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Fig. 2. Preferred periods (frequency bands) of human rhythmic functions. The stable frequency bands of spontaneous rhythms have been emphasized. The double horizontal line separates environmentallydetermined long-wave (infradian) and purely automatic (ultradian) rhythms. (after Hildebrandt 1975, adapted) Figure 2 shows a spectrum of periods for the rhythmic functions of a human being. A hierarchic structure exists insofar as the rhythmic processes get more and more complex as the period increases, progressing from cellular, tissue and organ rhythms to rhythmic variations involving whole systems (circu lation, digestion) and changes in the whole organism (e.g., diurnal, monthly and annual rhythms) that involve all functions. Monthly and annual rhythm as fertility and population rhythms go beyond the individual organism. The internal structure of the time organism shows a division into two (double horizontal line).The range of long-wave rhythms involves processes that have corresponding rhythmic time sequences in the geophysical and cosmic environment and can have a regulative (synchronizing) effect on biological rhythms. 94
The part of the spectrum where waves are shorter (below the double horizontal line) is limited to purely endogenous rhythms that have no direct relationship to environmental time systems and represent the autonomic part of the time organism in life forms. Plants, animals and humans have different areas of emphasis in the total spectrum of rhythmic processes. With plants, emphasis is on the annual rhythm (annual plant type) and longer periods of planetary rhythms in the cosmos. In the animal world, and especially among marine animals, lunar rhythms, including the tides, are particularly marked; while among higher animals and in humans, the emphasis is on diurnal rhythms. This phylogenetic developmental tendency with functional rhythms of higher frequency increasingly more developed is apparent in the growing prevalence of rhythmic nerve functions. The genetically-determined provision of rhythm spectra (‘chronomes’) taking specific forms relates to the following words by Steiner: “We can divide the animal world into genera on the basis of rhythms, depending on how the rhythms of the astral bodies relate to those of the ether bodies.” (21 Dec. 1908, Berlin, and 2 July 1023, Dornach) No data are so far available on this. A particularly important aspect is Steiner’s repeated references to the way the autonomic rhythms are related in humans. This applies, above all, to the relative frequencies of functions. The best known references are those to relationship of the frequencies of the pulse and respiratory rhythms, reflecting an inner equilibrium between the higher and lower aspects of the human being. The data now available have confirmed and, in many ways, extended this characteristic. Fig. 3. Frequency distribution of periods for different circulatory and respiratory rhythms in relatively large groups of people. The relative proportions given apply to peak incidences of rhythmic functions. (after Hildebrandt 1967, with additions) 95
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An Introduction to Anthroposophical
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II. Pathology and Therapy According
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normal life, such an inner happenin
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animals of a species. The group-ego
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