Biorhythm theory proposes that life moves in three independent sine-wave cycles that begin at birth and continue uninterrupted through life — a Physical cycle of 23 days, an Emotional cycle of 28 days, and an Intellectual cycle of 33 days. The model was first articulated by Wilhelm Fliess in the late 1800s, refined by Hermann Swoboda, and given its third (Intellectual) cycle by Alfred Teltscher in the 1920s. Later authors added an extended set — Intuitive (38 days), Aesthetic (43 days), Self-Awareness (48 days), and Spiritual (53 days) — of which the Spiritual cycle has the broadest agreement.
This report uses four cycles: the classical three plus the Spiritual. Each cycle's value at any moment is a number between minus one and plus one — the sine of the elapsed fraction of the cycle. Days near plus one are read as the high phase for that domain; days near minus one as the low; days near zero as the critical days, when the cycle crosses the midline and a brief instability may be felt before the next phase begins.
An honest framing applies to the whole. Biorhythm is an interpretive model and has not been validated in controlled studies. It is offered alongside numerology and palmistry as a traditional framework for self-reflection, not as a clinical instrument. Most readers find its actual value in the structured invitation to notice their own rhythms — to map their lived experience against a simple, regular pattern, and to discover where their own life does and does not respect the model.