I think you still have it wrong, because being present isn’t a skill. It’s more like an anti-skill: you have stop doing all the stuff you’re doing that keeps you from just being.
There is, instead, a different skill that’s needed to make progress towards being present. It’s a compound skill around noticing what you do out of habit rather than in response to present conditions, figuring out why you have those habits, practice not engaging in those habits when you otherwise would, and thereby developing trust that you can safely drop those habits, thus retraining yourself to do less out of habit and be closer to just being and responding.
I think you still have it wrong, because being present isn’t a skill. It’s more like an anti-skill: you have stop doing all the stuff you’re doing that keeps you from just being.
There is, instead, a different skill that’s needed to make progress towards being present. It’s a compound skill around noticing what you do out of habit rather than in response to present conditions, figuring out why you have those habits, practice not engaging in those habits when you otherwise would, and thereby developing trust that you can safely drop those habits, thus retraining yourself to do less out of habit and be closer to just being and responding.