Psyc: Keep your Grit

Keep Your Grit. Keep Your Ability to Thrive. 

 The mood change between apathy and grit is a journey of mood changes. 8 change states and 4 motivation states.

What not is apathy is grit. Each term represents a mood. To find the opposite ask "What not is _______ is __________. What not is confidence is doubt.

To describe a term ask "what is not _________ is________. What is not grit is uncentianly and no passion.

Mood change happens by trigger moods. 8 trigger moods prompt grit. 8 trigger moods prompt apathy.

Multiple Sclerosis: Neurologist and Brain Health

Neurologist and Brain Health

Neurologists are the enablers that make remodel possible. They help identify relapses, provide the means for remission (steroids) and prescribe DMTs to sustain modeling. They are the relapse-remission-remodel bookends in an MSer's story.

By necessity, neurologists are the outside-in viewer. When a doctor makes symptoms diagnosis, that is the art of clinical affinity modeling. My favorite  term I use to describe MS is a neurological complex trauma syndrome (CTS). By itself, trauma has four factors, injury, emotional challenges, social impact, and disability adapting.  A lesion is a wound that injures the complex interconnection of the body systems. Common speak from the outside-in view refers to MS as a disorder of the central nervous system. But as a CTS, the injury is one trauma's factors. While the lesion injuries the interconnected body systems, the wound multiples the complex trauma impact with emotional, social, and disability interconnections.

Everybody is an affinity modeler. For doctors, their clinical art is the craft of separating the cause from the effect and the determination of remedy. For an MSer, affinity models frame personal remedy.  Neuroplasticity remodels brain circuits. Affinity remodels the mind. Treatment and training merge to form the affinity models for remodeling MS's trauma.

I believe brain health is essential to being able to remodel. The next step is brain wellness, where the lessons from brain health become asset resources for remodeling. Brain health presents the tools and options for the biological life and safety of brain cells. Brain wellness implants thrive, and health models into the mind.

I think brian-mind a collection of different engines that operate thoughts. The discrimination engine sorts object thoughts,  the memory engine stores, and preserves thoughts, the threat engine escalates survival thoughts, the cognition engine synthesizes calculation thoughts, the activity engine stimulates movement thoughts. These engines and others provide the ability to thrive. The affinity engine receives thoughts, determines similarity, and forwards to other engines. Human affinity models are cognitive constructions of the mind for a similar purpose. For MS remodeling, the affinity models provide the mind, brain, body scripts to adapt trauma and install change.

MS changes the MSer's concept of self.  Fatigue and numbness are two MS symptoms that block environment connection.  The block is like a radiant gradient mesh filtering our kinesthetic sense limiting our ability to accurately know our positions and movements in the environment. Neurological treatments, therapy, and training provide the means to remodel the block. Brain health is a natural resource that sustains remodeling. 

The mind is constantly collecting affinity thoughts into empathy ideas for action. MS neurology trauma affects sense signals and mind interpreters.  Affinity is the reasoning to determine likeness. Our brain collects sense signals that the mind interpreters to thoughts.

MS is a complex trauma syndrome. Replacing the organic term brain-mind to be a more perceptual term, affinity space, enables a better means to understand MS's impact.   The MS lesion damages the affinity space by creating black holes that are the source of the trauma syndrome. The black hole ripple effect generates complex trauma starting the affinity space that radiates out into social and emotional space. to eventually become disability space. Once in the disability space, the will to thrive remodels affinity space to create new universes around the black hole.

Brain health is the gravity of the affinity space.

Engineering: Information Modeling ~: Pronouns - why do we care?

Pronouns - why do we care?

If you ever get a chance to work with a client to develop information models for the client's business, pronouns are watchwords that cannot be modeled as facts. However, pronouns do point to the facts and can be used to discover the facts. Pronouns do provide a view of the facts. "send them a bill" "when will it start"

Information modeling is an activity everybody does. From birth to death, our mind constructs information models of our personal world. Everybody's information model is unique. No other person has one's information model. The senses provide the gateway allowing world information to engage with the brain and mind.

