I woke up one morning a few years ago, and something was off.
On paper, everything looked great. Mindvalley was growing. The books were selling. I had a beautiful family, an incredible team, a life most people would envy.
But inside? I felt hollow. Reactive. Constantly chasing the next goal, the next milestone, the next validation.
I had spent years building something extraordinary — and I couldn’t even enjoy it.
That’s when I started asking a different question.
Not “How do I achieve more?” but “What state am I operating from?”
That question changed everything.
“Your goals will only match your frequency.”
This single insight rewired how I approach everything: business, relationships, and life itself.
When you set goals from anxiety, you create more things to be anxious about.
When you make decisions from confusion, you create more confusion.
When you build from scarcity, you attract scarcity.
But when you shift the state you’re operating from? Everything changes.
I’ve now shared this framework in seminar rooms in London, at island retreats in Mykonos, with entrepreneurs, with artists, with people who run billion-dollar companies and people just starting out.
The response is always the same:
“It makes me feel different. It makes me look at my life through a different lens. For the longest time, I’ve been chasing goals. Now I finally understand the truth.”
The Truth Nobody Talks About
Here it is: Most people try to change their external circumstances while operating from a broken internal state.
They set goals from anxiety and create more things to be anxious about.
They make decisions from confusion and create more confusion.
They build relationships from scarcity and attract scarcity.
Think about it. When you sit down to plan your new year, what state are you usually in?
Exhausted. Scattered. Anxious about whether things will work out. Still carrying wounds from past failures.
And from that place you try to design your dream life?
| Here’s the thing: You don’t need better goals. You need a better state. When you upgrade your internal operating system, your goals, decisions, and actions automatically upgrade with it. This is the leverage point most people miss entirely. |
The ancient Greeks had a word for this ideal state: Ataraxia, a serene calmness that cannot be disturbed by external events.
I call it being unfuckwithable.
And after 22 years of studying human transformation, I’ve identified exactly seven internal states that create it.
The 7 Sacred States
Each one is trainable. Each one compounds the others. Together, they create a way of being that transforms not just what you achieve but who you become.
State #1: Knowingness
Understanding who you are at the deepest level.
The universe reflects who you ARE, not what you want. When you stand in your worth with unshakeable certainty, opportunities align, because you’re no longer sending mixed signals to the world.
“The world cannot give you what you’re not willing to claim.”
State #2: Faith
Trusting before you have proof.
What’s meant for you cannot miss you. What misses you was never yours. When you embody faith, you stop white-knuckling life, and paradoxically, that’s when things start flowing.
“Doubt is just faith pointed in the wrong direction.”
State #3: Love
Generating love within and beaming it outward.
HeartMath research shows this literally changes your biology and the biology of people around you. When you operate from love, doors open that force could never unlock.
“Love is not something you find. It’s something you become.”
State #4: Stillness
Becoming the eye of the storm.
Your best ideas, clearest decisions, and deepest intuition all come from the quiet. The warrior’s secret weapon isn’t aggression; it’s the ability to remain still when everyone else is panicking.
“The answers you seek are already within you. They’re just waiting for you to get quiet enough to hear them.”
State #5: Non-Attachment
I want it. Working for it. But not needing it.
Steve Jobs got fired from Apple. He shrugged, started Pixar, and eventually returned to build the most valuable company on Earth. When rejection loses its sting, you become antifragile.
“Hold your dreams like water, tightly enough to carry them, loosely enough to let them flow.”
State #6: Devotion
Discipline elevated to a sacred practice.
When your work becomes worship and your commitment becomes unbreakable, you tap into a reservoir of energy that willpower alone can never access. This is the state that creates legacies.
“Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.”
State #7: Receiving
Opening your cup and letting it fill.
Most people unconsciously block what life wants to give them. Receiving is the active practice of allowing, and it’s often the missing piece for people who work hard but never get what they deserve.
“You cannot pour from an empty cup, and you cannot fill a cup you won’t hold out.”
Here’s what’s remarkable:
Each state amplifies the others.
