At the same time, you will be thinking better and feeling stronger!

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Multilevel Imagery

Mental Imagery is part of life. Like breathing and circulation. Even when we’re asleep. Everything going on around us and inside us is processed using mental imagery.

Routine mental imagery is the construct of experience formed by sensations, movements, thoughts, feelings and emotions. From storage in memory, it is retrieved whenever something like it happens again. The combination of current and past experience directs immediate responses and becomes memory of what just happened. Almost all without conscious awareness.

If we do become aware, we assume that’s what we should do. We can deliberately change it but we seldom redirect anything. Maybe next time. But probably not. Everything happens too fast. We go all day and sleep all night without deliberately changing our mental imagery.

Most days, everything we do is routine and automatic. Only occasionally do we deliberately think, plan and act to experience something new.

We can review and rehearse our mental imagery. Usually, we can vaguely remember something about what happened yesterday. But not much about it.

Developing the skill of mental imagery begins with learning to pay attention to what’s going on and what to think about it. 

Multilevel Imagery consists of Basic, Physical and Mental Functions

Basic: What anyone can See, Hear, Touch, Taste, Smell or Measure.
•Nutrition – day and time, meal or snack, quantity, nutrient components
•Exercise – day and time, strength or aerobic, type, intensity, duration

Physical: Direct effects of Personal Involvement.
•Nutrition – taste, smell, touch, fullness
•Exercise – muscle/joint sensation, heart rate, breathing, fatigue

Mental: Interpretation, Significance, Feeling, Emotion, Motivation
•Nutrition – satisfaction, pleasure, success or failure, future action
•Exercise – satisfaction, pleasure, success or failure, future action

Deliberate Practice In Sports And Athletics

Deliberate Practice is a fundamental feature of expert performance. It is highly structured and targets individual performance in specific activities. Furthermore, it requires hours, days, months and even years of practice to acquire exceptional performance.

The original studies of deliberate practice were carried out with violinists. They were asked to rate practice according to type and time of practice. Results indicated that the `best’ violinists engaged in substantially more practice than violinists who were less proficient. Also, the most effective types of practice required the most effort and were least enjoyable.

The most effective feature observed to improve performance was the amount of time individuals spent in deliberate practice.

Similar results have been reported when testing the deliberate practice among athletes in various sports. Each sport has been noted to have specific practice efforts that most closely indicated what was required in competition.

•Wrestlers: mat work and work with coach
•Figure skaters: on-ice training and lessons with coach
•Runners: speed work and time trials

Psychological skills contribute to athletic performance. Several studies have shown that elite athletes are better able to concentrate, are more committed, have more self-confidence and show greater motivation.

Champion athletes make use of goal-setting, competition planning and imagery. Athletes in many sports are particularly encouraged to give as much attention to mental imagery as they give to physical practice.

Mental imagery in athletics involves deliberate effort for rehearsing motor skills, planning competition strategy, countering anxiety and enhancing motivation.

Studies of mental imagery have been reported in Canadian athletes who participated in 18 different sports. Three categories of competition divided 150 athletes into recreational (n = 50), provincial competition (n = 50) and national competition (n = 50). The average duration of experience for athletes in all 3 categories was 9 years.

All athletes were asked to complete a Deliberate Imagery Practice Questionnaire. All were asked to estimate the hours they had spent on imagery for each year they had participated in their sport.

As shown in the Figure, differences in amounts of mental imagery between the 3 groups became apparent after 5 years.

Imagery Training in Sports also has been studied. Mental Imagery without any Motor action or Sensory stimulation has been used to improve real time performance. However the load of physical and mental imagery makes it difficult to learn the motor and imagery skills at the same time.

Multilevel Training improves both Imagery Ability and Real Time Performance. Deliberate Practice simply can’t involve much multitasking. Intensity of effort and focus of attention has to be directed towards one or two practices at a time.

The objective is to build imagery with more and more complex units. Simple discrete bits of information and action are assembled and condensed into chunks. Smaller bits of information are combined into more meaningful, memorable, larger units. This process of chunking assembles related constructs into units that no longer require conscious deliberation.

Each stage of imagery adds extra details to the experience. Complex thoughts, sensations, motor actions and assessments all combined together enable rapid, effective responses. The layering process provides a structured approach to Imagery Ability and Real Time Performance.

