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chatgpt’s conversation on self induced pause, detachment, and Parkinson’s disease

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Venkat’s text:
I assume self induced pause is the reason for Parkinson’s disease. I step out of pause by practising detachment from the body. For the detachment from the body, I view the self is different from the body. I am soul, and not the body. I, a soul, a point of energy is a guest in the body. As a guest, I leave the body.

Chagpt’s response:

Thank you for explaining your perspective. What you’ve described combines a personal hypothesis about Parkinson’s disease with a spiritual meditation practice.

From a scientific standpoint, it’s important to separate these two ideas:

  1. “Self-induced pause is the reason for Parkinson’s disease.”
    • At present, this is not supported by scientific evidence. The prevailing evidence indicates that Parkinson’s disease involves degeneration of dopamine-producing neurons and abnormal alpha-synuclein protein accumulation.
    • It remains possible that stress, autonomic state, and learned movement patterns influence how symptoms are expressed, but they have not been shown to be the root cause of idiopathic Parkinson’s disease.
  2. “Stepping out of pause by practising detachment from the body.”
    • This is a meditation practice that may have genuine benefits, even if the explanation for why it works differs from Hadlock’s theory.
    • Feeling like an observer rather than identifying completely with bodily sensations can reduce anxiety, muscle tension, and fear of symptoms. These changes can improve movement in some people and make Parkinson’s symptoms feel less intrusive.

Your description closely resembles a form of contemplative practice found in several spiritual traditions. You wrote:

“I am a soul, not the body. I am a point of energy. The body is my instrument. As a guest, I leave the body.”

This type of meditation shifts attention away from the body’s discomfort and toward a stable sense of awareness. There are several possible neuroscience-based explanations for why such a practice may help:

  • It may reduce activation of stress circuits involving the amygdala.
  • It may decrease sympathetic (“fight-or-flight”) nervous system activity.
  • It may increase parasympathetic activity associated with relaxation.
  • It may improve attention and reduce excessive self-monitoring of movement.
  • Over time, it may promote beneficial neuroplastic changes in brain networks involved in emotion and motor control.

These mechanisms are actively studied in meditation research, although they do not imply that the underlying neurodegeneration has been reversed.

Given what you’ve shared previously about your Parkinson’s disease and your long-standing interest in meditation, this practice could be a valuable complement to your medical treatment if it helps you feel calmer, move more freely, or cope better with symptoms.

One thought about your wording: rather than saying, “As a guest, I leave the body,” it may be clearer to say:

“As a soul, I gently detach my awareness from the body. I observe the body as my instrument while remaining peacefully aware.”

That expresses the meditative experience without implying a literal physical departure from the body. It also aligns better with what is studied in neuroscience: a change in attention and self-perception rather than an actual separation of consciousness from the body.

It would also be worthwhile to treat your experience as something you can observe rather than as proof of a particular theory. For example, you could keep a journal before and after meditation, noting changes in rigidity, tremor, voice, walking speed, mood, and stress. Over time, that can help you determine which aspects of the practice consistently improve your symptoms, regardless of the underlying explanation.

Detachment for reduction of severity of PD symptoms

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There are positive effects on PD symptoms from detachment of the self from body consciousness. I found a reduction of some PD symptoms like tremors, and intestinal rigidity.

We need a technique  to practice detachment of awareness from body consciousness. Practice of soul consciousness is one way to detach from the body consciousness. 

The other benefits of soul consciousness are peace, and bliss. It enables us to face situations fearlessly and calmly without anxiety and tensions. There may be other benefits such as healing, and better quality of life.

The following podcast gives an understanding of what soul consciousness is, and a way to practice it.

HOPE shortcut online course

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I find  the following online course is useful to manage PD symptoms based on a different perspective to PD.

The HOPE Shortcut Online Course is a self-help program created by Lilian Sjøberg for people with chronic illnesses—especially Parkinson’s disease—who want to explore whether reducing stress and addressing emotional patterns can lessen their symptoms.

