The study of economics is based on the concepts of supply and demand. The human body functions on the same principles from the cellular level, to the organ level to the brain level. The human brain has demands for information/data gathering to understand cause and effect. These demands in many cases require supply from an external source, such as food or information. If there is no demand or awareness how can the supply be valued?
Bod-E-conomics is the application of economics to the human being, mind and body-brain functions. For clarity it is important to have a common definition of economics to be applied. According to Investopedia economics is:
“A social science that studies how individuals, governments, firms and nations make choices on allocating scarce resources to satisfy their unlimited wants. Economics can generally be broken down into: macroeconomics, which concentrates on the behavior of the aggregate economy; and microeconomics, which focuses on individual consumers.” [1]
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When too many have too little and too few have too much, it is only a matter of time before it collapses.
When too much blood is hoarded in the periphery and too little blood is available for the core it is only a matter of time before it collapses.
When the macro (supply-government) controls the micro (demand-individual) many needs are not met resulting in micro mismanagement leading to a revolt or mutiny. The truth is the micro is the reality; the macro is the idea or perceived reality they desire. The micro represents the cellular needs. The macro represents the minds wants. When just doing what we want, with no regard to what we need, there are highs and lows, or boom and bust cycles (stock market crashes or health crises-injury) for correction or a time out. Doing what we want before meeting our needs will have exponential costs in the long run to all aspects of others and our life.
Taken for Granted
Just because something is free doesn’t mean it has no value.
The most undervalue and neglected economy in the world is the individual human body. Many take the body for granted and give little thought on how to love and take care of it. They fail to meet needs and ignorantly focus on wants. Ignorance is not bliss, it is a bunch of pain and suffering that was put in a can and kicked down the road. At some point the road will end. Question is how much is in the can?
When an economy is in chronic debt and it is exponentially accumulating, they are in a state of economic survival. The governments and people scramble to borrow from the future to cover expenses now. There are many variables for this situation to arise, all will be unique but will have a common theme. The primary reason is the fundamentals are not being followed. They are not living within their means. Economic fundamentals need to be considered when trying to achieve balance or better known as health. When there is debt in the body it creates needs upon needs upon needs until the original debt is corrected. This sounds like a ponzi scheme doesn’t it? In a sadistic way it is. Over time the body will begin to consume itself to sustain itself to maintain the addictions and ignorance.
Debt & disease have no age discrimination
Today we see children born with disease or they develop a disease very young. Disease in the human body primarily comes from oxygen debt. There are exceptions to every situation but overall its oxygen debt passed down from our parents. What a nice welcoming gift. This oxygen debt fragments the DNA or blue print for the next generation. What if everyone was accustomed to seeing disease or living in economic debt and called it okay or health?
Many today are numb to the fact they are drowning in debt because they know no different. For the last several generations it has become common or acceptable to have a mortgage, car payments, credit cards, and any other credit card you can think of. Many people were swindled into the ideas of living free and doing what one wants without regard to balance and respect to all individuals and environments. This is great for the macro business but horrible for the individual. They got what they wanted in the short term at the expense of their, our and everyone future, possibly even the planet long term. The collective need to stop taking more than what is needed and live in balance. Greed is like an animal with rabies. It is a horrible disease that consumes everything.
Macro & Micro
Free market forces businesses to keep a high quality product or service. The more freedom the market has, the greater the competition, the greater the competition, the greater the value and thus, the greater the options for the individuals. There is a constant flow of change, new ideas, freedom to express to benefit the micro and macro. When control mechanisms or restrictions are imposed or forced on anyone or a body it creates friction, which is a resistive force overriding an existing force. This is not effortless or freedom. The resistance creates more work. More work requires more resources. More resources require more effort to obtain. The more time is needed.
