ALL REHAB CENTERS PDPM= MASSIVE LAYOFFS FOR THERAPIST AND VERY LIMITED THERAPY FOR PATIENTS ON MEDICARE.AND AT LEAST 40% DECREASED REIMBURSEMENT FOR SKILLED SERVICES, WILL CRUSH THE INDUSTRY

Regarding the up-coming PDPM payment driven payment method system begins October 1, 2019 Beginning 10/1/2019 If you or your loved one are going to a skilled rehabilitation nursing center for rehab and utilizing Medicare benefits, you must read this article. First and foremost, it’s Important for you to know that after leaving the hospital and before you arrive in rehab how much rehabilitation and therapy you will get is predetermined and severely limited by your federal government regardless of your rehabilitation needs or your health status. The new PDPM systems goal is to shorten the rehabilitation length of stay and decrease reimbursement cost for therapies. PDPM will achieve this by limiting your access to therapies in skilled rehab centers and by limiting how long you stay in a rehab center. This will be achieved by decreasing reimbursement for skilled rehabilitation making therapies a financial liability for the rehab centers providing them. In other words, they plan to take away much of the therapy that patients had received in the past utilizing their Medicare benefits under the PPS payment system. For example, with the new PDPM system your length of stay will be based on diagnosis codes that have end dates for reimbursement concerning rehab services. The projections for length of stay and reimbursement for rehab services are predetermined by PDPM. Notable for neurological pathologies such as stroke, CVA’s and head injuries PDPM projects a super low length of stay averaging just 14 days to recover. Additionally, the reimbursement to the rehab centers will decrease rapidly within the projected stay and will not change regardless of your therapy needs. For example, if you’re in need of 3 hours of therapy daily or just 30 minutes the payment is the same and continues to decrease within the length of stay making it financially impossible to provide the same level of therapy on day five as compared to one. Moreover, PDPM facilitates the patient’s early discharge home without considering current health conditions or functional mobility. Of course, this will place the rehab facility in severe financial distress. Moreover, some facilities are predicting the financial impact on the rehab center to be devastating with a greater than 40 % decrease in reimbursement for therapies provided after PDPM begins as compared to the current system called Medicare PPS that reimburses for therapies as they are provided on a continuum while at a skilled rehab center. This system was designed with the patient’s health status and therapeutic needs driving the reimbursement. Why PDPM ? Why are they doing this? Certainly not to improve your quality of care, but of course to save money! What is the problem with that? First of all, limiting your length of stay and reimbursement will certainly have a negative impact on your health your rehab and your recovery process. More importantly there is no system that can accurately predict how long it will take for you to recover from any diagnosis accurately. There are just too many other factors affecting your health and rehabilitation process. Moreover, some of the factors that cannot be predetermined accurately by PDPM is the patient’s current state of health at time of diagnosis, psychological, psychosocial, mental and emotional condition, unknown and known diagnosis, living conditions at home, and intellectual status. These factors all assist your health care team in determining when a patient’s health, functional mobility and physical safety have improved enough for their safe discharge home. For your health care team this is an ongoing process and is reassessed daily throughout the patient’s entire length of stay in the rehab center. This level of care cannot possibly be predicted or predetermined using an ICD10 code at time of illness. This PDPM system cannot be in the best interest of the patient their health or wellbeing. For example; the average stroke patient with weakness on one side or inability to move their arm/leg or trunk on one side of their body will take significantly more hours of skilled rehab to recover than the PDPM predetermined average of just 14 days. Stroke recovery is complicated and will require experienced therapist and specific rehab equipment that can only be provided in the rehab center. In other words, cannot be realistically achieved in your home without the much needed, therapeutic equipment and the limited allotted time home care therapy provides. This will drastically decrease the patient’s opportunity for rehab. Additionally, many of you will be forced to take your loved ones right back to the emergency room shortly after arriving home from the rehabilitation