The first skill that is needed to enable us to learn and acquire expertise in any number of other practical skill is the skill of being present in our body rather than being lost in our mind. When one learns this skill they will be able to mentor, teach and guide others to acquire any new skill they seek.
We can do this by cultivating a regular mindfulness practice to help us stay present and focused all day. But this skill cannot be cultivated by knowledge alone, a longtime regular habit is needed.
This is because knowledge does not help in changing the way we behave. Knowledge can help in our wanting to change the way we behave. That is the first step, but that first step is not sufficient. Knowledge accrues in the logical, analytical, rational part of our mind. Whereas our behaviour is dictated by the rest of our mind which includes our limbic mind, our emotional mind, our intuitive mind and our aware mind.
We need handholding in the form of mentoring for a sustained period of time to help us cultivate a habit. All our habits that we currently have of which we are not even aware, got cultivated in our childhood when our parents or caregivers or the society around us especially during the first decade of our life, hand held us and helped us ingrain these habits.
My book “Awareness Journey | The Happy Place module – A journey into the deepest aspects of you” is one such mentoring journey. The reader will be hand held through a one month journey to make being in the Happy Place within your default mode of being. This is exactly same as being able to stay present and focused all day.
Buy the book and embark on your own journey into Awareness using the following link. You can also seek one on one mentoring through my six month online course also titled “Awareness Journey”. The book guides you on how to do this.
https://awarenessjourney.org/the-first-book
For hundreds of thousands of years sunlight was the only source of light on earth. Sunrise would trigger activity in our bodies with the secretion of Serotonin and sunset would usher in the sleep state with the secretion of Melatonin. Our ancestors enjoyed wholesome sleep despite the otherwise hostile environment in which they lived. It all started to change when about a hundred and fifty years ago Edison invented the lightbulb, eliminating the difference between night and day. And Humans started losing wholesome sleep