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YOU
ARE
GOD

BY

SHIVAM

https://twitter.com/shvm12



YOUR SEARCH FOR GOD STOPS HERE

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Shivam
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ALSO BY SHIVAM





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CONTENTS


Preface Page 4-5
Chapter 1 God Page 6-8
Chapter 2 Existence Page 9-12
Chapter 3 Consciousness Page 13-17
Chapter 4 The Placebo Effect Page 18-21
Chapter 5 Spock Page 22-26
Citations Page 27
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PREFACE

It starts at the moment you are born, at least in Hindu Culture, in which I was born, I have no
idea about the others though. Its an Indian customary to take child to the Priest so that God can
bless the child, and his life goes on great. If that was not enough, there are many other customs
which follow after the birth. We search for God through our entire life, yet no one has proved its
existence. Many people contribute their whole life to the service of God in hope for heaven.
But there are very few in this world, who understands that the real God lies inside you, all of
you. And so the title of this book You are God. Being an Atheist, I never actually believed in
the concept of God, different people have different ideologies. According to me, one can do
justice to his life if he stops searching for the invisible man in the sky and starts exploring
himself. Thats the only way he can grow. This book is totally about that. What are you? Why do
we exist? Why do we make decisions? My Purpose of writing this book is to let the readers know
about whats really happening inside their brain and how can they benefit from it by knowing
more about it.
This book has no connection whatsoever to my last book The Insightful Mortal although I
would suggest the eager young minds to take a look at that book if you have lots of questions
about religion and God. This book is totally focused on a person, his brain, his existence and
what he ought to achieve in this Universe. Unlike my last book, I think this book is suitable for
all kinds of readers whether they are religious or anti-religious. At least I hope so!!
This book has lot of technological terms associated with Quantum Mechanics and neurobiology,
So if any of these subjects freak you out, you might have a hard time grasping it although I have
tried my best to simplify the terms and write it in a language anyone could understand. And also,
I havent got pretty deep in any of the topics, just covered what was needed to explain my
feelings towards it.
Chapter 1 is God. It is a basic summary of what people conceive God as, what it really is, and
how can you discover it in you. Chapter 2 is Existence This is rather a pretty interesting and
burning topic. Almost everyone has doubts about it. What are we? Why are we born? These
questions are answered in Chapter 2. It mostly takes the Quantum Mechanics path to explain our
existence.
Chapter 3 is Consciousness. Many People have doubts about this as well. Do we really exist?
Or is everything just an illusion? Many people actually believe it to be an illusion, thus spending
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their life in solidarity since they believe life is meaningless and we cannot extract anything out of
it. This chapter goes into depth about this topic. This time, neurobiology will help us explain
what our consciousness really is and do we need to spend a meaningful life even if everything
exists.
Chapter 4 is The Placebo Effect I have always been a firm believer of this effect, although
many dont know what is. In laymans term, placebo is basically a fake medication given to a
person to trick his mind into healing the body. There have not been 100% results yet, but I
believe Science has a long way to go, and this is an important key to that, tricking your mind.
The whole idea of tricking your mind sounds unrealistic to some and quite interesting for others.
In this chapter, we will discuss about this and how it works.
Chapter 5 is Spock. Yes, the spock, your favorite character of Star Trek. Everyone familiar
with Star Trek knows about how good he was in controlling his emotions. So I have dedicated
this chapter to him which will discuss about the ways in which you can control your emotions
and how can you benefit from it.
For the help in preparation of this book, I would definitely like to thanks Chiren Boumaaza
A.K.A Athene, who has now disappeared from his YouTube viral series videos. His videos on
Athenes theory of everything gave me the first clue to write this book. The way he has used
Science to prove these stuff is definitely mind blowing. So my sincere thanks to him for
completing this book.











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Always believe in yourself for You are God

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What is God? The answer to this question has been sought for a long time without any answers.
Neurobiology has some answers, but rarely one believes it. It actually is funny to see people
believe in imaginary creatures than in real science which has proof. According to Dictionary,
God is often conceived as the Supreme Being and principal object of faith and they go on
searching for it in temples, mosques or other religious monuments
The word God had different meaning for each different community. For Hindus, It might mean
Brahma, Vishnu and whole other range of gods and goddess, for Christians it may mean Jesus
and for Muslims Allah. So there is no common connection and proof who is the real god and
which is the Supreme Being. People dont get answers, so they start fighting on the basis of
religion claiming their God is the greatest.
