Weakness in August and Biorhythm
Are biorhythms really true?
In the 70’s biorhythm became popular. More big manufacturing companies used them to improve the performance of their workers by charting their physical and mental “highs”. Airline companies used them to avoid plane crashes by grounding their pilots who are “low” on their biorhythm scales.
Some people do not believe in biorhythm. To them, it’s sheer nonsense, and if ever it does come true, it’s just pure coincidence.
Coincidence or truth, the fact remains that more people believe in biorhythm. Psychologists and psychiatrists endorse it, and more business companies are using it.
More people have not known what biorhythm is. Some have not even come across that word. Others have known it but are silent for fear of being taunted as ignorant or superstitious.
I am a believer of almost everything — events, conditions — for the simple reason that they do exist. Even superstitious beliefs become true when you believe it. And biorhythm is not superstition or quackery. We do have a biological clock inherent in us that governs all our body functions. Modern science call it chronobiology.
I had a bad experience that could be related to the “high” and “low” of my biorhythm. I began to notice it when I was in 3rd grade. My father had just died on July 23 of that year. My mother could not afford to send us to school, so I was not able to enroll. My uncle, my father’s brother, enrolled me eventually, but it was in August already — two months late from the start of classes.
I can still remember how I was embarrassed one afternoon on the 3rd week of August during our Arithmetic class. My teacher asked me a question and I could not answer it. Instead I rubbed my nose, and when the teacher asked another question, I rubbed my nose again. All my classmates laughed and I was so embarrassed and ashamed standing uncomfortably that I was more unable to answer my teacher’s questions.
Not that I didn’t know the answers. The previous April that year, I was awarded First Honors in our class. I declaimed the whole 14 stanzas of Dr. Jose Rizal’s “Mi Ultimo Adios” translated in Visayan dialect during our closing exercises that April, and the old folks wondered how a lad like me memorized and declaimed it completely without errors.
I was wondering then why it happened. Now I know that it was simply a “low” in my biorhythm. And ever since I’ve learned about biorhythm, I noticed the precise regularity of my “ups” and “downs” in life. and all months of August bring me mental blocks, depressions, illnesses, accidents, failures, etc. It seems all three phases of my biorhythm — physical, intellectual, and emotional — converge at the lowest point in the bio rhythmic scale during the second and third week of August.