Book One · The Effortless Alchemy Series

Clear Head
Clear Life

Alchemizing Mental Clutter in 28 Seconds

Ready… set… for a 4x return?

Did you know? 76% of us say stress is wreaking havoc on our body, mind, and emotions — headaches, fatigue, anxiety, the works. Notice it in your own body right now. That's the tag.

The apps, the retreats, the courses — they work. Eventually. Four to twelve weeks in, if you make it that far. So check for yourself: has it actually gone down? Ours hasn't — stress has climbed roughly 19% for adults in midlife alone since the 1990s.

What if the fix isn't forty minutes a day, but 28 seconds? Hmm. As Sherlock Holmes would say — "The game's afoot."

Stats: American Psychological Association, 2022; Penn State / American Psychologist, comparing daily stress diaries from 1995 and 2012.

Clear Head Clear Life book cover — Book One of the Effortless Alchemy Series

It's 11:47pm. You're exhausted from a full day… but your mind won't stop. You've done everything right — the app, the retreat, the eight-week course, the daily twenty minutes twice a day. But you're still lying awake.

What if — instead of being told you're broken — you're actually extraordinarily good at being a mess maker? All the while, in the background, you're running a highly skilled, 100,000-hour-trained stress program you never signed up to build. I call it O.P.P. — Other People's Programs, other people's Perceptions.

Did you ever notice? It's the same mind that picks the ripe tomato out of a bin in half a second. That finds the exit in a crowded Costco without thinking. That merges at 70 miles an hour, hundreds of times a minute, without a single calculation.

"I call it your own Inner Spatial Genius."

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28 Sec Alchemy Process

"I almost fell out of my chair."Ed King, live on the radio

"Immediate release."Malaena, on their podcast

Rama guided Ed King live on the radio and a podcast with Malaena. Try the 28 Second Alchemy process for yourself, right now.

Set your intent to do this deeply, intimately, and completely.

01
Tag it — Recall a stressful situation, then tag: "What do I feel in the body? What do I feel in the mind? What do I feel in the emotions?" Quickly note it, then immediately engage Step 2.
02
The Triple 7-7-7 — the Experience of Space in 3 sections — 7 seconds each:
  • Eyes: "Notice, sense, and experience the space between and around your eyes… as if you could tell the distance between the left and right eye."
  • Chin to Chest: "And at the same time… notice, sense, and experience the space between your chin and your chest and around your neck."
  • Neck, Head, Shoulders: "Now add the experience of 360 degree open space that is already around your neck, your head, and your shoulders… notice and sense that all this is already here."
03
The Check In and collect the 4x return.

"What's different?" Notice what's different. Then ask yourself — "What did I do to the body, mind, emotions to achieve the result?" (Answer: Nothing) — can do again with eyes open.

Quickly read the 3 steps, then click Begin Step 1 under the timer.

28
Ready

The 4x Return

The 4 Gems — they arise simultaneously

Not one at a time — all four together, in the same moment of open space (Alpha Brain Wave Synchrony). That's the 4x return Ed and Malaena each found, live, in Chapters 6 and 7. Practiced 4–7 times a day — about 3–5 minutes total — you'll see the results yourself, like countless others since 2019.

01Stress / Crisis Neutralized
02Inner Serenity — Shamatha
03Luminous Clarity — Vipassana
04Wild Inner Creativity

Share Your Experience

What did you notice that was different? (Step 3)

What happened with Ed, when I asked him — after his first guided experience of space:

"Okay. So, where is the tension and tightness that was there before?"
"I don't know. It melted away. How did you do that?"

Malaena response after me guiding for 1st time in the podcast:

"Just a loosening of the muscles," she said. "A relaxation. I could see thoughts floating — even while focusing on those things, I could see some thoughts floating through."
"Yeah," I said. "And how is that different?"
"It's very fast," she said. "It's instant. So sometimes with other practices, it can take like half an hour — or a little while — before you start settling in, start feeling like you're in a more spacious place. But this is very immediate."

Wow? In just 28 seconds? And these 2 sessions took place during the Global Pandemic in 2020.

Read more about it in Chapters 6 and 7 as I guide them both several times in the course of 45 minutes — and the 4x return increased.

Please share your experience.

Be the first to share what happened.

Why Only 28 Seconds

Did you ever consider that you already are a Spatial Genius?

Think about it. During your everyday experience, do you deliberately bump into furniture? Bump into people while walking? Bump into cars while driving?

No.

So what that means is you already automatically, without thinking about it, navigate and negotiate the experience of space in complex environments, between and around objects, between and around people, furniture, and around cars.

How long does it take? A few seconds? Maybe...?

