Sishir A Sharma

Beginning the search · 2007

After completing my 12th-standard examinations, I began meditating in 2007. My starting point was a search for answers. I wanted to understand the resistance I experienced within myself.

The same pattern continued during college. Just before important examinations, I would struggle to concentrate. I knew I had the ability to perform, yet something inside seemed to disconnect at the most crucial moments. Frustration turned into self-criticism, and I repeatedly asked why there was resistance and why I could not simply do what I wanted to do.

Those questions drew me further into meditation, self-enquiry, personal growth, and the study of human behaviour.

A search that grew over nearly two decades

Over the years, my exploration expanded to include emotional healing, self-development, spiritual enquiry, and therapeutic techniques such as Emotional Freedom Techniques, or EFT. I was looking for understanding rather than planning a new career.

Gradually, I began noticing connections between difficulties that had previously seemed separate. Stress, anxiety, procrastination, lack of confidence, emotional overwhelm, and recurring relationship patterns often seemed connected to deeper emotional experiences. I also became interested in the emotional burden that can accompany physical struggles.

I had insights and meaningful experiences, but I still felt something was missing: a practical way to explore what lay beneath a difficulty. An unexpected experience in 2020 became an important turning point in that continuing search.

The experience that changed my understanding · 2020

During the first wave of COVID-19, I became unwell. Like many people at that time, I experienced intense fear and uncertainty. I began working with EFT to calm myself, and something unexpected happened.

As I continued tapping, my attention moved beyond the immediate fear of illness. Memories emerged, years of self-criticism surfaced, and the familiar questions about resistance returned. Deeper frustrations about life, fairness, disappointment, and trust also came into view.

What began as an attempt to manage fear became an exploration of emotions and beliefs I had carried for years. For the first time, I experienced how emotional layers could unfold naturally as resistance softened.

That experience eventually became the foundation of InnerE EFT. It also gave me a principle that continues to guide my work: the symptom is rarely the whole story; often, it is a doorway.

Learning beyond meditation · 2024

In 2024, I enrolled in an Advanced Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy and Soul Channelling. I wanted to explore whether hypnotherapy could help with habits, patterns, and limitations that my meditation practice had not fully resolved.

The experience broadened my understanding. I saw how suggestions could influence behaviour and emotional states. At the same time, I found myself wanting to understand the meaning of a difficulty, as well as how its symptoms might change.

My question became more specific: could a person remain in a meditative state while exploring the deeper layers of a particular challenge?

Meditation had shown me the value of awareness; hypnotherapy introduced further possibilities for change. I began looking for a way to bring a relaxed, aware state together with structured enquiry.

The birth of InnerE Meditation · Late 2024

For months, that question remained alive within me. Then, during a deep meditative experience shortly before Diwali in 2024, the framework of what I would later call InnerE Meditation became clear.

Step by step, I experienced a process in which a person could remain deeply relaxed while exploring a specific challenge through enquiry. The process did not depend on externally directed visualisations or imposed answers. It created space for insights to emerge from within.

As I practised it on myself, I found that some experiences which had previously taken hours of exploration through EFT could sometimes unfold within minutes. This was my personal experience: the clarity felt deeper, emotional release felt more natural, and the insights felt authentic.

What mattered most to me was where the understanding came from. The questions provided a structure, while the answers emerged through my own awareness.

Sharing the work and developing the InnerE Techniques

I first explored InnerE Meditation with family members. Their responses encouraged me: they described feeling lighter, calmer, and more connected with themselves. I continued practising and refining the method, then introduced it to students, workshop participants, and individuals seeking support.

Working with different people revealed different needs. Some needed to explore the origins of recurring patterns. Others felt caught in fear, while others wanted clarity about future decisions and direction. Each experience helped me see another aspect of the work.

Alongside InnerE Meditation and InnerE EFT, I developed InnerE Root Mapping, InnerE Fear Mapping, InnerE Vision Mapping, and InnerE Ho’oponopono. Together, these six methods became the InnerE Techniques.

The techniques offer different starting points for enquiry: present experience, recurring patterns, fears, possible futures, emotional resistance, and forgiveness. Their shared purpose is to help people understand themselves more deeply.

Becoming a Clinical Meditation Therapist and InnerE Guide

Although my formal certification was in Clinical Hypnotherapy, meditation became the primary tool through which I worked. Awareness, enquiry, and self-understanding were central to the approach I was developing.

I adopted the title Clinical Meditation Therapist because it reflected the work I was doing and the methods I had developed. Eventually, I chose to leave my previous professional path and dedicate myself fully to this work.

Today, I also describe my role as an InnerE Guide. I offer a structure in which people can explore their own experiences, recognise patterns, and discover what those experiences mean to them.

The philosophy behind my work

Over the years, I have worked with people facing emotional challenges, relationship difficulties, anxiety, fears, life transitions, confidence issues, and stress-related struggles. I have also supported people exploring the emotional challenges surrounding health concerns alongside their medical treatment and care.

One observation has continued to stand out: people often spend years fighting their symptoms without spending much time listening to the experience beneath them.

My work rests on the belief that problems can become doorways to deeper understanding. When we approach an experience with curiosity, we may begin to notice the fears, beliefs, expectations, memories, or conflicts influencing our response.

Greater understanding can make room for clarity, acceptance, and meaningful change. The aim is to help a person develop awareness and a more conscious relationship with their own life.

My work with individuals and organisations today

Today, through Arolen in Vadodara, I offer individual sessions and corporate workshops. In one-to-one sessions, the InnerE Techniques provide a structure for exploring personal challenges, recurring patterns, and important life decisions.

My corporate work brings this approach into communication, workplace wellbeing, and performance. Practical communication exercises are combined with structured meditative enquiry to explore the fear, self-doubt, stress, and inner resistance that can affect how people speak, make decisions, and take action.

I tailor workshops to the team’s roles, challenges, and workplace situations, with attention to clarity, assertiveness, presence, focus, and engagement. My professional experience includes training more than 30 professional coaches, collectively coaching over 3,000 learners, leading executive communication and productivity workshops, developing training models, and conducting national-level trainer programmes.

InnerE Meditation brings structured meditative enquiry into these workshops, connecting practical learning with personal insight.

What began as a personal search for answers has become a lifelong commitment to helping others discover their own.