When people are inspired and learn to reduce body fat, increase skeletal muscle and extend Years of Good Health we praise them. We show their stories to everybody. We tell what they achieved and how they did it.

But none of us ever follows the lead. Why is that?

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Dynamical Good Health Practice System

Brain activity directs our lives. Everything that ever happens to us is stored in neuronal networks we call “memory.” What happens in the present is processed partly as conscious cognition and partly as subconscious neurocognitive activity. Current sensations and emotions are combined with automatic responses from memory and followed by a set of actions. With results very much like the last time something similar occurred.

The conscious mind is tiny and focuses pretty much on one thing at a time. The subconscious network is huge and keeps processing everything all the time. The conscious mind can process what’s going on, interpret what it all means, come up with ideas and make something happen right then. But that’s about it.

The subconscious mind is what gets things done. That’s where life goes on. That’s where we decide to do everything pretty much the same old way. Unless the conscious mind each time remembers to follow some new way. At least for a while.

But the old ways keep fluctuating. Like the weather, old things keep recombining in some way entirely different and a new dynamic pattern is stored subconsciously. What happened last time won’t necessarily happen this time. Might even be different next time. Just don’t know anything for sure. That’s dynamical human practice.

Find out what your subconscious will let you do. Define an objective, pick a target action, set out a week or 10 days to do it in and see what happens. You’re confident you’ll do fine for a day or two, but how about a whole week or 10 days?

The truly dominant conscious effort will accomplish the target. No matter what the subconscious automatic response might be. But you may be surprised. Something will come up and you’ll miss doing what you set out to do. Oh, well! That just wasn’t expected. Not so. A dominant conscious effort will get it done somehow, even with an unexpected obstacle.

Pick a lesser target for your actions and try again. Eventually you’ll find what your subconscious will permit.

Dynamical Chaos Theory describes complex systems with sudden unexpected changes. Dynamical systems include several complex systems whose states evolve with time. Frequently, dynamics are highly sensitive to initial conditions. This is popularly referred to as the butterfly effect.

Health Practice is a Dynamical System. All the interacting systems involved are sensitive to unique initial conditions at different times. With several dynamical systems interacting together Good Health Practice results are difficult to predict.

Inspiration For Action

All individuals who succeed and are accorded public acclaim tell us they were Inspired for Action! Oh!, there were setbacks. But they always got back on the path to success.

Transform Information to Inspiration. We all know what enhances Good Health and prolongs Healthy Life. To accomplish it, something has to happen. Not sure what it is.

We call it “Inspiration!” It’s something that just comes over us. Makes us feel good all over. Real Pleasure. This is what we’re going to do. We can do it! Can’t wait to get started. Just thinking about it makes us smile.

Extend Inspiration to Motivation. Eventual Success needs Action and Sustained Determination. The conscious mind gets it done at least once but the subconscious mind has to actually carry it out, over and over for the rest of the duration. What will make that action persist?

The simple answer is that we are motivated to approach pleasure and avoid pain.

Pain may get our Attention but that doesn’t last. If the pain is distant and something pleasant is current, we soon forget about pain and ignore it entirely. If the pain is current we figure out how to avoid it, how to treat it or how to tolerate it.

Pleasure is what maintains our Action. The prospects of achieving the final desirable objective gets Action started. But then, success in completing each successive Target has to create Pleasure. That’s more difficult.

Task is to create Pleasure that Inspires Action and keep on Creating Pleasure, week after week.

Pleasure That Motivates Action

Learn to Imagine ‘Immense Pleasure with Success’ as you Step through week-by-week Targets. Think only of Pleasure in your Conscious Mind. Ignore entirely any disappointment, frustration, or sense of being deprived of anything, ever. While you’re at it, Look Ahead with Enthusiasm and Review what’s happened with Great Satisfaction.

Your Subconscious Mind will store what you’re thinking and Accept It As Real. If you don’t give everything away, your Subconscious Mind simply doesn’t know the difference.

