Way back in 1989, one day, I knew this was Intuition.
Abraham Thomas
KNOW YOURSELF PODCAST Listen each week, to one podcast. Based on practical self improvement principles. From the insight of an engineer, back in 1989, about the data processing structure of the human mind, recognizing, filtering, storing patterns, without stopping. Patterns of guilt, shame, fear. How to silence painful subconscious patterns and become self aware.
Stomach
pumping is a simple exercise to remove the persisting effect of a
visceral reaction - the release of adrenaline, which activates your
fight, or flight response to danger.
Other
than the fear of dismissal from work or of serious illness, life also
delivers myriad minor irritations and subtle threats. Traffic snarls,
rude colleagues and delayed trips happen often.
Every
day, news stories of murder and mayhem make you aware of the
fragility of your existence. These repeated visceral responses to
stress are all subconscious cuts inflicted on your system.
Stomach
pumping can supplement your learned ability to maintain a balanced
life plan
and
to instantly
relax your body.
Together, these skills reduce your vulnerability to the daily
stresses of life.
Can An Algorithm Be Controlling The Mind?
I am not a physician, but an engineer. Way back in 1989, I catalogued how the ELIMINATION approach of an AI Expert System could reveal a way by which the nervous system could store and retrieve astronomically large memories. That insight is central to the six unique new premises presented in this website.
These new premises could explain an enigma. A physician is aware of thousands of diseases and their related symptoms. How does he note a symptom and focus on a single disease in less than half a second? How could he identify Disease X out of 8000 diseases with just a glance?
First, the total born and learned knowledge available to the doctor could not exist anywhere other than as the stored/retrieved data within the 100 billion neurons in his brain. The perceptions, sensations, feelings and physical activities of the doctor could only be enabled by the electrical impulses flowing through the axons of those neurons. The data enabling that process could be stored as digital combinations.
Second, combinatorial decisions of neurons cannot be made by any entity other than the axon hillock, which decides the axonal output of each neuron. The hillock receives hundreds of inputs from other neurons. Each hillock makes the pivotal neuronal decision about received inputs within 5 milliseconds. Axon hillocks could be storing digital combinations. It could be adding each new incoming digital combination to its memory store. The hillock could fire impulses, if it matched a stored combination. If not, it could inhibit further impulses. Using stored digital data to make decisions about incoming messages could make the axon hillocks intelligent.
Third, combinations are reported to enable a powerful coding mode for axon hillocks. Olfactory combinatorial data is known (Nobel Prize 2004) to store memories for millions of smells. Each one of 100 billion axon hillocks have around a 1000 links to other neurons. The hillocks can mathematically store more combinations than there are stars in the sky. Each new digital combination could be adding a new relationship link. In this infinite store, specific axon hillocks could be storing all the symptom = disease (S=D) links known to the doctor as digital combinations.
Fourth, instant communication is possible in the nervous system. Within five steps, information in one hillock can reach all other relevant neurons. Just 20 Ms for global awareness. Within the instant the doctor observes a symptom, feedback and feed forward links could inform every S=D link of the presence of the symptom. Only the S=D link of Disease X could be recalling the combination and recognizing the symptom.
Fifth, on not recognizing the symptom, all other S=D hillocks could be instantly inhibiting their impulses. The S=D links of Disease X could be continuing to fire. Those firing S=D link would be recalling past complaints, treatments and signs of Disease X, confirming the diagnosis. This could be enabling axon hillocks to identify Disease X out of 8000 in milliseconds. Eliminating improbable (unrecognized) prospects to arrive at a possible (recognized in the past) solution powers the powerful inductive logic of the mind!
Worldwide interest in this website is acknowledging its rationale. Not metaphysical theories, but processing of digital memories in axon hillocks could be explaining innumerable mysteries of the mind. Over three decades, this website has been assembling more and more evidence of the manipulation of emotional and physical behaviors by narrowly focused digital pattern recognition. It has also been receiving over 2 million page views from over 150 countries.
Visceral Reaction
How Does Each
Visceral Reaction Affect Your System?
While
the threats may be small, each visceral reaction harms your system.
Adrenalin increases to prepare your body for a fight or flight
response. Your heart beats increase to improve blood supply. Blood
pressure rises and breathing changes. Acidity increases in the
stomach. Your excretory system prepares to clear toxin. Your
endocrine system produces the adrenal hormone cortisol.
Excess
production of cortisol leads to blood pressure, diabetes and heart
problems. Excess cortisol also causes damage to your immune system,
arteries, and brain cells, and cause premature aging. Evidently, a
simple exercise which can mitigate the impact of a visceral response
can be immensely useful.
Visceral Reaction
How Quickly Does An Emotion Strike?
A
visceral reaction occurs quickly, before you become aware of it. Paul
Ekman, the famous emotions scientist, reported "We become aware
a quarter, or half second after the
emotion begins.
I do not choose to have an emotion, to become afraid, or to become
angry. I am suddenly angry. I can usually figure out later what
someone did that caused the emotion." The nervous system
processes all the available information and drives you to anger, or
despair, within just half a second. Each visceral response occurs
before you know it. Nature also provided laughter to counter this
response.
Visceral Reaction
What Is The Effect Of Laughter?
Laughter
is often triggered by a sudden release of tension. It works to subdue
the visceral reaction. The door opens slowly in a dark room. As you
wait with baited breath, a kitten walks in. You laugh. The system
relaxes. During the middle ages, it was the court jester, who tried
to lift the monarch out of an angry or melancholic mood. There is
much recent evidence that laughter aids emotional well being and
health. A belly laugh is said to result in muscle relaxation. The
process is aerobic, providing a workout for the diaphragm, which
reduces the effects of the visceral reaction.