center. This will cost more money, extend care and will end up causing falls, broken bones and other related unnecessary health risk. This is a bad system first and foremost for the patient but for the loved ones as well. This will culminate into a poor quality of health care for all Medicare patients and is an unsafe high-risk health care practice. Moreover, PDPM will actually increase the overall cost of health care, extend patient recovery times, and cause multiple unnecessary readmission back to the hospital. Furthermore, putting your independence and your health at risk even though you’ve spent your entire life paying for the use of Medicare and the benefits of health care when you are of age. A similar ICD10 coding system for reimbursement and length of stay has been used in hospital for years. Which is why they mistakenly think it will work in the subacute rehab centers. Why won’t it work in rehab centers? First of all, hospitals by in a large do not practice skilled rehabilitation in any meaningful way. In fact, if the patient needs extended rehab the hospitals send the patient to the skilled rehabilitation center. Why do they send the patients to rehabilitation centers? This is done so the patient can achieve increased functional mobility and return home safely with a decreased risk for falls and other associated health risk. Moreover, it is it cost effective. The rehabilitation centers cost 90% less per night for a rehab bed as opposed to one night in a hospital bed. Why can the hospitals stay open and function under the ICD10 coding predetermined length of stay and reimbursement system and why won’t rehab centers be able to? Simply put because when it’s getting close to the predicted length of stay and the end of reimbursement for their services, they simply send the patients that need extended care to rehab centers. Therefore, if the patient cannot be safely discharged home they have a safe place to send them. The rehab center has only two choices. One is to send them home before the rehab process which is complete unsafely. The second choice is to continue rehab and absorb the enormous cost of the patient’s rehabilitation without adequate reimbursement which will surely put the rehab facilities out of business. There are no good choices for the patient or rehab center concerning the PDPM new payment system. Traditionally with the PPS payment system continued therapies have been based on the patients, current health status, cognition, emotional state, number of diagnoses, known and unknown, psychosocial status, current functional mobility, and current living condition. Using any other criteria as the PDPM system will result in sending the patient home to early and a quick readmission back to the hospital emergency room. The rehabilitation process is a complicated and requires communication and the effort of all parties involved from the caregivers such as doctors, nurses, therapist’s, family, friends, medical vendors and more, to ascertain when a patient is ready to safely return home. Which is the primary reason why PDPM will be disastrous for the patient’s health and rehabilitation. Here is why you will receive little to no rehab once PDPM arrives next year. This is the way PDPM will work! The hospital will provide a diagnosis code upon being discharged and admitted to a subacute nursing home. This process will etch in stone your length of stay and the amount of reimbursement that Medicare will provide for your recovery. This is true, regardless of your health status or actual therapy needs during your rehab process. In conclusion, simply put the rehab facility will not be able to provide an adequate amount of therapies for the patient to recover because of the financial restraints and predetermined projected length of stay for rehabilitation. The rehab center will have to provide therapy at a huge financial loss the way the PDPM is currently setup. This system will place physical, occupational and speech therapy in the expense category. In fact, therapies will become such a liability to the rehab center that therapies will have to be limited if the rehab center is to stay open. This is what ensures that the new PDPM federal government guide lines will be followed. In other words, they are removing any and all financial incentive to keeping the patient any longer than the ICD10 projected or predetermined stay dictates. The rehab facility will have no choice but to comply with the new PDPM system. They will have to be discharged home under the PDPM guide lines safely or not? At the risk of stating the obvious the bureaucrats believe that they can limit and take much of your rehab process and therapies away with this PDPM system and they will. This PDPM will begin on 10 /01/2019. We as therapist and patients should not let them go forward without having our voices heard. David J Bragga / Director of Rehab

