Vishen Lakhiani - Zero Bullsh*t Meditation: The 6 Phase Meditation Method

The Buddha and the Badass

The Code of the Extraordinary Mind

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First published in the UK by Cornerstone Press in 2022

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To Hayden and Eve. First and foremost.

And to my family, Kristina, Roope, Liubov, Mohan, Virgo.

For my team at Mindvalley and all the amazing authors and students across the world who we live to serve.

On September 19, 2019, several friends reached out with the following messages:

Hey, congratulations, read about it in the press!

You must be so proud.

How cool!

Id just woken up. Wait, what?

I had absolutely no idea what they were congratulating me for. It was a totally average day for me, as was the day before. I sat up in bed in my then-apartment in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, meditated, made myself a protein shake, showered, and took an Uber to work.

But the messages kept coming.

It turned out that my name had appeared in the press that morningin reference to winning the US Open.

Now dont get ahead of yourself; I myself didnt win squat.

But a Romanian-Canadian teen by the name of Bianca Andreescu had. Beating Serena Williams in a nail-biting tennis major, shed claimed her first Grand Slam title, and the world had been celebrating her ever since.

Furthermore, the bubbly nineteen-year-old had wiped the floor with Serena in the most gracious, positive, gentle way possible. Shed shaken her hand and even apologized for her victory!

The press got wind of this and found both her talent and her maturity fascinating, asking, quite simply, How did you pull it off?

Bianca allegedly smiled and responded, Let me show you!

Thats where I come into the story. She pulled out her phone and flashed them my first book, The Code of the Extraordinary Mind.

Id mentioned the 6 Phase Meditation protocol in my first bestseller, and since reading about it, Bianca had signed up for a seminar on the 6 Phase to start using it strategically to improve her performance and optimize her life. Every day she would visualize herself winning the US Open (a protocol youll learn in ). And look where it got her.

So will you too win the US Open upon finishing this book? Probably not. These chapters wont cover how to win tennis matches. But what I can tell you is that youll learn to win at life, crushing the goals that are most important to you as an individual.

Bianca is one of the millions of people who use the 6 Phase Meditation to feel and perform at their best and achieve the unimaginable.

She isnt the only high-profile athlete who uses the 6 Phase, either. So does Tony Gonzalez, the NFL Top 100 Hall of Famer, who credits this meditation in multiple press articles. As does Reggie Jackson of the LA Clippers, as well as his entire family (you can watch interviews with all of these amazing folks on my Instagram @vishen).

But the 6 Phase isnt just for athletes. Its used by artists, entrepreneurs, musicians, singers, and Hollywood stars whose movies youve probably seen.

Take War & Leisure singer-songwriter Miguel, for instance. Billboard magazine wrote a fascinating article about Miguels meditation practice with his entire crew before major concerts, titled Miguel Talks Connecting with Fans Through Meditation Before His Shows. Which meditation? Billboard asked.

Miguel responded, It is a six-phase guided meditation narrated by Vishen Lakhiani that traverses consciousness, gratitude, forgiveness, three-year aspirations, visualization of ones perfect day, etc. And the meditation lasts about 20 mins.

The reason rock stars and athletes apply the 6 Phase is that they instantly notice its effects. Whether the measure is audience applause or scoring more points, they all witness the same boost in performance.

Are you a world-famous athlete or artist? Maybe not. But do you have dreams and aspirations of what you want to bring to the world? Most probably, yes.

Even if youve never classed yourself as one before, you may well be an entrepreneur. You may well be a creative changemaker whos been waiting for a lucky break.

Your success might not be as obvious as Biancas. As you go through your day, there wont be a scoreboard and a referee watching your every move. Nor will there be a live audience dancing and applauding your performance. But youll feel it. It may be the gradual increase in sales that you notice first. Or perhaps you perceive that youre beginning to operate more frequently from a state of total flow. Perhaps, when you come to the end of your day, youre amazed at how much you got done with so little effort while still feeling fully energized. For many entrepreneurs and CEOs, the 6 Phase Meditation has become their most important daily practice.

Mark my words: By the end of this book youll have all the tools you need to live the best, most successful, happiest life yet. And the people around you will notice.

This is why Im so excited to deliver this protocol to you.

So what actually is the 6 Phase Meditation? Well, first off, its not a traditional meditation. Lets dump that idea right here.

Rather, its a series of science-backed mental scripts that you run in your head to transform the way you think about yourself and the world.

But before I dive deeper into the six phases, let me tell you about how I got obsessed with the power of the human mind and ended up starting one of the worlds biggest companies in personal growth and human transformationMindvalley.

You should know that I was never meant to be a meditation instructor. My life wasnt destined to be spiritual, and I never for a second entertained the idea that one day Id be writing bestselling books on the subject of human potential.

I was born in Malaysia and grew up in a huge Hindu family that held academia in the highest regard. If, like me, you have Indian immigrant heritage, youre familiar with the notion that you have four choices of career: youll be an engineer, a doctor, a lawyer, or a family failure. No more, no less.