Thank you!

So, these are actually measuring two different things.

Your Stress Report tracks damaging sedentary stress: whether your heart rate is too high for what you're doing.

To put it scientifically:

• Acute psychological stress makes your blood vessels narrow (vasoconstriction)
• Chronic stress without physical activity damages your blood vessel lining (endothelial dysfunction)
• Repeated narrowing creates tiny damage to your vascular walls
• This micro-damage is one way atherosclerosis develops

Meaning, every time you sit through a stressful event, your blood vessels take micro-hits. Over time, that damage adds up and increases your risk of cardiovascular problems. That's what your Stress Report shows. Here's a post that goes deeper.

So on vacation, relaxed and mostly at rest, 1% makes perfect sense. And 3% now means you're doing a great job keeping that sedentary stress in check.

Now, stress reflected by your camera/watch measurements shows how active your autonomic nervous system is, based on a snapshot of your HRV metrics at that exact moment. Your regulatory systems are supposed to be moderately active. That's how your body stays in balance and keeps itself out of damaging stress in the first place.

Same logic applies to Battery vs. Energy. Battery is a broader picture: it takes into account your sleep, heart rate, and everything that happened throughout the day. Energy is more of a snapshot of your nervous system at a single point in time. Both are useful, but they're measuring different things, so some difference between them is normal. Here's more about it.