side of what you want. It knows what that outcome would mean for your life, your relationships, your sense of self.

So when something doesn’t arrive in the form you expected, or on the timeline you imagined, it isn’t a reflection of unworthiness or failure.

More often, it’s an indication that something more aligned is being shaped. Besides, you can only experience what you are ready for vibrationally. It’s mathematics.

Maybe you asked for the job, and it didn’t come through. But what arrived instead was a connection you couldn’t have planned. May be someone who recognized your potential and opened a door you didn’t know existed. A role that paid more, demanded less, and quietly changed the trajectory of your life.

Maybe you asked for a relationship to work, and it ended instead. And years later, you met someone who actually sees you, whose values align with yours, whose presence feels like ease rather than effort. Someone you couldn’t have imagined at the time because your world hadn’t yet expanded to include people like that.

Maybe you asked for your health to improve by following what you’d read or been told. But what actually transformed things was meeting a practitioner who understood your body, your nervous system, your history. Not the generic prescription, but the precise one you couldn’t have designed yourself.

In each case, what you originally asked for made sense based on what you knew. But what arrived required a larger context.

This is the gap between what we ask for and what Source provides.

The discomfort we feel when things don’t unfold our way isn’t necessarily a sign that something is wrong. Often, it’s the edge where our conditioned imagination meets a much wider field of possibility.

Our part is simpler than we make it.

To stay honest about what we desire.

To remain available to guidance rather than control.

To take action when it feels clear and alive, rather than forced.

And to allow the how to reveal itself in ways we could not have predicted.

The Universe is not stingy. It isn’t punitive. And it isn’t limited by what we can currently imagine.

When we loosen our grip on form, on needing things to arrive through familiar channels, we make space for something far more intelligent to move.

We stop asking for kibbles.

And we become available for nourishment we didn’t know how to request.

Shella never knew that beyond his dog-food dreams existed an entire life with me—eleven years of belonging, care, routine, adventure, and love. His pug mind couldn’t conceive it.

But I could because I existed in a larger context than his perspective allowed.

Source exists in a larger context than ours.

What if what you’re waiting for requires you to stop insisting on what you already know?

Where might you be asking for “kibbles” right now?

If this resonated, don’t leave it here. You’re welcome to share it, reflect on it, or tell me what it stirred in you. I read every reply.


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I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve deeply wanted something, only to push it away as an impossible dream. The logic doesn’t seem to add up, and the path feels incomprehensible. So I don’t even start. Does this sound familiar?

Yet here’s what I’ve noticed: alongside that doubt, there’s always been a quiet, compelling optimism within me. A knowing from somewhere deeper. It’s as if the Universe whispers back, “Kid, you can have this. You don’t need to know how.”

Over and over, I’ve watched it prove itself true. Things that seemed impossibly out of my reach weren’t just possible, they were somehow easier than I’d imagined: Living in neighborhoods I thought were too expensive. Experiences, “toys” and little luxuries of life I believed were reserved for others. Jobs I assumed only the exceptional could land. Doors that opened in ways I never anticipated. Outcomes I had no logical control over.

So many things have come right into my reality.

I’m not telling you this to prove I’m God’s favorite kid. I still have plenty of frustrating moments where I wonder why something isn’t happening for me. And I’ve come to see that as a gift too—there’s wisdom in what’s held back from us. But that’s a different conversation, and I’ll address in my next post.

What I want you to feel right now is this:

Your deepest desires are GENUINELY possible. Not through wishful thinking or blind faith, but through something simpler and powerful: Inner Openness. Yes, Inner Openness.

Here’s what I’ve noticed every single time something that seemed impossible became real for me:

I stopped wrestling with the “how.” I released my grip on needing to figure out the entire path. And I accepted that other pathways exist—ones I can’t see right now, ones my logical mind couldn’t dream up—but they’re there, waiting to unfold.

When you do this, something shifts. The resistance you’ve been holding melts. You become a clearer channel. Solutions and synchronicities start flowing through you in ways you couldn’t have orchestrated alone. And with a naturalness and ease, you’ll know exactly what your next step should be. Everything will make sense, and you will be able to joyfully play your conscious part in the orchestration of your desire.