Investigators in Birmingham, UK tested layered stimulus response training for 24 men and women in golf putting. None of the subjects had practiced golf putting and none had any imagery training.

They were divided into 3 groups. Training of the first group was limited to Level 1 imagery, a second group was trained through Levels 1 and 2, while the third group was trained through all 3 Levels.

All were tested to evaluate their skill in putting a golf ball from 2 meters (about 6.5 feet) into a golf cup hole 5.5 cm (about 2.2 inches) in diameter. Each subject was given 4 tries at putting a golf ball into the hole. The number of successful putts was counted in all subjects before and after training in mental imagery.

As shown in the Figure, the greatest average numbers of successful putts out of 4 tries was greatest in the group trained sequentially in all 3 Levels of Imagery.

Multilevel Imagery In Exercise

The Objective of Positive Training in Exercise for subjects to improve health is to create Positive effect and Motivation towards Good Health Practices. We expect that Deliberate Multilevel Imagery will improve performance but the mastery we seek to train is much more than increased strength, endurance or muscle mass.

Recommendations for ideal exercise routines are only rough guides to follow. The Positive Training Guide for Exercise includes:

1. Selection: enjoyable exercise routines to practice daily
2. Process: plan, prepare, rehearse, action, review, revise, repeat
3. Training: gradually increase imagery skills

•Basic: observation and measurement
•Physical: perception and sensation
•Mental: assessment and motivation

Summary of Multilevel Imagery For Good Health Practices

The prevalence of diagnosed type 2 diabetes in the United States in 2016 was approximately 12% with 8.6% diagnosed and approximately 3.4% undiagnosed. Approximately one-third of adults have prediabetes and the majority don’t know they have it.

In all, about half of the adults in the United States should be acting to prevent or reverse type 2 diabetes. How many will seek treatment and how many will be successful in preventing or reversing type 2 diabetes is simply not known.

Most of them are overweight or obese and we do know something about treating obesity. Among every 10 individuals, we expect 5 won’t even try, 4 will be unable to reach their goal and 1 will be completely successful in preventing or reversing type 2 diabetes.

Our objective is to get people involved in positive health practices which they enjoy. Some can start right off enjoying exercise, healthy eating or improved sleep patterns. For the rest, our objective is to help them get pleasure of success by feeling better enough to intensify their effort.

Nonconscious barriers inhibit or totally block prevention or reversal of type 2 diabetes in about one quarter of the adults in this country. That reality must be improved!

Let us help you shape your nonconscious automatic practices to enjoy good health.

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Deliberate Imagery

Imagery is the mental construct of experience. External and internal sensations, thoughts, feelings and emotions are combined with similar imagery stored in memory. They elicit responses before conscious awareness. Most mental constructs of experience form, combine with similar images and retire into memory without any conscious awareness.

When we speak of images we usually mean something we see elicited by external sensation or retrieved from memory. When referring to other senses, we usually specify touch, smell, sound, or taste images.

Even when speaking of imagery, we usually mean something created or imagined representing sight, sound, touch, smell or taste.

Imagery stored in our memory includes much, much more. It elicits entire experiences constructed of sensations, thoughts, actions, feelings and emotions. It even includes evaluations of the consequences of our responses.

Regular imagery includes mindless scanning. When the mind wanders to unrelated thoughts and feelings, the mind continues to scan the image without due attention to associated sensations, thoughts, feelings, emotions and significance of details.

Deliberate imagery pays conscious attention to details of all associated sensations, thoughts, feelings, emotions and their significance.

Deliberate Food Imagery

Our first impression is what meal or snack this is. Time of day and when we last ate calls up subliminal imagery and sets our expectations. What we see, smell and hear is immediately related to our memory and trims our expectations. If there’s a lot going on around us, that may all be subliminal. We may finish our meal or snack without any conscious appreciation of what we just ate.

Make a conscious assessment of what’s there in front of you. First of all, is it more or less than what you expected? Is it more than what you think you should eat?

Look at it carefully. Do you really see all its details? Look at it, then close your eyes. Can you still see it in your mind’s eye? If you’ve never done this before, you may not see anything with your eyes closed. Concentrate. Concentrate hard on details. That way you’ll learn to image in your mind’s eye what you see with your eyes open.

