Interactive Guides

Practice, not just reading

The books explain the tradition. These tools let you run it. Short, free, and built for a single question at a time.

Nine tools are live. Four more are in build, each drawn from a published title.

Live

Thermal Balance

Answer six questions about how you eat and feel, and see where your diet sits on the warming and cooling scale used in Chinese dietary therapy. Includes what to add rather than what to cut.

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In build

The Organ Clock

Enter the hour you wake and the hour you sleep. The tool maps your day against the traditional two-hour organ cycle and shows where your habits sit against it.

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Live

Hara Hachi Bu Timer

A quiet meal timer built on the twenty-minute satiety delay. It prompts one pause halfway through, then leaves you alone. No calories, no logging.

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Live

The Morning Builder

Enter your wake time, how long you actually have, and what you want to address. The tool assembles a timed Yang Sheng sequence from fourteen traditional practices, and reads your waking hour against the organ clock.

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Live

Ichiju Sansai Builder

Compose a meal on the one soup, three sides pattern: a grain, a protein, two vegetable sides and a warm soup. Each tray returns a nutritional reading and the traditional reasoning behind the pairing.

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Live

Recipe Generator

Enter your metrics, pick a dietary style and the situation you are actually in, and the tool returns one of twenty-four Japanese meals with ingredients, method and a rough calorie estimate.

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Live

Circadian Rhythm & Light Tracker

Enter your wake time and bedtime and the tool lays out the day between them: when to get bright light, when to eat, when to stop caffeine, and when to dim the room. Each step is paired with the organ-clock hour it belongs to.

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Live

Mental Models Companion

Describe a decision you are stuck on, then draw a cognitive framework to look at it through. Inversion, second-order thinking, opportunity cost and others, one lens at a time.

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Live

Cognitive Bias Spotter

Work through short decision scenarios and see which heuristics were steering you. Sunk cost, anchoring, survivorship and others, each named alongside a way to correct for it. Two minutes, or five for the longer diagnostic.

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Live

Five Elements Quiz

A 27-question assessment placing you within the wood, fire, earth, metal and water framework, with the seasonal tendencies each type is said to carry and the Yang Sheng practices that support it.

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In build

The Seasonal Kitchen

What to favour this month, by ingredient and cooking method, following the seasonal logic of Eastern nutrition rather than a supermarket calendar.

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In build

The 7-Day Reset Tracker

The free seven day reset, made checkable. One practice a morning, a short note each evening, and a record you can look back on.

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Live

Japanese Massage

Choose the area that needs attention on the body map, then work through Anma and Shiatsu techniques step by step, paced by a guided timer and breathing cues. Includes a thirty-day programme, ambient soundscapes and a library of pressure points.

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Every tool runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored on a server, and none of them ask for an account. Each one takes under five minutes and points back to the book it came from if you want the full reasoning.