his story is about man’s greatest friend ever! Many years ago about 14, I was the proud owner of a Labrador retriever named Casey. However she had a terrible disease known as diabetics since she was one year old. So as fate would have it she had a stroke at the age of twelve. On this night I came home to my hysterical 4 year old son John. He informed me that something was wrong with our dog and mom had put her in the cellar. So of course I rushed down to see what had happened. I knew instantly that she had a bad stroke and she was going to pass away. So I sent my son up stairs got a comfortable blanket for my dog a milk create for myself to sit on and waited with Casey to comfort her. Casey lie beside my milk crate with me for hours and at 4:00AM that morning crawled over to me, up onto my lap, turned her head into my arms, licked me and passed while I was holding her at that exact moment. To me, she was saying goodbye forever. This was the sadist moment I had ever been through in my life. My son missed his dog a lot and kept asking me week after week to go to the animal shelter and pick out another with him. However, I was not emotionally ready. Nevertheless, after much persistence he convinced me to go. On Saturday morning John and I drove to the animal shelter and did a walk through where they kept all the dogs. In the first kennel we saw a Labrador retriever identical to the one we had. John yelled out that he wanted that dog and the women in charge rushed over to help us. She let John know that the yellow sticker on the kennel meant the dog was already adopted but if it fell through that we could possibly try at a later date to adopt this dog. Of course John was anxious to get a dog so we moved on although we couldn’t find any dogs that John or I connected with. However, on our way out the door I noticed a big dog that was barking and growling at me. He was over 100 pounds and looked terrifying. In fact he made John and I nervous standing close to his Kennel. So I asked the women why this big dog that appeared at least 2 years old was still there. (I thought to myself who would ever consider adopting this dog). She made the comment that he was a good dog but was there a really long time and that this was his way of telling me to take him home. She went on to say how this dog had been abandoned when he was 6 months old and left at a gas station in town. However, the gas station could not keep him and that’s how he ended up at the pound. She said he was so cute and well behaved that they kept him all this time. As I began to walk away toward the door to exit she uttered the words “too bad about that dog”. She got my attention, and I asked what it was that she meant by saying this. She went on to say that this dog, (Gus she called him) was going to be put to sleep in the morning. This information surprised me so I turned and walked back to the kennel. And so it was that he was sitting there peaceful with puppy dog eyes that seemed as if they were begging me to take him home. I called John over to the kennel and for that one moment in time the dog they called Gus, both John and I knew was asking us to take him home. For John and me, it was clear that we had to give Gus a chance to live. We asked the women if we could take the dog for a walk in the woods behind the facility. She said yes and we could have him for about 4 hours and then had to bring him back. We took Gus on a long nature walk through the woods and all the way around to our house were we gave him some food to eat. John played and wrestled with him like he used to with Casey. Immediately I knew that Gus was a perfect fit for John and me. Gus was so well behaved and was so excited to be with us he seemed to glow with happiness. And John and I were just as excited and happy to have him too. John and I walked Gus back to the animal shelter and told the women to take the name plate off Gus’s kennel and put the name lucky up as we were adopting him and he was not going to be put to sleep the next morning. She was as happy about it as we were. About one week later after Lucky went to the veterinarian and had the necessary vaccinations we took him home. Lucky turned out to be the greatest friend John and I could have ever hoped for. He was a great protect dog for the house and was very protective of John. However, Lucky had one problem he could not stand to be in the 20’ by 20’ kennel that belonged to Casey. I believe that is stemmed from being at the shelter so long he just did not want to be in small kennels anymore. He would become just as upset when I took him across the street for grooming, as they utilized small kennels in between grooming dogs as well. Therefore, we couldn’t use Casey’s old kennel, but Lucky and I got lucky! A short time after Lucky began living with us our neighbor down the road was removing his 6’ high chain link fence from his yard so we stopped and asked what he had planned on doing with the fence once he took it down. He said he was going to take it to the dump but said if I wanted it, that I could have it. I told him I wanted it and loaded it into my pickup truck. Over the next few days I built Lucky a huge 500’ Square foot kennel with the chain link fence. In this new kennel lucky thrived, no barking, no anxiety and seemed happy as he never tried to get out of it during the 14 years that he occupied it. He loved his summers there! He built himself a soft mound in line with the sun and would sun bath for hours daily. Oddly enough he would maintain his mound frequently, it seemed like he had a bit of engineering skill in his blood. This became his favorite spot to lie during spring, summer and fall days. He had other unique habits too. I would put his favorite blankets and bones and stuff like that in a spare cloths basket in my room when he wasn’t using them. However, at night before bed he would go to these baskets for his favorite blankets and pillows and remove them for bedding, additionally taking clothing out of my cloths baskets as well. He would put them on the floor constructing a nice soft and usually round bed to lie on as opposed to my hard wood floors. I once told a friend about his nightly habits and bed rituals. He did not believe me. However, one night he was over watching TV with me and heard some ruckus in my bedroom. I told him it was Lucky getting ready for bed. He looked at me like I was crazy. He went to my bedroom door and watched Lucky preparing for bed. He accused me of teaching Lucky this, but the truth is I never did, he just began this ritual on his own. From the beginning he was unlike other dogs, he liked eating carrots, apples, and all kinds of fruits and veggies daily. He liked long rides in the car and wrestling with John and I daily. He would look over the house every night checking John’s room first and then the living room. Finally making his way into my room to get ready for bed, where he would sleep alongside me; in his own make shift bed. He did this without breaking habit for 14 straight years. He would only bark when someone came to the door he didn’t know but immediately after he figured out that they were no threat to us he would calm down to a tail wag. Lucky was heaven sent for John and they became best of friends over the years. In 14 years Lucky’s loyalty to his home and family never wavered. On Saturday April 7, 2012 Lucky got up happy as ever, ate went out to his pen on a beautiful spring morning at the age of 16. He curled up around his cool mound like he always had and passed away. When we found him John and I were devastated. The feeling, the pain, the hurt I felt when I found my friend Lucky had past cannot be explained in words. I began to think later If John had not goaded me into going to look for a new dog on that day at that exact time, Lucky would have been put to sleep that next morning. John and I would not have had 14 wonderful years with him. I believe that I was blessed to have been so fortunate to be at the shelter on that day at the perfect time to rescue Lucky. Maybe it says something about fate or grand design after all. Altogether, all I do know is that all dogs are distinct they have unique personalities and sprits like our own, and likewise that Lucky was very special. In the end, I wanted to honor and pay tribute to him. So I gave him a proper burial under the mound that he had made, in line with the sun that he laid under for 14 years. I could not think of a better end for him to remain in the spot that he loved and close to his family that he had been so loyal to for so many years. 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Exporing all the bills hurried through during the so called lame duck session