Try this, especially if you’ve been tying yourself in knots trying to force the “how”:

Stop doubting your worthiness. Release the story that others are more intelligent, more privileged, more capable, or more lucky than you. Instead, make this one quiet shift: accept that alternative paths exist—paths you can’t see yet, but they’re absolutely real and available to you. Open yourself like a clear channel. Let solutions flow without your constant interference. If you’re like me and love visualizing, try imagining yourself as a transparent tube, a channel through which virgin, unthought-of solutions can flow without limitation, and guide you forward.

This ties directly to what I shared in my last post: you’re never creating alone (you can read it here). There’s a larger part of you, your Inner Self, that knows the full picture. It’s equipped to guide you every single day through your emotions, through your Feeling Eye.

Your job isn’t to figure it all out. Your job is to tune in, trust, and let yourself be guided.

That thing you want? It’s not out of reach. It’s waiting for you to get out of your own way and let it arrive.

If this landed for you, if something inside recognized the truth of it, I’m publishing more on this in the coming weeks.

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Rishi
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Even when I seek help, the underlying thought is “I’ve got to get some help”, as if the responsibility is still entirely mine, or help won’t show up. It all makes you feel like YOU are running the show. That somehow, if you stopped doing what you’re doing, the world will come to a halt and nothing will ever get done. It feels like the weight of the whole world is on your shoulders.

And yet, in reality, you don’t have to search far for examples in your own life, where you just felt looked after and taken care of, while all that you seemingly did was show up.

Here’s my favorite example: Every time I board a flight, I check in my luggage, I step onto the plane and I sit down. And then, I let go of control completely. I can’t orchestrate the takeoff. I can’t manage the altitude. I can’t navigate the airspace. I can’t engineer the landing. I have zero control over the mechanics of getting from point A to point B while flying through the air at 30,000 feet.

Yet, it all gets taken care of. Perfectly. Reliably. Every single time.

The luggage arrives. The plane flies. I arrive safely. Not because I’m orchestrating it, but because there’s an entire system of pilots, engineers, air traffic controllers, and meteorologists, working in coordination to make it happen.

But here’s the deeper truth:

That system isn’t separate from me. It’s part of a larger intelligence. The same intelligence that’s inside you, working 24/7 to coordinate the logistics of your life.

Call it your Inner Being. Your Inner Self, Your Higher Self. Your Oversoul. Your Source-aligned Self. The God-force within you. Universal Intelligence. Whatever resonates with you.

This is the part of you that already knows the HOW to every aspect of your human journey.

The Part Most People Miss

Most of us have come to believe that we, alone, have to figure it out and make it happen.

We don’t recognize that there’s an intelligence within us that’s infinitely smarter, infinitely more coordinated, infinitely more resourceful—that’s already working on our behalf.

It’s not abstract. It’s not mystical. It’s practical.

This Inner Being:

• Knows the solution before your logical mind does

• Coordinates circumstances and synchronicities

• Brings the right people into your path at exactly the right moment

• Figures out the logistics you can’t see

• Orchestrates everything while you simply show up

Here comes the decisive part:

If you’ve read this far, you’re probably feeling either intrigued or outright uneasy. Depending on where you stand in your life, this may or may not resonate with you—and that’s perfectly OK. If something inside you rebels at being introduced to this ‘concept’, trust that. Follow your inner guidance, not my words or anyone else’s.

As for me, I’ve experienced this consistently for 27+ years. Not as belief, but as a lived reality that proves itself every single time. Mathematically. Replicably. Objectively.

From career shifts that appeared “serendipitous” but in hindsight were perfectly orchestrated. To relationships that aligned when I stopped forcing. To opportunities that showed up exactly when I stopped trying to make them happen.

The pattern is always the same: The moment I stopped trying to do it all alone, everything shifted.

Now, if you were able to get past what I have tried to explain here, then your life is about to get simpler. You no longer have to be in the driver’s seat, chasing outcomes, and exhausting yourself to make things happen.

So, what are you to do then?

