A Brief Explanation of Biorhythm

               The earliest significant work on Biorhythm was begun
           toward  the end  of the  nineteenth century  in Europe. A
           Berlin physician named Fliess and a Viennese psychologist
           named  Swoboda seem  to have  independently theorized the
           existence of the Physical and Emotional cycles. The third
           cycle, the Intellectual cycle, was discovered later by an
           Austrian engineer, Teltscher, who taught in Innsbruck.

               The  Biorhythm Theory  proposes that  all humans  are
           influenced, throughout their lifetimes, by three rhythms:
           Physical, Emotional, and Intellectual. The Physical cycle
           takes 23  days to complete, the  Emotional cycle 28 days,
           and  the Intellectual  cycle 33  days. By  plotting these
           rhythms for  future dates, it is  possible to predict how
           we will feel and perform on those dates.

               The  cycles  are  usually  plotted  on  paper as sine
           waves. The day we are born  they are at the base line (on
           the X-axis  or abscissa, numerical value  zero) and begin
           their movement in the upward  direction toward a value of
           plus one,  then reverse their  direction, moving downward
           across the  baseline to a  value of minus  one, then move
           upward again to the base  line, completing one cycle. The
           decimal  numbers  between  zero  and  one  are  sine wave
           values,  and  have  no   significance  except  that  each
           indicates a step of one more day into the cycle.

               When  the curve  for any  cycle (Physical, Emotional,
           Intellectual) is above the  baseline, i.e. "HIGH," we are
           at  our  best  for  that  particular  cycle.  We feel and
           perform well.  When any is  below the line,  or "LOW," we
           have less  energy for that  aspect and do  not perform as
           well.

               When any point in the sine  wave for any of the three
           cycles crosses the base line, that is, when the value for
           that day is zero, it is considered to be a critical point
           in  the  cycle.  These  are  the  days  when  we are most
           unstable. Important  activities should not  be undertaken
           on such days.

               Double  critical  days  occur  frequently.  When this
           happens, extra  caution is advised.  Triple critical days
           are rare, and most people experience only a few such days
           in  a lifetime.  However, the  critical influence  may be
           present  on  the  day  before  and  the  day after a true
           critical day, leading some to think that triple criticals
           occur much  more often, for example,  when true criticals
           occur on three successive days.

               There  is no  reason why  Biorhythm charts  should be
           depicted in the form of sine waves. The vertical calendar
           format  used  by  Forecasts  provides  the  quickest  and
           easiest way to check your daily status.


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