“So all we need to do, to develop good habits, is to make a subconscious connection and find a replacement trigger. It is that simple.”

Sandeep Nath, author (ARRIVE AT SUCCESS) and Inner Power Coach, has created an inspirational strategy for saving the world one mind at a time in RENEWAL: Your Unexpected Role in Saving the Planet.

A small family group has lived abroad and returned to their native India. They have their differences but are bound together by their admiration for Guru Pranachandra, whom they have invited to a soiree at a Delhi home where all will listen, rapt, to his wisdom. Who would have imagined that he would offer so much in just a few hours?

"Nath is hopeful that [RENEWAL] will provide a critical wake-up call to concerned individuals who will share it within their communities and institutions to evoke an evolution of vitally needed planetary change."

Pranachandra’s message starts small: We all operate by consciousness, but no one really knows what that means. Yet by learning to understand it, we can improve our lives from the smallest and most mundane aspect to the salvation of the planet. He poses one of many questions for his devotees: “Why don’t we generate a consciousness renewal for our own life, even while we live it?” As he gradually expands this spiritually revolutionary theme, he will keep it simple, using logical examples that all can easily grasp. We can develop good habits, he says, using a “replacement trigger” to hold them in place. He goes on to expound, in a series of 10's (10 habits for self-renewal, 10 for symbiotic renewal, and 10 for systemic renewal), how this crucial change can take place.

The Renewal habits urge us to adopt simple, mindful practices, including such basics as smiling inside and stretching while you laze in bed, to buying concentrates to save the energy expended in packaging, to making daily and monthly resolutions. He advises respecting and learning from elders and investing energy in younger people. A “10-minute rule” for energy sources requires using water and electricity only in short bursts; internet use should be maintained, but human communication --- through phone calls and face-to-face meetings --- also should be incorporated. Plant trees, gift plants, tidy up, get rid of extraneous clothing and generally “cut object dependency.” Start a routine in Qigong and share it with others.

These guidelines, carefully delineated by Nath in numerical order and explained in engaging detail by his central character, will alter not only our consciousness but also the thoughts and feelings of those around us, and will have a positive effect on stressed global energies.

As Nath illustrates through the guru’s insights and the effect that they have on his enthralled audience, Renewal can become a movement, literally beginning at grassroots level. The Renewal emblem he has devised contains an ankh, a symbol of life, emerging from a circle, graced with sprouting leaves. It could be, the author suggests, a symbol of power, of an explosion ready to happen, or a “fragrance, which purifies all.” Having completed this work, seemingly precognitively, just prior to the outbreak of COVID-19, Nath is hopeful that it will provide a critical wake-up call to concerned individuals who will share it within their communities and institutions to evoke an evolution of vitally needed planetary change.