A quiet space for daily reflection.
Reflect across seven centers of experience. Over ten weeks, Blū learns what persists, names only the patterns that have gathered enough evidence, and offers practices chosen for the kind of support those patterns call for.
A few minutes of honest check-in, every day.
Four small surfaces.
None takes long, and none asks you to complete one enormous questionnaire.
Why Blū.
We move through the days faster than we can notice our own reactions to them. Blū asks while the day is still today.
Blū asks about one thing at a time instead of the day as a whole, so what comes back is specific. After a few weeks, I was not heard and I did not say it stop feeling like the same thing. You keep that, and it works on the days you never write anything down.
What you remember about a stretch of time is colored by the mood you are in while you remember it. That happens to everyone. A written record stays where you left it, so there is something to hold the impression up against. Some evenings it agrees with you. Some evenings it shows you two out of seven.
Blū never gives you a single number for how you are doing. One number cannot tell a hard day from a mixed one, and there is nothing you can do with it. What helps is small: one facet, quiet, several evenings in a row, while the rest of the week sat where it usually sits. That points somewhere.
A path from noticing to knowing.
Week one listens.
The next seven move from foundation upward, in an order that is pedagogical rather than a ranking.
Week nine brings the centers into conversation, and week ten helps you carry the method on your own.
The data science sits quietly behind the reflection.
Blū keeps the contemplative map and the calculation system distinct. The chakra framework supplies the authored meaning. The measurement design supplies the evidence rules, the timing, and the boundaries of what may be claimed.
Four steps, in order. Nothing skips one.
The engine is deterministic, versioned and auditable. It holds underexpression, overexpression and regulation as three separate evidence streams rather than collapsing each center into a single score — because one number cannot tell a mixed day from a settled one. No language model decides whether a pattern has appeared.
The measurement is measurement. What a configuration means, and what to do about it, is a method, and it is mine.
Every item carries its center, its stream, its polarity and the instrument version it belongs to.
Nothing is comparable until that metadata is applied, which is why the item code is stored with the answer rather than inferred later.
The detector recomputes across the most recent seven calendar days rather than the last seven entries, so a missed evening reduces the evidence instead of quietly shifting the window.
Missing stays missing. It is never read as a zero, and it is never counted as recovery.
Recurrence alone is not enough. The same direction has to appear across more than one facet of a center, so a single question can never define it.
Strength is recorded, but it grades a finding rather than triggering one.
A named configuration needs its centers to meet their directions on the same days, not merely within the same week.
Once surfaced it holds through ordinary fluctuation, and it closes only after the condition has genuinely passed.
The full taxonomy, exact configuration library, and recommendation vectors remain part of Blū’s private framework.
Most of the work is deciding when to stay quiet.
Seven days is not much data. At small scale, noise looks exactly like signal.
Give any system that little and it will still find something.
In Blū’s framework the rules are written to refuse rather than to find.
Therefore a pattern is named only once it has cleared every one of them.
Evidence must appear on at least five of the last seven days
before a center state can be named at all.
A single question cannot define a center.
Two distinct facets must show the same direction independently.
One better day does not clear a pattern.
And one bad day does not create one.
The strongest claim Blū will make is “tends toward.”
It does not diagnose, and it does not guess.
The pattern is always there. The work is waiting until you can be sure of it.
Seven centers of experience.
Blū uses this contemplative framework as a reflective map.
It does not represent medical or psychological diagnosis.
Why seven centers.
Blū uses seven centers to give daily reflection a familiar structure, drawing on chakra traditions. The everyday themes and questions are our own.
Where the centers come from →Questions, answered.
Blū measures your days.
It does not measure you.
What it is
It is a measuring instrument. Every evening it asks you the same questions about seven areas of your life and keeps the answers, and that is most of what it does. The part that takes longer is learning what the questions are actually asking, which is why I teach one area a week for the first ten weeks. A question about expression means something different once you have spent a week on expression.
It is pronounced CHUH-kruh, with the ch of chair, which almost nobody does. Seven places in the body, each one standing for a part of experience. Root is the ground under you. Throat is expression. Here they are named areas to ask about, and that is all they have to be.
Because the alternative was making up seven categories nobody has heard of, and that is worse. The seven cover the ground without overlapping, they have been in use a very long time, and plenty of people already have some handle on them. I borrowed the seven, their order, and where they sit in the body. The questions are mine. Whether the map holds up as a way of measuring is a real question, and I am testing it rather than assuming it.
Then do not. Nothing in here asks you to. Take intuition. In the older tradition the knowledge is already inside you and you are scraping away what sits on top of it. If you are more spiritual than that, you might say prayer is how you talk to God and intuition is how God talks to you. If you are not, it is the thing you already knew before you could explain how you knew it. Blū asks the same question either way. It does not need to know which one you mean.
The hard questions
A mood tracker asks how you feel and draws a line through it. This asks about seven specific things, every evening, the same way, and then sets your days against your own earlier days. There is no single score. One number cannot tell a mixed day from a settled one, so it does not try.
No. I am not a therapist, Blū is not treatment, and if you are somewhere bad it is not a substitute for actual help. What it does is measure your days and show you what is in the record. What that means is yours.
No, and this one matters to me. There is no good day and no bad day in here. There is no good person and no bad person. Nothing is rated and nothing is scored. It is the fact of the day that it was, and you can do what you like with that.
Right now I do not, not to the standard I want. That is the honest answer. The questions are written and the checking is under way: against established measures of similar things, with people reading them out loud and telling me what they think is being asked, and with a study of whether the seven areas hold up as seven. I will publish what comes back, including the parts that do not work.
In practice
You get more exact. That happens in the first few weeks and it is the part people keep. And you get a record that disagrees with you sometimes, which is useful either way, because what you remember about a week is colored by the mood you are in while you are remembering it.
People who already look at themselves a bit and want it to be less vague. If you are in crisis this is the wrong tool, and I would rather tell you that now than have you find out later.
Not on your words. Nothing reads what you write and nothing produces an interpretation of it, and that is a decision rather than a limitation. The noticing is the thing you are here to do. Where a model actually helps is quieter: choosing which question to ask you next so there are fewer of them, and spotting a day that got answered in twenty seconds at midnight.
It is encrypted. I do not read it, nobody reads it, it is not sold, and there is no advertising. Delete your account and it goes.
The teaching stops and the app keeps going. Honestly, the goal is that you need it less. After a while you wake up and you already know: today I want to be present at my daughter's recital, today I have to say the hard thing to my manager. Nothing had to ask you.
Built from practice.
Built by a data scientist who is also a yoga teacher and Ayurveda practitioner. Every practice in the library is taught by the person who designed the system that recommends it.
I built the structure I wanted to practice myself:
reflective enough to reveal something, careful enough to wait for a pattern, and embodied enough to act on what it finds.
The same person designed the measurement and teaches the practice.
Start with one day.
Seven centers. One day at a time.
Over time, the questions become familiar, the patterns become easier to recognize, and regulation becomes something you know how to reach for.