Estimate how much is there. The average breakfast in this country contains about 500 calories. The average lunch contains about 750 calories and the average supper about 1,000 calories. An average snack has about 150 calories.

The best way to learn what you’re eating is to look it up in a nutrition reference book or a smartphone mobile app. Also, you should look at the labels on food containers. They list serving sizes and nutrient content.

Almost anything you put in your mouth with a fork or spoon has 50 calories in it. Except non-starchy vegetables. Even a salad has dressing on it. A thin slice of deli meat contains about 50 calories but a 4 ounce piece of meat contains 300 calories. Cooked potatoes have 100 calories in 4 ounces. A handful of nuts has 200 calories. Everything soon adds up to more than 2,500 calories a day.

The details you can image in your mind’s eye are what your brain will store in memory. There’s lots of details beyond just what you see. Your imagery skill in shaping your subliminal memory and routine responses depends on deliberate food Imagery.

Now, here’s Deliberate Practice. This is how to practice the skill of food imagery.

Take a photo of the meal or snack.

Deliberately imagine eating the original food items.

Before you eat anything, deliberately create full imagery of the imagined experience. But don’t eat anything yet.

Next, cut up the food items and reduce them so the total has 1/3 less calories and then take another photo. As much as possible reduce carbohydrates and fats while keeping protein and fiber.

Then imagine eating the reduced food item but assign the same imagined experience with the full food item to that second imagery.

The first time or two that you do all this, go ahead and eat the original food item. Check how you feel after, compared with what you had imagined before eating it. Then look at the photo of the 1/3 reduced food item. Apply the imagery of the actual experience eating the full food item to the imagined experience of eating the reduced food item.

This all sounds complicated but it’s how you can practice assigning pleasurable features from one image to another.

Multisensory Human-Food Interaction

Intake of food is an essential part of life. Everything we’re made of and everything we do requires energy from food. The balance of energy intake and output creates hunger and appetite with responses eating that are terminated by feelings of fullness.

When there’s plenty of food, we don’t eat to survive. Hunger and appetite are no longer the main drivers. Instead, we eat by automatic routine. When to stop eating is determined by a decrease in pleasure while eating and an increase in feelings of fullness.

Mindless eating is what happens when we’re not paying attention. We eat until we’re full. What’s there in front of us is what we eat. If we’re not full, we go get some more.

Did you enjoy that meal? ”Guess so. Can’t eat any more.”

Mindful eating makes eating a pleasure. Deliberately review everything you sense, think, feel and experience. Make a deliberate effort to recall imagery from previous experiences consuming similar food.

Avoid distraction by conversation, TV or entertainment. During the first 20 minutes of your meal or snack, give pleasure of eating your full attention.

Consciously rate pleasure of eating minute by minute starting the scale low and increasing unit by unit for several minutes to a peak that begins to decrease minute by minute. That’s when to stop eating. Don’t keep eating just because it’s there. Don’t pause and wait for another course so you can start all over.

Above all, eat to enjoy it. Not to just get full.

Rate the intensity of sensory response by recalling the experience of eating a meal or snack an hour or two after you’ve eaten. Assess the intensity of imagery by the involuntary impulse to move your tongue, lick your lips and swallow saliva flowing into your mouth.

Between meals, consciously recall all associated sensations, thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Concentrate enough to elicit general feelings of pleasure and specific responses making you lick your lips and swallow.

Deliberately review everything you sense, think, feel and experience transferring your full conscious attention back and forth among imagery of real and imagined experiences.

Repetition

Multisensory food imagery makes it possible to rehearse your skills even between meals and snacks. The brain stores imagery from mental rehearsal the same way it stores imagery from real time experience. Complete with all its sensations, thoughts, actions, feelings and emotion.

Do it over and over, real time and imagined, until you always do it right!

Practice improves any new skill. Feel good when you succeed and figure out why when you don’t. Eventually you’ll simply know what to eat and how to enjoy it.

You won’t even have to think much about it. You’ll eat right, even when you’re busy with something else. You’ll finish eating without having to figure out what’s enough.