What if I told you, the real answer to who your God lies inside you. Yeah, you heard that right!!
Each one of you is God. And just to justify the title You are God. Now there is a whole range
of possibilities that arises from this statement too. Theists would say, each body has a soul and
that represents the God. Again, like every time, theists dont have proof of anything like this. So
we would jump to the Atheist point of view. Its the Brain which does all the tricks. It controls
your body, and the moment it stops working, you are dead.
Aptly putting it in the word of Athene, in his famous book Athenes theory of everything,
God is in the neurons!!
According to Athene, The human brain is a network of approximately one hundred billion
neurons. Different experiences create different neural connections which bring about different
emotions. So, what you are now is basically summation of all your experiences in life. We will
discuss this part thoroughly in Chapter 2 Existence.
Like said earlier, our brain is made of billions of neurons and they all have a specific task to do.
Each neuron has a voltage which can change when ions flow in or out of the cell. Once a
neuron's voltage has reached a certain level, it will fire an electrical signal to other cells, which
will repeat the process. When many neurons fire at the same time, we can measure these changes
in the form of a wave. Brainwaves underpin almost everything going on in our minds, including
memory, attention and even intelligence. As they oscillate at different frequencies, they get
classified in bands, such as: delta, theta, alpha, beta, and gamma. Each are associated with
different tasks. Brainwaves allow brain cells to tune in to the frequency corresponding to their
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particular task, while ignoring irrelevant signals, similar to how a radio homes in on different
waves to pick up radio stations.
The transfer of information between neurons becomes optimal when their activity is
synchronized. This is the same reason why we experience cognitive dissonance, the frustration
caused by simultaneously holding two contradictory ideas. Will is merely the drive to reduce
dissonance between each of our active neural circuits. Evolution can be seen as the same process,
where nature tries to adapt or 'resonate' with its environment. By doing so, it evolved to a point
where it became self-aware and began to ponder its own existence. When a person faces the
paradox of wanting purpose while thinking that human existence is meaningless, cognitive
dissonance occurs. Throughout history, this has led many to reach for spiritual and religious
guidance, challenging science, as it failed to give answers to existential questions, such as: "Why
or what am I?"
The answer to this question has always been inside us. People search for it in all the wrong
places, Church or Mosque and Temple eventually screwing their logical thinking and fighting
wars for no purpose. I found an apt slang on the Internet totally fitting this scenario. Here it goes
You are a piece made after billion years of Evolution. Just freaking act like it!!


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It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this
moment
Gabriel Garca Mrquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
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What are we? Why were we born? Whats our importance in the Universe? Does ever existence
mean anything?
These are some basic questions that comes across every logical person at some point in his/her
life. This is where everything else stops making sense. Why were we born, this question is still
unanswered. But what are we? this has been answered by Physics and Neurobiology. We are our
mind. Each and every decision we make, is controlled by our mind which is made of very large
number of neurons. Some would say, our soul is responsible for what we do, and some would
say, the Heart does everything, we must learn to listen to our hearts.
Well, about the soul, there has been no scientific proof yet about the existence of anything like
that and how it governs us. So, that part is overruled. And People claiming to listen to their heart,
this is one of the most stupid things, one could hear. Heart is just a blood pumping organ which
pumps blood to every part of the body, and it has nothing else to do with mind. The brain makes
all the decisions, what you like, what you dont, whom do u love? There are different sections
of brain and neurons looking over those facts.
Now, getting to the real question, what are we? This involves the understanding of
Neurobiology. So things might get a bit technical from here. I would try to explain it in the
easiest way I could, but if you have a strong hatred to Biology only you can help yourself, and I
mean it literally!! I will talk about that thing in the later chapter.
The answer to what we really are is actually pretty simple and as most of you would think its the
Brain. Every decision right from the childhood to our death is made by our Brain. The human
brain is a network of approximately one hundred billion neurons. Different experiences create
different neural connections which bring about different emotions. And depending on which
neurons get stimulated, certain connections become stronger and more efficient, while others
may become weaker.
