See what you feel.
Feltlight is made to help you notice what you feel, and where. Close your eyes, and a gentle voice helps you find where a feeling sits in your body. Nothing to fix, nothing to get right.
- Guided by voice, eyes closed if you like
- Private by design: nothing leaves your device
- One purchase, no subscription
Each one finds its own light, in its own place.
Every feeling is different
One quiet room, every time.
Time with Feltlight
A chair to settle into, a door where the feeling is shown, and a trunk for what isn’t finished. Nothing in the room changes, so it soon feels familiar.
Arrive
A quick check-in. If you’re stirred up, you start somewhere calm.
Shape it
Answer a few simple questions, and watch the feeling take shape as light.
Be with it
Stay with the feeling for a while and notice any change. You can step away at any time.
Close
See how it is now, put anything unfinished away, and come back to the room.
Grounding is always close by
Simple ways to settle or ground yourself are one word away: a quiet place to rest, a long, easy breath, a hum, or a short game that brings your attention back to the room around you. Use them before, during or instead of spending time with a feeling.
Talk, or tap. Your eyes can stay closed.
Voice-first
Set your device on a stand and answer out loud, or touch the screen if you’d rather. A few plain words are always there for you, and Pause is one word away.
You can always say
- Pause
- Go back
- Something feels off
- Stop
Quiet, private, and simply yours.
What makes it different
Hands-free
Voice-first: set your device on a stand, close your eyes if you like, and answer out loud or with a tap.
Truly private
Nothing you share ever leaves your device. No accounts, no tracking.
Calm by design
Few words, soft light, an unhurried pace. Pause and gentle ways out are always one word away.
Yours to keep
A one-time purchase. No subscription, no feeds, no streaks.
Insight meditation asks you to notice what’s happening in your body, just as it is. Simple to say, harder to do.
Where it comes from
Feltlight is shaped by research on how we sense our bodies and where emotions show up in them. It won’t try to teach you meditation or take the place of therapy. It’s simply a quiet place to notice what’s there.
How research shaped it
These studies looked at people in general, not at Feltlight. They shaped how it was designed; they don’t show what it will do for you.
Interoception
Craig, A. D. (2002). How do you feel? Interoception: the sense of the physiological condition of the body. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 3, 655–666.
The researchThe sense of the inside of the body, and how it underlies how we feel.
In FeltlightNoticing a feeling as sensations in the body.
Bodily maps of emotions
Nummenmaa, L., Glerean, E., Hari, R., & Hietanen, J. K. (2014). PNAS, 111(2), 646–651. Nummenmaa et al. (2018). Maps of subjective feelings. PNAS, 115(37), 9198–9203.
The researchWhere in the body people from different cultures report feeling different emotions.
In FeltlightEach feeling shown as light, in the place you feel it.
Interoceptive awareness
Mehling, W. E., et al. (2012). PLoS ONE, 7(11), e48230. Garfinkel, S. N., et al. (2015). Knowing your own heart. Biological Psychology, 104, 65–74.
The researchBody awareness as a set of skills, including noticing sensations and staying with them.
In FeltlightNoticing without judging, and staying with a feeling for a while.
Contemplative practice
Farb, N., et al. (2015). Interoception, contemplative practice, and health. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 763.
The researchHow meditative practices train attention to the body.
In FeltlightThe link between insight meditation and paying attention to the body.
Emotion granularity
Kashdan, T. B., Barrett, L. F., & McKnight, P. E. (2015). Unpacking emotion differentiation. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 24(1), 10–16.
The researchHow precisely people tell their feelings apart.
In FeltlightSimple questions that help describe a feeling more precisely.
Colour and emotion
Jonauskaite, D., et al. (2020). Universal patterns in color–emotion associations. Psychological Science, 31(10), 1245–1260.
The researchHow people across 30 nations link colours with emotions.
In FeltlightColour as one way to describe a feeling, always your own choice.
Who it’s for
Adults who are curious about what they feel and where in their body they feel it, and would like a gentle, low-effort way to spend a little time with it. There is nothing to achieve: noticing is enough.
It isn’t the right place for anyone under 18, or for moments of crisis. If you’re seeing someone for a mental health condition, or you feel unsure for any reason, it’s a good idea to check with a licensed health professional first.
Coming soon.
For winding down in the evening, a slow Sunday, or when you feel something but can’t quite name it. Follow along on Instagram for launch.