Create Points of Pleasure in as many places as you can. How effective you are in creating Pleasure in your Subconscious Mind will determine your success in Maintaining Motivation for Action.

Keep a Daily Health Journal. Write everything down every day. It’s not a Nuisance, it’s an Opportunity. Review it with Satisfaction and Pleasure. That will bring it to your mind for the next day and store more Pleasure in your Subconscious Mind.

Measure your Basal Heart Rate and your Basal Oral Temperature. The Heart Rate Counter provides very important data. Basal Heart Rate is the result of Metabolic, Neural and Cardiovascular influences on cells in the pacing region of the heart. Individuals with rates below 55 beats per minute have excellent prospects for good health.

Basal Oral Temperature Tracks up and down with Basal Metabolic Rate. Elevated levels of Sugar and Fat in the blood keep Metabolic Rate high during sleep.

Those are two more opportunities to store Satisfaction and Pleasure in your Subconscious Mind.

Mental Imagery is not a Game. This is serious Neuroscience. Just as serious as the differential equations used to describe any Dynamical Health Practice System. 

External Incentives

If personal conscious effort is not enough to initiate improved Health Practice, external incentives may get things started.

A Majority of Corporations with more than 50 employees offer Health and Wellness Programs. Unless specially motivated, most employees find it hard to make Health Practice changes. The employees who are most likely to join a Corporate Health and Wellness Program are already involved in Good Health Practice. They’re runners, body builders, dancers or yoga practitioners.

Here’s where incentives may be useful to attract employees who do not already have Good Health Practices. In 2017, incentives did bring about 20% higher participation rates.

Most Corporate Programs use incentives to promote program participation. Incentives include gift cards, merchandise, cash, contributions to health savings accounts and lowering of healthcare insurance fees.

The annual $ value of program incentives usually is quite small. Half of all programs in 2017 offered less than $500 and only about 20% offered as much as $1,000.

Types of incentives that may work better than others depend on the objective for each program.

Participation-based incentives provide rewards for anyone who participates. This option obviously is the most inclusive.

Progress-based incentives provide rewards for reaching targets such as weight reduction, body composition or number of steps counted. This option is fairly inclusive and ensures active participation.

Out-come-based incentives provide rewards to participants who achieve specific health objectives such as % decreased body fat or % decreased risk for diabetes. Fewer participants reach such objectives but it does emphasize what’s needed to really improve health and reduce risk of disease and disability.

Incentives, generally speaking, are seldom used to promote outcomes. The most frequently used exceptions are programs which charge smokers larger fees for healthcare insurance.

Possible that incentives will always be needed to achieve and sustain improvements. However, costs of treatment for disease and losses because of absence and disability always are expensive. Those expenses would be far greater than costs for a Health and Wellness Program that successfully reversed metabolic syndrome or type 2 diabetes.

Summary

Inspiration that carries through to effective Action can occur with fortuitous interaction of dynamical systems involved in Health Practice.

Clear thinking and personal ambition may combine to initiate improved Health Practice.

Mental Imagery of Pleasure and Satisfaction with actions for Good Health will work. Neurocognitive intervention is the way to strengthen motivation and sustain improvements. Eventually, internal feedback rewards bestowed by Good Health results become self-sustaining.

Possible that incentives will always be needed to sustain improvements in Corporate Health and Wellness Programs.

Let us help you Achieve your objectives and rewards for Good Health Practices.

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Every year treating Diabetes adds $5,000 to Out-Of-Pocket Expenses compared with everybody else. There’s still 5 months that can be used to save from paying anything extra for Diabetes next year.

Spend 30 minutes a day to Reverse Diabetes. That will save about $30 a day from now until Christmas. Money you and your family can spend more enjoyably next year.

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Hurrah! You Don’t Have To Keep Spending Money on Diabetes

The $ cost of Type 2 Diabetes is $5,000 more in out-of-pocket expenses every year than others who do not have diabetes. That’s Deductibles, Copayments, Supplies, Medication and Travel to Clinic. Not to mention Lost Time from Work.

