The subjective side of life influences, changes, creates the phenomenal world. The objective or phenomenal world has nothing to offer to the subtle world except an arena for service. Meditation calls in light. One does not sit down one time and flash into enlightenment. That only happens in glamorous books.
Meditation works much more, much much more like a rheostat.
Perseverance in meditation gradually but steadily increases or turns up the light. It is the increasing light that causes the problems or restructures one's life. Eventually this light will be all pervasive. It will infuse every aspect of the personal life. Every nook and cranny, every dark and secret recess will eventually be irradiated by the light of the Soul.