And you do this all day without any effort. Remember picking Ripe Tomatoes, Changing lanes at 70 MPH, Choosing videos/podcasts on your device...

That's the simple profound secret.

And it's already within you regardless of the Stress or Crisis.

So here is my question. Why can't you apply that Inner Spatial Genius superpower to your everyday life? Hmm.

Hence my 28 Sec Alchemy.

Backed by Dr. Les Fehmi's research — Open Focus Brain. Check it out for yourself.

Hear It First

Three crumbs, read aloud.

Ricky and Lucy — my fun name for the AI co-hosts in Rama Rendezvous podcasts — discuss the Introduction, the Back Cover, and a preview of Chapter 10: The Mess-Maker and the Tour Guide, so you get an interesting take on each of the 3 different sections of the book.

The idea is to take you on a journey — just like the Introduction and Back Cover do. And so will Ricky and Lucy.

Three small tastes. The loaf is the book and our Dirty Hari Rama community.

Crumb 1 · The Intro Coming soon

Ricky and Lucy walk through the opening — 11:47pm, a racing mind, and the ripe tomatoes that prove you already have this skill.

Crumb 2 · The Back Cover Coming soon

Ricky and Lucy check out the back cover and have their own realization — and find the 3 Steps in Live Action as they check for themselves... It's a fun one.

Crumb 3 · Ch. 10 Preview Coming soon

Ricky and Lucy preview Chapter 10 and find some gems of their own...

Ricky & Lucy host Rama Rendezvous — podcasts built from live practice transcripts, and other interesting information and relevant material from Rama. What's above is just a taste. Full podcast available via subscription. Join us on Patreon →


My Free Gift (Included With the Book)

Take the 28-second practice with you, free.

Download the guided audio version of 28 Sec Alchemy — where I personally guide you through the 3 steps.

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The Book

Table of Contents

A short, practical front door into open-awareness practice — built to be read in an afternoon and used for the rest of your life.

—Introduction
Ch. 1The Mind That Won't Stop
Ch. 2Where's My Kheer?
Ch. 3The Actual Cost of the Crisis Matrix
Ch. 4Why the Usual Fixes Don't Stick
Ch. 5The Alchemy That Hides in Plain Sight
Ch. 6A Marine's Experience — Alchemy Live via His Own Radio Show
Ch. 7Bad Bunnies — Malaena's Predicament
Ch. 8Fresh Unconditioned Nowness
Ch. 9The Spiritual Hamster Wheel (And Your Free Bowl of Kheer)
Ch. 10The Mess-Maker and the Tour Guide
—Epilogue: A Quick Glimpse into the Author
Rooted in

Dr. Les Fehmi's Open Focus research — decades of work on attention and the physiology of stress.

Shaped by

Miller's 7±2 — the working-memory limit that sets the pace of each attentional set.

Tested since

2018, in free weekly sessions that grew into the wider 360 OS practice community.

Our Support System

The book is the door. This is the room.

Clear Head Clear Life doesn't end at the last page.
It opens into a low-cost community built around the same 28-second practice.

Private Sessions By request

One-on-one time with Rama for a more direct, personal pace.

The goal is 100,000 people transforming their lives day by day through 28 Sec Alchemy, inside the Dirty Hari Rama community — discovering for themselves that life can be fun, as some already have since 2019. I've personally guided them through the audio tracks, daily reminders with check-ins, the podcasts, and weekly Zoom practice sessions. Ed and Malaena are just two examples. Life can be FUN — Fresh Unconditioned Nowness — regardless of the high of happiness (Kabhi Kushi) or the sorrow, stress, and crisis (Kabhi Gham), once you re-cognize that you are never separate (Na Juda Honge Hum) from the Space of Fresh Unconditioned Nowness, and from the ever-increasing 4 Gems — your inner treasure, which no one can alter. I know this from direct experience since 2019, as have dozens of others. (Pricing and tiers above are early and subject to change.)

About the Author

Rama Arya

RA

IT & Multimedia Consultant and Founder, RamaVision Inc.

Rama has been an IT & Multimedia Consultant since 1992, and spent years in IT before turning that same systems thinking toward attention itself. He has also been meditating for over 30 years and done various spiritual practices. All that changed in late 2018 when he encountered a guided audio of General Open Focus from Dr Les Fehmi's Open Focus Brain. He created his own version and called it 360OS — the 360 OS (360-Degree Open Space) framework, with the 28-second Alchemy process — and has run free weekly Experience of Space (360OS) sessions since 2019, first with a handful of people in his living room, and via Zoom. Clear Head Clear Life is the quick, short, practical front door into Effortless Alchemy. I'll see you in 360OS!