Save that money every year for something you want. A patient who has type 2 diabetes at 40 years of age can expect to spend more than $125,000 out-of-pocket by 65 years of age. That would be pretty nice to put into retirement savings!

Save indirect costs in addition to medical expenses. Cost of illness is even greater in other ways than healthcare cost. Illness and disability affect performance and productivity. They reduce ability to earn income and ability to manage personal, family and social commitments.

Save today and be secure for tomorrow. Day-to-day financial expenses make it hard to save for future healthcare and retirement. Make sure that illness and disability won’t cut short the years generating income and managing commitments.

Reversing Diabetes Now is an opportunity for long, rewarding, independent living with financial security free of huge healthcare expenses.

Impact Of Good Health Practice On Length Of Life

Reverse Diabetes Now and Gain Years of Good Health. Studies have shown that at age 40 years, men and women without diabetes lived more than 5 years longer than people with diabetes. Women lived longer than men, and have greater life expectancy.

Years to be gained was studied in almost 200,000 patients living in England. Most were Caucasian who had greater potential benefit than South Asian and black ethnic groups.

Life tables for 17 years were constructed for 143,724 Caucasian patients 40 to 80 years old and 653,390 age-matched Caucasian individuals without diabetes. The patients without diabetes had less cardiovascular and renal disease than individuals with diabetes. Levels of blood pressure and prevalence of smoking were the same in both groups.

The Figure shows that individuals without diabetes lived longer. Those who were older at the time data was first entered lived to older ages than those who were younger. They had already survived life hazards that had struck those who were younger.

Also, the Figure shows that at age 40, Caucasian men without diabetes gained 5 years of life and Caucasian women without diabetes gained 6 years of life. The gain in years of life was reduced to 2 and 3 years at age 80.

The greatest reductions in causes of death for patients without diabetes were cardiovascular and renal diseases. However, patients without diabetes also had less death from cancer and respiratory diseases.

Individuals who do not have diabetes can extend life well beyond avoiding type 2 diabetes.

These Good Health Practices (GHP) prevent and reverse type 2 diabetes. However, the best possible health and life expectancy even exceeds success in avoiding type 2 diabetes.

We’ve known for more than 20 years that more than half of premature deaths are caused by high-risk Health Practices. Fortunately, we now have a truly comprehensive analysis of Health Practices and Life Expectancy.

The Nurses’ Health Study and the Health Professionals’ Follow-Up Study in the United States included data from 123,219 women and men during approximately 30 years.

Results showed that those who followed all 5 GHP prolonged their Life Expectancy about 50% more than those who did not follow any. At age 50 years, women who followed all 5 GHP lived 29 more years, which was 14 years longer than those who did not follow any. Men at age 50 years who followed all 5 GHP lived 26 more years which was 12 years longer than those who did not follow any.

The reality of Good Health Practices throughout life is prolonged Life Expectancy. Women who follow all GHP live 90 years and men who follow all GHP live 88 years.

Adding lines for Females at age 90 and Males at age 88 shows that people who avoid diabetes can prolong Life Expectancy still more.

Note that Life Expectancy with all GHP is substantially more than just preventing or reversing type 2 diabetes. The Figure shows that preventing or reversing diabetes achieves only about half the full potential for prolonging Life.

Disability-Free and Disabled Life Years

Preventing and Reversing Diabetes significantly increases disability-free life years. In fact, reversing diabetes increases disability-free life years even more than total life years. As a result, people with GHP have a much greater proportion of their remaining years free of disability.

This effect of extending disabled life years has been reported from Michigan in the Health and Retirement Study. This is a continuing study of approximately 20,000 Americans over the age of 50 years. Every two years, the investigators collect information about income, work, assets, pension plans, health insurance, disability, physical health and functioning, cognitive functioning, and health care expenditures.

This Figure shows data for Mobility Loss Disability. From age 50, men without diabetes developed disability 6 years later, and gained 6 more years free of disability than men with diabetes.

