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For anyone who watches themselves scroll, stall, or spiral, and still can't stop.

Rewrite the patterns running your life.

Old pattern: I'll start tomorrow. New pattern: I'll start with two minutes, now.
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  • Creator of the Mental Coding System
  • ★ 4.9 & 4.5 on Amazon
  • 15 years of independent study of the brain

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You know this loop.

You're not lazy, weak, or undisciplined. These are habits your nervous system automated, and anything automated can be rewritten.

  1. Old pattern: Just one more video. New pattern: I notice the pull. The phone goes in the other room.
  2. Old pattern: I'll do it when I feel ready. New pattern: Two minutes now. Momentum comes after.
  3. Old pattern: Why do I always ruin this? New pattern: That's the old loop talking. Six slow breaths, then decide.

Write one loop you know by heart.

The Mental Coding System, in five moves.

A metaphor, not a machine. MCS borrows the language of code to make your patterns visible, and editable.

The full system is in the book

  1. Find the Shadow Engine.

    Spot the hidden code quietly shaping your thoughts, reactions, and behaviors.

  2. Leave Survival Override.

    Step out of survival mode and reset your system with clarity and control.

  3. Run the Neural Descent Protocol.

    Five steps to shift your brain state in real time, in the moment it matters.

  4. Rewrite the loop.

    Rewire emotional and cognitive loops with precision, one pattern at a time.

  5. Become the author.

    Integrate identity, emotion, attention, and performance, and move from automatic reactions to intentional choices.

    End of the five moves.

Three books. One system.

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Mental Coding System by Elias Raes, book cover

Mental Coding System

Your brain is running code written for a world that no longer exists.

If you feel overstimulated, scattered, or stuck in loops you never chose, you're not the problem. This is the systems manual for rewriting them.

4.9 · 28 Amazon ratings, Oct 2026
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What you'll learn
  • Spot the Shadow Engine quietly shaping your thoughts, reactions, and behaviors
  • Exit Survival Override and reset your system with clarity and control
  • Run the five-step Neural Descent Protocol to shift your brain state in real time
  • Rewire emotional and cognitive loops with precision
  • Move from automatic reactions to intentional authorship of your life
Your Mind Is Playing Tricks on You by Elias Raes, book cover

Your Mind Is Playing Tricks on You

Nothing is wrong with your brain. Something has hijacked it.

Scrolling, bingeing, avoiding, spiraling: these aren't willpower failures. They're automated habits, and the same wiring that built them can rebuild them.

4.5 · 41 Amazon ratings, Oct 2026
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What you'll learn
  • Spot the invisible habits hijacking your focus, emotions, and productivity
  • Interrupt negative thought spirals with quick mental resets
  • Step out of emotional loops without numbing out
  • Use neuroplasticity to turn procrastination into momentum
  • Build “positive addictions” to growth, connection, and purpose

Start the rewrite later today.

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Old pattern: I'll read it someday. New pattern: I'll read page one tonight.
Elias Raes
Elias Raes · writer, father of two

No lab coat. Just the work.

Elias Raes spent 15 years studying the brain, consciousness, and human behavior on his own terms. He goes by The Citizenologist. A citizen scientist of the mind: he studies the brain outside the institutions, tests every idea on his own life first, and shares only what holds up.

“At one point, my daily phone use mirrored that of a compulsive gambler. I checked my phone 200 times a day.”

The Mental Coding System is what he built to stop. His books turn it into steps anyone can use.

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What readers say.

Mental Coding System
4.9★
28 Amazon ratings
Your Mind Is Playing Tricks on You
4.5★
41 Amazon ratings

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