Most important of all, your new health practice will be your automatic response. You won’t even be conscious of all the decisions you’re making. Subliminal imagery stored in your memory will dominate the original constructs that directed your previous health practices.

Summary

If your maximum waist circumference is more than 40% of your standing height, you’re eating too much!

Fixing that is more than just learning you have a problem. It’s even more than learning what to do about it.

Preventing and Reversing Diabetes requires deliberate effort gradually to adopt good health practices. Requires more than increasing knowledge. Those practices involve sensations, thoughts, feelings, actions and emotions.

Let us help you retrain your subliminal automatic responses. That will make you look good, perform well and feel great!

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You know what to do for your health but somehow it hasn’t happened.

Deliberate Imagery makes success, brings satisfaction and creates pleasure.

Let us help you train your routine health practice into what you want it to be.

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Neurocognitive Function

Our brain has about 85 billion neurons that make trillions of connections with other neurons. This complex operates all thought, emotion, action and behavior including health practice.

A total of a billion-billion operations per second is estimated to be the brain computing power. About 11 million bits per second are received and processed. Information processing includes sorting, storing, interpreting, comparing and responding. With repetition, processing includes selecting ideal combinations of inputs, outputs and results. All stored in memory of unlimited capacity and accessed endlessly.

Automatic Subliminal Function

We run our lives with subliminal action. Events occur, effects evaluated, decisions made and actions completed before we are even aware of them. Most of what we see, evaluate, execute and store in memory is unconsciously automatic.

We respond automatically and unthinkingly to a variety of environmental and social stimuli. We have subliminal automatic responses to things we have learned to like and dislike. We might even have conscious preferences that conflict with automatic responses. Things happen so fast, we usually don’t make corrections. We simply go with what’s stored in subliminal memory.

We are aware of some automatic actions. We know we are driving our car and where we’re going. We just don’t think about details like steering, braking and changing lanes. We know we’re having dinner but we don’t think much about what we’re eating. This automaticity provides a comfortable interaction with events in our life. We do things just like we always do and don’t worry much about details.

Automaticity is both a strength and a weakness. It provides quick response to events and situations. We can act even before we’re consciously aware of what’s going on. On the other hand, we often make responses that we really know are not the best possible action.

Conscious Mental Imagery

About 60 bits per second is the limit the conscious mind can process. If we can keep our conscious mind focused, it can handle about 2 or 3 cognitive tasks at a time.

Executive cognitive control can initiate different responses that change automatic actions completely. As long as we remember what we want to do and have time to act.

What we never know until we try is how long we’ll keep doing what we should. The subliminal automatic responses eventually have to be redirected into the desired path.

Sensory Processing

Encoding is the first step in processing about 11M bits per minute of sensory information that flow into the brain.

•Reception begins with converting the flow of information into a construct that can be identified and evaluated. Sensations in various sensory areas of the cortex are decoded and combined with sensations in other areas. Sensations become an experience that can be evaluated.

•Perception is a process that compares constructs from sensory areas with subliminal imagery holding previously acquired knowledge. Meaning, evaluation, emotion and results from previous responses are combined. This is where current information becomes associated with information from memory. Almost everything voluntary happens right here.

•Memory is elaborated with new information as it is received. Initial encoding takes place deep in the brain as short term memory. From there, various threads of information are stored in various parts of the brain as long term memory. A neural network connects sensory cortex to storage regions and old information is recalled when new information arrives.

•Imaging is going on all the time. Short term and long term memory are being recalled constantly to process new information. Very little actually reaches the conscious mind. Emotion does increase conscious attention and intensity of neuronal activity increases the likelihood mental imagery will reach the level of conscious awareness.

Goal for Deliberate Imagery is to increase the expert skill required for Good Health Practice. Can’t train up everything. Set goals and targets that can be defined specifically and measured accurately.

If you were coaching a basketball team, you might set something like this.

•Goals: Long term – qualify for Conference Finals, Mid-term – winning % at half-way through the schedule, Immediate – win at least 2 of the next 3 games.

•Targets: Routine – improve field goal accuracy 1% per week, Deliberate Practice – 3 point shooting 1% per week

As an individual improving Good Health Practice, you might set something like this.