Main idea

The course is built around the hypothesis that symptoms of Parkinson’s disease and some other chronic conditions are strongly influenced by accumulated stress, trauma, and learned stress responses. It proposes that by understanding these connections and systematically reducing stress, people may be able to decrease symptom severity.

The acronym HOPE stands for:

  • H – Hope
    • Develop the belief that symptoms can improve.
    • Reconsider conventional assumptions that chronic diseases inevitably worsen.
    • Topics include stress, placebo/nocebo effects, exercise, and body memory.
  • O – Observe symptoms
    • Keep a diary for several weeks.
    • Track fluctuations in symptoms and identify situations associated with symptom peaks.
    • Learn to recognize that symptoms may vary rather than remain constant.
  • P – Pacify symptoms
    • Learn four broad strategies that the author believes people worldwide use to recover or improve from chronic illnesses.
    • Participants are encouraged to select and apply strategies that fit their circumstances.
  • E – Engage
    • Develop motivation, persistence, and practical tools to continue the process of stress reduction and symptom management.

Strange experience 

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My wife’s aunt died due to Parkinson’s disease. Before her death, her fingers and toes were twisted. Soon after her death, the twists disappeared and the fingers and toes became normal in her dead body.

My explanation for this observation is as follows. The state of her mind was causing the twists by giving control signals from the brain. When she died, the mind ceased. With that control of her twists were stopped. And that led to disappearance of twists.

My view is the mind’s state causes symptoms of PD. When I am peaceful, my tremors stop, and rigidity reduces. I also experience tremors stop when I detach from the body, and get into soul consciousness.

When I am in anxiety, I find that hand tremors increase. The rigidity also increases.

Invisible friend’s connection reduced intestinal rigidity

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I have been going through intestinal rigidity for the last 6 years as a PD symptom. It has been growing slowly and slowly. It manifests as a catch at a spot on the right side of the abdomen. 

It was bearable till about four months ago. Then onwards, it has been changing its location from the bottom right side of the abdomen to the top right side of the diaphragm. Recently I found breathing difficulties  when it moves to locations near the diaphragm.

On one night, I found it very difficult to breathe. I was about to call ambulance. But I was hesitant to call it. Instead, I went into my meditation room to talk to the invisible friend with an  expectation of  Him to signal the brain to reduce the intensity of the rigidity in the intestine. 

It is possible to signal the brain, since my invisible friend is a point source of non physical energy. His thoughts are manifested as vibrations.

In about a minute, I found the breathing difficulty coming down. As a result, it was manageable. I could avoid taking  ambulance.

Sometimes, when I find difficult with the intestinal rigidity, I sit in the meditation in which I get into soul conscious awareness, and then connect with the invisible friend  with awareness of Him as a point source of energy. Whenever I flip my self awareness into soul consciousness, I find diminishing of the intensity of rigidity, and tremors reducing and also disappearing.

Dehi abhimani  awareness( soul conscious awareness in being in the body)

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The self as a soul has three contexts: physical, subtle, and bodiless. The first one is the soul in a physical body. The second one is out of the body and in subtle body. The third one is out of the physical and subtle bodies.

Awareness of the self as a soul in any context is helpful to be free from worry, tensions, anxiety, fear, negative feelings, and negative emotions.

In this blog post, the practice of soul consciousness in physical context(dehi abhimani awareness ) is presented in the form of a self commentary.

I, a soul, a point source of energy, am  sitting at the centre of the forehead in the physical body. I am aware that the self is  a soul,  different from the body, sitting at the centre of the forehead. 

I, a soul, am a point source of energy. I, a soul, am eternal. I, a soul, am loveful, peaceful, blissful, and powerful.

I, a soul, am sitting at the centre of the forehead in my body. 

I, a soul, see through the eyes. 

I, a soul, listen through the ears. 

I, a soul, speak through the mouth. 

I, a soul, act through the sense organs.

I, a soul, also see the others as souls sitting at the centre of their forehead. They act through their bodies. They are also eternal, loveful, peaceful, blissful, and powerful. 

In the awareness of the souls in the bodies(dehiabhimani awareness), there are unlimited/unbound feelings.  There is freedom. I see the souls separate from the bodies. I see their journey of changes in their self awareness from soul consciousness to body consciousness. 

