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An app that helps you calm down. And shows you it's working.

You sit or lie down, and Psiphase talks you through slow breathing with a steady sound behind it. Sessions run from about 6 minutes to half an hour. If you wear a heart-rate strap, the app can tell how settled you are getting and adjusts the session as you go.

It only ever tells you what it can actually measure. No made-up scores, no big claims.

What you can do with it Why we built it

Not yet on the App Store. Being tested now, on iPhone. Testing is by invitation through Apple's TestFlight.

How it works

Three steps. The middle one is the whole app; the other two are just the before and after.

  1. Step 1

    Sit or lie down

    Phone on your chest or beside you. Headphones or not. Eyes open or closed.

  2. Step 2

    Breathe with the voice

    A calm voice and a soft pulse set the pace: about six breaths a minute, the pace shown here. The voice says less as you settle.

  3. Step 3

    See it working

    Afterwards you see real readings: how slow your breathing got, how still you lay. Numbers it can check, not scores it made up.

Who it's for

You want to unwind

A busy head at the end of the day. Ten minutes of slow breathing with a calm voice, and you feel the difference.

You want to work on something

Sleep, confidence, focus, a habit. The self-hypnosis sessions are a set of gentle suggestions aimed at a goal you pick.

You're curious

Guided journeys and ideas from meditation traditions to explore for yourself. Offered as experiences, and clearly labelled as that.

What you can do with it

Every session starts the same way: it helps you settle. What happens next depends on which one you pick.

Settle your body

Slow breathing at about 6 breaths a minute, a gentle pulsing tone, a background sound you choose, and a voice that says less and less as you calm down. Choose the length and the sounds, or pick one you used before. Wear a Polar heart strap and the session can wait for you, ease off, or move on, based on how you are really doing.

Self-hypnosis

A calm voice walks you through a set routine, then repeats gentle suggestions about a goal you chose: calm, sleep, confidence, focus. About 15 to 25 minutes. Every session checks you are steady before it starts and reminds you not to drive straight after.

A 6-minute practice

Settle, open your eyes, settle again, a few times over. The app times how quickly you get back to calm each time. That number is the one score it keeps, because it is the one it can really measure.

Guided journeys

Three guided imaginings, each one introduced as imagination, not memory. The voice never steers you towards particular scenes or people, and you can stop whenever you like.

Group sessions being tested

A few people in the same room, each doing their own session, and one person watching how settled the group is. Not released yet. See how it works, with a drawing.

Facts and experiences. Never mixed up.

A step counter tells you a fact: you walked 8,000 steps. A bedtime story gives you an experience: you drift off feeling calm. Psiphase has both kinds of thing in it, and it always tells you which one you are getting.

Facts. Real numbers from your body.

  • How fast you are breathing.
  • How still you are lying.
  • Your heartbeat, if you wear a chest strap.

So the app will say things like "your breathing slowed to 6 a minute". That is something it can check.

Experiences. Things to try, not facts.

  • A guided journey through an imagined place.
  • A phrase to hold in mind while you breathe.
  • A session for winding down at bedtime, or for feeling more confident.

The app will never say "you reached a deeper state of mind". A phone cannot know that, so it does not pretend to.

Where the science behind something is thin, the app says so, in the app. It even points you to the studies that disagree with it.

Why we built it

We looked closely at the well-known methods for reaching a deep, calm state: the Monroe Institute's Gateway recordings, remote viewing, the CE-5 protocol, mediumship, lucid dreaming and hypnosis. We listened to all 65 Gateway recordings, about 47 hours, to find out what they actually do rather than what the box says.

They all do the same two things, in the same order. First they get you into a settled state. Then they ask you to point your attention at something. That first step is the same in every one of them, none of them check whether you got there, and it is the one part you can measure. So that is what Psiphase does.

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Three things the recordings taught us

  • Less talking works better. The voice drops from about 1,500 words in the first recording to about 150 in the last. So our voice says less as you settle.
  • Coming back matters. Nearly every recording ends with the same careful wake-up. So every session here brings you back gently, on purpose.
  • The label and the sound don't always match. One recording was sold as one thing and measured as another. We trusted the measurement.

Everything stays on your phone

Your sessions, notes, settings and heart readings never leave the phone. No account, no website login, no tracking. There is nowhere for it to go.

Yours to keep or delete

One tap saves a backup file. One tap deletes everything. You can lock the app with Face ID if you share your phone.

Not a medical device

Psiphase is for calming down and exploring. It does not treat any condition. If you are unwell, please talk to a doctor.

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