“Never, always, it’s not possible, it’s not reasonable, I’m right, let someone else take care of it, I’ll try, it’s his fault, it’s his.” With this example of vocabulary it is impossible to achieve the goal proposed by the book. The art of knowing yourselfby the Mexican Alejandra Llamas, published in Spain a month ago and in Mexico ten months ago, with enormous success among readers: more than a million.
Lamas undertook this book on the recommendation of García Márquez’s former publisher, Cristóbal Pera. She had just closed a large yoga center she owned in Miamipartly because maintaining this activity was beginning to be a burden in every sense of the word, which no longer compensated for the effort and enthusiasm expended.
From this first draft, Pera told him that 80% was valuable, but the other 20% was not.. Llamas returned to Miami from Mexico and began to wonder why, until she decided to return to Pera’s office and investigate the reasons that had prevented her from continuing her path as a first-time writer.
When Llamas understood this – he was missing a narrative thread – he retraced his path and launched himself into the mission of the title, his reason for being, until he managed to position himself. in the top bestsellers for a year.
Alejandra Llamas remembers it like this during her visit to the Casa de México in Madrid, where she presented her title, the second that she publishes here, after The guest book. “I was grateful that they gave me so many ‘no’s’ before the book came out. It contains fifteen years of knowledge, workshops, methodologies… based on science, quantum physics, neurology. I am very proud that so many readers are making it their own. We are the architects of our own destiny, We lock ourselves in patterns, we get stuck in blind spots and we repeat the same life over and over without realizing that we have a way out.
The art of knowing (Grijalbo) suggests choosing between two options in life. Work on what we want to have or, secondly, fall victim to our own beliefs and circumstances as something immutable, something that cannot change and that will subject us to rules that we do not share.
“The more you know about the art of living,” writes Llamas, the more your strategies, your possibilities and, therefore, your experience improve. We can choose how and with whom we interact, what our life is about, and investigate what we manifest from it.
Llamas is the creator of the MMK coaching platform, an institution located in the USA, specializing in comprehensive teaching to achieve self-knowledge, awareness of one’s being and one’s environment. As an expert in yoga and meditation techniques and a student of other foundational books on human brain behavior and language use, Alejandra Llamas recalls the differentiating line with psychoanalysis. “We are not working with a diagnosis, these are individuals who are functional in their lives, even if they have moments of anxiety or depression. Disturbance, when it arrives, is what psychoanalysis is dealing with.”
As for whether people are afraid of knowing themselves, the coach and the writer has an affirmative opinion. “People are afraid to know ourselves, to move around, to hold us accountable when we make mistakes, to expose ourselves. When we want to get to know ourselves, all this comes out. What do we do then, when life puts us in very vulnerable scenarios. “To know ourselves is to push us to return to our own spaces.”
Alejandra Llamas emphasizes that her book “It leads us to be more honest with ourselves. Don’t worry about making mistakes, learn to see what you will do next. This is what speaks of human quality. “It’s very interesting what happens after mistakes.”
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