Concerning all the bills the so called lame duck session jammed through along with Obama.

As soon as Barack Obama took office he closed Guantanamo Bay Cuba. For what reason would your president do this, you may ask? Well it wasn’t because he had the facilities for the dangerous inmates to go to in American. It certainly wasn’t the right thing to do given the circumstances regarding the risk involved in transporting war criminals or the risk of maintaining them in a facility in America. I think everyone can agree it’s a huge risk to just shut this facility with no place to put the inmates. Moreover, this is all part of the historical record over the last two years. This begs the question why did our president Barack Obama abruptly shut down Guantanamo bay in Cuba? The answer is partly that he is just is playing to his base, the left wing party but the bigger picture is that he is a pathological narcissist. At the end of the day he wants his name in print. He wants it to say that he Barack Obama the leader of the free world closed the Guantanamo Bay. Therefore, Proof that the Bush era is over. Furthermore, that he Barack Obama has taken over and that Barack Obama is righteous, ethical and a better leader than all that came before him. Unfortunately he’s just not as intelligent as he is a narcissist. Therein are the deceptions and the reason he would take an action without any vision or forethought. This is his ignorance and his down fall that I’m sure he will be famous for when history remembers him.

Moreover, once settled into office he began pushing more of his socialized agenda. Barack Obama and his administration focused on putting through and getting passed the monstrosity that they call the Healthcare Bill. This was paramount being done quickly while the Democrats held the majority in the House and Senate. The administration knew they could not jam it through quickly without it being scrutinize unless they maintained complete control of both Houses. This is a 2000 page plus bill with all kinds of attachments that I’m sure Barack Obama and the entire Congress or Senate did not read completely nor understand in its entirety, but then again passed it anyway. Barack Obama rushed this through recklessly without regard. Even though he knows the possibility of the enormous negative impact that this bill could potentially have on America. Likewise, he did this without giving this bill adequate time to be analyzed by both Republican’s Democrats and experts alike. Barack Obama knew that there was not enough time to learn or understand this bill completely in the timeframe that he was pushing for and that was his goal. Barack Obama does know for this bill to be successful and done appropriately it would take years to adequately research from top to bottom. However, this was not his goal his goal was to simply push this Healthcare bill through while he could any form of it at all for his giant ego as well as his political ambitions. We all know this bill should have been examined by Congress, Senate, and every expert that this administration could find for discovery over an extended period of time but it wasn’t’. Barack Obama knows this bill should have been written and rewritten meticulously over a period of years but it wasn’t. Even more so, thoroughly studied over a long period of time with the supported and valuable parts of the Healthcare bill being implemented incrementally to ensure no disturbance in our excellent existing Healthcare programs and for economic impact as well but it wasn’t. However, of course history will report that he did not do the responsible and logical study of this Healthcare bill. In fact at the end of the day he and his administration with the help of Democratic congress and Senate did the complete opposite. They pushed this bill through so quickly that no one in America including the Congress, the Senators, the so called experts or Barack Obama himself can honestly say that they know all of what this bill contains. Furthermore this is yet another example of this administration acting childlike without vision or forethought or considering the consequences of their decisions. All for the glory of saying I did it! I Barack Obama passed the first socialized fair Healthcare bill in America! Look at me! I’m great, I’m Barack Obama, did you get a copy of my book yet?



How can a bill like S.T.A.R.T strengthen the security of our country? First of all the so called cold war with Russia is over! Furthermore, Russia is far from the only nuclear armed county we need to worry about. In addition, decreasing our nuclear head capability as well as our launching capability on word from Russia that it will do the same is not responsible to the safety and security of our country. Moreover, it’s not even logical given the history of Russian behavior. Even more important, is reducing nuclear capability just for Russian interest is foolishness. What about countries like China, Iran, and all the rest of the world that has or may have nuclear capability in the near or distance future? How can this be considered a conservative idea? Answer, it's not, it’s a very liberal idea. Moreover Russia is involved in the sales and aiding in the building of nuclear capability in Iran and other countries that is not in the best interest of United States security. I think a reality check is in our best interest regarding the belief that Russia will follow through in any arms agreement that they participate in with any country. Furthermore, even if Russia did honor this agreement with America, how does this make us any safer or notably militarily stronger regarding the rest of the world? In fact it will to serve to make us appear militarily weaker and so we would be. Moreover, this behavior will invite the rest the world to reconsider America’s super power status. So, tell me again, how this is a good idea? If you or anyone else think you can improve on the predictability of a communist country well let’s just say this sounds like action in the absence of vision which is the definition of ignorance. Russia continues to be a communist country with limited free speech and press so for one to believe in their agreements is naïve gullible and even more so foolish. Furthermore, I believe that any one that pretends that there is some validity in this bill regarding the Russian agreement is being not only disingenuous to America but too themselves as well.
Thad Cochran, Mississippi
Bob Corker, Tennessee
Mike Crapo, Idaho
To*9m Coburn, Oklahoma3)
Lamar Alexander, Tennessee
Johnny Isakson, Georgia

