Malti Bhojwani - Professional Certified Life Coach & Author

Success taught many of us that effort creates results.

Study harder.
Work harder.
Push harder.

Then we bring the same strategy to meditation.

And discover a paradox.

The harder we try not to think, the louder the mind seems to become.

Perhaps peace isn’t another achievement.

What’s harder for you?

Sitting still or switching off your thoughts?

Meditation can begin with a surprisingly simple question.

What is a thought?

Not the content of the thought.

The thought itself.

Watch the next one arrive.

Watch it stay for a moment.

Watch it disappear.

Then notice what remained throughout.

Sometimes a single moment of observation can teach us more than a hundred pages of explanation.

Just check.

Notice what happens.

Almost everything beautiful in my life happened on the other side of a belief I nearly accepted as true.

I think I may be getting old.
I’ve caught myself recently revisiting old photos, old achievements and old stories. You know… polishing trophies nobody asked to see.

I was featured on the front page of The Sydney Morning Herald’s Sunday Times newspaper in 2004 in an article about life coaching when the coaching was just becoming a profession - the ICF was very new then.

The funny thing is, looking back at 32+ year-old me, I’m not entirely convinced I was much of a coach. Twenty-two years later I’m still learning, still evolving and still becoming more myself.

What moves me most isn’t the newspaper article. It’s remembering the stories I carried about myself back then.

As a young Singaporean - Indian woman building a career in a largely Caucasian world, I wasn’t always sure I belonged. Add a bloke who decided to call me “Malteser” punning on my name, but because I was apparently “round and brown”, and let’s just say my self-esteem wasn’t bulletproof.

Today I can laugh.
Not because it didn’t hurt.
Because I can find humour more easily, and I no longer believe every story that passes through my mind.

And it makes me wonder…

What stories are you still carrying?

Who told you what was possible for you?

Which labels, comments or beliefs have quietly shaped your choices for years?

And what might happen if they weren’t true?
Not educated enough
Not smart enough
Not articulate enough
Not confident enough
Not rich enough
Not thin, lucky, old, young, pretty enough
Simply, not worthy….

Looking back, almost every beautiful thing in my life happened on the other side of a belief I nearly accepted as fact.
Who do I think I am to succeed in this world? Well borrowing from , who am I not to be.

Maybe the same is true for you.

Also, for the record, the brown stayed.
The roundness comes and goes.
The sweetness was there all along. ❤️

Love,

Malti
I’ll still answer to Malteser 😄

For years I thought meditation had to be more complicated than this.

Perhaps because when something is this simple, the mind struggles to accept its value.

We imagine it must require a retreat in the mountains, years of study, initiation into a special tradition, a guru, a long course, a secret technique, or at the very least a thick book.

If you’d like a deeper explanation, you can read my book, Unwired

But honestly, this is it.

Sit.

Notice the breath.

When you notice you were having thoughts, simply come back to noticing the breath.

..breath

..thoughts

notice

..breath

..thoughts

nothing

..breath

..thoughts

notice

..breath

The return is the practice.

Just returning.

Again and again.

That’s it.

Sit or lie down
Close your eyes
Notice your breathing
Notice thoughts that come up
Return to noticing your breath
Thoughts come
You notice
You return to noticing your breath
This goes on again and again

Your soft timer rings

That’s all!

Many of us know that to lift our vibrations we need to think better thoughts.

We want to move straight from fear to peace, frustration to gratitude, uncertainty to confidence.

But trying to stretch too far can feel inauthentic, growth is simply reaching for the next note. Deliberately choosing a thought that can make us feel slightly better is enough to slowly increase the momentum and change our feelings and hence our frequency to align with what we want to create in our lives.

One of the gifts of meditation is not that it makes us peaceful all the time. It helps us notice where we are, often before we realise we’ve been there for a while.

The story we’re telling ourselves.

The emotional state we’ve been rehearsing.

And from that awareness, we gain a little more choice.

Music needs low notes and high notes, silence and sound, tension and release.

So does a life.

The heavier seasons are not mistakes. They help us discern what matters and appreciate the contrast when life begins to sing again.

Save this little cheat sheet for the days life feels a little out of tune.

Don’t try to jump an octave.

Play the next note.

No map is the territory.
This little cheat sheet is simply my own interpretation and synthesis of ideas that have inspired me over many years.

With gratitude to David Hawkins, Bruce Lipton, Richard Barrett, Esther & Abraham Hicks, Wayne Dyer, Mike Dooley and many others who have explored consciousness, awareness and human potential. 🙏

Save the sheet

55 today… and reflecting on the work that opened doors beyond my imagination.

When Don’t Think of a Blue Ball launched in India in 2011, I was 40 years old and stepping into a chapter I could not yet fully comprehend.

At the time, I knew I wanted to support people transform their thinking and their lives.

What I did not yet realise was just how profoundly my own life was about to transform.

That first book became far more than a publication. It became a doorway.

A doorway into authorship, deeper purpose, extraordinary mentors, global opportunities, and a professional path that expanded beyond anything I had imagined possible.

And while even then I touched upon meditation, mindset, and conscious living, I could not yet have known how deeply these would become not just part of my work, but central to my own transformation.

Over the last 15 years, life has unfolded in ways beyond my imagination.

Meditation, self-awareness, and inner transformation became not simply concepts I facilitated in workshops, but foundational practices that helped shape the life I live today.

Unwired is, in many ways, the distillation of one of the greatest truths I have learned:

That when we transform from within, our outer lives can expand in extraordinary ways.

Today, on my birthday, Unwired is now available in India on Amazon.in.

The country where my first publishing chapter began.

There is something deeply meaningful about that.

A beautiful reminder that we often cannot foresee the magnitude of what one brave step, one idea, or one offering may set into motion.

Today, I feel deeply grateful.

For every lesson.
Every mentor.
Every leap of faith.
Every reader.
Every unexpected door.

My life has transformed beyond what I once thought possible.

And that is the greatest gift of all. ❤️