The GreenTyme Academy for Chrono-Cognitive Therapies has made our recently patented Synclecron ("Sync-le-cron") freely available on the Web. Our Synclecron is used to study -- and help with -- an aspect of chronobiology usually not yet explored by researchers (who typically are funded by pharmaceutical companies.) So instead of taking apart biological processes to see what happens, GreenTyme seeks to give people with "chronically under-informed bio-clocks" hoped for benefits that may emerge from seeing time the way even the smallest plant and animal life forms on earth need to know the time. GreenTyme's basic idea is that due to modern life (moving off of farms to cities) and also modern methods of time-keeping (such as Daylight Saving Time), our biological clocks often do not know enough about where we are in the local natural day and night to be able to adequately regulate our bio-processes. Hugely important -- as many minor ills such as jetlag, as well as major diseases, from insomnia, depression, cluster & migraine headaches, and obesity to autism and Alzheimer’s -- are now known to be associated with malfunctioning (however, not necessarily all of them broken) biological clocks.

PLUS -- you don't have to be sick to likely benefit from frequently seeing your own customized version of the Synclecron. For example, when was the last time you looked at a clock and felt comforted to your core? (Sure, it’s reassuring to know that you are on time for your 9 o’clock appointment -- but is it deeply reassuring?) In these ever more stressful times, it might be very nice to be able to take a moment now and then to experience a more primal kind of reassurance -- just by doing something as simple and easy as merely looking at a clock. One that tells your body what something deep inside of it every day and night needs to know!

Whether someone is sick or well, the Synclecron can have great value because it tells two kinds of time: what your mind needs to know to get you to your next meeting on time -- AND ALSO what your body needs to know to, much more knowledgeably, regulate your circadian rhythms. And that’s where the comfort factor comes in, big time! Those who frequently look at free displays of GreenTyme on the Web, with Synclecrons customized to their longitudes and latitudes, often say that seeing their localized timewholes make them feel happy – curiously comforted in a way that has to be experienced to be appreciated.

You can’t go home again, but you and your "inner child" can begin getting the curiously comforting feelings and perhaps huge health benefits of often seeing your own customized to your place in time and space "kinderclock". All it takes is: 1) first getting a helpful orientation here using Part One of GreenTyme's entry in the SciArt project of the University of Virginia -- and 2) then visiting GTyme.org from time to time during the day and night.

Also available soon: gty.me, mobile edition of Synclecronic GreenTyme for the browsers of iPhones, Google phones, BlackBerries, and other mobile devices. BTW, Yale S.Y. Landsberg, inventor of the Synclecron, and his team of GreenTymers also contribute Synclecrons running on used laptops to nursing homes with Alzheimer’s patients. And soon schools for autistic children, and hospital Intensive Care Units. So if you would like to donate a very old laptop that works, you can help change the world for the better, one biological clock at a time.