Train Deliberate Imagery by conscious effort. Practice closed eyes visualization. We visualize best what we have seen the most. We can also improve closed eyes visualization by deliberately concentrating on details. The more we practice, the better our visualization.

At first, we can’t visualize anything for more than a second or two. Eventually we can recall images for several minutes even when we are away from where we captured it.

What we’re improving by training this way is our ability to deliberately concentrate on details.

It’s important to attach a sense of satisfaction and feelings of pleasure to the experience you’re imaging. To do this, first remind yourself how a sense of satisfaction and feelings of pleasure can arise in an experience. What do you sense and feel doing things you enjoy? Train yourself to elicit mental states you enjoy and attach them to images you acquire from good performances you are proud of!

•Real Time: Experts in every field report great detail about practicing their skill. They recall motor, sensory and emotional features of their good performances. Individuals of lesser skill report little or no memory of anything they do.

The ability to image great detail about performance is a feature of deliberate practice. Experts deliberately use intense concentration on difficult mental and physical actions to keep improving their skill.

•Mental Images: A remarkable feature of recall imagery is the complete overlap of current and recalled experience. The memory formed of sensations elicited while recalling mental images is the same as memory formed during actual performance!

Consequently, recalling and rehearsing mental images promotes good practice. It is just as effective redirecting subliminal automaticity as deliberate real time repetition.
                       
Repetition converts conscious to automatic practice. As we go about daily activities, we generally perform the same way, day after day. When we decide to do something differently, we have to think about it every day. If we do those new things consistently day after day, we have to think about it less and less. Eventually, we don’t have to think about it at all. We have a new automatic pattern of daily activity.

When we start our new daily activity, we don’t know how persistent the existing automatic pattern will be. We don’t even know how strong our ambitions will be. There will be unexpected changes in daily activity and barriers to our conscious ambitions. Sometimes, things will work out the new way and sometimes ambitions will fail. Activities that have been rewarded by acceptance in the past will have priority over activities that currently are less rewarded.

The objective of deliberate imaging is to bring a sense of satisfaction and feelings of pleasure as rewards for performance of new daily activities!

Good Health Practices

Almost everything we do influences Good Health Practices. Deliberate Imaging of Nutrition is the easiest to describe.

Nutrition imaging starts with taking photos of meals and snacks typical of current practice. Also, keep records of physical activity. Two or three days should be enough to determine usual schedule and variability of meals and physical activity day to day.

A rough rule of thumb is to reduce total intake about one-third and keep energy output constant. Usually, it’s intake of carbohydrates and fat that should be reduced while intake of protein is kept constant or increased.

Counting macronutrients is not what’s important. The objective is to take pride in reducing intake and feel pleasure in what is accomplished.

Along the way, practice imaging the meals and snacks being photographed. Aim to concentrate on details of intake to improve imagery with eyes closed. Eventually, mental imagery should be possible away from the table.

Exercise imaging is more general. The rough rule of thumb is to take photos or make videos that capture a personal sense of effort. The regular camera feature can be used during some exercises. Also, a friend or family member could use the regular camera feature during strength training. Even a selfie photo or video can provide a mental image.

Ideal photos and videos capture a sense of satisfaction and feelings of pleasure.

Routine daily activities may be worthy of attention. Efficiency, effectiveness and corrective actions may be essential for Good Health Practices to Reduce Insulin Resistance and Reverse Diabetes. Deliberate practice could devise improvement. Deliberate mental imaging could capture good results and promote automatic daily practice.

Sleep imaging brings attention to ideal conditions and routine preparations for 6 to 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep. Deliberate practice of preparations for sleep and deliberate mental rehearsal of successful preparations will promote automatic daily success.

Relaxation, recreation and entertainment are essential to Good Health Practices. Deliberate attention to current events provides opportunities. Deliberate mental rehearsal of satisfaction and pleasure they create can be attached to imagery of more routine health practices.

Determination, Satisfaction, Pleasure, Immediate Rewards

Deliberate Imagery is the skill mark of Experts. Deliberate Practice improves health. Deliberate Imagery is an essential part of Deliberate Practice.

The immediate rewards of Good Health Practice are looking good, performing well and feeling terrific!

