19/04/2026
Working with Anandi’s teachings is life changing. Being able to do the practice in everyday life in the moment allows for the deeper things to shift - things we didn’t even know were there. Over the years the consistency of the practice has helped my system to stabilise and to naturally create the changes it needed with more ease and less overwhelm.
What I've noticed over the years is that most people think progress means going higher.
Feeling better.
More open.
More clarity.
And for a while… it works.
You have a powerful experience.
Something shifts.
You touch a different way of being.
That’s the top line on the graph.
But then something familiar happens.
You come back.
The same reactions, patterns and the same baseline.
So you go again.
Another experience.
Another opening and attempt to stay there.
What most people don’t realise is...
They’ve been moving above their baseline…
without ever changing it.
The horizontal line in the middle represents your baseline.
Not your best moment or your worst day.
Just where your system naturally returns to.
Your everyday state.
If that line doesn’t change, your life doesn’t really change.
It doesn’t matter how high you go…
you will always come back to where you started.
The second line on the graph goes in the opposite direction.
Not up.
Down.
And this is where people get confused.
Because “down” looks like you’re going backwards.
It can feel quieter.
Less dramatic.
Even like nothing is happening.
But something very different is taking place.
You’re no longer trying to create a better experience.
You’re moving underneath the baseline itself.
Into what’s holding it in place, into the structure of the system.
And into the patterns that keep recreating your life the same way.
This is why it goes “below zero.”
Not because it’s worse, but because it’s deeper.
One path gives you moments.
The other changes what your life is built on.
If you’ve been doing the work for a long time, you’ll recognise this.
You’ve already touched what’s “higher.”
Most people are trying to stay above the line.
Real change happens when the line itself begins to move.