Tune in with your Inner Being through what your emotions are telling you. They’re a constant communication from your own higher self, showing you whether you’re aligned or misaligned with the path it’s already orchestrating. Learn to receive the path and the answers that your Inner Being is already beaming to you non-stop.

This is the real work. And it may take a minute or a lifetime. It’s simpler than forced effort, but it requires trust and openness. A willingness to listen inward instead of pushing outward. If you want to know the mechanics of how to connect with and receive vibrationally from your Inner Self, I’ll be publishing more posts here on the subject.

I’m genuinely surprised at how completely absent this Inner Being work is from mainstream coaching.

Most of the coaching narrative focuses on: What should you do? How should you set measurable goals? How should you think? What strategies should you deploy?

It ignores the most fundamental question: Who is orchestrating all of this?

My observation is that once you genuinely tune into your Inner Being, and you know that your are NEVER ALONE, you stop looking outward for permission, validation, or direction. You become the author of your own reality. Great spiritual teachers have spoken about this truth for centuries, and living it has fundamentally changed my life.

And here’s the beautiful part: that’s when coaching becomes transformational instead of transactional. Because now, a coach isn’t telling you what to do—they’re helping you recognize what your Inner Being is already trying to show you.

Your Next Step

If this landed for you, if something inside recognized the truth of it, I’m publishing more on this in the coming weeks.

I’ll be breaking down:

• How to actually hear your Inner Being (it’s simpler than you think)

• What your emotions are really telling you (they’re your most reliable compass)

• How to receive instead of force (and why it’s harder for high-achievers)

• What happens when you finally trust the process (everything shifts)

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I read every reply.

Rishi
@thefeelingeye

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The Feeling Eye revealed itself to me in 2016.

I didn’t know that’s what I would call it eventually. There were no visions of blinding white light in meditation, or dramatic spiritual perceptions. Just something quiet, yet powerfully energizing and resonant.

At the time, I only knew that something inside me had begun responding to life in a way it never had before.

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The autumn of 2016 found me between jobs, uncertain about what my career and finances would look like.

The old me would have panicked and launched into frantic action… applying for jobs tirelessly, and “figuring things out” with that gnawing feeling that I wasn’t doing enough. The urge to panic. The urge to “take charge”, and send out résumés and make things happen.

This time, something was decisively different. That familiar feeling of trying to outrun uncertainty by doing more was gone.

There was this quiet knowing inside me saying, “STOP applying for jobs the conventional way. It has never worked for you, and you know it too well. There IS a different way through this.”

I didn’t know what that meant. But the more I sat with it, the more I found myself in a calm certainty that contradicted every survival instinct screaming at me to panic.

Something began happening that I couldn’t explain:

My life experience had convinced me that thinking harder or trying harder simply didn’t work for me. So instead, I acted on the two dominant impulses I could feel:

1. I started to meditate for the sake of enjoying meditation, without an ulterior motive.

2. I stopped trying to orchestrate outcomes, and opened myself to possibilities I couldn’t yet imagine.

What followed was a chain of seemingly serendipitous events: a friend mentioning a mentor; binge-watching hundreds of personal development videos on YouTube; enrolling in various learning programs; landing in social media communities; Facebook comments opening another door. Each one pulled me deeper into a dimension I didn’t know I was so ready to explore, and none of it I could have planned.

Update: If you’d like a deeper dive into this part my experience, I wrote about it a later article. You can read it here:

About eight weeks after I stopped forcing everything, I noticed something that frightened and comforted me at the same time:

I was still living on my savings and didn’t have a job. Nothing external had visibly improved. Yet I wasn’t even slightly worried anymore. The tightness in my chest that had followed me every morning was gone.

This inner shift was almost imperceptible to me at first. I actually wondered whether I had become irresponsible, or had stopped caring. Or had I just mistaken will-power driven activity for responsibility all my life?

And then, I had my “aha” moment:

Pacing through my apartment one evening, I felt DEEPLY and UNCONDITIONALLY contented. So deeply contented that if someone had told me I was dying, my happy last words would have been “I am complete. There’s nothing pending for me.”

For the first time in my life, I wasn’t postponing my happiness until something else happened. I wasn’t looking for a future outcome.