We are a global network of neurochemical reactions. And the self-amplifying cycle of
acceptance and acknowledgment, sustained by the daily choices in our interactions, is the chain-
reaction that will ultimately define our collective ability to overcome imagined differences and
look at life in the grand scheme of things.
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So the Brain has the answer to what you are now. You are made of your experiences. For
example, if you are training to be a sports person, your brain will create stronger neural
connection in that part for you to be creative in sports. Its just your mind which does the entire
trick and therefore there is nothing impossible for you to do, you just have to believe in that and
boom, your mind will do it.
There is a very interesting example pertaining to that. Rdiger Gamm, who was a self-admitted
"hopeless student", used to fail at basic maths. He went on to train his abilities and became a
famous "human calculator", capable of performing extremely complex mathematics. As you are
made of your experiences, the more you train on the field you want to pursue, the better off you
will be.
Another important aspect of existence is survival in a community or a group. Why do we fear
when we are about to get our results? Why do we fear when we do something wrong? The
answer to these questions lies in Evolution. The Humans have evolved to live in groups and their
aim is to be socially acceptable to that group. When we grow up, our moral and ethical compass
is almost entirely forged by our environment, so our actions are often the result of the validation
we get from society. So when we think we have underperformed according to society, the neuron
fires up causing you to feel guilty about it.
There are also instances when you can feel some nervousness while just watching some other
person under the conditions mentioned in last paragraph. This has to do with a concept call
empathetic mirror neurons. When we experience an emotion or perform an action, specific
neurons fire. But when we observe someone else performing this action or when we imagine it,
many of the same neurons will fire again, as if we were performing the action ourselves. These
empathy neurons connect us to other people, allowing us to feel what others feel. And since these
neurons respond to our imagination, we can experience emotional feedback from them as if it
came from someone else. This system is what allows us to self-reflect.
We are constant trying to replicate the people around us, and looking for things which reflect our
mental state. This is why our moods are so often affected by the people around us and why we
can be so immersed in music, games or movies that resonate with us as if we're socially
mirroring the artists or characters.
Everyone feels that there is always someone who can dominate over you and order you to do
things. Well, this has to do with neuroscience too. Specific neurons and neurotransmitters, such
as norepinephrine, trigger a defensive state when we feel that our thoughts have to be protected
from the influence of others. If we are then confronted with differences in opinion, the chemicals
that are released in the brain are the same ones that try to ensure our survival in dangerous
situations. In this defensive state, the more primitive part of the brain interferes with rational
thinking and the limbic system can knock out most of our working memory, physically causing
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narrow mindedness. On a neural level, it reacts as if we're being threatened, even if this threat
comes from harmless opinions or facts that we may otherwise find helpful and could rationally
agree with.
Another common question is why are some people always depressed or sad? The answer to this
is totally based on last paragraph. People have tendency to fit into groups and in that process if
that person tend to be suppressed, depression starts at that point. Self-esteem or self-belief is
closely linked to the neurotransmitter serotonin. When the lack of it takes on severe proportions,
it often leads to depression, self-destructive behavior or even suicide. Social validation increases
the levels of dopamine and serotonin in the brain and allows us to let go emotional fixations and
become self-aware more easily.
Now the most important question of them all. How can we overcome this and enjoy our only
eternal life with total freedom? The answer to this lies in self-awareness. You must know who
you are, and what are you capable to do. There is no one stopping you in attaining your goals.
Always make your own decisions, people may come and go, but letting them influence your
decision could turn out to be your worst decision. Research in the field of memetics shows that
our cultural ideas and practices, or memes, are achieving evolutionary change at a much faster
rate than our genes have ever done in the past. The most inspiring memes often live on and
define our evolution. But unlike genes, memes are directly influenced by our intellectual
awareness.
Be Selfish. Be clear in what you want. Do not fall for social obligations. The brain's neural
activity resonates most coherently when there is no dissonance between these advanced new
cerebral regions and the older, more primitive, ones. What we traditionally call 'selfish
tendencies' is only a narrow interpretation of what self-serving behavior entails, where as in
human characteristics are perceived through the flawed model of identity, instead of through a
scientific view on what we are: a momentary expression of an ever changing unity, with no
center. The only way you can be what you want to be is pursuing it the time you learnt that. No
age is too late for that. You just need the right enthusiasm to achieve your goals. Most people
learn it the hard way, and there are people like me who are still trying to learn how to outcome
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We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by
which the universe understands itself.