The money you save from out of pocket medical expenses and increased income from work in good physical and medical health pays for extended years of Good Health in retirement.

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Next time, remember how good it felt to do it right.

That’s Sports Psychology. Practice your Good Health Skills the same way!

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Mental Imagery in Athletics

Mental Imagery means using all senses including vision, touch, hearing, smell and taste. Sometimes imagery is called visualization, but imagery means any sense that can be attached to an experience. It’s just that it takes a lot of practice to bring all senses together in an image.

Coaches use imagery to train their athletes. Train them to imagine perfect execution. The idea is that the sense of success improves their confidence. If real-time performance is not perfect, rehearsing it over and over flawlessly, without mistakes restores self-esteem. That’s positive mental imagery.

Jack Nicklaus is famous for his mental imagery. He is quoted as saying, “I never  hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. It’s like a color movie. First I ‘see’ the ball where I want it to finish, nice and high and sitting up high on the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes and I ‘see’ the ball going there: its path, trajectory and shape, even its behavior on landing. I never missed a putt in my mind.”

He also has said, “People only do their best at things they truly enjoy.”

Positive mental imagery includes pleasure and satisfaction. A good coach knows this. Athletes need more than complaints about poor performance. Good coaches make their athletes feel really good when they do especially well.

Expert athletes also know how to enjoy pleasure and self-satisfaction with good performance. They know during effort in their sport how they’re doing, how to keep getting better and how to enjoy good results.

Positive Mental Imagery

Mental imagery as a motivational amplifier has been used in treatment. A system called Behavioral Activation aims to help patients with Depression.

Use of Audio and Photo recordings of scenarios has been reported in Cambridge, UK. A controlled trial using semi-structured interviews and Beck Depression Inventory-II enrolled 150 men and women who met DSM-IV criteria for a current major depressive episode.

Effects of treatment with positive imagery on Behavioral Activation scores are shown in the Figure.

A positive imagery intervention consisted of 12 sessions of training in 4 weeks. Participants in the positive training group were instructed to imagine themselves actively involved in 12 scenarios. In 6 of 12 sessions, participants were presented with audio descriptions that started ambiguously but ultimately ended positively. The other 6 sessions included ambiguous photos with a caption that resolved the ambiguity in a positive way.

Participants in the treatment group were instructed to generate a mental image combining the picture and words.

Participants in the control group were presented with scenarios in which half were resolved positively and half were resolved negatively. The psychological training involved education to focus on words and meaning.

As shown in the Figure, Behavioral Activation improved over time in both groups. However, initial improvement was greater in the positive imagery group.

Reports of everyday scenarios also have been used to promote completion of ordinary activities. A controlled trial was reported from Cambridge, UK with 72 men and women who did not have mental disease or emotional disorders.

Effects of treatment with motivational imagery are shown in the Figure. All 72 subjects completed questionnaires about pastimes, food and drink, social activities and sensory experiences. They all provided examples of what they found rewarding with ratings of desire, motivation, effort and pleasure for the examples they described. They also listed routine activities they had been putting off doing but would be satisfying and rewarding to complete.

The treatment group of 24 men and women were instructed to provide ratings immediately after imagery simulation of activities they scheduled for the next week. The other 48 participants did not perform imagery simulation. They were divided into a group who were reminded during the week and a group who had no imagery and no reminder.

As shown in the Figure, the number of activities that were described and defined as not rewarding but were then completed was greatest in the group who performed motivational imagery.

Also, the Motivational Imagery group reported greater motivation as well as greater pleasure and reward for completing the planned activities.

Neurocognitive Processing

Neural function of the brain controls all involuntary bodily functions such as circulation, breathing, digestion and metabolism. It receives impulses from the periphery, collects and integrates signals and distributes instructions to effector mechanisms all without any conscious perception.

About 11 million bits per second are received. Just the retinas of the eyes, all by themselves, send 10 million bits per second of information to the brain. The bits received are distributed, processed and transmitted to action or memory.

A total of a billion-billion operations per second is estimated to be the brain computing power. Information processing includes sorting, storing, interpreting, comparing and responding. With repetition, processing includes selecting ideal combinations of inputs, outputs and results. All stored in memory of unlimited capacity and accessed endlessly.