Action in the absense of vision is the definition of ingnorance

Senator, how can supporting a bill like S.T.A.R.T strengthen the security of our country. First of all the so called cold war with Russia is over! Furthermore, Russia is far from the only nuclear armed county we need to worry about. In addition, decreasing our nuclear head capability as well as our launching capability on word from Russia that it will do the same is not responsible to the safety and security of our country. Moreover, it’s not even logical given the history of Russian behavior. Even more important is reducing nuclear capability just for Russian interest is foolishness. What about countries like China, Iran, and all the rest of the world that has or may have nuclear capability in the near or distance future? How can this be considered a conservative idea? Answer it's not it’s a very liberal idea. Moreover Russia is involved in the sales and aiding in the building of nuclear capability in Iran and other countries that is not in the best interest of United States security. I think a reality check is in our best interest regarding the belief that Russia will follow through in any arms agreement that they participate in with any country. Furthermore, even if Russia did honor this agreement with America how does this make us any safer or notably militarily stronger regarding the rest of the world? In fact it will to serve to make us appear militarily weaker and so we would be. Moreover, this behavior will invite the rest the world to reconsider America’s super power status. So, tell me again how is this a good idea? If you or anyone else think you can improve on the predictability of a communist country well let’s just say this sounds like action in the absence of vision which is the definition of ignorance. The Russian country continues to be a communist country with limited free speech and press so for one to believe in their agreements is naive.

How can amnesty / Dream Act help the american economy now?

This so called Dream act / amnesty holds no value for the Unites States of America in anyway. Nether will it strengthen our already weakening and ailing economy. In fact it will serve to weaken our economy even more. This will happen partially because of the huge amounts of unskilled labor flooding into America. This will occur in an already hurting job market with some 10% unemployment already collecting unemployment going on year three. A huge increase in the numbers applying for and receiving monies from our government ran social programs. This will take place regardless of our already over-burdened Medicaid and social ran government give away programs. In fact, it will occur but unlike the unemployed average American who has paid into the system the illegal immigrant will be receiving but will never have paid into any America system at all. In addition to an enormous over use of our social government ran programs for example: oil assistance, housing assistance, medical assistance, free daycare services, food stamps, just to name a few. All these up and coming problems for America because of this incredibly bad idea called the dream act / amnesty. Moreover, devised by the elected politicians for their own selfish political gains, rather it is votes there looking to in the future or to secure cheap labor. Either way it’s got to be stopped before these reckless elected politicians flood our country with these unskilled immigrants and burden our already greatly over-burdened economy. There is no question that once illegals are legal they well be eligible for all of our government ran social programs and will need huge amounts of assistance. Moreover, allowing eligibility to apply and to receive benefits that they have never paid into the American system for. Now does this sound sensible or logical to do as the country experiences its worst economic state since the great depression? David J bragga

Should the science of cloning continue

The positive and negatives concerning cloning.