Brian Cox


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Do we really exist? Is everything around us merely an illusion? Is there anything real in this
Universe? Many people come across these questions. Some try to answer it using Science, and
some try it to find the spiritual way. Well, I am more of a science guy, so you can expect another
chapter full of scientific terminologies. Sorry, for that, but there is no other way possible to
explain this. The answer lies in Quantum Mechanics and also in our own Brain.
Most people have really hard time believing in the real world and our objective in life. And they
have a genuine question. Its complicated to describe that too. Lets take an example to clear that
up. Suppose we have a time machine (just suppose), now just travel 5000 years back in time and
talk to a random person. Now, while talking to him, you start the conversation about Earth, and
he says Earth is a flat disc. You will be amused and will try to convince him that its not. They
obviously wouldnt believe you and will ask for evidence. You, being a normal person obviously
dont have the evidence to prove it. So, taking a sad and dejected face, you come back to the
current time. After some days, you again want to travel back in time, but this time just 500 years
back. After meeting another random person there, you would be pretty relieved to know that they
actually believe in the fact that Earth is round. But there is another problem here, they believe
that Earth lies at the center of the Solar System and doesnt move. This has dejected you again,
and you come back to the present.
What does the last paragraph imply? It definitely tells us that at some particular time, we were
not in a state to accept the truth because of lack of evidence. But as the time progresses, people
eventually find out the reasoning behind everything. By analogy with these examples from the
past, we can reconcile our experience of a real objective world. Due to this limited experience,
we often fall prey to the illusion that what seems to be absolutely true is absolutely true. But the
moment we depart from the limitations of the ordinary and expand our experience to include
more subtle observations, these fictions are revealed to be just approximations to a more
comprehensive reality.
We would now try to find the answers using Quantum Mechanics. Neils Bohr and Warner
Heisenberg were physics legend of 20
th
century. They are the creators of quantum mechanics, the
most precise and far-reaching physical theory ever devised. It explains how the sun shines, how
molecules bond together, how iron is magnetized, and even why objects are hard. This is the
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physics that gives us computer chips, lasers, and atomic bombs. So to dismiss quantum
mechanics is to throw out the cornerstone of modern physics and the basic theory at the
foundation of all these modern wonders.
Having understood how, in spite of our experience to the contrary, it is possible that the objective
existence of the world is an illusion, let us now look at the quantum mechanical evidence itself.
Around the turn of the century, experiments were beginning to open a window to the world of
the atom, a world that had before been hidden completely from view. But the common-sense
ideas of classical physics contradicted what was observed in this new world. For example color
of light emitted by the atoms did not comply with the result given by the classical mechanics.
Max Planck discovered that the observed colors can be explained if it is assumed that light is
emitted in chunks that he called quanta. This was quite a paradox; since many experiments
seemed to indicate that light was a wave.
To demonstrate this effect a very important Interference Experiment was conducted. Getting to
the deep of will definitely get you all bored and confused. So I will jump to its conclusion. This
experiment played a major role in accepting the wave theory of light. These experiments can be
done with electrons, photons, protons, neutrons--any subatomic particle you like. The result will
be the same. It unequivocally demonstrates that all subatomic particles do not have definite
material existence when they are not being observed. These effects can also be observed with
atoms and small molecules. When millions and millions of molecules are clumped together into
a macroscopic object, however, the effects are not usually noticeable. So all matter is really this
way. Even large macroscopic chunks of matter. The independent existence of the material world
is an illusion. This is very startling--or it should be very startling.
There was another famous physicist Schrdinger who was the inventor of quantum physics
introduced a great theory called the Schrdinger Cat Experiment. He imagined putting a cat in
a box with a radioactive atom and a detector that would trigger a bottle of poison to break when
the atom decayed. Since the whole thing is unobserved in the box, the state of the atom, and
consequently the state of the cat, is not determinate. Just as the photon does not take one route or
the other unless it is observed, the cat is not alive or dead unless it is observed.
That is exactly what quantum mechanics itself says. There is even hard evidence now that large
macroscopic objects can exist in these strange non-local quantum states. Examples are
superconductors, superfluids, and lasers. These are the exceptions, though. For most macroscopic
objects, the quantum effects are not noticeable. They are there, to be sure, but they are not
noticeable. The reason the quantum nature of most objects is not noticeable is because of a
phenomenon called decoherence.