With increasing age, the gain of total and disability-free life years was less than at younger baseline age. Even so, men without diabetes gained about twice as much disability-free life as those with diabetes.

Similar results were observed among women. Those without diabetes were free of disability 6 to 7 years beyond women with diabetes and lived 1 to 2 years longer free of disability. As a result, women without diabetes from age 50 gained 7 disability-free years and had 2.5 more disability-free years compared to women with diabetes.

As was seen with men, differences in disability among women decreased with increasing age.

Additional Savings Free of Disability include more than medical expenses. Costs for healthcare range from $40,000 a year for home healthcare to more than $90,000 a year in a nursing home.

Savings from out-of-pocket healthcare expenses provide support for long, rewarding, independent living with financial security free of huge healthcare expenses.

Summary

Reversing and preventing type 2 diabetes is an outstanding $ opportunity. Type 2 Diabetes is the most expensive chronic illness in the United States and there’s no sign of relief.

The most common method of paying medical expenses is healthcare insurance. This year, nearly 70% of mid to large employers offer high-deductible health plans. This means that people with serious chronic illnesses must pay their entire deductible early in the year or do without the healthcare services they need.

Some people are fortunate. Some have complete medical coverage and others do not yet require expensive treatment. However, it seems healthcare keeps getting more expensive and more and more costs are being shifted to consumers. Type 2 diabetes does not just get better by itself and disability does not wait for financial solutions.

Good Health Practices relieve the need for costly healthcare services. The 5 months left in 2019 are still enough time to decrease the need for expensive medication and costly services.

Reversal of diabetes takes time. Get Started Now!

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Creative Insight

An Aha! moment is a cognitive-emotional connection. It’s just like when something you’re touching makes you feel good all over! Or like when something you hear or see thrills you and gives you a tingly feeling. It’s when an idea or some thought suddenly gives you clarity of understanding or purpose for action you hadn’t thought of before. Something that clears up what’s been bothering you. An Aha! moment is something in your brain giving you emotions that elicit physical sensations.

Have you ever had such an experience? Creative insight occurs to everyone in some form. It’s a part of human function that may not exist in other creatures.

Pleasure is a critical part of Creative Insight. It happens in many ways that please us. Something we read. A puzzle we solve. A joke we hear well told. Signals of love exchanged between two people. All of these create a flush of pleasure we thoroughly enjoy. But the emotion of pleasure is always more for some than others.
The experience of creative insight is not all or nothing. It’s not exactly the same for the same person every time or the same experience for two people who otherwise are much alike. A really good idea that makes me shout out loud might just amuse someone else. Pleasing for sure but just amusing. Maybe nothing could make that person shout out loud!

This Eureka! Effect, shouting out loud, is named for Archimedes, an ancient Greek mathematician working on hydrostatics. The story is that when he was bathing in a public tub, he noted that his body displaced a volume of water equal to the volume of his body. He suddenly realized this was the way to measure the volume of an irregular object. He was so excited, he is said to have jumped naked out of the tub shouting “Eureka” (I have found it!).

Physical sensations of pleasure also shift from time to time as well as vary between people. A brief gasp of air, a few fast heart beats, a shivery feeling with sudden sweat gland action, hair standing up on the back of your neck. These are reactions that can be recorded in a polygraph test like a truth detector. Some people have a physical response to almost anything and other people simply don’t respond physically to anything.

For everyone, creative insight has two phases. In the first phase, an important issue or problem appears and defies resolution. Can’t be ignored. Too severe, too important. Plus possible solutions have been looked for and tested with no success. Tried again and again but always failure. Simply can’t find an answer that works.

Then the second phase appears as a welcome surprise. First of all, it’s a sudden surprise. Secondly, it’s amazing. It works smoothly and simply. Thirdly, it elicits all the cognitive, emotional and physical features of an Aha! Moment. The whole experience comes as a thrilling, pleasing, and welcome surprise. Finally, it really makes sense. There’s no doubt in your mind. This is going to work. In all, it seems to be a miracle you can’t believe happened to you.

