Counting your days with biorhythms

Counting your days with biorhythms

By Lim Tri Santosa

JAKARTA (JP): Do you believe in destiny? Liam Neeson as Jean
Valjean in Les Miserables said one day more, another day, another
destiny. The movie is great, not only because of the actors; if
you understand the vision of Victor Hugo, you are going to
understand it is a deliberation of one's destiny, how men try to
fight against other men, the history of self-limitation and how
the world in not good or bad, it depends on the kind of situation
we confront. Is it Jean Valjean's destiny? Let's look at another
point of view.

What you have made is what you will face according to your
birthdate. That is the basic concept of biorhythm as it applies
to your daily life. "Bio" means life and "rhythm" means flowing
with a regular movement. We all have three ways of operating in
this world; three internal energies interacting with each other
in a continuously changing pattern on a daily basis. These are
our biorhythms. They are the three cycles of energy that govern
our lives -- specifically the physical, emotional and
intellectual. Each of these parts has its own ups and downs.

Biorhythms seem to have a lot of validity. They help to
explain in part everything from having a bad week to exciting
scientific concepts as the varied effects medications have when
administered at different times.

Between 1897 and 1902, Dr. Hermann Swoboda of the University
of Vienna researched the possibility of a rhythmic change in mood
and health (http://skepdic.com/biorhyth.html).

He charted peoples' reaction to pain, outbreak of fevers,
illnesses, asthma, heart attacks and recurrent dreams. He found
that there was a 23-day physical cycle and a 28-day emotional
cycle. The 33-day intellectual cycle was discovered by Alfred
Teltscher of Innsbruck, Austria
(www.teleport.com/~bioching/book/chap_1.html). He was a teacher
of engineering who observed that his students' good days and bad
days followed a rhythmic pattern of 33-days.

Because all these biorhythms begin on the day of our birth, we
can know our ups and downs ahead of time. Every day, we each have
a different combination of biorhythms. Our biorhythms are flowing
at different speeds, they will not all meet at that same birth
point again until we are 58 years and 66 days old. This is a new
beginning, a rebirth in all our lives.

At the moment of birth, each cycle starts at a zero point and
begins to rise in a positive phase during which the energies and
abilities are high.

Engineers will recognize the cycles as "sine waves" in their
form. After reaching a positive peak, each cycle then gradually
declines, crossing its zero point midway through its period.
Eleven and a half days for the physical, 14 days for the
emotional, and 16 and a half days for the intellectual. The
remainder of each cycle is a negative phase, during which our
energies and capabilities are reduced.

The most unstable times are the "critical days" in each cycle,
when the cycle crosses its zero point, changing from positive to
negative or from negative to positive. During these critical
days, the abilities vary wildly, from extremely high to extremely
low. You may make brilliant discoveries or tragic logical errors
on intellectually critical days. You may impulsively propose
marriage or impulsively quit your job on emotionally critical
days.

Different things for different people. If the physical rhythm
is in a high phase, for instance, you might experience more
physical ability then if that rhythm was in a low phase. An
emotionally low rhythm might be categorized as a sleepy or even
irritable emotional state, likewise, in an emotional high there
can be an improved sense of well-being. Intellectually, a high
might explain the ability to have more focus or mental clarity.
In an intellectual low there could be more mental fuzz.

Even though the theory of biorhythms is a pseudoscience, there
is some real evidence that biorhythms affects human's daily lives
(www.teleport.com/~bioching/book/chap_1.html). In 1971, the Tokyo
Metropolitan Police completed a study which showed that 82
percent of all self-caused traffic accidents involved drivers who
were experiencing a critical biorhythmic day.

Another phenomenon is the biorhythms of John F. Kennedy, Jr.
on the day he died in a plane crash. He was born on Nov. 25,
1960, and died on July 16, 1999, (www.bio-chart.com/jfk.html).
Believe it or not, you can also check his rhythms on the day he
died by entering the above dates at www.facade.com/biorhythm/. On
the day he died, his emotional rhythm is crossing zero point,
physical and intellectual is in the negative area. The worst
pattern is the passion rhythm (physical joined with emotional).
It is on its lowest negative point. One of the common actions
linked with the passion rhythm is driving.

Two individuals' biorhythms can be tested for compatibility.
Biorhythm compatibility is different than plotting an
individual's biorhythm, because the compatibility between two
people remains consistent throughout their lives. Are you
compatible with your wife, mother-in-law or your coworkers? Check
it out at www.facade.com/compatibility/.

The effect of our various biorhythmic combinations depends
greatly upon the level of stress in our environment and our
degree of tolerance to stress. When our biorhythms are high, we
are better able to deal with the stress. How we feel about life
and how we react to it is a combination of our biorhythms,
environmental factors and our inherent energies.

Are biorhythms for real? That is for you to decide. The only
way you will know is to test it on yourself and on others.