Knowingness makes Faith easier.
Faith makes Non-Attachment natural.
Non-Attachment opens up Receiving.
Together, they compound into something extraordinary — a state of being that is genuinely unfuckwithable.
This is the core framework from my upcoming book, The Art of Becoming Unfuckwithable.
But the book won’t be out until 2027. And I don’t want you to wait that long.
The Art Of Becoming Unfuckwithable By Vishen Lakhiani
Coming 2027

My next book introduces the complete 7 Sacred States methodology.
But you don’t have to wait.
I’m going to LIVE for free to teach you the entire framework before the new year.
Why Now?
We’re about to enter a new year. And right now, millions of people are preparing to set goals, make resolutions, and try to change their lives.
Most of them will fail.
Not because they lack willpower. Because they’re trying to create change from the wrong state.
What if you could enter 2025 differently?
What if, instead of setting goals from exhaustion and anxiety, you set them from Knowingness, Faith, and Stillness?
What if you approached your biggest challenges with Non-Attachment and Devotion?
What if you were finally open to Receiving everything life wants to give you?
The 7 Sacred States Challenge

Starting Tomorrow, Dec 18 till Dec 24, I’m running a free 7-day challenge where I’ll guide you through each of these states, one per day.
This isn’t a surface-level overview. Each day, you’ll get:
- The philosophy: the deeper meaning behind each state and why it matters.
- The science: what modern research tells us about how these states work.
- The stories: tales from history, culture, and my encounters with prominent people who embody these states, to make each lesson land.
- A daily ritual: a 10-15 minute practice you can use immediately.
- Live Q&A: where I’ll answer your questions directly
By December 24th, you’ll have a complete toolkit for becoming unfuckwithable. And you’ll enter 2025 from a state you may never have experienced before.
And I’m offering it completely free.
Join the 7 Sacred States Challenge
December 18-24, 2024 • Completely Free
Reset your state before you set your goals.
Here’s my promise to you:
If you show up for all seven days and do the practices, you will not be the same person on December 24th that you were on December 18th.
The way you think will shift. The way you feel will shift. The way you approach your goals, your relationships, your challenges — all of it will shift.
Because you’ll finally be operating from the state that makes everything else possible.
Most people will spend New Year’s Eve making promises to a version of themselves that doesn’t exist yet.
You? You’ll already be that person.
That’s the difference between hoping for change and embodying it
Don’t enter 2026 the way you entered 2024.
Enter it unfuckwithable.
I’ll see you tomorrow on Day 1 of the challenge (Dec 18).







87 Responses
The 7 States: Knowingness, Faith, Love, Stillness, Non-Attachment, Devotion, Receiving
I am a little here and there most of the time, so, definitely missing most parts of all 7 states, but if I have to pinpoint the one that is most difficult for me to handle is Receiving. I somehow always think or feel I am not good enough to receive the good stuff.
BUT, looking at how these 7 states are curated, it is testing my mind now. I am starting to question, “What really is blocking me?”
The challenge is way past my sleep time, every night for a week. I will find my way to deal with it. I want to be UNF*CKWITHABLE next year and the years to come.
This sounds like (& I’m hoping it’s) just what I need. I feel lost. I have a great job, I’m in a beautiful relationship, my kids are doing well, I exercise regularly & meditate daily & yet I feel detached from my life. Like I’m numb or in a fog. I’m ready to feel like me again.
I absolutely love your timing… Just when needed you pop up with what exactly is missing 💯
I believe I could do better with the last 3, Non attachment, Devotion and Receiving.
Though, all that said tbh, I have come on leaps and bounds with the Non attachment and Devotion. I think I struggle more with Receiving as I know I’m meant to. I want to Master the art of allowing myself to Receive.
Thank you for this, truly appreciated and received with love❤️ 🙏🏾
I think I struggle with knowingness a lot.
And my beliefs/faiths are not aligned but doesn’t know how it can be aligned either.