The body functions at the speed of now, looking to balance its pH within the cell and blood. This is achieved with the individual systems within the body contributing to a macro expression. If a system is compromised in the body, something else takes over or we must stop doing what we are doing. If this happens in business, such as a gas station temporarily has no gas; the consumer compensates and goes to one that is functioning. This is a temporary fix until the empty gas station is able to supply the resources. If the gas station takes too long, or is unable to supply again, the consumer will create a new pattern/habit to meet their immediate needs. The human body and mind compensates the same way. If mechanics or ideas are creating pain, or the body needs resources, it will compensate to meet its demands. Compensations, if not corrected in a timely manner become addictions and habits. This gives the false reality that things are working. They are working until the addiction has run its course and empty the person out or he/she hit bankruptcy.
Macro economic measures the ‘what’, the result or effect. This can be misleading on an individual level. There could be tremendous disparity within this result or measurement. This is similar to medical diagnostic testing for specified conditions of the human body. One questionable method is the BMI, body mass index. This measures the quantity of weight over height. It does not measure the quality of the weight. That is a big factor. Judging a book by the cover is not good practice.
There are acceptable ranges of blood sugar, heart rate, breathing rate and several biomarkers in blood work. These ranges do not work for everyone. If people are walking around stressed or in oxygen debt how valid is the measurement?
Microeconomics looks at the intricate details leading to the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of the situation, the intimate details of any relationship. A relationship can be to air, to a fruit, to a person, to a tree, to the sun, to the solar system. Anything related to the self, is a relationship. It is the bridging of micro-self and macro non-self.
The human body has macro and micro aspects as well. The macro aspect demand is something that every body needs to survive. Each body needs oxygen, hydrogen and carbon. These are absolute to all. A micro demand is something that is required in the time span of NOW. The micro needs such as proteins, vitamins, minerals are needed on a relative level based on their state of debt.
The macro is the global aspect, the organ system. The main players are lungs, heart, brain, liver, kidneys and intestines. These systems work constantly. These systems for the most part are involuntarily. The micro is individualized and timing is the key. The main players are the muscular system and cell level. The demands work based on resources available. The muscular system works this way. When the demand is to run. The body runs. There is no demand to run. The body does not run.
We all have our own balance sheet just as a business does. The business balance sheet is much easier to assess, as it is math. The human being has many variables, body mind spirit, and external survival to manage. Many accept specific behaviors due to societal programming and parental belief systems, which have been passed down or force upon them. Being numb to debt is like walking down a path with no end. It shows no end in sight. It all looks and feels the same.
Debt creates deficits in many environments that have ripple effects. Debt arises from an imbalance of income and expenses. Debt arises in the human body when the body is doing too much creating stress. There is a time and place to borrow. There is a time and place to use a drug. These are the same philosophy. The gigantic difference is, once on a drug many never get off of it. They believe the language of their disease manager that they will be on it for the rest of their life. This is only true if the individual does not correct their fundamentals, actions and thought process.
Who believes in the magic pill that will correct the problem yet allows a person to keep doing what caused a crisis works? Please stand up.
How to get out of debt
There are a couple of ways to remove debt, pay it off and remove it or declare bankruptcy and be insolvent. When the human body becomes bankrupt it is on the verge of death. Therefore declaring bankruptcy is not a plausible solution for the human being. Increasing income and reducing expenses will correct the imbalance. Income to the body is inhaling and ingesting resources that give a return on investment. (Roi) The expenses are the choices and action creating more exhaust to be exhaled. The body cannot invest and remove waste at the same time. Just like a business, the body will use its savings to cope. The body’s savings are muscles and bones. To be used as currency-resources such as sugar, amino acids, vitamins, minerals and fat. Muscles get broken down into vitamins and amino acids for resources. The bones get broken down or stripped for minerals. In business, having more assets or saving versus the expenses and liabilities measures wealth. Wealth to a human being is having the experience and knowledge to reduce internal and external debt to self and non-self.
The body is an investment. Popular belief would have people think it is an expense. This delays healing, as their belief is a perceived cost.
There is ample supply of air and no restriction from anyone breathing as much or as little as they choose. The question is can the individual’s body use it? What prevents the usage? Do people know they don’t have enough? Do they value something that is free?
The irony is the body is stuck in oxygen debt and oxygen is free!
Cited
1 Economics: Definition of Economics (2014). Investopedia. Retrieved 12 Feb 2014, from http://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/economics.asp
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