It is important to remember that, like the earth appearing flat, this decoherence effect is only an
appearance and is not real. The quantum coherence is really still there--it is just hidden in the
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microscopic details and is not noticeable on the macroscopic scale. So, in principle, macroscopic
objects, just like microscopic objects, do not have objective existence in definite locations while
they are not observed. Nevertheless, because of this decoherence effect, the macroscopic world
appears in a manner that is consistent with objectively existing matter. So, although the objects
of the world do not actually exist objectively, they appear as if they did.
That was all about the Quantum Mechanics part. Now we have to get into the Neuroscience Part
which will explain how our brain perceives the reality.
The task of Science of Consciousness is integrated into two subtypes- third person view and first
person view. When a conscious system is observed from the third-person point of view, a range
of specific behavioral and neural phenomena present themselves. When a conscious system is
observed from the first person point of view, a range of specific subjective phenomena present
themselves. Both sorts of phenomena have the status of data for a science of consciousness.
In simple words, First person view is the type of information your brain processes. It is basically
different experiences you have like Visual experiences (e.g., the experience of color and depth),
other perceptual experiences (e.g., auditory and tactile experience), Bodily experiences (e.g.,
pain and hunger), Mental imagery (e.g., recalled visual images), Emotional experience (e.g.,
happiness and anger), Occurrent thought (e.g., the experience of reflecting and deciding).
On the other hand third person data involves the following: Perceptual discrimination of external
stimuli, the integration of information across sensory modalities, Automatic and voluntary
actions, Levels of access to internally represented information, Verbal reportability of internal
states, the differences between sleep and wakefulness.
Both third-person data and first-person data need explanation. An example is provided by the
case of musical processing. If we observe someone listening to music, relevant third person data
include those concerning the nature of the auditory stimulus, its effects on the ear and the
auditory cortex of the subject, various behavioral responses by the subject, and any verbal reports
the subject might produce. All of these third-person data need explanation, but they are not all
that needs explanation. As anyone who has listened to music knows, there is also a distinctive
quality of subjective experience associated with listening to music. A science of music that
explained the various third-person data just listed but that did not explain the first-person data of
musical experience would be a seriously incomplete science of music. A complete science of
musical experience must explain both sorts of phenomena, preferably within an integrated
framework.
The Third-person data is often referred to as the easy type while the first person data is referred
to as the difficult type for the obvious reasons. Scientists today have undertaken many projects
for consciousness of first person type. We have achieved quite much till now and there are lots of
breakthroughs to be made by Science in the upcoming years.
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The main reason of including this chapter in the book is not only to know about how the brain
works, and if we really do exist. The main purpose of this chapter is let the readers know that no
life is meaningless. Obviously no one here is born for any particular reason or so, but the destiny
we create lies in our hands. We are creator of our destiny, not some random guy sitting in the
sky. Our life turns out to be what we make out of it. So there should be no blame game in this
universe. You solely are responsible for your actions and its consequences. The earlier people
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Paranoia, the more you think of an imaginary problem, the
more you feel as though its real
Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice
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Everyone in this world has heard stories about blessed men sent by God who could apparently
cure anything just by their touch. Well, this statement is partially true and partially wrong. Some
people were actually cured, but not by his healing power but by their own brain, which actually
thought that their body was cured, and it really did. This is the power of your mind, and the
effect called Placebo Effect.
A placebo is a simulated or otherwise medically ineffectual treatment for a disease or other
medical condition intended to deceive the recipient. Sometimes patients given a placebo
treatment will have a perceived or actual improvement in a medical condition, a phenomenon
commonly called the placebo effect. Placebo effect consists of several different effects woven
together, and the methods of placebo administration may be as important as the administration
itself.
Now, lets get to the science behind it. It is again all about the parts of brain stimulated.
Functional imaging upon placebo analgesia shows that it links to the activation, and increased
functional correlation between this activation, in the anterior cingulate, prefrontal, orbitofrontal
and insular cortices, nucleus accumbens, amygdala, the brainstem periaqueductal gray matter,
and the spinal cord. These changes can act upon the brain's early stages of information
processing: Research using evoked brain potentials upon painful laser pulses.
