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The Light Watkins Show

249: Plot Twist: How Burnout and A Life-Threatening Panic Attack Led Manoj Dias to Rediscover Peace and Purpose

The Light Watkins Show

Light Watkins

Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Education

4.9960 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this bite-sized episode of The Light Watkins Show, Light shares a powerful "Plot Twist" moment from a past conversation with Manoj Dias, a mindfulness and meditation teacher who experienced a life-changing transformation.Manoj was on the fast track to success, working in marketing and climbing the corporate ladder. But behind the scenes, he was struggling. The pressures of his career, personal life, and a non-stop lifestyle eventually led to a panic attack that brought his world crashing d...

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I knew I was stressed and I knew I was very internally conflicted about what I had chosen to do with my lash,

0:10.0

but I didn't think I had any sort of mental health issue but the panic attack

0:13.7

happened one day at work and was very innocuous at the start. I came in and I had a

0:19.1

cossie and my assistant came in and gave me a bunch of work,

0:22.6

and then just was looking at me really weirdly.

0:25.4

And she's like, are you okay?

0:27.1

And I'm like, yeah, I'm fine.

0:29.4

And then she looked at me three more moments,

0:31.7

and then left again. As soon soon as she left I felt my hand

0:34.9

started the tremor. I felt my heart beat really really quickly and almost

0:39.3

instant they thought it was just a coffee and then I felt a swelling of emotion coming up and felt like I was about to cry in the middle of my office.

0:47.0

And that really started. I remember running out and I was walking through the CvedD Melbourne, hyperventilating.

0:53.2

At one point I was in the feudal alleyway just hunched down on my knees and on my feet,

0:58.7

just thinking I was about to die.

1:01.0

And I called up my therapist at the time, I'm like I think I'm about to die.

1:10.8

Hey friend welcome back to the Light Watkins show I'm Light Watkins and I have

1:15.2

conversations with ordinary folks just like you and me who take an extraordinary

1:20.3

leaps of faith in the direction of their path, their purpose, or what they've identified

1:25.3

as their mission in life. Today we have a bite-sized plot twist episode. A plot twist

1:31.8

is a shorter clip from a past episode where the guest shares the story

1:36.4

of the pivotal moment in their life trajectory where they found the gateway to their calling.

1:41.6

And the idea behind sharing these plot twists

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