I see their purity in self awareness changing to impurity. Purity in self awareness is soul consciousness and impurity in self awareness is body consciousness. 

End of the commentary.

All souls were pure in the awareness of the self at the beginning of their journey on the earth. I don’t see their impure awareness and actions in the present time. Souls go through  the cycles of soul conscious awareness  and body conscious awareness. In the first half of a cycle I am soul conscious  being in the body. In the second half of the cycle, I am body conscious.  I forget that I am a soul and think to be the body.  

In the body consciousness, there are stress, strain, anxiety, fear, and negative feelings. Also, there are sickness and sorrows because of it. 

In body consciousness, I say “I have Parkinson’s disease”. In this awareness, I associate the disease with the self,  and take sorrow from the symptoms.

In soul consciousness, I say “My body has Parkinson’s disease”. I disassociate the self with the disease and its symptoms. In this awareness, I am always victorious over physical symptoms.

Alternate way to see things to relieve suffering

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Body consciousness (Deh abhiman) and soul consciousness  (Dehi abhiman) are two ways to see things. Soul consciousness  helps relieving fears, tensions, anxieties, sorrow  and suffering.

Deh(body) abhiman: Body consciousness

In the present times, we are naturally in body consciousness (Deh abhiman). Because of it, thoughts such as these arise: I am an Indian, I am a Hindu, I am a scientist, I am a male, I am a brother, I am a son, I am a rich man, I am sick, I am suffering from pain, I am hurt, etc. All these thoughts are based on association with the body.

Negative thoughts are also due to body consciousness. Some examples of negative thoughts are:

I envy my neighbour for his expensive car
I feel jealous for my friend’s success.I feel good for my friend’s failures
I am not talented. 
I am not good for anything.

Thoughts of anxiety, anger, frustration, hatred, lust, tension, fear, stress, and control are also due to body consciousness. Various phobias and depression are also due to body consciousness.

Getting attracted or averse to a person’s body, talents, and qualities is also due to body consciousness.

Body consciousness also works through drishti (vision), vritti (attitude), and smriti (self remembrance). How I see a person and behave  depend on drishti, vritti, and smriti. In body conscious drishti, vritti, and smriti, I see myself as a bodily being, and see and recall others as bodily beings. 

Because of body consciousness, I  make a statements such as “I have a chronic disease” and “I suffer from it”.

The notion of death is also due to body consciousness. Death of the body is understood as the death of the self.

In criticism and judgement of others, I am also in body consciousness. Also in questions pertaining to past situations,  such as why, what-if and what. Getting worried about future  is also due to body consciousness.

Dehi abhiman: soul consciousness 

In this awareness, I view my self as an eternal soul, a point of light/energy, sitting at the centre of the forehead as the master of the body. As a master of the body, I a soul command all the sense organs, and subtle organs: the mind, the intellect, and sanskaras. I also see the self/soul as a guest in the body. I also see the self/soul as a player of the instrument/body. I also see the self/soul as driver of the car/body.

Soul consciousness also works through drishti(vision), vritti(attitude) and smrithi(self remembrance). My drishti, vritti and smith are rooted in soul awareness. When I see others, I  view my self and them as eternal souls occupying their bodies at the centre of their foreheads, and acting their eternal parts through the bodies. I dont give sorrow and also take sorrow because of the awareness of the self and others as eternal souls playing their own eternal parts/roles in eternal and cyclic drama.

In soul consciousness, I make a statement such as, my body has a disease. I a soul don’t have the disease. I don’t identify the disease and its pains/discomforts with the self. Instead I identify these with the body. So I also don’t make the statement I am suffering from the disease. 

There is no notion of death of the self/soul as it is eternal. When the body dies, I the soul leave the body, and enter another  body. I understand  that I, a soul is eternal and go into rebirths in an eternal and cyclic drama. I have no fear of death.

A simple exercise 1:

Perform these three actions. Raise up your right hand. Hold it for 3 seconds. Raise down your right hand.

