An honest assessment of your emotional state in relation to where you are and what you are trying to accomplish, without judgment, has many progressive benefits. Mindfulness meditation has been known to help with depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, general stress management, work efficiency and alertness.
There are some apps that are targeted specifically toward mindfulness meditation, and there are also apps that can work great as supplements to guide you in practice. Here are 10 particularly good ones.
1. The Now
The Now is simple yet profound. It introduces helpful insights through push notifications to remind the user of different ways of looking at things. For example, one such prod tells you to take notice of details in familiar places and see if you notice any changes.
Source: The Now in the App Store
Download The Now for iOS.
2. Headspace
Headspace‘s simple guided meditations encourage good breathing. Taking 10 minutes a day to focus on breathing and observe your body in relation to its surroundings helps you feel more present. The app offers 10 free meditations, with a subscription for more available.
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Get Headspace for iOS and Android.
3. Elevate
Elevate is a fabulous, colorful, stimulating brain-training app that’s comprehensive in scope, yet is simple enough to do on a work break. Playing the games every day has been said to have profound results in many users.
Get Elevate for iOS and Android.
4. The Mindfulness App
The Mindfulness App also has guided meditations, but of different styles. It also has lists of mindfulness techniques and strategies, and questions to pose to yourself.
Get The Mindfulness App for iOS and Android.
5. Ideament
Ideament is a mind-mapping app to help you get anything into perspective. Take any idea or thought and expand on it through a visual diagram.
6. Happier
Observing positive things in everyday life and then posting about them is the objective of Happier. It’s a community of people who share and express gratitude for the nice things throughout their day. Just looking at the posts helps with positive thinking.
7. BeautifulNow
BeautifulNow strives to show you as many beautiful things going on in the world as it can. It’s a great way to have positive news from all over the world at your fingertips accompanied by lovely visuals.
8. I Ching: Book of Changes
I Ching: Book of Changes is an app for browsing the I Ching. Consult the oracle to gain new perspectives and lots of healthy things to ponder.
Source: I Ching: Book of Changes on the App Store
Get I Ching: Book of Changes for iOS.
9. Monument Valley
Monument Valley is a puzzle game that’s beautiful to look at, with zen-life graphics and a simple objective. Just as in life, where solutions are often found through different approaches, the progression of this game depends on the player’s resourcefulness in changing how they see the puzzles.
Get Monument Valley for iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, and Windows.
10. Rumi the Mystic
Rumi the Mystic offers daily words of the mystic poet to help the user ask deep questions and find inner peace.
