Move Over Co-Star: How Biorhythms Can Help You Live Your Best Life

Living in a pandemic for a year now has forced us all to spend more time with ourselves than we’d probably ever imagine– or at this point, prefer. We’ve been self-reflecting and learning more about ourselves. Some people are spending time with their inner-child, some are learning new hobbies, others are just trying to get by and not lose their minds. Trying to find ways to cope with our world's noise and uncertainty has been anxiety-inducing and sometimes downright depressing. So now, after surviving 2020, it’s time we begin to heal and make sense of the world around us. 

To heal and be our best selves, we need to understand how our emotional, physical, and intellectual selves affect one another. Horoscope community, we love you but hear us out. What if we told you that no matter your environment, there was an exact way to know when you’ll have good days and bad days? Let us introduce you to the pseudoscience of biorhythms. Don’t freak out; no math is required on your part. 

For some background, biorhythms regulate your health, emotions, and intellect based on the day and time you were born. You have three primary biorhythm cycles: a 23-day physical cycle, a 28-day emotional cycle, and a 33-day intellectual cycle. The physical cycle accounts for your stamina, health, sex-drive, and strength. The emotional cycle is related to your creativity, intuition, and emotion. Finally, the intellectual cycle accounts for your judgment, thinking, and concentration. Each of these cycles fluctuates and affects each other resulting in your having good or bad days. 

Back in the 70s, when biorhythms were all the rage, places like video arcades and amusement areas had biorhythm machines that would print out charted biorhythms for the cost of a quarter. Honestly, such a cute idea, but something too trivial for today’s day and age. Sigh. Nowadays, you can  Google “biorhythm charts” for links to online biorhythm calculators that will calculate on what days you’ll experience highs and lows in each part of yourself. Again those “selves” being the emotional, physical and intellectual. 

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Reading the actual line charts of your calculated biorhythm can be confusing, so let us clear that up for you. You’ll have three lines on your chart. The red line indicates your physical cycle, the green line translates your emotional cycle, and the blue line reveals your intellectual cycle. Each line will cross up and down through the midpoint line on the chart. If a line is falling below the midpoint line, that indicates that part of yourself is naturally declining. The same goes for if a line is rising or resting positively above the midpoint line, then you’d be excelling in that part of yourself.  


What’s most important here is paying attention to your critical days. Critical days are when two or more lines converge below the midpoint mark. This signifies a predicted stressful time when you may feel an emotional or physical burnout, and on these days, it’s so important to prioritize taking care of yourself. So essentially, biorhythms let us understand ourselves better by explaining and predicting the fluctuating ways of our being. Not to say that biorhythms can predict the future, but it allows us to explain why things are the way they are. As humans, and especially as college students, we want to make sense of ourselves and the things we cannot control, so why not give biorhythms a go?