Different areas in the higher brain have different functions. The prefrontal involvement could be
related to recalling the placebo and maintaining its cognitive presence in a "self-reinforcing
feedback loop" (during pain an individual recalls having taken the placebo and reduced pain
reinforces its status as an analgesic). The rostral anterior cingulate cortex (rACC) and its
subcortical connectivity could be related to the expectation of potential pain stimuli.
The higher brain works by regulating subcortical processes. High placebo responses link with
enhanced dopamine and mu-opioid activity in the circuitry for reward responses and motivated
behavior of the nucleus accumbens, and, on the converse, anti-analgesic nocebos responses were
associated with deactivation in this part of the brain of dopamine and opioid release. It has been
known that placebo analgesia depends upon the release in the brain of endogenous opioids since
1978. Such analgesic placebos activation changes processing lower down in the brain by
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enhancing the descending inhibition through the periaqueductal gray on spinal nociceptive
reflexes, while the expectations of anti-analgesic nocebos acts in the opposite way to block this.
The biggest breakthrough in the science of placebo effect was Mr. Wright, who had advanced
cancer of the lymph nodes. There was a physiologist, Bruno Klopfer who was one of the doctors
participating in new drug test called Krebiozen. Now, Doctor Bruno Klopfer was treating his
patient Mr. Wright. When he found out about the AMA and FDA experiments with Krebiozen,
he asked to be a part of it. Mr. Wright had been through many unsuccessful treatments and didnt
have too much time to live. His neck, armpits, chest, stomach, and groin were full of tumors as
big as an orange, not to mention the horrible condition of his kidneys and spleen. So Mr. Wright
agreed to be part of that medication.
Even though the study of Krebiozen wasnt completed and it could have been fatal to the patient,
Dr. Klopfer injected Mr. Wright with one dose of it. He was very worried that this cure would
kill his patient. After few days, Mr. Wright got out of bed by himself and was able to walk
around. It was a miracle! His tumors were twice smaller! Even the strongest radiation or
chemotherapy could not have been expected to cause such a result. When Mr. Wright first got to
the hospital, he wasnt able to live without the oxygen mask, but now, ten days after Krebiozen
was injected, he was released from the hospital as an absolutely healthy man without a trace of
cancer. When Mr. Wright got back home from the hospital, he was able to pilot his own plane at
the height of 3 kilometers.
Everything was going fine till 2 months, until when press started to release articles about
Krebiozen and how it was ineffective in cancer treatment. Being an analytical person who was
interested in science, Mr. Wright became depressed. Eventually, the cancer came back and he
was forced to go back to the hospital.
This time Dr. Klopfer tried to perform a psychological experiment and injected him with distilled
water convincing him that this is the new enhanced and powerful drug which has been tested
successfully. To his surprise, he found out that Mr. Wright became totally fine again and was
discharged from Hospital.
But again, after 2 months, the American Medical Association released an official article,
describing the Krebiozen drug to be a total failure in cancer treatment. This caused Mr. Wright
depression again, and as a result, he developed cancer again and died within 2 days.
Our emotions are tightly connected to the endocrine system. For example, fear is connected to
adrenaline. When we are afraid or anxious about something, adrenaline is released into our
bloodstream. Conversely, when we are calm or not afraid of anything, there is no adrenaline in
our system. Emotions and hormones are in balance.
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Whatever we think, our thoughts get transformed into chemical reactions. The hypothalamus is
responsible for that. It's located below the thalamus, just above the brain stem. Liberins, also
known as releasing hormones, is a substance that regulates the release of the hormone,
gonadotropin (or glycoprotein hormones) in the pituitary gland (or hypophysis). The pituitary
gland is one of the most important glands in the human body. The nerve cells of the
hypothalamus form these liberins and work as a receiver for theneuropeptides, which are small,
protein-like molecules that help neurons communicate with each other. That way, after receiving
a signal from other parts of the brain with the help of neuropeptides, the hypothalamus changes
the secretion of hormones at the hypophysis and it controls sugar levels, hunger, body
temperature, etc. It also regulates the adrenal glands, the working regime of our heart and lungs,
and it has a direct influence on the digestive and circulatory systems.
Enough of the technical terms, this basically gives us the hint that we can control our body by
our mind. We can cure ours elf, we can envoke positive thoughts inside us to help us perform
better and many others.
This is actually a great secret towards living a wonderful life, you dream of. All you have to do is
believe in yourself that you can actually do it.