I noticed a quiet sense of wellbeing that wasn’t triggered by anything outside me.

In the days that followed, answers to questions I’d carried for years began appearing effortlessly within my unrushed and unconditional state of joy. A constant joining of dots was happening inside me, accompanied with unceasing “aha” moments… from how all religions are interconnected, to what a specific scriptural verse really meant, to why I had been attracting certain experiences into my life. It became an endless stream of deep answers and realizations.

I felt no need to set or achieve goals or prove anything. I felt complete. Whole, right where I was.

I stopped over-scripting my life, allowing it to unfold. A persistent inner conviction came over me that everything will work out beautifully for me.

As more days unfolded, the shift also became apparent in my external environment. Until then, I had only heard people say that inner change affects outer results. I was witnessing this truth first-hand in my own life.

A recruiter approached me about a leadership position that seemed almost designed for me. It checked nearly every box on my career wish list, from the nature of the work to the people I wanted to work with, the organization, the culture, and the financial opportunity.

The irony was that there was only a slim possibility of me discovering this opportunity through my effort alone. The published job description was so different from the actual position that I would have overlooked it completely.

A few months later, that role also took me to Toronto (Canada), a place I had wanted to visit for years. Later, it also led me to an exclusive leadership event in Orlando. I was among the first cohort of leaders in the firm to attend this privileged event.

Something else happened that mattered even more:

The way I saw people changed.

Instead of relating to their current behaviour, I found myself naturally seeing who they were capable of becoming. Again and again, people seemed to grow into the potential I recognized in them. The generosity, trust and kindness I experienced in this role challenged almost every limiting belief I once held about what was possible inside a corporate environment.

Around the same time, I started writing. A lot. This wasn’t for an audience or a publication, but my personal journaling. Something inside me had begun making sense of itself, and writing became the most natural expression of that process. I still write that way today. Most of those pages have never been published.

As years passed, more shifts kept appearing across different areas of my life, and some of them are too personal to share openly.

Eventually, I had to stop calling them coincidences. I could no longer ignore the relationship between where my attention rested and the results I experienced.

That was the beginning of what I now call “The Feeling Eye”.

In sharing these experiences, my intent is not to boast of my accomplishments.

Life doesn’t become all peaches and cream. You still lose things. Plans and goals still fall apart. You still experience uncertainty. The difference is that those moments stop defining you because you’ve discovered something deeper that circumstances can’t easily disturb. Each experience makes you aware of the resistance you have, and also of the power you hold to release that resistance and become more of who you really are.

That’s inner alignment.

And that inner alignment trumps external algorithms and systems of success.

I say this from lived experience, from watching it unfold in my own life over and over.

Once this inner guidance becomes “activated”, life feels different. Decisions become clearer. Opportunities become easier to recognize. Situations become easier to navigate. You stop spending your energy forcing life to cooperate, and start noticing how marvelously it is already trying to help you.

That’s what The Feeling Eye is about.

Perhaps, as you’ve been reading this, your career has been quietly sitting in the background.

Outwardly, things may even look fine. You likely have a respectable title, and a decent income. People around you assume you’re doing well.

Yet every time you think about the next promotion, the next role, or the direction of your life for the next five years, something inside you becomes a little quieter instead of coming alive.

Most people respond by updating their résumé, collecting more qualifications, or chasing another opportunity. Many of us spend years trying to solve an inner problem with outer decisions. I have been guilty of doing that for years.

Today, I ask a different question:

What has your inner experience been trying to tell you that your ambition keeps talking over?

Your career isn’t built merely by the decisions you make. It is one of the clearest mirrors of your relationship with yourself.

If you’re standing at a crossroads in your career, questioning your direction, or sensing that your current success isn’t the life you’re actually looking for, send me a message.

Tell me where you are, what you’re wrestling with, and what keeps repeating. I read every message personally.

Sometimes the career problem isn’t really a career problem. It’s a relationship-with-yourself problem that your career has been faithfully reflecting all along.

If that’s true for you, perhaps it’s time to stop trying to solve your career, and start understanding what it’s been reflecting back to you.

Rishi
@thefeelingeye

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