Motivation

Broadly defined, motivation is why people do anything. It includes an appreciation of what, how and why people think, feel and act as they do.

Subconscious cognition governs most thoughts, feelings and actions. Every thought, every emotion and every action are all evaluated according to outcomes, processed into neurocognitive rules and stored in memory. These memories include situations and forces that were never fully appreciated or accounted for.

Deterministic chaos describes multiple features. As shown in the Figure below, all arise from initial conditions and evolve along distinct paths under various stimuli. But intertwined and interacting with each other. The result is chaotic and unpredictable by any formal set of rules

Local interactions inevitably occur that damp apparently unorganized behavior into stable, more predictable paths. At least briefly. For how long is never certain.

Efforts to make changes may succeed but for how long? Why is anyone even interested in diabetes, or metabolism, or nutrition, or physical activity?

Enhance Performance

Impact Matters

The long-term effects of type 2 diabetes are well advertised. It’s almost impossible to ignore what we know to be the long-term effects. There’s personal experience of yourself, your family and your friends. There’s consequences described on the internet, in newspapers and on TV for you, your community, our nation and the world. There are no long-term benefits from type 2 diabetes.

But some things mean more to one person than another. Sources of information are more or less reliable. Some more. Some less. Also, two people with the same information can form contrary opinions and make opposite decisions. I’ve made up my mind. You must make up yours.

Please be certain you’re persuaded that the long-term effects are worth your attention

The short-term effects are what to concentrate on right now. It’s the good things that’ll happen in the next 6 months that will improve your good health practice. You can expect to look better, feel stronger and perform at a higher level.

You’ll save a lot of money on healthcare. Fewer expensive medications and fewer clinic visits. Lower deductible limits on healthcare insurance. Lower copayments and lower coinsurance costs.

Improved performance will bring better offers for employment, fewer days lost from work and less burden on others for their help.

Short-term costs are time, effort and inconvenience.

Priorities Are Important

Many things in life are a waste of time. Figure out what’s most important to you.

Start with a list.

Pick the top three for the next 6 months.

Add some details.

Apply Creative Insight

Inspirational discovery of creative insight comes from searching everywhere imaginable. Including sources you find accidentally. Search social media, other communities, away from main stream thought, historical events.

Look again where everybody else has given up. Somewhere you may find sudden mental clarity with something of obvious value showing a clear strategy to follow.

Try again something that didn’t work before. Hardly anybody stops smoking the first time they try. Maybe deterministic chaos has created another combination of paths that will work for you this time.

Analytical approach to solving a puzzle will work if given enough time, effort and persistence. This is a brute force approach.

Start with a detailed written review of long-term goals and short-term objectives. Consider personal, family, social, occupational and financial issues. Concentrate specifically on the short-term rewards.

Establish an action plan starting with something, anything that you know you can do easily. Write it down and report it to your family, a mentor, a coach. Someone who will help you through the hard parts.

Follow your plan and track performance using quantitative measures including potential financial rewards. When what you started gets easy, extend your effort as it improves your health.

Most of all, take pride in your performance. The Creative Insight comes from personal satisfaction in accomplishing something you didn’t know you could do.

Test The Results

It’s much too complex to analyze the Motivation for what you thought, felt and did all your life up to now. However, it’s simple to test the practical results from any change in thoughts, feelings and actions you introduce alongside existing Motivation.

Requires a written record with quantitative measures. Write down a deliberate, detailed plan every week or two.
•including practical analysis and adoption of how to proceed
•including measurements to make in assessing progress
•including a timeline of what to do and when it will happen
Then check progress every few days until the final check.

Testing yourself means writing everything down and reporting it to someone else.

Testing someone else means stating, negotiating and recording a deliberate detailed plan with specific dates and measurements.

Finally, review and evaluate what happened. What Creative Insight have you gained to sustain your Motivation towards Preventing and Reversing Diabetes?

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