Many modern scientists are convinced that the rhythm of life processes is similar to natural cycles. There is a whole science that studies them - biorhythmology. Today she comes to the aid of medicine, psychology, and forensic science. They cannot do without biorhythmology in sports and even in aviation.
Three cycles
Scientists have found that human life is subject to three cyclical processes called biorhythms.
Physical biorhythm characterizes the vitality of a person, that is, his physical condition, energy, endurance. The frequency of the rhythm is 23 days. Emotional biorhythm, equal to 28 days, characterizes the state of the nervous system, mood. The intellectual cycle determines the mental capabilities, the ability to process information. Its cyclicality is 33 days.
In each of the three cycles, the first half is favorable for a person, the second is unfavorable. The most critical days are the period of transition from plus to minus.
Critical moments
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Representatives of the most prestigious research institutes in the world are working on solving biorhythmology problems. The Japanese scientist, head of the biorhythmology laboratory of the Center for Biorhythmology from Hokkaido Prefecture, Hominiko Tatai, studied this issue especially deeply.
He proposed a mini-computer for determining biorhythms, and this device is now being sold in many countries. It is enough to enter the number and year of birth - and the program displays ready-made schedules of human biorhythms by day.
The famous St. Petersburg biorhythmologist, candidate of pedagogical sciences, employee of the Lesgaft University of Physical Culture, Sports and Health Valentina Shaposhnikova conducted a serious study.
Its results showed that military pilots made the greatest number of errors on simulators during the period when all three biorhythms were in the negative phase.
A similar picture was observed in the study of 288 cases of sudden death from hypertension. Studies by other scientists show that on the day of death or on the eve of Anna Akhmatova, Vladimir Lenin, Dmitry Mendeleev, Anton Chekhov, biorhythms were at a critical point.
And a researcher from the Kuban State Medical University, Nikolai Bilenko, together with his student Yuri Dragun, compared the dates of birth of geniuses and criminals with the phases of the moon and came to amazing conclusions: such people are most often born either on a full moon or on days close to a new moon.
The list of the names of the "moon children" is impressive. Pushkin, Lermontov, Tolstoy, Roerich, Blok, Mozart, Bach, Einstein; Chikatilo, Nero, Napoleon. According to Bilenko, geniuses and villains have something in common - the excitability of the nervous system and obsession.
Achievements of athletes
The author of several books about human biorhythms, Shaposhnikova, has collected a whole set of statistics on the example of forest-haft athletes. She concluded that one cannot demand daily records from an athlete, since this is closely related to their biorhythms. She conducted a study of the biorhythms of athletes, analyzing eight thousand cases.
The study of the long-term dynamics of sports results of highly qualified athletes allowed her to discover a new pattern: two-year biological rhythms in women and three-year ones - in men. That is why men achieved high sports results two years after the start of training, and women faster - after a year.
About owls and larks
It is proved that the functional state of a person changes during the day. The greatest working capacity in humans is observed from 10 to 12 hours and from 15 to 18 hours.
American experts have determined the time of day at which severe drowsiness sets in: 9 am, 13-14 hours, 17 hours and 21 hours. During these periods, a person can make mistakes, his attention weakens.
In addition, there are people of the morning type - larks, daytime - pigeons and evening - owls. It has been found that owls make 1.5 times more mistakes in attention tests than larks in the morning hours, and vice versa in the evening.
In Western countries, people of the evening chronotype are selected to work at night at critical facilities (nuclear power plants, hospitals, and so on). They make mistakes less often, and they are less susceptible to exacerbation of cardiovascular and gastrointestinal diseases during night shifts.
Rhythmic inspiration
No less interesting data are obtained by scientists when studying the biorhythms of poets and writers. For example, Irina Volkova, a computer science teacher at school 2170 from Yekaterinburg, analyzed Anna Akhmatova's biorhythms during the Open Lesson festival of pedagogical ideas at the time of writing the poem “The swarthy youth wandered through the alleys …” and made the following conclusions.
The author's emotional biorhythm was at its peak, the poem felt harmony with the surrounding nature, light sadness and admiration. Intellectual biorhythm is also at its peak, there is a feeling that the poem was written in a single breath, as if the poetess walked and just reasoned in poetry, maybe that's why there is an exact date of its creation. Physical biorhythm is favorable, a person is in harmony with himself, he is not disturbed by physical ailments. The poem does not refute this judgment.