The procedure of cloning may in the future be so beneficial to human health and longevity via cloning of organs such as livers, lungs, spinal cords, and maybe someday even hearts. However, this skill may become a double edged sword. As noted with any other technology from the atom bomb to super computers these technologies can be used to bolster society improve living conditions and even safe lives! Nevertheless, these same technologies have been used to destroy devastate communities and even kill as they provide a vector for both ends of the spectrum.
Let’s explore the history of cloning and follow it from its infancy until now. Many people may remember the story concerning dolly the sheep who was cloned and born in 1996. But only a few know what became of Dolly’s life. The cloning of Dolly was hailed as a great scientific triumph in the 1990’s instilling believe that soon we would be able to clone everything from organs to animals and of course finally humans. However, so far history hasn’t played out that way. This first highly published cloning attempt named Dolly did not turn out so well. After this animal was born in 1996 is health declined rapidly so rapid that dolly had to be euthanatized six years later and was in poor health much of her life. Scientist put out many hypotheses concerning why Dolly’s health was so poor from the frozen cells that were taken were aged as well as many others. Nevertheless, no matter what the correct hypothesis may be, it was simply that science did not have the skill to make an exact healthy replica of the parent sheep at that time. Moreover, instead produced a less than perfect organism compared to nature which produced Dolly’s genetic donor.
Armed with the history of Dolly and many other factors concerning cloning I am both enthusiastic on one hand and gravely concerned regarding this technology on the other hand. I am enthusiastic and excited regarding the possibility of cloning organs and using them to save lives and bolster the quality of life for potentially so many people. While at the same time concerned that we could be getting ahead of our science and could be producing much less than perfect results as we seen with dolly. These less than perfect results could be devastating to individuals such as animals or humans involved with these procedures. Moreover, if used for cloning humans on a large scale is even more concerning and could be potentially devastating to our evolution itself. We all like to think of cloning as if we see it in Hollywood. We all like to think that if we lost someone we loved science could keep their cells alive by cloning them and we would have our loved one’s back. However, it doesn’t work at all like that. That’s more of a myth than a reality.
For example if you cloned your dog many factors would work to produce a very different dog then the one you know and you’re cloning. First of all it’s a very slow procedure in which your dog would age before the clone was born. You can create an embryo via cloning and transfer it into the womb of a surrogate mother. Wait nine weeks and then you will have an exact genetic copy of the donor but a much younger copy. It may look like it’s donor but its experiences would be very different and the environment it learns and grows in very different as well. So, it would mature differently and hence finally it’s a different dog. It’s not the same dog nor is it identical to its donor at all. While the genetic material may be identical, life is based on many more factors. Some are: age, time lines (concerning time lines of birth), the environment, location, learned experiences and many more. I believe it’s impossible to produce a perfect copy of a living animal or human. The clone would not have the same behavior patterns much less have the same everyday thoughts of its donor. So while Hollywood may sensationalize cloning it’s a very complex procedure not yet perfected that to me will always produce very different results than its intended exact replica of an animal.
I’m skeptical that science will ever have the answers to replicating an animal or a human that will be as its donor the same in every way. Moreover, if they do sometime in the future master this skill I’m and concerned of the effects this may have on or society and our way of life. As well as the negative effects it may have concerning our continued evolution whether adequately done with animals or humans on a large scale.
Nevertheless, with all of the negatives discussed above I believe that the science of cloning must continue advancing. To be able to clone stem cells and where that technology may take us regarding health care is exciting and promising. In the in the future organs in our body’s that fail may be able to be purchased from some type of cloning factory and this technology may save countless lives. Moreover, through cloning and monitoring the cycles of cloned life may in the future provide information concerning disease and perhaps the cures for many of the diseases that plague the human existence today. In conclusion, I am a proponent of cloning for improving health, advancing longevity and promoting quality of life. However, I am against cloning if the intent is to simply provide and exact replica of an animal or human to prove that we can do it. While we are well on our way to developing different procedures of cloning naturally there will be many failures and many achievements and many moral issues to contend with along the way. However, I strongly feel there is too much to be gained regarding health, quality of life as well as an obligation to the longevity of our species to abandon such promising science and technology.

Concerning the concsious and unconscious mind

Your unconscious mind is your subjective mind, your emotional mind. It accepts any thoughts or images that are accepted or produced by the conscious mind. It cannot reject them. It is the seat of your emotions, and all of your life’s memories and experiences. It is the seat of your imagination, intuition and creativity. It does everything in its power to manifest the thoughts and images passed on by the conscious mind –whether they are correct or incorrect, positive or negative.

However, it is your conscious mind that is your objective mind, your thinking mind, your intellectual mind. It has the ability to choose. It can accept or reject thoughts or images.

If this is true what does it mean? If the unconscious mind works endlessly to make the conscious mind correct, then are we doomed to the anxiety and fear as to what we have learned throughout our lives? That is all that dominates our everyday thoughts. Therefore finally made real by our unconscious? I ask these questions because much of what we fear and don’t fear is learned. However, we are also predisposed to some anxiety and fears through our genetic make-up passed down from our parents. The important question is can we program our unconscious mind to somehow delete all selected thoughts and images that may be uncomfortable for us. Moreover, in principle completely reprogram our entire unconscious mind to diminish all or most anxieties and fears.

The answer depends on many factors external and internal learned and predisposed through family heritage.
At many levels we consciously fight negative emotion through rationalization and will every day. And as difficult as it can be, I believe it can be done with much greater success regarding discarding negative thought levels. What remains to be investigated is just how much we can retrain our unconscious mind so as mental illness such as depression poor self-esteem and even suicidal contemplations do not become dominate thoughts. Moreover, regarding practicing thought patterns that can help retrain the conscious and unconscious mind can be of great assistance to one with dominating negative thought patterns. I believe that self-confidence plays a major role in concerning the reprograming of the unconscious mind. However, how does one develop self-confidence?

