Hansu

Mm, i have a distant memory of sentence "you are unaware of how unaware you are" or something similar between those lines. Then again, i have experienced this state of being in the present which i felt in a forest Basically i was listening to one of Leo's videos where he talked about surrendering and forgetting future and forgetting past, and focusing on the now, and immediatly i imagined three boxes with the past, now and future, and first i thought what happened in my past, and then i saw the box cut off, slowly drifting into nothingess, then i saw the ridiculousness of time and predicament of future, and then the future box also faded away, and i was left with now. Suddenly all the trees had this new, much farther depth and a new "glow" kind of look on them, not glow in traditional sense but i interpreted it as a glowing sensation, and i was walking in the forest with a big ass smile, tens of mosquitos biting on my neck, legs and hands. I don't know why i wrote this, but i think it was because of my eagerness and want to share my experience somewhere and to get back there, to build my life around that sensation Setting daily intentions sounds very good at general. I was setting goals and reading goals for a month, but every time i wrote daily goals i would really focus on the daily, small goals rather than the big ones and in the end, i would end up with a few weeks of effective work, then huge dip and frustration as i no longer got anything done, especially if i had written it as a goal in the morning. But an intention of focus sounds flexible and simple enough to try do for a few months. I never really thought of this option and i always went with the techniques, not end goal in mind Thank you. I think joining the forum and finding the passion to seek awareness are the two best changes in my self actualization journey so far

I tried to find this topic on search, but nothing really satisfied my questions so im creating a new thread. My background: I grasped the importance of awareness about a week ago, and ever since i have been trying to focus on the present moment, every day with varying success. Walking in the forest gives me immense awareness(in the quantity that i can realize), but everywhere else its a little harder. Whenever i get an emotion, i try to focus on the emotion and be aware of what my consciousness reveals about the emotion, aswell as i try to be aware what is going on in my process of being aware of the emotion. The amount of happiness i have gained through the short moments of fully forgetting past and future have lead me to wanting to hone and extend my awareness. So i have been listening to the book "Power of now" by Ekchart Tolle and trying to grasp its wisdom. Yesterday i started working on an assembly line style job and my job is very monotonous collecting and packaging of plastic items for 8 hours every day. Previously i would have dreaded such monotonous job, but now i take it as a chance to really improve my consciousness and improve my skill of awareness while making few bucks to survive until next semester starts. But today i noticed that trying to build awareness even in such a monotonous situation is hard, and trying to be aware of the feelings on my body, sight, breathing and sense of touch all at once for 8 hours straight probably will make me more bad than good at the level of awareness i am now, so i was wondering if there was a technique developed for just the kind, or similiar kind of situations?