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Beyond IQ (Intelligence Quotient) and EQ (Emotional Quotient), there exists a third dimension of human intelligence—Awakening Quotient—the ability to be fully aware of our actions and the world around us. In today’s rapidly shifting world, it’s time to move beyond blind trust and cultivate self-awareness. With this in mind, we’re launching a new series of articles to guide and inspire this journey.“
Awaken Before You Swallow: A Conscious Medicine Series
Most of us take medicines the way we follow traffic signals — without asking who put them there, why they exist, or where they’re leading us. A tablet is handed over, we swallow. A diagnosis is declared, we surrender. But in this blind trust, we often hand over not just our bodies, but our inner authority — the power to understand, question, and heal. This series is not about rebellion. It is about reconnection — with our body, our biology, and the wisdom we forgot we had.
Across the coming articles, we will uncover a simple truth: you should never fear asking what is entering your bloodstream. From understanding why we take medicines we don’t understand, to exposing the quiet gaps in your doctor’s knowledge, to exploring how a careless antibiotic prescription once shattered my immunity — each part of this series will act as a lantern. We’ll illuminate the very systems we were taught never to doubt. Not to shame them — but to grow beyond passive dependence.
This series is for the aware, the recovering, and the quietly curious. For those who want to know what healing really means — not just the absence of symptoms, but the presence of balance. We will touch on ancient insights, modern science, real experiences, and a different kind of intelligence — one that doesn’t outsource its wellbeing. If you’ve ever felt uneasy about how easily pills are given, or wondered what’s really happening inside your body, you’re not alone. Let’s begin the journey of awakening — one question at a time.
Part-1
“I used to take medicines without asking what they were. I used to trust every prescription like it was scripture. But over time, I lost health, peace, and clarity. Then I asked a simple question — why am I not allowed to understand my own body? That one question healed me more than any pill. This blog is for those who are ready to take their health back into their own hands — not with rebellion, but with awareness.”
That shift didn’t come overnight. In fact, for most of my life, I was perfectly at ease handing over my body and my safety to complete strangers — without questioning their knowledge, skill, or intent. It was almost as if my brain wanted to surrender responsibility. I’ll tell you how that realization came to me.
Now let’s talk about trust — blind trust. Not the romantic kind. The mechanical, unconscious kind.
Let me give you a few examples from my own life:
- We once travelled to the North Indian mountains by bus. The road was narrow, and just beside it was a deep river valley. One wrong turn and we would’ve been finished. I remember the driver drove for two whole nights. And guess what?
We all slept.
But at home, I check the door lock 3 times before I sleep.
Why did I trust a stranger with my life but not my own hands with a lock? - I’ve gone under anesthesia for surgery. The anesthetist was probably still learning. I lay unconscious, not knowing what they were doing to my body. They made mistakes. I had complications.
Yet I trusted them.
At home, I’m scared of the smallest injuries.
Why was I okay with a knife inside me, but not a scratch on my skin? - We trust pilots we’ve never seen. We sit in a tube of metal, 35,000 feet above the ground, with one or two people in control — whose names we don’t even know.
And we buckle in, take off, and fall asleep.
Why? - There’s a study on soldiers under Hitler.
It found that once people accept someone as a “leader,” they stop thinking.
Their own conscience shuts down. They follow commands — even if it means hurting the innocent.
Why do ordinary people become blind when they follow authority?
So I asked myself:
- What makes me trust a stranger on a dangerous road?
- Why do I swallow pills without asking questions?
- Why do I obey medical advice even when it harms me?
- Why do we hand over our minds so easily?
Let’s break it down.
Because blind trust isn’t stupidity. It’s a design flaw in our brain.
1. Cognitive Offloading — Let someone else think for me
- Our brain is lazy. It loves shortcuts. Thinking burns calories.
- So when it sees someone who “looks like they know,” it offloads the decision.
- That’s why I trust the bus driver — my brain says: “You rest. He knows this road.”
- That’s why I take medicines blindly — “You don’t need to learn, the doctor knows.”
- But sometimes, they don’t. And I pay the price.
2. Role-Based Trust — We trust uniforms, not people
- Doctors wear white coats. Pilots wear uniforms.
- Our brain doesn’t see the person, it sees the role.
- We’re taught that doctors heal, drivers drive, pilots fly.
- So we stop checking who’s inside the uniform.
- That’s why I slept in that bus.
- That’s why I didn’t ask what was inside the prescription.
- I trusted the role, not the reality.
3. Authority Bias — If they sound confident, they must be right
- Remember Milgram’s experiment?
People gave electric shocks to others, just because an authority told them to. - We obey confidence, not correctness.
- If someone acts like they know, we assume they do.
- That’s why I kept taking Azithromycin, even when it stopped working.
- The doctor said it like a rule, so I stopped questioning.
- I let their confidence silence my doubt.
4. Emotional Fatigue — Thinking is hard when you’re scared
- When we’re anxious, sick, or tired, we want relief — not responsibility.
- We outsource decisions because we don’t have energy to question.
- That’s why I took strong medicines even when I knew they were harming me.
- I was too tired to resist.
5. Mirror Neurons — We copy what others feel
- If everyone around me is calm in a plane, I feel calm.
- If everyone trusts a doctor, I do too.
- Our brain copies others to fit in.
- That’s why nobody questions authority in a group.
- We don’t want to stand out.
- So we mimic safety, even when danger is real.
The Bottom Line?
This isn’t just blind trust.
It’s adaptive intelligence misfiring.Our brain is trying to help us survive. But in today’s world, the same instincts that once protected us… now often disable our judgment.So next time you sit on an operating table, or take a prescription without reading it, or buckle into a bus without asking where it’s going…
And slowly, without knowing, we become passengers in our own lives.We sleep on mountain roads.
We lie unconscious under knives.We swallow pills we’ve never read about.
And we defend people in power, just because they sound sure.
But here’s the turning point:
The same brain that made this error is also capable of correction.Once you begin to notice these patterns — the shortcuts, the illusions —you start to reclaim what was always yours: your inner authority.
You don’t have to live with constant doubt or rebellion.You just need one thing — awareness.
Not the noisy kind that shouts “Don’t trust anyone,”but the quiet kind that asks,
“Is this decision truly mine?”
When you pause and listen, something magical happens.You start feeling the difference between real safety and fake comfort.You begin to question without fear.You observe without panic.
And slowly, you stop living life on autopilot.That is not just how healing begins —
That is how power returns.