In my experiences throughout life I have found through athletics that confidence is fragile. I followed tennis players over a span of ten years and found that confidence is one skill that can be shaken easily, so easily in fact a player can be hitting the ball so well and beating everyone he comes up against. However, with the onset of just a few badly hit balls can change his game drastically even permanently. I found this to be true countless times over the years concerning many different tennis professionals. I choose tennis to point this out because this game is more about one’s own-self-confidence than it is about the opponent. Believe in oneself is key for individual sports as it is in ones mind’s eye. Establishing that confidence plays a major role in how we think then the challenge of life’s constant bombardment of negative stimuli daily must be a real drain on our physic wellbeing.
In addition, I believe that we must control what enters our minds and what images we allow to be created through-out our everyday thought process. For example: just because we hear it and see it does not necessarily mean we have to mentally digest it. At least not allowing the negative thoughts to build on them-selves and become melded on and fixed in the unconscious mind.

For example, a distance relative dies that you have not seen for some time. You attend the funeral. At the wake you see the body in the casket, it really bothers you to see such and old acquaintance in this position and it seems that the image of this is burned into memory and you can’t shake the thought of this in your mind. However, others that are there that have the same experience seem oblivious and do not share the negative feelings you have regarding the body lying there. Does this mean they have no feelings? That they don’t love this person as much as you?
I think to some degree this plays a role however, I believe that it is much more than that. I believe people with self-confidence and little self-doubt are better able to control the negative and positive thoughts that have entered their mind. Therefore, better able to control negative thoughts and emotion.
Consequently this may explain why everyone at the funeral reacted differently to the image of the body lying in the casket. In addition, to effectively control in-coming thoughts and images there is no place for any doubt at all concerning the correctness or incorrectness regarding the higher order in which you place these incoming thoughts or images. In other words just how much this thought or idea is allowed to play out in your mind?
Whether or not these thoughts deserve continues melding over or should be discarded. This seems to be all part of a very complex process that makes up the incredibly complex personalities that we all develop from birth to death.
Therefore, if your conscious mind makes the decision to discards negative thought or stimuli efficiently enough the unconscious mind is not as likely to be as emotional particularly concerning the negative thought process. I believe to be effective in life one must control exactly what is allowed to transfer to their unconscious and must recognize and identify negative thought patterns quickly. In addition, must be self-confident and self-aware enough to discard these thought pattens before they become fixed in the unconscious mind.
Nevertheless, why does the unconscious mind work endlessly to prove the conscious mind correct? This happens for many complex reasons such as higher level decision making processes that must be performed constantly every day.
For instance: an act such as placing your hand on a hot stove and burning it is not only painful but emotional as well. So this stimuli or thought is placed in the highest order so that you won’t allow this to happen again. Therefore, the unconscious must maintain the memory of the emotional pain throughout so that the higher level conscious mind will make the change to never let this happen again. Therefore, proving the conscious mind correct in its decision making process. Therefore, even more powerful is the thought itself. For example: even if the oven poses no threat to burn you, but if you believe that is does the signals are the same, in other words if you believe it, than its true. The responses in your mind are the same. Imbedded deep in your unconscious, remains that deep emotional pain real or not real. And in some cases real or not these thoughts can become neurotic fear mounting anxieties and in many cases can become obsessive.
In particular the elderly population has great difficulty getting over negative events such as falls. For these people that may have fallen once to several times sometimes are not able to mentally discard the negative event. In many cases are unable to pick themselves up and transfer or begin to walk even once completely healed. Of course sometimes in elderly cognition plays a role but not all-ways is this phenomen secondary to decreased mental skills. This behavior can go on for an extended period of time or in some cases they may never walk again. These trends are well documented. This illustrates the unconscious mind at work holding that deep painful fear and anxiety. As well as to the conscious mind taking the position that this fall will not happen again secondary to the decision not to walk anymore. Hence, proving the conscious mind correct once again and keeping this person safe from another fall. Even more so, this depicts the line between severe anxiety and serene calmness as fragile as confidence itself.

