My name is Andrés Daniel, and I am from Spain.

In 2006, I was working as an engineer in my hometown. My belief had always been that the goal was to have a lot of money, but now that I had it, I realized that this was not the case.

I didn't believe in any religion or God or anything that sounded esoteric, I just believed what I saw and/or what was scientifically proven, but fear and worry were consuming me, and I was not happy at all. My mind was a “scientific” mind but at the same time a crazy mind because I was unable to control my thoughts let alone my emotions. One day, I got my hands in a book that discussed the happiest man in the world; this “title” had gone to Matthieu Ricard, a French microbiologist who had gone to live in Tibet and had become a Buddhist monk.

I went into a kind of shock. How was it possible that a person who had none of what you are supposed to have to be happy was the happiest person in the world?

I thus decided that I should start meditating. At that time, I lived in a tiny town and there were no meditation instructors so, I bought a book and started meditating with the instructions in the book, it was a year after the birth of my daughter.

One day, 2 years later, I remembered (intuited or realized) that I had enough money to change my life, together with the fact that we wanted to offer our daughter a better education, we moved to live in the place where my wife was born, and I stopped working as an engineer.

Here I started to “meditate professionally” with a Zen group, and continued to practice Zen meditation for 3 years.

I have always been genuinely interested in the world of dreams, and one night, I dreamt of colors. I went to consult a Jungian psychologist (analyst) what it meant to dream of colors, and he explained that colors were related to the chakras and that Kundalini Yoga taught about them.

Meanwhile, I kept meditating and doing a lot of personal inner work and, in one of the places I went to, I met a psychotherapist and Sufi master who told me he had prepared a personal growth trip to the Sahara desert, so I signed up for that trip and went. There I realized that I had always wanted to be a psychologist, but I had studied to be an engineer to please my parents.

So, I started studying psychology that same year, and, at the same time, I had heard that a Kundalini Yoga teacher's course was starting in my city. I decided to become a Kundalini Yoga teacher as well. I abandoned Zen meditation and switched to meditation from Kundalini Yoga.

Although it was still not in my plans to teach or anything like that but, in the summer of that year I had a very painful experience:

I was at the European Yoga Festival That year, I had gone alone. Furthermore, I was in a small tent. It was early in the morning, and it had started to rain, the tent was a bit leaky, and I woke up with the biggest headache I have ever had. I didn't know what to do because it was early in the morning and I didn't have any pills to fight it, I was going crazy. Suddenly, I heard something inside me that said: “Start giving Kundalini Yoga classes” and in these circumstances, I did the only thing possible, I promised that, if the pain went away, as soon as I got home, I would start offering Kundalini Yoga classes.

Miraculously, the pain disappeared, so I had to keep my promise and start offering Kundalini Yoga classes. I started offering classes.

I continued teaching and training until I soon finished my degree in psychology. I immediately enrolled to do my Master in General Health Psychology. Once I finished studying the Master's degree I didn't really know how to work as a psychologist, but one day I had the intuition how to create an effective therapy that could help people, and it occurred to me to combine the techniques of psychology and meditation that I had learned to see if they would heal depression and anxiety and increase people's happiness.

Amazingly, the results were spectacular, people healed their depression and anxiety after 5 weeks and also increased their level of happiness. I am still amazed today at how well it works.

The summer before I started writing this book, after a strong inner experience I realized that I had to get out of “my comfort zone” and go to live in Sweden with my family, so we left everything behind and went there to live.

One day, before going to bed, something inside me said: «Write a book about Love». As I have already paid attention to this inner voice many times and, on some occasions, it has led me to great successes, and on others to great disappointments, my response to this prompting was the following:

«No way. I have nothing to say about it. It seems to me monstrously presumptuous that I should write anything about Love, being, as it is, so much bigger than I am. »

And so, I went to sleep. That night I had a nightmare. It's been a long time since I had one that scared me so much, and this one repeated itself three times. I could not believe it. In the nightmare I was very frightened to see that a person who for me symbolizes «being in life for the sake of being» (without any aspiration, refusing to look for depth or meaning of existence, only living from worry to worry), showed me a 0, 0 is nothing. A nobody, a 0. That person was nothing.

When, in the morning, I began to meditate on the dream, I realized that I could not spend my life like that, in a robotic way because if a person spends his life like that, death will be a very hard drink to swallow.

Then I decided that I had no choice but to write this book. I took my bike, went to the nearest stationery store as indicated by the GPS, bought a notebook exclusively for this book and committed myself to write at least half an hour every day.

During all this time I have traveled to different spiritual places in the world because life has wanted it to be so and thus, I have been able to experience in situ the spirituality of those places: India, Japan or the Amazon jungle. In all of them I have learned things that I have then used in classes, therapies and in my books.