I love but I struggle with how to channel or transmit the love to my potential partner(haven’t found one) and how to preserve the circuit of love(not unidirectional).
I’m oddly still and go all chaotic in just a sec and that irritates me often but I think it routes back to knowingness as when I reflect back the moments that made me chaotic are moments of this or that, judgement simply.
My struggle with non attachment is I get too not attached🫣
I’m devotional and dedicated but always at the back of the head “why all this?” And I can’t answer it.
While in receiving sense, I can rise a cup but often feel like isn’t the cup sort of off or something. Like it can’t hold what is given. The cup being me ofcourse,
I think I must practice knowingness as my ground stuff.
This comment is more of review comment on the content.
There are so many “year” typos in this page and the registration page. Following statement on this page says entering 2025. And there is also mention of 2024 vs 2026 on this page. On the registration page, the event dates say Dec18-24, 2026 instead of Dec18-24, 2025
And you’ll enter 2025 from a state you may never have experienced before.
Hi Vishen, thank you very much for doing this and I will definitely participate. In the meantime, I wanted to pint out that in the ad for these session, the timing for New-York is listed as 11:00 pm, when it should be 11:00 am. Further down it is correct, so I don’t know if it matters that much, but I thought I should bring it to your attention.
Thanks again!
Dana
The state I feel I lack the most in the last few months is Faith. My deepest wound is a fear of not getting “it” right. Recently I’ve had strong evidence of this. When communications stop in an ongoing relationship or plan, like with a new friend who I talk to twice a week or a speaking engagement contact who suddenly stop stopped communicating, I wonder what’s happening and after a while, wind up wondering what I did wrong and start making up stories that are harmful to me. just today, I heard back from that friend after just over two weeks of lack of response to a text and voicemail. It turns out she was just busy! I want to return to TRUST and FAITH in me and the universe!
Hello Gail, I just found this blog. I will tell you Faith and a relationship with God are different. I feel negative at times and say a prayer to God or the universe to help me get over the feeling. the mind makes up things up. the heart and soul are all about Love. Go there instead of the mind. I hope u understand, feelings and thought are opposites.
Knowingness: when I hear something, I know immediately if it is right for me. But I send out mixed signals all the time and I see the results of that in people’s faces.
I look forward to reset some things and reinforce what I already have in place.
What I struggle most with is n. 2 Faith. Today there are some serious problems in my family that I cannot impact that impacts heavy on me. It hinders me to go all in for my business as I feel like sitting on a ticking bomb. Honestly it drains me and I’m doubting if I will ever be back in my full power.
Thank you for sharing your wisdom,
Anna
Hi Vishen, thank you very much for this invitation. It comes at a perfect moment, for i really feel exhausted from the whole passing year! And i wanna start the new year from another point, than that. I mostly wanna focus on the 1. state, for i think i now have to start from the ground of knowing who i am and really want to become and also what it is that i really want from my core for the next upcoming year! So, i am excited to join this trip and let happen, whatever wants to come through. Thanx a lot!!
I am looking forward to the Knowingness part of the Program although the Trust is also another of the topics I need your help with.
Thank you Vishen for sharing this knowledge, I know it will be an eye-opener for me.
This could not have come at a more perfect time. I literally just decided that I need a new perspective to get out of old routines and your email opened up on my phone. It was a little weird, but I’m going to follow the sign. See you tomorrow!
I feel like the stage I am missing is knowingness, that has been a theme this week for me, I don’t know who I am at the deepest level, I am trying all the tools, trying to be still to find the answers, but right now I don’t fully understand who I am, what brings me joy. I am leaning into my intuition and focusing on my spiritual practice, I am trying to regulate my health, which has been hard. To be honest, I am in a depressive state at the moment I just need some light in my life.
Hi, I love this whole concept. But I would really like to ask for replays, 24 hrs only, because I have kids-related duties which I cannot postpone.
I believe putting myself first is key. But holiday-related activities such as a kid starring in the Nutcracker are things which fill me with high vibrations. Thanks in advance.