People Successful improving Health Practice get headlines. In newspapers and magazines. On Internet and TV. They are Inspired and Admired.

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.

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