Well-documented is the story of young girl that was being repeatedly raped by her uncle when she was very young around age 14. Her mother and father came home while her daughter was being raped and caught the uncle in the process. The mother and father removed the uncle from the house permanently. The mother father and daughter sat down to discuss this atrocity. The mother and father ensured the daughter that she would never see the uncle again. In addition, she was never to discuss this with anyone and was to forget it ever happened. No more future dialogue regarding this matter from anyone in the household was permitted. Moreover the mother instructed the daughter never to give this any thought to this again. The daughter agreed and got on with her life. She finished high school with honors. Went on to college and graduated with a doctorate in psychology. Many years went by before this woman even mentioned the rape to anyone. However, when she was around 35 years old she decided to tell a women that she had befriended a few years earlier through her career. While discussing this with her friend she told her friend she was harboring no ill feelings regarding the rape. However, her friend told her she was in denial regarding the rape. And went on to tell her that she had to go for help and therapy. Reluctantly she took her good friends advice and started seeing a psychiatrist weekly. The doctors put her on medication and talk therapy. She became so distraught and depressed while on therapy she lost her job and ended up in the mental hospital for a long period of time. She decided that she was going to stop therapy and all the medications. Her condition improved over a short period of time. She regained her position at work and went on to completely recover. Currently she openly discusses how talk therapy combined with medications and continually discussing the rape every week was exactly like being raped over and over again. Which is the point regarding conscious and unconscious thoughts. Throughout the time since she was raped from 14 to 35 years of age she had not placed this event into a higher emotional thought level. Therefore it did not affect her daily living or her everyday thought process. Moreover, this was a conscious decision not to meld over this since she was 14 years old. Hence, the conscious mind did not manifest the thoughts or images of the rape repeatedly. At that young age she believed truly that her mother was given her good advice and was confident enough to make the decision to discard this negative event and move on with her life. Looking back into her life she believed that this was the right decision. I believe that it was as well. The ability to put negative events or thoughts behind us hinges on one’s self-confidence and believes in one’s own self-worth. This happens at the highest level of thought process in the conscious mind. However, much of this emotional and negative memory is probably harbored for much of the time in the unconscious mind. These emotional memories seem to filter through during difficult times in our lives. These thoughts if allowed to be conjured up through the consistent daily talk therapy could have been the stimulus that created so much despair for the women that was raped when she was a young girl.

A study concerning this hypothesis was performed some years ago. This study was performed using muscle measuring machines. They performed muscle measuring test during talk therapy sessions. In some cases they would talk about memories that were uncomfortable or painful for the person to talk about although the painful event had happened several years before. In each of these cases the machines would record the same type of stress levels each time. So it was as if the painful experience or stimulus was happening over and over to the patient each time that they were in talk therapy. In other cases patients that have had recent painful experiences where also involved in talk therapy. The machines measured the same stress levels as the others that in the study had painful events happen many years ago. Some of the patient’s painful experiences were more than twenty years apart from each other. I believe that this is an example of conjuring up thoughts buried deep within the unconscious mind and reinforcing them. Over and above allowing them to meld around in the conscious mind long enough to cause the very same symptoms that happened to this woman many years after the actual rape occurred. I believe that this can be translated into a decreased view of one’s own self-worth. Overriding, the self-confidence and self-worth that one has been building up over a life time. However, I believe that childhood learned experiences probably play a much greater role as compared to those learned later in life concerning the development of one’s own individual’s self-worth and self-confidence.

In addition, I think everyone can relate to this experience? That is this lack of confidence relative to any task we feel is important enough that we have to perform it perfectly. This is called performance anxiety. For example: one has to speak in front of a large crowd. He practices daily; he reads his speech in front of his children and wife consistently without error and well. However, when he gets up on the podium in front of the audience he begins to sweet and cannot seem to get the well-rehearsed speech out of his mouth correctly. Now since this speech was well-rehearsed and read with confidence and correctly several times what is it that happened? Could this be the unconscious mind at work again filtering up all the remembered fears insecurities and anxieties of our past directing these thoughts to our conscious mind? In fact which has manifested them-selves into reality? Could it be that the conscious insecurity he felt of potentially not doing well while reading in front such a large audience was made correct by the unconscious mind? For example: the unconscious mind is correctly deducing all the fears of his conscious mind before the task was performed. Hence, validating them and making them correct. The consequence suffering the embarrassment of this exposed failure in front of a large audience? While some people may be just more comfortable with this skill secondary to academic training and personality, I’m sure we’ve all experienced similar occurrences throughout our life time in one situation or another. I believe this is a lack of self-confidence deep in one’s personality harbored throughout a life-time of one’s experiences in the unconscious mind. Moreover, it is in this is area where we must work diligently to improve the quality of our own lives.

In conclusion, if the conscious mind has charge over all of the analyzing and decision making process concerning all thought. Then is has to ultimately be the part of the mind that conditions the unconscious mind to think the way that it does. Moreover, if this is true, this is probably the best example of how we could affect our everyday thought patterns. By simply retraining the conscious mind and through this process finally retraining the unconscious mind. Nevertheless, this continues to be a daunting task as noted with all the examples above. Overall this means that one must strive to see the positive in all situations. Must indeed practice self-confidence and learn to think positively of one’s own self-worth consistently. Furthermore, develop these skills and practice them daily in all aspects of life encompassing, relationships, competitive sports, careers, businesses, and education. To be successful in one’s own mind is to translate into reality and a happier existence and coexistence over one’s life time.