History has preserved for us many examples of different rhythms of performance: Balzac often worked all night long. Mozart worked day and night, and wrote the famous overture to the opera Don Giovanni in one night, without going to bed. The great chemist Mendeleev and other scientists worked at night. And Napoleon began his working day at 3-4 in the morning. In the morning hours, Brecht preferred to create. Leo Tolstoy usually worked from 9-10 to 14-14: 30 and 1-1.5 hours in the evening.
Biorhythmology and Forensics
Researchers Nikolai Kitaev and Valentina Shaposhnikova, having calculated the phases of the biorhythms of sexual maniacs, found that the greatest number of murders and rapes was committed when all three biorhythms of maniacs were in a negative phase, and the smallest when all three were in a positive one. These results led to the conclusion that at a certain moment the mental state of the offender changes and he ceases to control his actions.
The well-known forensic scientist Nikolai Kitaev, while working as a senior investigator for especially important cases of the Prosecutor's Office of the Irkutsk Region, while investigating the high-profile case of a serial killer, an ambulance station doctor Vasily Kulik, drew attention to the fact that the accused committed sadistic murders either on the full moon or on the new moon.
Why these days? According to the American psychiatrist Leonard Ravitz from the College of Wilhelm and Mary (Virginia, USA), "The moon does not directly determine human behavior, but by changing the ratio of the electromagnetic forces of the universe, it can cause catastrophic manifestations in unbalanced people."
The case of the Irkutsk maniac Kulik, who killed children and elderly patients, was very complicated. Valentina Shaposhnikova, with the help of the Japanese researcher Tatai, calculated the biological rhythms of the maniac and said that he would be most talkative in mid-June. The investigator summoned Kulik for questioning on the day indicated by the expert, and he, who had previously refused everything, broke down - he confessed to committing crimes and named a number of other episodes.
Biorhythms and stress
By the way, the same scientists made interesting studies of the biorhythms of famous people from the times of the USSR. They found that biorhythms determine human behavior. Arrest is a stressful situation, and if biorhythms are also in a negative phase, then the person quickly admits his guilt. So, Vladimir Kryuchkov, a member of the State Emergency Committee, the chairman of the KGB of the USSR, after his arrest at the Vnukovo-2 airport was in a very depressed mood.
The next day, during interrogation using video recording, he pleaded guilty, and later sent letters of repentance to the President of the USSR, the President of the RSFSR and the new chairman of the KGB of the USSR. Shaposhnikova calculated Kryuchkov's biorhythms, and it turned out that two of his three biorhythms were in a negative phase. Kryuchkov was one of the "ideological inspirers" and informal leaders of the GKChP. Nevertheless, he never gave the order for KGB units to actively act against Boris Yeltsin and other political opponents.
Interesting is the study of biorhythms in the case of Colonel General of Militia, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the USSR Yuri Churbanov, son-in-law of Leonid Brezhnev. He was arrested on January 14, 1987 on suspicion of corruption in the so-called "Uzbek case" and expelled from the ranks of the CPSU, in which he was a member for about 25 years.
This is how Churbanov described his condition in the first days of being in custody: “Fatigue, painful condition, complete detachment, terrible depression followed me on January 15, 1987 too. The daily, exhausting, hours-long interrogations began. And here I again could not say anything intelligible, I limply confirmed everything that Gdlyan and Ivanov had said. And then, under their dictation, he wrote it all down almost automatically on paper. I could not control my behavior and could not pull myself together."
Subsequently, in his book, Churbanov wrote: "After interrogations carried out with the use of psychological pressure, I only from January 14 to 22, 1987, that is, in the first days after the arrest, slandered - not without the help of Gdlyan and Ivanov - over one hundred and twenty people."
How did it happen that the deputy minister suddenly "incriminated" himself and others under the "psychological influence" of the investigators of the USSR Prosecutor General's Office? Everything explains Shaposhnikova's calculations: since January 14, Churbanov had two biorhythms in a negative phase, and since January 19, all three. The sudden arrest exacerbated the oppressive factors, which led to a confession of guilt.
Lyubov GABEEVA