Biorhythms Study: An Analysis of Personal Cycles and Their Impact

This report presents an analysis of personal biorhythms, exploring the physical, emotional, and intellectual cycles. The report begins with an introduction to biorhythms, discussing their origins and the concept of pseudoscience. It then details the steps and processes used in the investigation, including the calculation of the number of days lived and the plotting of biorhythm charts. The report analyzes the current position of the three biorhythms and includes journal activities recorded over a two-week period. The analysis includes a discussion of critical days, chart intersections, and the impact of biorhythms on daily activities. The results and conclusion highlight the observable patterns and behavioral differences across the cycles, linking the findings to other scholars' work and suggesting the potential inclusion of biorhythm measurements in duty assignments. The report concludes with a list of references supporting the research.

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................................2
Part 1 B.................................................................................................................................................3
Part 2.....................................................................................................................................................4
Current position for the three biorhythms...............................................................................4
Physical.............................................................................................................................................4
Emotional.........................................................................................................................................4
Intellectual.......................................................................................................................................4
Part 3.....................................................................................................................................................5
Part 4.....................................................................................................................................................7
Part 4A..............................................................................................................................................7
Part 4 B.............................................................................................................................................8
Part 4 C.............................................................................................................................................8
Part 5.....................................................................................................................................................8
Journal activities for the past two weeks..............................................................................8
Graphs................................................................................................................................................10
Part 6...................................................................................................................................................11
Results and conclusion..............................................................................................................11
Linking results with other scholars work............................................................................11
List of Reference.................................................................................................................................12
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Part 1 A
INTRODUCTION
From astrology to fortune tellers, people have been trying to predict their
future since the beginning of time. Have you ever tried to read a horoscope
or perhaps visit a fortune teller? These things are considered as just fun most
of the time but the truth is that they are not science. In fact, they have come
to be known as pseudoscience or in other words, false science because
despite the fact that they seem to have scientific undertones, they lack the
rigorous research, absolute scrutiny and specific objectives required by
sciences such as physics, biology and chemistry. It is common knowledge
that, the rhythmic occurrence of events tend to be overlooked most of the
time and have not, until recently been considered as a fundamental aspect
to living systems. Though, for example, as I have learnt during the course of
my studies, growth and division of cells are inherently periodic, the
oscillatory nature of some of the underlying processes involved have not
been considered in explanations of the events in question. However,
experiments have been conducted with an aim of trying to stabilize the
system that is under attentiveness investigations. In all scientific aspects,
rhythms provide clues to the possible existence of oscillators, internal or
perhaps, external clocks, which have important properties in which, many
people are ignorant about. One such property is that of entrainment, an
aspect which was first noticed by Hygens in the 18th century. The tendency
to become entrained by even the weakest signals, so long as they are
periodic, is a general property of non-linear oscillators.
However, a new understanding of body cycles has emerged. A number of
researchers have reported that, there are independent cycles of the
biorhythms activities. When any of these cycles pass a midpoint between
high and low, a critical day is said to occur. Accidents and errors in
judgments have been found to be far more likely to occur on days in which
one or more cycles are in the critical phase than random chance would
predict. United airlines, Swiss Air, Scandinavian airlines and other fortune
500 companies in the United States are applying this concept which has
come to be known as the theory of biorhythms in assigning duties to their
employees.
According to Smith, Henning, Wade and Fisher (2014), biorhythms activities
are the main subject of this study is a type of pseudoscience which came
into being in the 19th century and grew to popularity in the 60’s, 70’s and
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80’s. Biorhythms functions are developed from the idea that life of human
beings is cyclic with low, high and mediocre standards. According to
Middleton and Sigmund (2016), during the late 1800s, a physician named
Wilhelm Fliess reached a conclusion that a person’s life is made up of 23 and
28-day cycles. He went ahead and assigned the 28-day cycle to women due
the menstrual cycle and 23- day cycle to men. It is also important to note
that Fliess wasn’t alone. Hagan asserted that, with the dawn of the 20th
century came the meticulous observations of Swoboda of the University of
Vienna and Fleiss, the physician who went ahead to become the president of
the German Academy of sciences. Swoboda and Fleiss both came to the
realization that the physical and emotional phenomena consecutively
seemed to follow a 23 and 28-day cycle. Both researchers had at the time,
been attracted by the fact that a person whose fever would drop, or who at
one time or another, resisted a disease, would eventually succumb to high
fever or any other disease at another time. Swaboda’s and Fliess’s extensive
publications from 1900 to 1910 sparked the interest of a third researcher
who was known as Alfred Teltscher. Teltscher, who was an engineering
teacher, realized that students’ performances during exams seemed to
follow a regular pattern Teltscher commenced a research and years of in-
depth record keeping; he reported that a 33- day intellectual cycle existed.
While commenting on Thommen’s book: Is This Your Day? Joncas, Carrier,
Nguyen and Farand (2011) argued that, during the 1920s, Judt came up with
calculation tables to project a person’s biological rhythms simply from the
date of birth. He further elaborated that the three human cycles developed
by Fleiss, Swaboda and Teltscher and also upon the calculation tables
devised by Judt were all excellent.
Part 1 B
Steps and processes used in the investigation analysis
1. Counting of the number of days live since birth
2. Including the days from the leap years.
3. Dividing the days alive with the respective biorhythm under study; by
23, 28 and 33 if physical, emotional and intellectual respectively
4. Subtracting the remaining number of days from today to mark the start
of the biorhythm circle.
