Posts

Contonx: Everyday Connections

Image
Everyday Connections Connection toning training begins with learning to be aware of the body's connections to produce activity for movement. Suppose you are in a room sitting in a chair, and you look out a door and see a bright day inviting you outdoors. You stand up, walk across the room to the door, and all of sudden the wind slams the door shut.  The normal body movement requires three movement elements for action.   Begin with physical prowess to stand.  Neurological coordination to walk  Cognitive planning orchestrates navigation to the door.  Startle reflex combines the movements into a simultaneous action. The door slamming causes a startle reflex that slams the thee elements into a near-simultaneous event. Connections in MS In MS, the immune system attacks the insulating tissue myelin around the axons causing 3 possible electrical conditions.  A circuit open happens when the axon is cut causing axon loss  Resistance increases due to i

Psyc: What not is apathy is grit

Image
What not is apathy is grit. To understand something ask two questions:    What not is ....   -- find the opposite    What is not ...    -- describe something The brain and the mind always exist together as a mood. Neither the brain nor the mind can coexist without being in a mood. The term mood has multiple meanings. The brain/mind can change moods hundreds of times a second. A mood state is a repeated occurrence of a mood that can be observed as a behavioral trait. Keep Your Grit The drawing Keep Your Grit began with the question "What not is apathy?" and discovered grit as the opposite. The change from an apathy state to a grit state means overcoming multiple blocking challenges. Once at a grit state, the same blocking challenges reduce the risk of returning to an apathy state.  In drawing are eight belief mood states and each mood has an opposite mood. Each mood has two adjacent moods.  The two risk-reward circles show the two mood change paths for w

Veteran: Comment on the Wolfe vs VA case

Comment on the Wolfe versus VA case Wolfe & Boerschinger v. Wilkie, No.18-6091(DATED: September 9, 2019 PER CURIAM); 38 C.F.R. § 17.1005(a)(5) is invalid because it is contrary to 38 U.S.C. §1725; reimbursement of emergency medical care at non-VA facilities References below. The Court's opinion and the process leave me with big questions and that the VA can be ordered in a direction that will fix the problem. The Court and NVLSP have the entire basis for the case wrong. The estimated cost does appear more sensational than factual. Unless the basis changes the DVA will not change its business rules.  The Law says: Statute 38 USC 1725 (c) (4) (D) states “The Secretary may not reimburse a veteran under this section for any copayment or similar payment that the veteran owes the third party or for which the veteran is responsible under a health-plan contract." The statute means:  When the veteran’s insurance company pays a provider the insurance’s sh

Contonx: Contonix Exertion Scales

Image
The Contonix Exertion Scales is a self-assessment grading method on the effectiveness of Mind-It Training (MIT) exercises. Tone is an active event that occurs when forces act together to maintain balance. If a person extends an arm and holds is stead, all biological systems act together to hold tone. As soon as the moves, the biological systems continue to act together to sustain continue change in tone. The means to change from one tone state to another is connection toning.

Multiple Sclerosis: The cause of my MS.

Could something from 1971 point to reason I have multiple sclerosis? When I was a teenager, my father earned extra money by doing did odd jobs for realtors like constructions, painting, cleanup. From the time I was 8 and until I was 18 and enlisted in the Marine Corps, I would go to many jobs with him. I think he had is own right of passage rules, because starting high school, he assigned me the high jobs like roof repair. I had no fear of heights. My enlisted ended in 1971, I  was 21 and often I would help him.  From an incident 50 years ago, my mind is still clear about what happened on a 1971 summer day. Dad asked me to carry a bundle of shingles up to the roof where others worked. Putting the shingles on my shoulder, up the ladder, and walking across the roof, I put the shingles down for the roofers. I turned around to start down the roof, my legs froze. I could not move. Dad was calling me to come down for another bundle. I could barely hear him. He must have sensed someth

Psyc: Fear Threat Reactions

Image
Fear Threat Reactions When faced with a perceived threat, humans and animals exhibit a range of fear-threat reactions. These reactions are physiological and behavioral responses that help individuals cope with the perceived danger and protect themselves from harm. The most well-known fear threat reactions are the "fight-or-flight" responses, but there are other adaptations that organisms may employ in the face of fear. Fight-or-flight response The fight-or-flight response is a common physiological and behavioral reaction to perceived threats. This response is mediated by the sympathetic nervous system, which triggers a cascade of physiological changes that prepare the body for action. These changes include: Increased heart rate and blood pressure: This provides the body with the necessary oxygen and nutrients to fight or flee. Muscle tension: This allows for rapid movement and defense. Dilated pupils: This enhances vision in low-light conditions, which may be necessary fo

Contonx: Four Square Fitness

Image
Four Square Fitness   S.A.F.E Conditioning               S - Strength               A - Agility               F - Flexibility               E - Endurance In the Art of Contonx, strength, agility, flexibility, and endurance are the finite elements of tone. Everything in the body's anatomy elements moves, cells, organs, fluids, nerves, bones, muscles, etc. A SAFE condition defines the relationship between the elements.

