The Resilient Engine

The Resilient Engine measures your heart rate variability with the phone camera, in about two minutes, and shows you what it means for your day. You need an invite code from Thrive Wellness and Performance to sign in. If you do not have one, contact the practice before you install. HOW IT WORKS Rest a fingertip over the rear camera and the flash. The app reads the colour change in your fingertip on every frame, finds each heartbeat, and works out the spacing between them. That spacing is heart rate variability, and it is one of the clearer windows into how your nervous system is coping with what you are asking of it. A reading takes two minutes. Take one first thing in the morning, which is the one worth comparing over time, or a spot check whenever you want to see where you are. WHAT YOU GET Your morning reading, compared against your own history rather than a population average. Your numbers mean a great deal next to your own baseline and very little next to anyone else's. Paced breathing sessions. Breathing at your own resonance frequency produces the largest rhythmic swing in heart rate you can make on purpose. The app works out that pace for you, then gives you a live trace to breathe against so you can see your heart answering the breath. Last night beside this morning. Connect Health Connect and the app reads your sleep, resting heart rate and overnight heart rate variability from your ring or watch, so the night that produced this morning is sitting next to it. Dr. Jay AI. A coaching conversation built from Dr. Jay Wiles' own published work on heart rate variability and nervous system training, with your recent readings as context so the answers are about you. Reports worth keeping. Weekly and monthly summaries of where your nervous system has been, written to be read rather than decoded. A CHEST STRAP IF YOU PREFER If you have a Bluetooth heart rate strap, the app will use it instead of the camera. Polar and most standard straps work. The camera is there so you do not need one. WHO IT IS FOR Clients of Thrive Wellness and Performance. This is not an app you can sign up for on your own: your clinician gives you a code, and that code is what creates your account. The Resilient Engine is a wellness app. It is not a medical device, and it does not diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any condition. If something in your readings concerns you, speak to your doctor.