5. Plotting of the respective biorhythms charts
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Part 2
Numbers of days alive
Date of birth 22 November 2003
Number of days alive = 5475+305 days
= 5780 + 4 leap years = 5784
Days alive = 5784
Current position for the three biorhythms
Physical
5784/23 = 251.47
= 251 day remainder 11 days
Today’s date is 23 September 2019
Therefore the first day of the physical circle was 11 days ago that is 12
September 2019
Emotional
5784/28 = 206.57
= 206 day remainder 16 days
Today’s date is 23 September 2019
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Therefore the first day of the Emotional circle was 16 days ago that is 7
September 2019
Intellectual
5784/33 = 175.27
= 175 day remainder 9 days
Today’s date is 23 September 2019
Therefore the first day of the Intellectual circle was 9 days ago that is 11
September 2019
Part 3
Physical chart
Today (23) September 2019
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Emotional chart
Today 23 September 2019
Intellectual chart
Today 23 September 2019
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Biorhythm combined sine chart
Part 4
Part 4A
The suggested equations for the three biorhythms
Physical
Y¿( 2 π / 23)t
Emotional
Y¿( 2 π / 28)t
Intellectual
Y¿( 2 π / 33)t
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Part 4 B
From the plotted chart it is seen that the physical and emotional biorhythms
intersects at least twice in a month.
Part 4 C
Super critical day
My next super critical day is 22/11/ 2032
It takes 29 years for a true super critical day to occur.
Part 5
Journal activities for the past two weeks
Since date 9 -22 September 2019
9-Sep day 1 Activities comments
physical I spend the day feeling tired, was easily bored and reduced bodily sta
emotiona
l Happy
intellectu
al slow and lower understanding power
10-
Sep day 2
physical I spend the day feeling tired, was easily bored and reduced bodily sta
emotiona
l Cheerful
intellectu
al I was less creative.
11-
Sep day 3
physical I was moderately active.
emotiona
l happy and cheerful
intellectu
al moderately cautious and thinking fairly about friends
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12-
Sep day 4
physical mediocre in physical abilities
emotiona
l just sad
intellectu
al limbo understanding power
13-
Sep day 5
physical I felt super charged, was ready to sport
emotiona
l Happy
intellectu
al higher understanding power, more creative
14-
Sep day 6
physical I felt super charged, was ready to sport
emotiona
l Anxious
intellectu
al higher understanding power, more creative
15-
Sep day 7
physical increased vitality and physical stamina
emotiona
l eager, relaxed and contented
intellectu
al higher understanding power, more creative
16-
Sep day 8
physical I felt super charged, was ready to sport
emotiona
l just happy
intellectu
al problem solving and puzzled by my ability to solve them
17-
Sep day 9
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physical increased vitality and physical stamina
emotiona
l I felt moderately jealous about my friend success the whole day
intellectu
al higher understanding power, more creative
18-
Sep day 10
physical increased vitality and physical stamina
emotiona
l I was so cooperative in class activities
intellectu
al quick in thinking and making excellent decisions
19-
Sep day 11
physical increased vitality and physical stamina
emotiona
l just happy and cheerful
intellectu
al higher understanding power, more creative
20-
Sep day 12
physical I felt super charged, was ready to sport
emotiona
l felt somber
intellectu
al Quick in thinking and making excellent decisions
21-
Sep day 13
physical Increased vitality and physical stamina
emotiona
l I got angry easily
intellectu
al Sharp memory. I could remember anything
22-
Sep day 14
physical I felt super charged, was ready to sport
emotiona
l I was more of a pessimist and was full of negative thoughts about thin
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intellectu
al quick in thinking and making excellent decisions
Graphs
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Part 6
Results and conclusion
After reviewing the journal information, it is observable that the human body
undergoes a bio-controlled pattern which affects the ability to reason,
interact or in general the all the physiological activities. The emotion,
physical and intellectual activities shows a behavioral difference which
cannot be accounted for different numbers of day. Surprisingly, the recorded
pattern of activities matched those predicted by the biorhythms algorithms.
The plus, ok and minus days are there and can be predicted. I am of the
opinion that the biorhythms measuring be included when assigning duties
and roles in order to boost performances
Linking results with other scholars work
According to Hogg and Godfrey 2015 biorhythms should be used to scale
individuals’ abilities before performing and allocating designed tasks.
Kanikowska 2015 further argues that if biorhythms can be used to regulate
seasonal obesity in human being. Therefore biorhythms are important in
aspects of life.
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List of Reference
Hogg, R. T., Godfrey, L. R., Schwartz, G. T., Dirks, W., & Bromage, T. G.
(2015). Lemur biorhythms and life history evolution. PLoS One, 10(8),
e0134210.
Joncas, S. X., Carrier, N., Nguyen, M., & Farand, P. (2011). Biorhythm theory
does not predict admission for acute myocardial infarction. The Journal
of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 17(2), 143-146.
Kanikowska, D., Sato, M., & Witowski, J. (2015). Contribution of daily and
seasonal biorhythms to obesity in humans. International journal of
biometeorology, 59(4), 377-384.
Middleton, W. (2016). Wilhelm Fliess, Robert Fliess, Ernest Jones, Sandor
Ferenczi and Sigmund Freud. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 17(1),
1-12.
Smith, T. J., Henning, R. A., Wade, M. G., & Fisher, T. (2014). Variability in
human performance. CRC Press
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