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Book Review: Awareness Journey by Selvan Srinivasan

Awareness brought to our consciousness helps in achieving overall wellness. We get to know the exact meaning of life, being happy, what we are pursuing, and what we are seeking in the world. But most people link awareness with spiritual guidance or awakening. Both are different – awakening and awareness. This book of Selvan is on awareness about within. The book reads like an experience, more than just a journal or conversation between two people. Being aware of our body, mind, energy, and breathing is critical to heal us from within and to put us in a default happy mode.


The author Selvan Srinivasan teaches awareness programs where people move from illness to wellness. The book is neither fictional nor a work of research. He penned down modules what he teaches to his mentees. The book covers the awareness journey of Aayushi, which she takes with her mentor Selvan, also known as Oogway, a name inspired by Kung Fu Panda movie.

Aayushi works from home for an MNC company. She lives with her businessman father. Financially she is better off but psychologically she is ill. She gets connected with Selvan for mentoring.

The book is segmented into many modules, each one is further divided into sub topics. The program starts with focus given to energy and conscious breathing. The awareness journey dwells on energy. It needs to be understood that even our physical body is under the energy body. So, if there is a change in energy, it is going to affect physical body too.

Throughout the book, the mentor laid insistence on conscious breathing, tapping, deep crossings, energy moments, and fixed gazing and conscious breathing (FGCB). The book is not a give only or keep stuffing knowledge. Selvan narrates various anecdotes from his personal life. The ways and strategies that he is teaching aren’t empirical, in fact, he used it on himself.

The content of the book is highly rich. You cannot imagine as to what extent it can pull you. If pinpointing the USPs of the book, it is clear that the set of energy movements (EMs), deep crossings (DC), FGCB are prominent. For EMs, you can visit the YouTube channel of Selvan and even for DC and other knowledge.

Usually their conversational style program looks surreal. They both chat as people do in today’s life. Aayushi talks about results, they debate on relevant topics, and much more. But before a chapter ends, the author comes up with a transcript of the audio. So the readers either can listen to the audio or read that transcript, which are great source of knowledge with soft music at its backdrop.

Step by step, Aayushi gets her awareness journey installed. She notices the changes while performing the exercises and ways. The book explains mental shift, gratitude, creative visualization, habits and much more in a lucid way with proper examples so the journey becomes smooth and seamless. Grounding, sleep deprivation, dump journaling, acceptance…and many more are the stand out life lessons which can be utilized by normal folks as well. It is a beautifully presented book with absolute relevance on awareness journey.  It isn’t a tough proposition to get into a journey that will nudge you to meet the better version of yourself. Selvan helps you to see how you feel after self-transformation. A great book in its genre! Highly recommended!

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