Master Oogway has rightly said in the movie Kung Fu Panda
You Must Believe!!
This quote also has a scientific base and the best thing about it is it always works. Here are lists
of statements that can keep you motivated in your life towards achieving your goals.
1. I am perfect in whatever I do.
2. I dont need anything more. I am happy with whatever I have now.
3. Every person on this planet is amazing, its just they want different things in life
4. I am getting stronger and stronger day by day
5. I dont mind people doing things which I dont like. This is the only process by which they
can grow.
6. I am happy because I understand the illusion of the Brain, and I have learnt to live beyond it
7. I am what I am.

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Live Long and Prosper
Spock

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For all the geeks out there, Spock needs no introduction. This guy has had a great fan following
and apparently everyone liked him. Some wanted to be like him, while some found his behavior
amusing from a distance. Me being the person who has always wanted to be like him but damn I
didnt have any Vulcan roots. For the rest of people who doesnt seem to get a hang of him or
Star Trek, here comes his introduction. Spock is a fiction character in Star Trek who plays the
role of Science Officer in the Enterprise.
Star Trek is a kitsch guilty pleasure with big philosophical ideas. The shows creator was an
atheist and humanist who aimed to show characters co-operating through reason and humanity.
First broadcast in 1966, it explored ethics, philosophy and politics and challenged its audience
with a multi-racial cast and the first televised inter-racial kiss.
Star Treks Mr. Spock is probably the Stoic icon of pop culture. His character has brought Stoic
ideas to millions. The use of Stoicism was deliberate and the shows creator is quoted as saying
he gave Stoicism to Spock. Spock is the ships science officer, guided by his Vulcan
philosophy which is based on logic and emotional control. He controls his emotions and
withholds judgment. He uses meditation and finds human emotions illogical. Yet he (as well as
Stoicism) is often misidentified as being without emotion, coldblooded and unfeeling.
Now, what does Stoicism mean? Stoicism is essentially a system of ethics which is guided by
logic as theory of method and tests upon Physics as foundation. Briefly, their notion of morality
is stern, involving a life in accordance with nature and controlled by virtue.
This chapter will discuss about stoicism as well as being like Spock i.e. totally emotionless
creature. I will discuss about the benefits of this principle and how can we achieve it.
Every one of us has seen different kind of emotions: happiness, anger, lust, sadness depression.
At times, we feel at the top of the world on achieving something great and there are times when
you feel sunk inside a hole. These emotions drive you around and affect your decision making. It
might be good sometimes but not always. There are times when you wish you hadnt done some
thing or shouldnt have said something due to anger. The only thing left at that time is remorse
and eventually depression.
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What If we can control these emotions? Wouldnt it be great to be happy and careless always?
There would be nothing to worry about. Some people might say, whats the point in living such a
boring a dull life where u cannot cherish the moments u love? Well, thats absolutely correct. But
since we are all human and I guess there is no one around here with a Vulcan half, we can just
try to be emotionless; we can never completely overrule it. The good point with trying to be
emotionless is that you will rarely feel negativity in you. All you would look for is happiness and
trying to be yourself.
Believe it or not, all are actions are governed by a third person. Evolution says that we have all
been evolved to stay in groups and to be a part of it, you need to make people around you feel
worthy. This causes the problem to everything. To get approved, people have to look formidable,
and hence comes the emotion. You might feel sad when you get less mark in exam because you
feel you might not get accepted as honorary student in the society. This tale never ends. So you
get the gist where does our emotion root from.
Each person makes his decisions either based on logic or driven by his emotions. An average
person would say you make your decisions by your mind or your heart, and you should always
follow your heart in these scenarios. Every time someone says this, Hulk inside me grows but the
Spock controls the situation although by not much letting me shout Bullshit. Every decision is
made by your brain. Heart is just a pumping organ, nothing more.
These two views are echoed in modern neuroscience by Daniel Kahneman. He sees each brain as
operating two systems: System 1 makes rapid decisions based on intuition and emotion while
System 2 makes complex decisions based on analysis and logic. A Stoic is exhorted to act for
the common welfare. Both these thinking systems can achieve this; System 1 by automatic
mental responses where emotion triggers an action to avoid danger or protect those in need and
System 2 by logical analysis.
How can we be emotionless? What are the tricks involved? Well there are some basic thumb
rules which might help you to stay focused and achieve your goals without being buried in
emotional turbulence.
