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THE STUDY ON AWARENESS

When actions become repetitive, they become monotonous and when that happens we start taking things for granted as a result. Breathing, eating, talking, walking and other typical human actions are normally the most repetitive of all our lives. That is where our simple awareness challenge needs to start.

How do I become aware? Start with simple changes that will surprise yourself and your behavior and break away from the day-to-day inertia. Eating, walking, and breathing are examples of routines things we do everyday that we can do differently.

The first 15 to 30 days of the QB system challenges simple routine actions that strip away the fun in our lives. The QB system requires only that you become self-aware of your daily routines and that you commit to making a change. QUIT Boredom system does the rest.

Awakening your senses and becoming conscious of your surroundings will allow you obtain moments of enjoyment and satisfaction from the every day, mundane tasks and auto-pilot behavior.

It’s the little things you never realized before in the process of following your everyday routines and doing things exactly the same way every day where QB shines. On your way to work, take a different route to build appreciation for the surroundings and discover things you’ve never seen before; those are the little things that QB takes into consideration when you start making changes. They don’t have to be drastic; they just have to make an impact in your life.

But QB doesn’t stop with simple awareness exercises, it continues with mind learning paths that engage you into breaking up with social standards, double standards, the real meaning of freedom, the illusion of control and unrealistic goals in life. After 60 days of using the program you have become self aware, you feel and sense your body, your emotions, you are familiar with your likes and dislikes again. You’ll feel compelled to share and express this new awareness to others and in the following 30 days, QB will help you interact with people in a new, more understanding way. The next 30 days requires you to stop certain behaviors and start practicing some new ones that might be a bit unusual for you. Like taking the time to listen or talk to complete strangers, even exchange phone numbers. This is the process of learning about your surroundings from the social aspects to later understand your role in life and how to play it better.

The Quit Boredom program simplifies entire tasks into one or two sentence commands that you are supposed to complete each day. While each one of the 90 assignments is unique, we encourage the user to create even more diversely inspirational ways to do things even after the program is over. Using the QB system repetitiously is a way to rediscover yourself and prevent inertia from taking over once again. Once you have completed following QB’s commands, feel free to create your own.

Awareness.  What is awareness?

There are many concepts and explanations concerning awareness depending on the context, but awareness is a lot more complex than just being conscious of your surroundings. When you are born, the first challenge is to start learning how to cope with your awareness. A baby is fully responsive to the environment as soon as he or she comes out of the mother’s womb; the perception of light, air, water and sounds is completely new and most likely very scary but curious nonetheless.  The baby cries, as a response to the unknown, and with this the baby is rudimentarily signaling the acknowledgement of awareness.

With time, we become adjusted to our surroundings to the point where the environment becomes neutral, almost nonexistent to our senses and desensitized. Common elements like air and breathing become a bodily routine action that we almost have no conscious participation in.  That is just the beginning of the unawareness process.

Why do we become unaware?

The process starts with learning habits and how our mind fine-tunes the new things we learn, while storing the old ones away inside our brain. We can’t stop breathing, eating, talking and many other bodily functions due to our biological necessities, therefore the actions related to them become recurring and thus routine. When something is recurring, our brain learns how to do them automatically and disconnects itself from consciousness, to give urgency to new and more interesting things to learn. This is very standard process for all human beings and self-aware animals. The process of adaption is also a learning process, of course when everything is new our brain automatically sets itself in sponge-mode and stores everything until capacity is full or reached…