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How Things Work

Everything in your life up to now is stored in your brain. Natural Intelligence has sorted out what presented, what happened and how you liked it. After a few thousand times, similar events were connected into automatic responses. By now, you don’t have to think about much any more of what goes on every day. That’s Automatic Intelligence at work.

 
Airplanes are built the same way. Except Automatic Intelligence is programmed all at once and built right in the same for every unit.

And What To Do About It

You can take control any time you want. Human Intelligence has the marvelous capacity to adjust what you do. You duck if you have to and take another path when you need to. You can control just about anything because you know from experience how everything works.

Airplanes have Artificial Intelligence to take care of special situations. If that’s not enough, pilots take care of very unusual situations according to Manuals of Operation.

Unfortunately, we’ve learned what happens when the pilot can’t find the right page in the Manual of Operations. Can’t just fly a big airplane now. Nobody knows everything about what to do.

Human Intelligence

Special feature of Human Intelligence is that it can be revised. We don’t have to shut it down or issue a Car Recall. You don’t have to ground a whole fleet of planes. It’s special for one brain and unique for past experience and future expectations.

Here’s how revision works. Executive function sends down a command. That’s executed and the results evaluated. Repeat situation with another command, also evaluated.

The new response is not established yet. Takes more that one or two trials. Revision can relapse if the original response gets another chance. Executive function has to take care and keep repeating the new command before it finally is adopted.

Eventually, automatic subconscious cognition is revised according to repeated successful trials. All this under direction from conscious executive function.

Conscious cognition is aware of automatic intelligence. You know what your first response will be with something new. Your gut reaction tells you that you’re not going to like it. But you do it anyway. Your executive function overrules Automatic Intelligence.

Executive function gradually revises Automatic Intelligence. As you think of benefits and accomplishments, your subconscious cognition records it as pleasure. The outcome depends on pleasure/pain of each event. Pleasure must come from satisfaction implementing executive action.

Practical Application

Decision for action comes first.

The most obvious indication for action is Overweight/Obese. A rough guide is 2 to 2.5 lb/inch of standing height. Anyone 5 ft tall should weigh no more than 125 lb and anyone over 6 ft tall should weigh no more than 200 lb plus 6 lb/inch over 200.
 
A more reliable indicator is maximum waist circumference at the level of the umbilicus. For men, the maximum girth should be no more than 37 inches and women should have no more than 32 inches.

You’ll first see change in belt length.

But your belt resting on the top of your pelvic bones on each side is lower than the level of Maximum Waist Circumference. It can be different by 4 or even 5 inches.

Measure your girth at the umbilicus with a piece of string about 4 feet long. Tie knots at both ends where the ends cross over around your waist. Then measure the distance between knots. That’s Maximum Waist Circumference.

Implementation is your action to assess health practice as a baseline for improvement. First, you must test your Executive Function. You can say what you’d like to do but you really don’t know what you will do.

Keeping records is the first test of your Executive Function. Keep Day-by-Day records of Body Weight or Fasting Blood Sugar or Pedometer steps or time spent exercising without stopping. You must determine the ability to exercise this executive function at least briefly at least 5 days a week.

Submit Telehealth Reports from your mobile unit last thing at night or first thing the next morning. Then review results at the end of each week.

If keeping the Health Journal at least 5 days in the week was easy, measure and record more of your health practice:
• measure and record several things each day.
• add descriptions or photographs of one or more meals on one or more days.

If unsuccessful reporting at least 5 days of health practice records:
• maybe you just forgot. Install alarm reminders on your smartphone.
• make it easier. Submit records with name and date, nothing more.
• consider unanticipated barriers that can be fixed.
• try shifting priorities for executive actions.
• ask someone to remind you.

Note that this is an important step. If you don’t think about your health practice every day, thinking about it once a week won’t be enough to accomplish what you’re trying to do.

Enjoy Your Accomplishments

Real time walking for 30 minutes. Consciously review the experience of your walk in the context of pleasure in how you are progressing towards hiking in Big Bend National Park with your grandchildren.

Review with pleasure how walking gets easier and easier as you gradually increase time and distance of your walk.

Note improved mental capacity along with better performance and greater productivity. Fewer days of illness and incapacity.

Sleep better as your health improves.

Save money with less medication, fewer physician visits and less loss of time.

Enjoy every meal and think positive. Think about the pleasure coming as you
balance your metabolism and reduce your weight. People will keep telling you how good you look!

What you hold in your mind is what your subconscious cognition interprets as pain or pleasure from your good health practice.

If you dwell on thoughts of eating more until you’re completely full, your subconscious interprets the outcome as pain. If you take satisfaction in healthy eating, your brain interprets pleasure.

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