Pysc: Did Adam Have a Bellybutton?

Did Adam Have a Bellybutton? “Did Adam have a belly button?”, the Question is a philosophical question related to a bible story. The Question proposes a polar answer of either a yes or a no. The Question itself makes the suppositions that the character Adam exists, that something exists called a belly-button and that Adam may have the procession of the belly-button.  The Question defines the affirmative to be "Adam has a belly-button", then negative to be "Adam did not have a belly-button.  A "no response" cannot be either yes or no,  but yes response means a proof argument. The negative response is an absence of proof, the response is a negative answer. The Question suggests the scope of understanding is context similar to both the proposer and the proposed.  Although the answers may include valid responses where the proposer and the proposed to have different or distinct context. If the proposer and the proposed have a mutual context with simil

Veteran: 38.1725 ~ Information Model

Image
Veterans' Benefit 38 USC 1725  Statues as an Information Model 38 USC 1725 is the Law about business relationships with veterans, DVA, community providers, private insurance, and others. This information model describes the business relationships. Technical Background Dictionary: An information model in software engineering is a representation of concepts and the relationships, constraints, rules, and operations to specify data semantics for a chosen domain of discourse. Typically, it specifies relations between kinds of things, but may also include relations with individual things. It can provide a sharable, stable, and organized structure of information requirements or knowledge for the domain context. Ontology Models – Formal structures (classification systems, assemblies, and parts, language) Affinity Models – Abstract structures (diagnostic, association, disassociation, discrimination, acceptance)   Social Models – Tribe structures (law, group dynamics, bias

Bicycle: Letter to Jimmie Heuga

Image
Happy Birthday Jimmie Sept 22, 2012 Dear Jimmie, This is a letter I wrote to Jimmie Heuga , ski racer, MS champion, my pedal partner on my first 150 Bike MS ride. His was the inspiration for Can    Do MS in Vail. September 22 was Jimmie’s birthday and he died February 2010.   Two years later, on his birthday, I did a bike ride that was a challenge for me. This is a letter I wrote to him about the ride.      Dear Jimmie, This is a letter I wrote to Jimmie Heuga , ski racer, MS champion, my pedal partner on my first 150 Bike MS ride. His was the inspiration for Can    Do MS in Vail. September 22 was Jimmie’s birthday and he died February 2010.  Two years later, on his birthday, I did a bike ride that was a challenge for me. This is a letter I wrote to him about the ride.      On Saturday the 22nd, 4 friends and I rode a bicycle ride I tagged as the CanDo 50.  The ride heads west from Loveland. At the base of the foothills, the route turns north to Mansoville, which begins

Veteran: Veterans' Administration is Breaking the Law

This post is about the VA creating regulations that are not compliant with the Law, engaging in acts of bureaucratic extortion and bureaucratic racketeering.   -- Ok, I am not a lawyer, so maybe the terms are expressions of frustrations. This article explains my use of the terms. Breaking the Law When a veteran has ER treatment at a non-VA facility, the VA will either pay-the-provider or reimburse-the-veteran. If the veteran does not have private insurance, the VA accepts the provider's bill. If the veteran has private insurance, that has copays and deductibles for the episode-of-care, the VA claims by Law the VA cannot pay the copays and deductibles. No statute in Law supports that claim. On September 11, 2017 at 3 AM, my wife, an Army vet, woke with pains in her chest.  The nearest VA hospital is in Cheyenne, more than an hour away. The VA directs veterans who have an emergency condition to seek treatment at a community provider.  I took my wife to the nearest ER. The diag

MS Inside-Out: History of MS

MS Inside-Out: History of MS 1399, 1st diagnosed case of MS            Saint Lidwina of Holland            1380-1434             Diagnosed with MS at 19             MSer for 34 years!   May 1, 1945            a New York Times classified advertisement read:         “Multiple Sclerosis. Will anyone recovered from it            please communicate with the patient."               Placed by Miss Sylvia Lawry, Founder NMSS      March 11, 1946               The National Multiple Sclerosis Society founded.      1993 - first disease-modifying therapy       2020 Still no cause, no cure.