Former Wall Street trader shares his tips to happier living after ditching his six figure salary for life of meditation and solitude at a Thai monastery

• A former Wall Street trader hung up his swimsuit and set off to a Thai monastery 
• Harrison Hidee, 28, landed a excessive paying job on Wall Street straight after Uni 
• But after six years of the job, he shortly realised the quick way of life wasn’t for him 

A former high-flying Wall Street trader ditched the tie for a backpack and discovered himself living amongst Thai monks. 

Harrison Hidee, of Norwich, landed on Wall Street straight after college, raking in six figures and shortly climbing the company ladder. 

The 28-year-old spent most of his time within the workplace or entertaining purchasers till the sooner hours, and would even come into work the following day ‘sporting the identical garments’. 

After 4 years within the wolf pit, he realised the approach to life wasn’t for him and, two years later, lastly hung up the swimsuit for good to go travelling. 

While his life is way completely different to what he is used to, he stated: ‘I’m genuinely extra comfortable proper now, from an exterior perspective I’ve a lot much less, however really from my perspective, I’ve extra.’ 

Speaking to MailOnline, he stated: ‘The extra my very own time acquired taken up by work, the extra I realised cash isn’t the one measure of success.’

While Harrison was on the trail to incomes seven figures, he stated he didn’t need to grow to be like his coworkers who ‘by no means left the workplace’ and ‘had no time to see their youngsters.’ 

Instead, Harrison started a wellness journey and strived to dwell within the second, to ‘take in every part because it comes.’ While the ‘simplicity was a shock to the system,’ he stated he stepped again into actuality with a ‘completely different lens’.

From January of this yr, he touched floor in Thailand, India, Bali, Turkey, Albania and extra. 

But a stand out expertise throughout his four-month hiatus was his time living with monks at the Wat Pa Tam Wua monastery in north-west Thailand.   

Harrison was intrigued by their means of living, having ventured into private growth and studying Jay Shetty’s ‘Think Like a Monk,’ however nothing may have ready him for the day-to-day of Monk living. 

Drastically completely different to his Wall Street life, Harrison spent his days in silence, studying scriptures and surviving off of two meals a day, which in accordance to Harrison, consisted of ‘rice and slop’. 

Harrison admitted: ‘I used to be positively accustomed to a sure way of life,’ however ‘acquired used to it after a whereas’.

Recounting his three-week stint at the monastery he stated he would study, meditate and learn Buddhist scriptures. 

He added: ‘We would do work across the monastery which might be something from clearing leaves to cleansing.’ 

‘I spent the entire time simply not caring, absorbing every part because it comes; I’ve by no means carried out that earlier than.’

Elaborating on his TikTook account, he stated: ‘Returning to normality after my time at the monestary was like viewing it by a completely different lens, the issues that used to maintain significance appeared trivial within the grand scheme of life.

‘I re entered the world with a new discovered readability about my values.’ 

Harrison spent his time travelling with his girlfriend and adapting from the hectic way of life of New York.  

His prolonged go to to the Monks, definitely ready him for a slower means of living, and having returned from his journey, Harrison now lives in Norwich. 

Harrison posts his wellness pursuits to his TikTok account and is now pouring his focus into constructing a wellness centre within the UK. 

Advising his followers on the method of living within the monastery, he stated: ‘You have to attain out to a particular monastery and allow them to know while you plan on coming, there’s a fast interview and they run you thru what your duties can be.

‘You can keep for so long as you want however a minimal of 4 days, meals and lodging is free however you’re requested to make a donation of your alternative.’

While many followers agreed his expertise regarded ‘so rewarding’, some questioned how lengthy he ‘lived’ there for, describing it as extra like a ‘trip’. 

To which Harrison replied: ‘If you assume even staying right here one night time is a trip you haven’t any concept in regards to the programming right here.’