The optimal state mobile app

Mental Health & Wellness for College Students

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Change Your State

Feel it. Recognize it. Understand it. Change it.

Your emotions shape your experience—but do you really understand what they’re telling you? Our app helps you recognize, navigate, and make sense of your thoughts, feelings, and sensations in a way that feels natural. Using neuroscience-backed insights, you’ll start to see patterns in your mental and physical well-being—without judgment, just awareness.

Why it matters: Research shows that recognizing emotions as they arise helps regulate the nervous system, reduces stress, and improves decision-making. With our app, you’re not just tracking emotions—you’re learning the language of your inner world.

Build Emotional Awareness Without the Overwhelm
Simple Check-ins – A quick and easy way to tune in to how you’re feeling, whenever you want.
Color-Coded Patterns – Understand shifts in your emotions with an intuitive visual system.
Mind-Body Connection – See how your mental state influences your body and vice versa.
Personalized Tools & Insights – Get science-backed suggestions to help you regulate, recharge, and feel your best.

Our Color System Makes Self-Awareness Simple
Your emotions are always shifting—our color-coded system helps you recognize patterns at a glance:
White – You’re feeling overwhelmed and overstimulated. Time to reset.
Red – You’re feeling critical of yourself or others. Let’s reframe.
Blue – You’re feeling down or drained. A little self-care might help.
Gold – You’re in peak energy mode—ready to embrace life.

By recognizing these patterns over time, you’ll gain powerful insights into your emotional landscape and develop greater self-awareness and emotional intelligence.

How It Works
Notice what’s going on inside – Tap into your mental, emotional, and physical state.
Recognize patterns – Build emotional intelligence with a neuroscience-based approach.
Spot trends over time – Understand how your inner world shifts throughout the day, week, or season.
Use personalized tools – Access guided strategies designed for emotional balance and nervous system support.
Take a Breath Reminders – We’ll gently remind you to check in at key moments in your day. Think of it as a moment to pause, breathe, and reconnect with yourself.

Designed for Gen Z, Gen Alpha, & College Students

Life is stressful—school, work, relationships, social media. Our app is here to help you understand yourself better, not add to the overwhelm. No deep dives, no overanalyzing—just quick, simple, and science-backed ways to strengthen your emotional intelligence and self-awareness.
Because the better you understand yourself, the better you move through life.
Download now and start feeling more in sync with yourself.

SHIFT YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH:

Anxiety
Insomnia
Stress
Burnout
Depression
Chronic Pain
Your Body

The Optimal State Method originates from an ancient conceptualization of human health that people having been using for 5000 years (Yoga & Ayurveda) & supported by evidence based medicine & research.

*If you would like to know more please download your free copy of The Gold Zone eBook here.

Find My Optimal State

Gain Self Awareness

The first step to healing is self-awareness

Get Clarity About My Patterns

Track daily, monthly, seasonally, annually

Guided Help

Tools to live in your optimal state

Realize your Progress

Watch improvements over time

Get Extra Support

Find a Certified Yoga Therapist here & download your Starter Guide

App Features

Navigate Easily

We get it, navigating through apps can be stressful. We’ve designed our app to make things easier for you by being extremely intuitive. You will always be a click away from wherever you want to go – so there’s no stress. Our App is simple enough that we know your main focus will still remain on what really matters: improving your life! See our Getting Started Guide.

Intuitive Way to Track

We have used colors and a visual representation to help you track your patterns more easily. We feel that the language of the red, blue, white and gold zones makes it easy for everyone to have self-awareness and check in throughout the day.

Clear Snapshot of Habits & Patterns

Get a quick snapshot of your habits & patterns, giving you a better overview of your mental and physical health. Once you learn your personal patterns at different times of day, days of the week, months or seasons of the year, you will have valuable insight into why and how you get out of balance.

Check in Reminder

Daily reminders for ideal times to have you check in will help us create personalized real-time targeted interventions to bring you back into balance. There are certain times of day that are the best time to check in, allowing us customize your intervention based on what might be most helpful at this particular point.

Personalized Tools & Suggestions

Whether you’re looking for a way to change your energy levels, or trying to improve how you feel, or you want to have more contentment, we have the tools and suggestions that can help you change your life from the inside out. We offer personalized plans that will help bring out your state of health both mentally and emotionally, as well as on a physical level. The newest research in neuroscience is showing that our mental health resides not only in our brain, but also in our nervous system and our tissues.

Join us on our social media accounts

Facebook: Optimal State by Amy Wheeler
Twitter: Optimal State of Living
TikTok: Dr. Amy@OptimalStateofLiving
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Pinterest: TheOptimalState
YouTube: AmyWheelerPhd

Plans

The Optimal State App is available for free on both iPhone & Android, which can be found in the App Store & Google Play.