Language is an expression of people's information models. Words are the seeds of thought.

The nine types of pronouns indicate the person's internal reference to something else.  It is a fact that pronouns identify something else. but not the actual fact to be modeled. From an information modeling perspective, pronouns are predicates that indicate some type of relationship.

The types of pronouns are types of relationships:

Subjective - Taking place within the mind.
Object - a material thing that can be seen and touched.
Possessive - demanding someone's total attention
Reflexive - directed or turned back on itself
Intensive - highly concentrated
Indefinite - designating an unidentified
Demonstrative - real or true
Relative -  connected with another
Archaic - something from an earlier period

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/List-of-pronouns.htm

List known pronouns
The Free Dictionary Blog > There are more than 100 pronouns.

A list of pronouns, plus definitions for each type of pronoun. Scroll to the end for a full pronouns list.

What is a pronoun?

Pronouns are some of the most useful words in the English language. They are used in the place of a noun to avoid it having to be named twice. For example, Suzy threw the boomerang and it came back to her. In this sentence, "it" is a pronoun that represents the boomerang, and "her" is a pronoun that refers to Suzy. Without pronouns, we'd have to say Suzy threw the boomerang and the boomerang came back to Suzy. Without pronouns, how would we even say "we"?

Here's the full definition.

Definition of Pronoun

In English, the part of speech used as a substitute for an antecedent noun that is clearly understood, and with which it agrees in person, number, and gender. Pronouns are classified as personal (I, we, you, he, she, it, they), demonstrative (this, these, that, those), relative (who, which, that, as), indefinite (each, all, everyone, either, one, both, any, such, somebody), interrogative (who, which, what), reflexive (myself, herself), possessive (mine, yours, his, hers, theirs). There are also pronominal adjectives, sometimes called possessive adjectives (my, your, his, her, our, their).

1. Personal Pronouns / Subject Pronouns

You already know subject pronouns, even if you didn't know that's what they were called. Subject pronouns are used to replace the subject in a sentence. You might also see them called "personal" pronouns, as they designate the person speaking (I, me, we, us), the person spoken to (you), or the person or thing spoken about (he, she, it, they, him, her, them). The following commonly used words are subject pronouns:

• I
• we
• you (singular and plural)
• he
• she
• it
• they

Personal pronoun examples

I will be leaving soon.

You are welcome.

She is the new teacher.

He speaks three languages.

They are very friendly neighbors.

2. Object Pronouns

Object pronouns are used as the object of a verb or a preposition.

• me
• us
• you (singular and plural)
• her
• him
• it
• them

Object pronoun examples

They offered me a ride. ("Me" is the object of the verb "offered.")

This letter is addressed to me. ("Me" is the object of the preposition "to.")

They gave us free tickets to the show. ("Us" is the object of the verb "gave.")

3. Possessive Pronouns

A possessive pronoun designates ownership and can substitute for noun phrases.

• mine
• ours
• yours (singular and plural)
• hers
• his
• theirs

Possessive pronoun examples

The green gloves are mine.

That cat is hers.

The red house is theirs.

Possessive Adjectives / Pronominal Adjectives

"Pronominal" describes something that resembles a pronoun, as by specifying a person, place, or thing, while functioning primarily as another part of speech. A pronominal adjective is an adjective that resembles a pronoun. "Her" in "her car" is a pronominal adjective.

• my
• our
• your
• her
• his
• their

4. Reflexive Pronouns

Reflexive pronouns might be the easiest group to remember because they all have one thing in common: the ending "self" or "selves." That's because reflexive pronouns show how the actions of an aforementioned person or group affects him or her (or them).

• myself
• yourself
• herself
• himself
• itself
• ourselves
• yourselves
• themselves

Reflexive pronoun examples

I bought myself a new car.

