The Brain That Changes Everything
Get Smarter - Think Faster - Live Better
The 59 Minute Guide to Accelerating Your Brain
Shaahin Cheyene
A Shaahin Cheyene
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First published in the USA in 2012 by Accelerated
Intelligence Inc.
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Medical
Disclaimer
This book is a reference manual intended to promote informed choices of the reader. I am not a doctor or a medical professional. This book does not endorse a particular product or type of treatment. This book is intended for educational purposes only. This book should not be used as a manual for self-diagnosis. This book and the advice within are not intended to treat, cure, prevent or diagnose any disease. Always consult a health care professional when faced with any persistent symptoms, acute pain, or disability. Neither the author nor publisher assumes responsibility for the misuse of any and all information contained in this book.
Contents
Foundations Of Intelligent Decisions
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
The Energy of Thought and Memory
Top 10 Vegetarian Protein Rich Foods
Top Ten “RESTING TO RAPID” Exercises
Foreword
Reading a book by someone who has really lived this stuff is far more interesting than the dry science to which we are often subjected. Before we begin our journey, I'd like to share my story with you. I believe this will give you a clear picture of me and my personal path. I am devoted to life expansion, cognitive enhancement, personal achievement, and healing. It will also allow you to see what motivated me to begin my journey in the first place. It is my hope that you will find the inspiration to begin improving your own brain.
For at least five generations, both of my grandfathers (from Iran) were master herbalists, dedicated to life extension and naturopathic medicine. We moved to the States during the Iranian Revolution.
I left home when I was fifteen. Before my sixteenth birthday, I met a mysterious shaman who changed my life. I spent nearly a year apprenticing with this man and learning everything ranging from life lessons to herbal medicine. Although I have been taking herbs since I was a child, it is only since my apprenticeship at age sixteen that I began to create and use my own formulations.
During my apprenticeship with this amazing man, I was taught about the secrets of good nutrition, exercise, and supplementation. I learned how to expand my brain naturally. It has paid off.
In the early 1990’s, shortly after my apprenticeship with little or no money and no formal education, I invented an herbal supplement that would prove to be a game changer. I solicited the help of scientists, herbalists, and naturopaths like the great naturopathic doctor, Andrew Weil, M.D., who graciously entertained my long-winded phone calls, probing for knowledge in the field.
The product became known as Ecstacy (intentionally misspelled) or Herbal Ecstacy. It was my own version of real Ecstasy. However, mine was made strictly from herbs. It completely legal, and, being all-natural, had none of the pharmaceutical Ecstasy’s side effects.
It sounds incredible, but I started with only a borrowed $1,000. In less than a month I turned it into $100,000. With that, I was able to perfect the product. I reduced it to five tiny tablets emblazoned with a butterfly on one side and an “e” on the other. I printed slick marketing materials – brochures and posters – and produced electric rave packaging. The crowds ate it up – literally!
Within a year, we were reported to have made over $300 million dollars in sales. I was a teenage millionaire! We opened offices in five countries. The product was unavoidably pervasive no matter where you looked. At the time, there was nothing else like it on the market. We had created the world’s first natural, smart pill.
All this was happening during the internet boom. Amongst many other uses, we noticed that programmers, internet entrepreneurs and laymen alike were taking the pills to boost their cognitive performance. We had sparked the “smart pill” revolution.
Shortly thereafter, I expanded the Herbal Ecstacy brand, adding over 200 different products, including a highly-successful herbal cigarette line that was once the object of a bidding war between two large tobacco companies. I left the Ecstacy business and took a year off. As a by-product of my research, I then developed a revolutionary new drug delivery technology called the “Vapir Vaporizer.”
I accomplished many far-reaching goals. I published a successful magazine(with over 100,000 issues in circulation), and appeared on many television shows including “Prime Time” with Sam Donaldson, “The Montel Williams Show” and “Seattle’s Town Hall. I was photographed by David LaChapelle and enjoyed being on the cover of Newsweek three times. Additionally, my products and I were the subjects of countless other cover stories for hundreds of other magazines and newspapers. I was interviewed on several major television and radio networks including: the BBC, NBC, ABC, CNN, CNBC, and MTV.
I also traveled extensively, researching native cultures and their medicines. I imported artifacts and other strange objects from India and Thailand. I opened an Ecstacy retail store franchise with hundreds of stores. I discovered a supply for a strange, ancient, Mexican plant medicine and was the first to import it on a mass scale to the United States. I experimented with every major (and minor) plant medicine from around the world and conducted interviews and extensive research on cognitive enhancement technologies worldwide. I then invented modern digital vaporization and about 200 other products. Many were hugely successful and paradigm shifting.
Neurodegenerative disease is something that affects us all. As we get older, our brains degrade and we lose the function and structure of our neurons. In the best case, this is occasional brain fog that we all experience from time to time. With the technology now available to us, this brain degradation can be prevented and, in some cases, reversed. I have spotted many trends and spent over fifteen years studying different scientists, healers, and shamans all over the world.