Optimal State Community Basic
Free

The free version is available with access to everything for 21 days from the day you register for the app. After the free version will give you access to one assessment chart, three days worth of history & two intervention categories to help come back to the Gold Zone.

Optimal State Community Plus
$4.99/month

The paid version will give you access to 6 assessment charts to chose from, the ability to view unlimited history & seven categories of interventions to help you come back to the Gold Zone. You will receive regular notifications for yoga & meditation classes.

Watch these tutorial videos to get a better understanding of how best to use the app!

Testimonials

The Optimal State Method has helped my players in handling stresses and anxiety in all aspects of their lives. Now able to recognize when they face stress and can cope with it at the outset rather than having to deal with it when it starts to get overwhelming. I highly recommend The Gold Zone Book to anyone wanting to reduce stress and live a more balanced and happy life.
–Fred Hanover, UC San Diego Golf Coach

Amy Wheeler delivers a concise and moving blend of eastern philosophy and western science in her book The Gold Zone and the mobile App that accompanies it. With an emphasis on lessening suffering for individuals and the potential for entire populations, this is a must read for many people. Not only is it personal, but informative for clinicians of all types, policy makers, industry leaders and anyone interested in more innovative methods to manage health.
–Dr. Suzanne Paone, MBA, DHA, RHIA
Vice Chair, Board of Directors, Heritage Valley Health System, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

Dr. Wheeler expertly utilizes her decades of knowledge and expertise to create a simple yet effective whole person approach to living “in the gold zone” by guiding the readers to become the happiest and healthiest versions of themselves. Her easy-to-follow actionable steps are readily accessible to everyone seeking personal transformation. Physicians will appreciate both her methodical structured approach which aligns with the way in which medical professionals think as well as the ripple effect they will have when sharing this information with their patients.
–Robyn Tiger, MD, C-IAYT

Amy Wheeler’s program and book provides both a rich understanding and practical application of philosophies for well-being. This program is foundational to self-care that is empowering and supports a personal exploration of practices for each individual and the changes that we experience throughout our lifetime
-Marlysa Sullivan DPT, CIAYT

Frequently Asked Questions

How can this App help me?

We’ve designed a revolutionary app that will help you get to your optimal state of mental and physical health, as well as give you insights into what helps bring about this optimum state of being.

Take an assessment based on how you’re feeling at any given moment. The app will provide you with a tool to help reach the optimal state of your mind and body.

Ideally, you should take an assessment 3 times per day. The ideal time for these are: 6am-10am, 10 am – 2pm, 2 pm -6 pm & 6pm-10pm to yield the most accurate readings of your progress towards reaching your optimal state!

The ideal zone to be in is gold. However, this App is as much about self-awareness and tracking your mental habits as it is actively changing your state of mind. Just knowing that you are feeling out of balance physically or mentally is the first step towards getting into balance.

There are a number of ways to bring yourself into balance and become healthy. You might find some interesting suggestions that will help bring you back into balance. These suggestions can help shift your Mental or Physical state. You’ll be surprised at how quickly you can get back into balance if you become more self-aware of your state and also try the suggested behavior changes.

Ideally, we recommend that you do the assessment within 30 minutes of checking in with your mental and physical health. Any longer, this might change how you are feeling at the moment and lead to a new evaluation being needed before an accurate intervention can be made.

The app will record every assessment of yours as well as any tools/suggestions that you’ve done for improvement within those assessments. You’ll then be able to look back over the different times throughout days, weeks, months or seasons to get an idea of what is working best for you mentally and physically based on your own patterns and habits. These records will allow us take control our lives by seeing how far we’ve come while also being mindful about future goals.

With a paid subscription you’ll have access to significantly more assessment charts and suggested interventions to help you assess your states. You will also have access to workshops and weekly classes with the paid version. The paid version will also let you document and track your progress over many months, seasons and even years.

You can remove of your data and account by choosing “Delete my Account” from Settings. Your account is immediately removed, and your data is irrevocably deleted as soon as you confirm.

You can modify your personal information (except email) within the App and replace your responses with “Prefer not to say” or number zero.

You will not lose your progress; you’ll pick up right where you left off. All of your past assessments and treatment suggestions will still be there for you when you come back again. If you are unable to see your past data, please email support.

It is based on the ancient science of yoga and ayurveda that has been used for 5000 years to help people on earth stay healthy and happy

We take your privacy seriously. Your personal information is never used for marketing purposes or shared with any third parties. We only use it to suggest better interventions.

Your data is encrypted on multiple levels & your personal information cannot be connected to your mental health tracking data. For this reason, unfortunatly  if you lose your phone we are unable to restore your data to your account, due to the high levels of encryption. There is no corporation or organization that can link your personal information to your mental health data.

Check out these tutorial videos to give you a better understanding of how to use the app.