5 Apps That Promote Mindfulness

Written By Colēgia

Mindfulness involves becoming more aware of your emotions, thoughts, and surroundings. This also comes with a slew of benefits that help improve your mental, physical, and emotional health. Here are 5 of the top apps which promote mindfulness.

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Insight Timer

Insight Timer is a free app that allows for those practicing mindfulness and meditation to set a session and notifies them when the time is up. This app allows you to select a smooth and calming alarm sound to gently bring you out of your meditation. For beginner meditators, this app offers guided meditations, music tracks, ambient sounds, and progress tools to help you on your mindfulness journey.

“This app allows you to select a smooth and calming alarm sound to gently bring you out of your meditation.”

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Smiling Mind

The Smiling Mind app is a good choice for young kids and beginners looking to start meditation. This app was designed by psychologists and educators and includes programs for people of all ages. It specifically breaks down the programs into different age groups from 7 to 18 to ensure you get the best fit meditation for you. Included is a variety of options for those who play sports, classroom and workspace settings, and a sleep program.

“This app was designed by psychologists and educators and includes programs for people of all ages.”

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Alaia

Another good app for meditation, which has various features catered specifically for families, is Alaia. This is an app that offers guided meditations for users of all ages and gives parents control over their children’s screen time. This app is free for Colégia users as well. With its integrated parental guidance tools, Alaia is a great application for families that wish to engage in mindful meditation and also ensure the online safety of their children.

“This is an app that offers guided meditations for users of all ages and gives parents control over their children’s screen time.”

Calm

One of the most well-known meditation applications, Calm offers a wide variety of guided and unguided meditation sessions. Several require a subscription to the app but some are free. This app is suitable for anyone who wishes to follow multi-day courses rather than individual sessions.

“One of the most well-known meditation applications, Calm offers a wide variety of guided and unguided meditation sessions.”

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Headspace

Another popular app is Headspace, an app that aims to be your “personal trainer" in mindfulness. Within Headspace you can find hundreds of meditation sessions dedicated to specific purposes; from helping you sleep, to getting rid of anxiety, there is a course for almost anything. However, Headspace will eventually require you to pay a subscription, but you can still try this app for free.

No matter which app you use, mindfulness is a good thing to practice in your daily life, the benefits are countless and it’s easy! Simply taking ten minutes out of your day for one of these apps can make a world of difference.

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