How to Graph Biorhythms

Biorhythms are cyclical patterns of health, mood, and intelligence level that reach peaks and lows over the course of about a month. These cycles were discovered simultaneously in the late 19th century by Dr. Hermann Swoboda of Vienna and Dr. Wilhelm Fleiss of Berlin. They observed that people have a reoccurring physical cycle that lasts 23 days, and a reoccurring emotional cycle that lasts 28 days. Later, Alfred Teltscher of Australia discovered a 33-day intellectual cycle. You can determine your own peak intellectual, physical fitness, and emotional biorhythms using a biorhythm calculator and your date of birth.

Things You'll Need

• Notebook
• Pencil
• Biorhythm calculator online

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Instructions

• 1

  Go to an online biorhythm calculating website. A link for one of these has been provided for you in the Resources section of this story.

• 2

  Use the scroll bars to enter the date, year, and hour of your birth along with the month for which you would like to calculate your biorhythms.

• 3

  Look at the green line to determine what dates of the month will be peak times and low periods for your health and physical fitness.

• 4

  Look at the red line to determine what dates of the month your intellectual high and low points will be.

• 5

  Look at the blue line to find when your mood will be at its highest and lowest.

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  Look at the overall graph for the month to see how your physical, intellectual, and emotional peaks and troughs relate to each other over the course of time.