That man thinks a great deal of himself.

We may be deceiving ourselves.

5. Intensive Pronouns

Intensive and reflexive pronouns are actually the exact same words (ending with "self" or "selves"), but they function differently in a sentence. Intensive pronouns not only refer back to a previously mentioned person or people, but they also emphasize. As their name suggests, they intensify.

• myself
• yourself
• herself
• himself
• itself
• ourselves
• yourselves
• themselves

Intensive pronoun examples

I myself was certain of the facts.

The trouble is in the machine itself.

The cooks themselves eat after all the guests have finished.

6. Indefinite Pronouns

As the word "indefinite" suggests, these pronouns do not specify the identity of their referents. They are more vague than other pronouns.

• all
• another
• any
• anybody
• anyone
• anything
• both
• each
• either
• everybody
• everyone
• everything
• few
• many
• most
• neither
• nobody
• none
• no one
• nothing
• one
• other
• others
• several
• some
• somebody
• someone
• something
• such

Indefinite pronouns examples

Both were candidates.

No one is home.

Several of the workers went home sick.

7. Demonstrative Pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns specify a particular person or thing.

• such
• that
• these
• this
• those

Demonstrative pronouns examples

I don't much care for these.

Who's that?

Such are the fortunes of war.

8. Interrogative Pronouns

This group of pronouns question which individual referent or referents are intended by the rest of the sentence.

• what
• whatever
• which
• whichever
• who
• whoever
• whom
• whomever
• whose

Interrogative pronoun examples

Who left?

Which of these is yours?

Do whatever you please.

9. Relative Pronouns

Relative pronouns introduce a dependent clause and refer to an antecedent (simply the word or phrase to which a pronoun refers). For instance, who in the child who is wearing a hat or that in the house that you live in.

• as
• that
• what
• whatever
• which
• whichever
• who
• whoever
• whom
• whomever
• whose

Relative pronoun examples

The car that has a flat tire needs to be towed.

The visitor who came yesterday left his phone number.

Do whatever you like.

10. Archaic Pronouns

There are several pronouns that have fallen out of common usage but appear frequently in older texts, so there is still a good chance that you will encounter them. "Thee" is an old word for "you" used only when addressing one person, while "thy" is an old word for "your." "Thine" indicates the one or ones belonging to thee.

• thou
• thee
• thy
• thine
• ye

Archaic pronoun examples

Thou shalt not kill.

With this ring, I thee wed.

Thy name is more hateful than thy face.

To thine own self be true.

List of all pronouns

A full list of every word that can be considered a pronoun or pronominal adjective:

• all
• another
• any
• anybody
• anyone
• anything
• as
• aught
• both
• each
• each other
• either
• enough
• everybody
• everyone
• everything
• few
• he
• her
• hers
• herself
• him
• himself
• his
• I
• idem
• it
• its
• itself
• many
• me
• mine
• most
• my
• myself
• naught
• neither
• no one
• nobody
• none
• nothing
• nought
• one
• one another
• other
• others
• ought
• our
• ours
• ourself
• ourselves
• several
• she
• some
• somebody
• someone
• something
• somewhat
• such
• suchlike
• that
• thee
• their
• theirs
• theirself
• theirselves
• them
• themself
• themselves
• there
• these
• they
• thine
• this
• those
• thou
• thy
• thyself
• us
• we
• what
• whatever
• whatnot
• whatsoever
• whence
• where
• whereby
• wherefrom
• wherein
• whereinto
• whereof
• whereon
• wherever
• wheresoever
• whereto
• whereunto
• wherewith
• wherewithal
• whether
• which
• whichever
• whichsoever
• who
• whoever
• whom
• whomever
• whomso
• whomsoever
• whose
• whosever
• whosesoever
• whoso
• whosoever
• ye
• yon
• yonder
• you
• your
• yours
• yourself
• yourselves

Psychology: Grief Experience Source

Grief Experience Source

I used to think external events cause stress and anxiety as an artifact of a grief experience. Psychologist believe a person can self-produce stress and anxiety. If stress and anxiety are artifacts for grief, perhaps grief can be self-produced.