1. Acceptance- This is the most important thing about self-realization. One must totally accept
their fate and should go according to it. But it should not stop you from dreaming big. The thing
about being emotionless is that you should not fall prey to the hurdles in between, accept it as
fate and go on. Some would say Love often destroys your career path. But thats again a stupid
term. There is nothing called love, its just attachment between two opposite sexes for the reason
everyone knows. Its just the mind which makes up these things. If you can control your mind,
there would be no such barrier
2. Community before self- This might sound like a statement negating my previous statement
but trust me it doesnt. Being around with someone is always good for your physical as well as
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mental health, provided its the person you like to be with. Always try to be with a person who
invokes positive thoughts in you and are always positive. This way, you would have the
opportunity to grow and discover your strengths. By helping others, volunteering, giving time to
mentor or guide others, sharing your knowledge and your cup of sugar with other people in your
community, you'll find your emotions aren't such a driving force. Another great thing about
being with different kinds of people is that you cant time to think of your emotional problems.
This thing works pretty well when you are in some kind of distress.
3. Creating new mind gaps- According to neuro-leadership expert David Rock, it's very hard to
rewire our neural pathways. Instead, it's a whole lot easier to make new ones. And the good news
is that new mind maps, or new ways of thinking, tend to be stronger because they're fresh and
highly focused. This also implies that instead of focusing on all the old problems and habits, one
could create a new mind gap of being highly successful and motivated. Spend all of your
energy on creating this new mental map through actions that confirm objectively that this is the
person you are. With practice, you'll shape this new neural circuitry and you can simply ignore
the old wiring that had you so emotionally overwrought.
4. Thinking a logical answer to everything- Its one of the hardest things to do since we are all
controlled by our emotions. And at some particular point, we tend to make an emotional
decision. The best thing to do in such situations is to view your life as a third mans perspective.
That way, the emotional factor governing the decision will be very less and you tend to make a
logical and perfect decision. With dissociation, you don't allow yourself to be subjective;
instead, you remain objective, like a doctor treating a patient. In neuro-linguistic programming,
this technique is called "reframing."
5. Live in Present- Most of the worries that a person gets is by overthinking or worrying about
the future. There are many cases of depression and suicides pertaining to this. However hard the
consequences are, its solution is pretty simple. Live in present, not in past, not in future, 100%
present. It is not that easy as it sounds, but with practice, it gets better and you could enjoy your
moment better. It doesnt actually stop you from planning your future, it just tells you not to
worry about it, once you have done your work.
6. Be logical- Rather than assuming things based on fear, anger or similar emotional reactions,
work purely with facts. Logic often combats out-of-control emotions and allows you to see the
reality in any situation. After all, reality is outside your head -- not your interpretation of it. If
you did not qualify in a job interview or an exam, remind yourself that you were not qualified
enough for that position. Staying logical in an emotional crisis allows us to take well-
established mental shortcuts instead of thinking things through more substantially. When you're
used to reacting emotionally to difficult situations, you have to retrain your mind to think
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7. Remove self -destructing thoughts- Dont whip yourself into a frenzy of self-pity and
internal loathing. Media images of the perfect body, the perfect lifestyle, the perfect job and the
like are targeted at making us all feel "less than." You can choose whether or not to entertain
these thoughts. The best solution to this is not comparing yourself with another person. That way
you are ignoring the unique quality in you and suppressing it. Stop thinking that you aren't
equipped to handle a situation or thinking everything always goes wrong anyway. Thinking this
way actively undermines your functioning. Instead, replace thoughts like these with logic, and
try to find a solution to your situation.
8. Be cool- Thats another important that helps you control your emotions better. Be it
meditation or deep breath at an emotional junction, anything that works out for you is the best.
Choose something active that makes you feel good. If you're sad or worried and you can't stop
thinking, run outdoors with your pet, go to the gym for a workout or take your camera and go
shoot photos of nature. Do anything that will actively engage your mind and force your thoughts
away from emotional ones.
These 8 points are quite major ones to make you think rationally and relieve you the emotional
factors. These things will definitely not come at once, but it needs great practice. Many of us had
this childhood dream of becoming like Spock. Those people are definitely one step towards it.
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1. Athenes theory of Everything
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4. http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/
5. WikiHow