About 60 bits per second is the limit the conscious mind can process. If we can keep our conscious mind focused, it can handle about 2 or 3 cognitive tasks at a time.

We run our lives with subliminal action. Events occur, effects evaluated, decisions made and responses executed before we are even aware of them. The task under conscious neurocognitive function is to alter or redirect subliminal function.

Complex Neurocognitive Systems

Our brain has about 85 billion neurons that make trillions of connections with other neurons. This complex operates all thought, emotion, action and behavior including health practice.

Brain development starts with inheritance at birth and proceeds rapidly during infancy and adolescence. It results from interaction of genetic, epigenetic, cellular, metabolic, hormonal, nutritional, physical and environmental elements.

New neural networks are developed along the way and expanded or pruned and abandoned. At any one time, neural networks started at one time under some influence are interacting with other neural networks started at different times under different influences.

Dynamic analysis of cognitive function describes complex performance arising from sensitivity to small changes in nonlinear systems. As a result, change of the output is not proportional to the change of the input. Because each subliminal interactive system is influenced differently, health practice can change suddenly with little warning.

Perspective On Reversing Or Preventing Type 2 Diabetes

Anyone who argues that Insulin Resistance or Type 2 Diabetes is not costly and disabling is carrying misinformation for reasons hidden in subliminal regions of the mind. Of course, it is possible that submitting reports to improve Health Practices is perceived as too demanding of time or effort to cooperate.

Everybody with Insulin Resistance or Type 2 Diabetes should have the chance to consider adopting a corrective action plan. Even those who state they just don’t want the inconvenience of improving Health Practices should reconsider their motivation every month or so. Dynamical Revision of Health Practices may have occurred.

Conscious Cognitive Function

Executive cognitive function readily engages subliminal action. This can be combined with sensations, impressions and emotions in performing some novel experience. The results of the experience, directed by executive cognitive function are evaluated and committed to subliminal memory as desirable and pleasant or noxious and painful.

The subliminal transformation of an automatic routine in memory into a desirable experience is accomplished by daily repetition as either a real or rehearsed event. Daily repetition eventually builds subliminal memory into an automatic routine that happens without specific executive cognitive direction.

Even automatic has to be monitored forever. To be effective in improving health, the assignment of a novel good health practice to subliminal memory is always subject to further change or reversion to original dynamics.

Positive Mental Imagery And Pleasure

Mental Imagery is recalling what happened, when and how it felt. Positive Mental Imagery is recalling something which turned out favorably. Positive Mental Imagery and Pleasure is recalling something positive which also gave an involuntary flush of good feeling.

Start with mental imagery that simulates real life experience. This action requires an ability to imagine something. If you’re not sure what you can do you should start by recalling one or several events or situations of your life in the last day or two.

Write them down and describe them in words. What they were, what happened and what you think about them. Pick out the favorable features and what makes a good outcome. Look for what gives you a good feeling and what that good feeling is. Write that all down and what you will do next time.

Practice feeling good. Do something you enjoy. Something that’s a physical workout or something really relaxing. Read something you like. Watch a video that really captures your attention. Relax and soak yourself in the bathtub. Then write down what happened and how that makes you feel good. Figure out what could make you feel even better!

Eventually mental imagery will be able to capture everything. Without writing anything down. But always concentrate on what you enjoy and makes you feel good. That’s Positive Mental Imagery With Pleasure.

Next, select health practices that can be imagined going well. Concentrate on physical activity, nutrition, sleep and routine daily tasks where improvement is possible. Generate good feelings about success in good health practice. Practice combining good feelings with imagined successful health practice.

Imagine Good Health Practice over and over again. Subliminal experience of imagery is given the same salience as real life situations and events. Rehearsing good health practice with pleasure counts as much in subliminal memory as real life experience. Your subliminal memory doesn’t discriminate. Success with pleasure is what dominates no matter what the sequence.

Dynamical cognitive control keeps improving with positive mental imagery. Improving motor skills requires real life experience but subliminal memory of motivation, performance and pleasure is consistent. You’re much better off relying on Positive Imagery And Pleasure to guide subliminal direction of action than Real Life performance with Feelings of Failure.

If you fail, forget it. Replace that negative memory by rehearsing how you’ll do well next time.

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