The grief experience table shows four sources of grief.

Grief Experience	Cause by Self	Cause by Others
Known to self	Internal	Loss
Unknown to Self	Illness	External

In the table, illness, external trauma and loss are within the scope of normal grief experience triggers. The notion that oneself can knowingly create an internal grief experience suggests grief behaviors like anxiety and stress can be self-induced. As a mental experiment, replacing the word grief in the top-left cell with either anxiety or stress, the words in the cells seem to be just as valid as for grief.

Reference:

Anxiety

Stress

Johari window dimensions:

Johari Relationships	Known to self	Unknown to Self
Known to others	Open	Blind Spot
Unknown to others	Hidden	Unknown to  All

Multiple Scleroses: Inside-Out Introduction

Inside-Out Introduction

The theme for my study on multiple sclerosis is "MS From the Inside Out."   The work started out as a way to look at MS from a different perspective. The basic theme is the trauma of MS. A few years ago, I visited a hospital and noted a sign that read "Trauma Center." Intuitively I knew the reference, but for some reason, the name nagged at me.The word trauma provokes visions of a TV ER with gurneys, blood, and madness. I decided to find a better explanation. At last, I found that the classical use of trauma means not only the injury but it also includes social and emotional impacts. For a person with a long-term injury, I added disability as an impact area. These 4 impact areas, injury, social, emotional and disability frame my MS study.

Over time , my career in engineering and computers developed my skill over for information modeling. In my early 30’s I was a manager for a group of engineers and programmers. I was having a devil of a time communicating with staff about job assignments and work activity. A friend suggested I see a psychologist. Skeptical, I made an appointment. I explained the situation to the therapist. After about 20 minutes, the psychologist said you are fine, you just need some more tools. She handed me a book called “Frogs into Princes” saying “Read the first 100 pages. Come back if you have more questions.” I never went back. The book was about neural linguistic programming (NLP).  For me, those 100 pages opened the door to information modeling and enabled many career advancements.

As humans, our brains store unique abstract information models of reality. These models are complex integrations of learned experiences biased by physical constraints, social norms, environmental limits and subjective discrimination.   From the "inside-out" is a statement specific to my information models.  When doing information modeling, sometimes new and unexpected perspectives emerge. The Blog has a few topics I find interesting.  My study includes impact models for injury, social and emotional areas.  A common theme in many of the models relates to the injury model.

Because MS affects the central nervous system resulting from loss of myelin around the nerve fiber's axons, the effect is loss of quality-of-life. Over time the intervals of immune system attacks remove axon myelin. When the attack occurs, the biological wound results in inflammation then eventually scarring and disability. The clinical name for the process is a relapse, an attack, and remitting, interval between relapses.  However, as a person living with MS, the clinical explanation omits an important consideration of living with neurological damage. When an MSer experiences an attack, we go to the neurologist to confirm the relapse. If the experience is an attack, the treatment is an infusion of then steroids to promote remission. My model changes the clinical model from the relapse/remittance to an event model relapse/remission/remodel where remodel is the period between relapses. This definition of remodeling became a common thread in my MS study.

Remodeling occurs constantly in life's events. I consider reframing and reshaping as two general categories of remodeling. Reframing usually refers to modifying the psychological impact and reshaping usually refers to adapting to the physical impact.  Generally reframing and reshaping are codependent changes acting as twisted wires bonding the new model.  

Consider a common life event of getting up from a chair, walk across the room and out the door.  A microscopic analysis could demonstrate millions of coordinated model events occurring in the event's processes. Fortunately, remodeling can be effectively recruited by common practice.

Engineering: Test for Completeness and Goals

Test for Completeness and Goals

Contonx: Mind-It Training Log

Contonix Mind-It Training Log