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Standard biorhythm theory, which is very simple to understand, is viewed with
skepticism throughout the medical community. This skepticism is due mainly because it
is almost impossible to assign a fixed number of days to its cycles and automatically
assume that they will remain as such for the rest of someone’s life. Most biorhythms
concentrate on four standard cycles: the
physical
cycle is 23 days
long and it influences a
broad range of physical factors such as resistance to disease, strength, co-ordination,
speed, physiology, endurance, and the sensation of physical well-being. The
emotional
cycle lasts 28 days and governs creativity,
sensitivity, mental health, love, hate,
optimism, pessimism, passion, coldness, depression, elation, mood, and perceptions of
the world and ourselves. The
intellectual
cycle, which takes place over a 33-day period,
regulates memory, alertness, receptivity to knowledge, and
the logical or analytical
functions of the mind: reasoning ability, and accuracy of computations. The
intuitional
cycle, which takes place over a 38-day period, affects our unconscious perception,
hunches, and instincts; a sort of sixth sense
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. This cycle is the least portrayed in most
biorhythm literature or commercial programs available through the Internet. On the day
of birth, each cycle starts at a neutral baseline or zero point
and begins to rise in a
positive phase, during which the energies and abilities are high. A very simple computer
program can run the equation for a sinusoidal wave divided by the days for the period of
the cycle, to provide an output similar to the one on Figure 4.
Another important term in the biorhythm is the
critical phase.
This is the short
period (usually one-two days depending on the rhythm), when a rhythm is crossing over
to a different phase. During this short time, there is a greater risk of error or accident. In
fact, studies have shown that there is a 30-60% greater risk of
an accident during those
few critical days that a person experiences every month. Although there is no concrete
scientific evidence that supports biorhythm theories, the analogy is useful for
understanding the different efficiency cycles of the human body and how these relate to
the hostage crisis model.
The following chart, taken from the Internet, shows
a typical biorhythm program
that can calculate a person’s biorhythm simply by knowing the individual’s date of birth:
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For further details and personal biorhythm plots go to
www.mcuniverse.com
, last accessed on 5
August 2004.
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Figure 4.
Author’s Personal Biorhythm (www.krstarica.com, last accessed on 16
August 2004)
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For the purpose of this thesis, the term biorhythm is strictly used to make the
comparison between the cyclical changes in the biological state of human beings with the
changes in the proposed hostage rescue operation’s principles: intelligence, surprise,
operator’s skill, and deception. These imperatives behave
in very similar manner to a
human biorhythm, therefore the analogy for the model. The term is specifically useful to
understand the
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