Visceral Reaction
Is Laughter In The Face Of Stress Feasible?
Unfortunately,
a belly laugh is not the normal reaction to a stressful situation.
Laughter is not easy, when a visceral reaction causes you to seethe
in anger, or sweat in fear. But, if you practice self
awareness,
you can become aware that an emotion has taken over. This requires
some practice. In Buddhist meditation, a person observes his/her
thoughts. When you watch your thoughts, you will become familiar with
your outbursts of anger, or moods of despair. Awareness is the first
step to quell the effects of the visceral reaction.
Visceral Reaction
What Is “Cough CPR?”
At
a meeting of the European Society of Cardiology, Dr. Tadeusz Petelenz
advocated a procedure to save the lives of people having a type of
heart attack brought on by rapid and erratic heart beat. He suggested
coughing vigorously until an ambulance arrived. The technique, called
cough CPR, forced blood to the brain, while the heart was beginning
to fail, keeping patients conscious long enough to call for help.
Other experts said the concept was provocative, but unproven and
doubted whether it had much practical value. Coughing, while having a
heart attack, does sound risky. But, the muscle movements can be more
gently replicated, without the strain of a vigorous cough, to quiet
the effects of a visceral reaction.
Visceral Reaction
Can A Physical Exercise Dissipate Adrenaline?
The
muscle movements involved in coughing also dissipates adrenaline. At
the first sign of an uneasy emotion, you can pump your stomach.
Stomach
pumping requires a deep
diaphragmatic breathing—with a long, slow exhale. Stomach
pumping helps spread the adrenaline in the system and subdue that
tension. It is a practice with endless benefits. When you pump your
stomach, the muscles that do not participate in the process, relax.
After you finish pumping, those muscles involved also begin to relax.
So, the action takes place in two stages. Both beneficial.
Visceral Reaction
How Do You Slide Into A Depression?
Stomach
pumping activates your vagus
nerve, which plays a major role in your equanimity. It uses
neurotransmitters like acetylcholine and GABA to lower heart rate and
blood pressure. It manages the inner
calm of the "rest and digest" parasympathetic
nervous system. It
exerts inhibitory strength over the "danger ahead - fight or
flight" controls of the sympathetic system, while keeping you
calm and energetic. The vagus nerve is deactivated by the lateral
habenula LHb, a small nucleus in your brain, which responds to each
minor setback in your life.
Science
largely holds the LHb responsible for depression. It adjusts your goals by
keeping track of your information-prediction and reward-prediction
errors. If you did not expect that criticism from your boss, you
made an information prediction error. If your boss did not
congratulate you on your brilliant report, you made a reward
prediction error. Since you failed to predict such mishaps, LHb
assumes that you have false expectations from life. LHb weighs your
setbacks (without measuring your blessings) to conclude that your
activities will lead relentlessly into disaster. LHb discourages
you.
The
impulses from LHb deactivate
the vagus nerve and create a bias in your mind by triggering neuro
transmitters, which subdue forebrain activity and cause a loss of
energy in the system. Subdued forebrain activity escalates your
vague fears into dismal emotions. You expect trouble. You feel
scared even without a real threat. Your guilt emotion overcomes your
common sense and punishes you with self criticism. Subdued forebrain
activity blinds your view of your opportunities. Losses appear more
probable. Unable to see the opportunities in your life, you are
filled with gloom.
Visceral Reaction
Is Stomach
Pumping Effective?
Laughter
is not easy. Stomach pumping requires a deep
diaphragmatic breathing—with a long, slow exhale. With
habit, such breathing can be a simple, built in response to the
visceral reaction. It is aerobic, providing a workout for the
diaphragm. The workout reduces the hormones associated with the
stress response. The
process stimulates the vagus nerve and has
the same physical effect as laughter.
A
higher vagal tone index is linked to physical and psychological
well-being.
Well
conditioned athletes have higher vagal tone. Healthy cardiac
function is directly linked to stimulating the vagus nerve. Deep
diaphragmatic breathing—with a long, slow exhale—is the key to
stimulating the vagus nerve and slowing heart rate and blood
pressure. You
can consciously tap the power of your vagus nerve simply
by taking a few deep breaths with long exhales. Use
self awareness and such breathing to reduce the impact of the daily
setbacks you face in life.
Visceral Reaction
What Is The After Effect Of Stomach Pumping?
Stomach
pumping is
a practice with endless benefits. With habit, it can be a simple,
built in response to minor stress. All that is needed is an awareness
of minor turmoil, which can be followed by this simple mechanical
response. With stomach pumping, tensions disappear moments after a
visceral reaction. With subdued visceral responses, memories of the
original stress stimulus disappear. A delayed flight fails to spoil
the day. The story of the dismissal of a colleague, or of a traffic
accident has less impact. Such habitual dissipation slowly erases the
usual knee-jerk anxieties and their corrosive effects. Deeper
stillness follows.
The only price demanded for such peace is
an independent awareness of your barely perceptible anxieties. Do not
allow those visceral reactions to color your viewpoints. Even if you
may not laugh in the face of minor irritations, stomach pumping will
make you more calm and ready to face them.
KNOW YOURSELF PODCAST Listen each week, to one podcast. Based on practical self improvement principles. From the insight of an engineer, back in 1989, about the data processing structure of the human mind, recognizing, filtering, storing patterns, without stopping. Patterns of guilt, shame, fear. How to silence painful subconscious patterns and become self aware.
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