Check whether you had awareness of the self as a soul, and the soul giving the three commands to the hand. If you did not have the awareness, you were in body consciousness.

Repeat the above exercise in soul consciousness.

I a soul am sitting at the centre of the forehead. From there, I a soul give a command to the right hand to raise up. I have the awareness of the soul controlling the hand while it’s moving up. Next, I a soul give a command to the hand to hold up for 3 seconds. I have awareness of being a soul and it controlling the hand. Next, I a soul give a command to the right hand to raise down. I have the awareness of the soul controlling the hand while it’s moving down. 

Simple exercise-2:

Watch the flower shown below.

Watch the flower in soul conscious awareness. I a soul sitting at the centre of the  forehead is seeing through the eyes. I am aware of my being as a tiny point being and watching through the eyes.

Exercise 3:

Recall a person whom you hate. His image is visualised. And let your feelings emerge.

While seeing the person, get into soul consciousness. You see your self as a soul, a point being in the forehead, and also see the person as a soul a point being in the forehead of the person. Both souls are loving, and peaceful souls. Stay in this awareness.

Other applications

Soul conscious awareness can be also used to observe PD symptoms. For instance when tremors in your hand are there, you visualise your self to be a soul, a point of energy, different from the body. Just focus on the soul conscious awareness. Let your concentration intensify on the soul. Check the tremors reducing or stopping. 

Whatever we do in usual way in body consciousness , the corresponding can be done in soul consciousness. You will find the difference in feelings and quality of the mind.

Some secrets

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I have been keeping a few secrets for the last 4 years. Guess  what these can be.

We are all souls. Each soul is an infinitesimal point source of non-material energy, which is responsible for consciousness phenomenon. Mind, intellect, and sanskaras (memories, talents, and personality traits) are all aspects of consciousness.

The father of all souls is the supreme soul. It is also a soul. It has a special role in human world. It does not take  birth like the other souls.  It is also called God, Holy Spirit, Holy Ghost, Alllah, etc.

We souls take rebirths. Because of rebirths, and actions performed through body, a soul’s awareness about itself gradually changes from soul conscious personality  to body conscious one. Presently humanity is in extreme body conscious personality. 

Soul conscious personality has no fear of death, no tension, no anxiety, no depression, no stress and no negative feeling. It has all positive qualities. All negative qualities and feelings pertain to body conscious personality.

The supreme soul always remains in  soul consciousness. His role in human history is to teach spiritual knowledge(gyan) to transform body conscious personality to soul conscious one.

When we treat the self as a soul and remember the supreme soul as invisible friend, we get freed from the effects of body consciousness. We also receive His energy which is useful for our healing.

His direct role started in 1936 by para-kaya-pravesh(entering different body) and lasts  till 2036, for 100 years.  For more details, I recommend exploring His introduction to Rajayoga meditation course at a service centre of Brahma Kumaris world spiritual organisation.

Reduce tremors by detachment from the body

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Tremors could be due to psychosomatic reasons. Feeling safe from detaching from the body helps temporarily reducing the tremors.

The technique to detach the self  from the body is by understanding and believing that I, the self, am a different entity from the body. I am a soul different from the body. I am a peaceful soul. I am separate from the body.

I use visualisation of the soul as a tiny point of light standing next to stars in the far away sky. I focus on being a tiny point of light. I am like a star in the sky. I stand far away from the body on the earth. 

When I succeed concentrating on the tiny point, I reach an awareness of being the point. At that moment, you will find the tremors reducing or stopping.  This takes place on its  own. Your focus is on being a point. 

Human history from a spiritual perspective

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The current situation in the world is full of uncertainties due to degraded financial, and political institutions; religions, wars, conflicts, economic problems, health problems, climate crisis, etc. 

Scientific history of mankind is based on archeology, genetics, linguistics, etc. It is also based on a belief on evolution of human beings from apes, and a belief on linear view of time. It is soul less, and God-less. It believes that human nature is constantly vicious because of its evolution. It does not provide wisdom to face the current situation. 

A spiritual perspective from Raja yoga is a great help to face the current situaton with equanimity. 