For the past five years, I have been working on solutions to the challenges of aging and of brain function deterioration. In recent months, my company has had a few major breakthroughs. My quest is not entirely altruistic. As I am getting older myself, I see a real need to stop the potential damages from neurodegenerative diseases. For this reason, I have dedicated the next several years to developing technologies and products to improve brain function, slow aging, accelerate intelligence, and halt neurodegenerative disease.
This all came together in this book. Everything I have learned about cognitive enhancement and through herbalism, chemistry, physiology, psychology, and the power of the mind has been distilled into this guide to boosting your cognitive ability. It’s time we shift the paradigm. It’s time we get better and smarter.
Introduction
This is the ultimate guide to discovering your superhuman brain. If you take just an hour out of your busy schedule to read this book, you'll be well on your way to improving your brainpower. I've condensed all the fastest, most powerful techniques into one, easy-to-follow guide.
The book is based on a simple concept. Contrary to what was believed in the past, neurobiology has proven, in recent years, that our brains are plastic and changeable. We can alter not only our brain chemistry, but the way that our brains work. We can achieve and maintain what I like to call a “super genius state” every day of our lives. Changing our brains can change everything.
Placebos are drugs without any active ingredients. They are used in testing new medicines, to show the difference between a patient who takes the active ingredient and a patient who takes nothing but is unaware of this. The power of our minds is truly limitless. Doctors and scientists have found the effectiveness of placebos is growing with each day. The amazing thing is that many people's health actually improves when they take a placebo. Why?
Could it be because, when you pay attention to any area of your life, it improves? Do you believe that the brain is so powerful that it can affect the body in amazing ways? Do people who take a placebo find benefits because their mind truly believes they will get better, and because the placebo has focused their mind on the problem?
Becoming a super genius is all about focusing on your brain, believing that it is improving, and taking concerted action to improve your most valuable asset.
Foundations Of Intelligent Decisions
The medical community and drug manufacturers have been rocked many times by the amazing effect of placebos. The first clue came from Fabrizio Benedetti at the University of Turin. He documented trial after trial where expensive, new pharmaceuticals got trounced by patients taking placebos.
Similar studies were done by institutions like Harvard Medical School. Harvard investigated over a thousand patients. From theirs and other studies, it has become evident that placebos have a potentially unlimited degree of therapeutic effectiveness.
The Power of Focus
After years of consulting with hundreds of people on the best course of naturopathic and herbal remedy for their conditions, I noticed an unusual thing. I would often recommend a synergistic course of treatment that involved three areas: nutrition, exercise, and supplementation. Often, people disregarded the advice and chose only one of the areas on which to focus. I knew that, often, they could have quickly and drastically improved their conditions if they followed the three-part plans I set for them. However, I began to notice that they, in fact, were experiencing a substantial degree of improvement after deciding to take action. This was despite the fact that they often did not move past the initial decision stage. What was even stranger is that a fifty-eight-year-old New York lawyer whom we will call Joe, whom I had consulted, had suffered from a severe memory condition. Joe started to go into remission almost instantaneously after our sessions together. I had put together a meticulously mapped out plan for Joe. I knew from his personality that he was not following the entire three-part plan. So, I was curious to see just how much of my plan he was actually following.
I met with Joe at his home some weeks later. After searching his refrigerator and reviewing his journal with him, I noticed that he had not followed the plan at all. In fact, what he had done was to create his own “hybrid” of the plan I had set for him. He vaguely followed it when he felt like it. His version of my carefully planned scheme was the medical equivalent of eating a banana while being suspended upside down in a vat of butter. But that is neither here nor there. The fact remained that he experienced a substantial improvement in his condition, even though he did not do most of the program that I recommended.
I began to investigate several other clients and noticed that many had gone through a similar pattern and achieved similar results. This brought me to a shocking realization. The only real variable in the lives of these people was that they decided to pay attention to an area of their life that they had previously been ignoring.
It brought me to the stark realization that when you give positive attention to any area of your life, then that area grows and improves. Any attention to an area has a more dramatic impact than no attention. You may not instantly be able to cure every condition, but you surely can improve a condition simply by giving attention to that area. The decision to take action is a quantifiable step in any plan.
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
I later learned that
this may be explained by the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. In
1927, a German scientist named Werner Heisenberg proved that
sub-atomic particles behave differently when observed. The process of
observing appears to influence what is being observed.
What
this means to you and me, is that as we focus on any area of our
lives, the act of appreciation and measurement of your progress may
very well be creating the very reality it is measuring. The more you
focus, the more solid the reality you create. Physics thus explains
theoretically what I had experienced directly.
How to use this book
Any philosophy worth taking on can be learned quickly. After all, it does me no good if you age by the time you read this. The brain retains the most information in the first and last five minutes of any session. This book was designed to be read in a total of two fifty-nine-minute sessions. I recommend five-minute increments with a one- minute break in between.