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When I was deciding whether to take the 45 Days course, this review had the best take I found. I took the course and it didn’t work for me. But I think it was likely worth taking. For the benefit of the 45 Days-curious, here are the course’s pros and cons.
Pros: it works for some people. In my cohort of ~35, seven people reported attaining fundamental wellbeing while another five had temporarily attained it or were unsure if they had. (This is based on posting in the Facebook group, which was required to complete the course. Only 14 people from our cohort posted, but I think it’s fair to assume the people who didn’t post mostly hadn’t seen success.) If this cohort is representative, this suggests the true course success rate may be about half what they claim: around a third, instead of 65%. Still, a third is really impressive! I think $500 for a one in three shot at transitioning into a zen-like state of inner harmony is a bargain.
Of course, it may not be a one in three chance for you. My weak sense in the course was that the people most likely to transition were those who were already more emotionally open and less skeptical. Which may not describe the average reader on this Forum :)
The premise of the course is also really cool. It just makes intuitive sense to me that different people will prefer different mediation approaches, and that the best way to find out which works for you is to try them.
Also, the most common criticism of the course on the Internet — that the course charges $$$ for repackaging methods it didn’t invent — is really silly. That’s what the whole education system does.
Cons: they don’t actually go through that many different meditation methods. The first few weeks are spent trying slight variations on focusing on different parts of your nostrils. There are only really a few truly different meditation approaches presented.
The course materials aren’t that great. Instead of guided meditations, you just have an introductory video for each method. And some weeks, for example the Headless Way week, it was very unclear what to do.
Also, the course marketing materials are out of control. Every trick from the conman’s toolbox is deployed to try to get you to sign on the bottom line. If they read this, please drop those.