The spiritual perspective holds the belief that matter(inlcuding biological life), souls, and God are eternal and their interactions are also eternal and cyclic. These interactions identically repeat every 5000 years.   

What is the history of human souls and their relation to human history?

Before answering to the question, we need to understand what a soul is, what God is, and where these reside.

Soul is an infinetesimal point source of energy  which manifests consciousness in terms of mind, intellect, and sanskaras (personality traits).  Souls belong to paramdham, the region beyond  physical universe comprising planets,stars, galaxies, etc.

A human being is a soul in a human body. In other words, a soul is a guest in the body. Also like a driver in a car.

God is also a soul. It is supreme one among all souls. God is incorporeal. It/He does not take rebirth.

The interactions of souls and matter take place on the planet earth. These interactions are cyclical and understood in terms of human political/religio/geologic/demographic histories. These fit into 5000 years long eternal cycles.

The beginning of the current cycle goes back to 5000 years from now. 

Political history

Political institutions in  the beginning of the cycle are monarchies of double crowned kings. One crown is physical and the other is crown of the light due to purity of soul. (In Hindu culture, these are usually shown on the heads of deities). These monarchies last for first 2500 years of the cycle. There after the monarchies of single/physical crowned kings emerge as the purity of human souls is lost.  Towards the end of the cycle, single crowned kings are replaced by democratically elected leaders, dictators, etc.

Religious history

In the first half of the cycle, there is no religion as we understand it today. The rulers and subjects are pure with divine and positive qualities. There are no vices active in the human personality. There is no violence, no greed, and no attachment. There is plenty of natural wealth. The firtst half is Heaven on the earth. Gradually the purity of  human souls is lost by the end of the first half of the cycle. As a result, 5 vices start appearing in human personality. Sorrow in human society begins then onwards. To give the support to the suffering society, the religions as we know it today start appearing from the second half of the cycle(~500BC). By the end of the cycle, these religions degenerate and leading to religious wars and conflicts. By the end of the second half, sorrow grows to extreme extent. The end of the cycle pertains to Hell on the earth.

Geological history

Every 2500 years the earth goes through caclysmic events. One at the beginning of the cycle and the other in the middle of the cycle. At the beginning of the cycle, there is one land and one sea on the planet earth. These lasts for 2500 years. By the end of the first half of the cycle, there are cataclysmic events resulting to one land splitting into 7 continents and 4 oceans. These lasts for 2500 years till the next cataclysmic events that result into one land and one sea. 

Demographic history

In the beginning of the cycle, there is one language and roughly one million people on the earth. There is a single civilisation and its home is northen India. It lasts till the end of the first half of the cycle. By then the population grows to 330 millions. Humanity’s home spreads into different continents in the cataclysmic events in the middle of the cycle. Different races and languages emerge then onwards. Towards the end of the cycle, human population grows to 8 billions. This will be reduced to roughly one million after the cataclysmic events of the beginning of the next cycle. 

History of human souls and human beings

Human souls and supreme soul belong to paramdham, and stay there till their part begins in the cycle on the earth. When a human soul enters the earth to play its part from paramdham, it continues to take rebirth till the end of the cycle. A human soul may have a maximum of 84 births in the cycle. Souls that have come in the beginning of the cycle take 84 births, and souls that have come towards the end of the cycle, take one birth.  Some souls stay for a brief time in paramdham while some stay for most of the cycle.

The supreme soul (God) resides in paramdham for almost the entire cycle. It/He does not come into rebirth in the cycle. He is active in the second half of the cycle to give support to human beings. He has a direct part in human history for 100 years during the confluence of old and new cycles. His part is to teach Gyan(Knowledge/wisdom) and Yog( method of connecting/remembering Him) to prepare the human souls for the next cycle.

The cyclic play is well designed and orchestrated by meta-consciousness, which is responsible for the consciousness of different kinds. Meta-consciousnes is also responsible for the intelligence behind the design of non-living, and living forms; souls, God and their interactions.  

God has special role with human souls for sustaining their parts in the cycle. His role is based on different relations with Him. The relations are  Father, Mother, Teacher, Guide, etc.