Recommended apps for meditation : Insight Timer

App for meditation habits

So far I keep mentioning why meditation is important , how to do it in daily life, and introducing some tools for the beginner,

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One of the ways to make the meditation habit is, that you feel interested and keep reminding yourself. Of course, there are various materials on the internet such as YouTube and some lectures but isn’t it tiring you keep searching for it?

Today Let me share a meditation application that you can use. Last time I shared some useful meditation apps that you can use. If you are curious, you can check this post here.

App for meditation: Insight Timer

Today I want to share of my thoughts of ‘Insight timer’ app. Some features are free but once you pay for membership you can use various contents.
The membership cost is $60 per year you have a trial period during the 7 days. Once you use it for free time, you can consider whether you pay or not.

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Once you download this app, they ask some general question about myself such as what do I interested in, why I try to use this app. Also set my born year and profiled

As you can guess from the application name, one of the features of this app is to set the time with various instruments. Because of this feature, I can called it this app for meditation.

Like the below image, set the time with what you like. Surprisingly, it has wooden tools or instruments that are used in the temple or oriental traditional instruments. Especially, if you are a plus member(premium member) they will provide new bells every month. You can set the various bells or, ambient sounds. Even you can set the bell’s interval and start sounds.

Of course, someone think this app has too fancy an alarm feature. It is because alarm and timer feature is really basic, you can find it from the phone easily.

But I believe that when you distinguish some timer from the regluar one it help you to focus on meditation.
If you used a basic timer from your phone, you might feel you got disturbed by this noisy alarm. Even you can’t focus well by worrying about when this alarm will ring. Even it gives you to bad impression of meditation.

Although choosing the bell sounds in this app is a really small feature, but once you used it you found it you totally focus on the meditation well.

Maybe someone used the short song to set some specific minutes. But it is hard to control the detail time measure such as 1 minutes 1 second or 3 seconds. Also, humans easily get used to some sounds. At first you might be totally in the mediation. Once you used this song several times, instead of focusing on the meditation you start to focus on some pitch of songs or patterns. eventually, instead of meditation you just will be waiting until this song will be finished.

However, once you use various instruments by using this ‘Light Timer’. Every time you will be new to those new sounds. Even some unique sounds stimulate your imagination and cause you to focus on the meditation.

Because of that reason, it makes the user immersed in the meditation.

App Functions

Except this features, It provided various resources for the beginner. On the home tap, it have sleep, breathe, new courses, workplace, morning etc menu.

As you can guess from sleep and breathe, it have some contents to help for relax and breathe. On the course part, it contains various courses you can easily search by keyword, lecturer , or period of days.

It also has a menu of check-in menu that can fill out my mood today. Once this mood chart is filled I realize who I control my mood and how I fill my day with eventually these days become week and months. It changes me. Except it, it has a journal tap that writes down my thoughts for today. As you know writing a journal is really important by focusing my self. Although you are not writing a journal, this app helps you to make a habit of it by a simple layout format. The good thing is these journals are easily forwarded to other apps.

The Journal top is for recording myself, there is Quotes tap that is motivated by others. Interesting is, that people can comment about this quote and they can share their opinion and get positive energy.

In addition, there are music yoga and live tabs.

In the music section, you can listen to various genres of music, as well as natural sounds (rain, water), musical instruments, etc. Yoga and Live Tap take place in real time. If you go in on time, you can hear tips on how to do yoga or mindfulness. Since it is live, I can share opinions and do things together with other members, so I think it is effective in forming habits.

In addition, there are challenge and company-related tabs. For company-related matters, you must authenticate your company email before you can access it. The challenge part is a course where you practice with a certain period of time and topic, such as 7 to 28 days, to form habits. Since it is a challenge, it is structured so that you must listen to all the lectures given each day before you can move on to the next lecture.

As such, this app includes a variety of functions and content. So, I often think I’ll watch it later, but I can’t find the content. There is a bookmark function for such cases. Bookmarking is effective because you can listen to the lecture over and over again at any time.

Insight Timer Review

What I personally liked was that the timer function was powerful, so I thought it would be effective if I used it to practice meditation alone or organize my thoughts. Even for me by using their timer I can focus longer than before.

In addition, I think it is a big advantage that there is a live channel so you can communicate with other people and share your difficulties.

However, the downside is that, as mentioned earlier, there is a lot of content, so it takes a long time to find the content that suits me, and it is a bit cumbersome to have to create and manage a menu in the bookmarks.

Other than that, it’s a good app for meditation overall.

Recommended apps for meditation habits

Application for meditation habits

Today meditation has a spotlight whole over the countries because of plenty of beneficial of it. Even some companies started meditation sessions at the workplace for employees and mindfulness classes also opened at the sports centers too. If you are interested in this class but, you don’t have enough time or there is no class nearby, then you can try to use the meditation application. In this post, let me introduce some applications of meditation that I used for a few days.

Application for meditation: Aura

The first application that I want to share is Aura.

This app is a paid app and can be used by paying $11.99 per month or $59.99 per year. When you first sign up, you can explore the app for free for 7 days. If you look at the landing page of this app (at the very beginning), it says all in one. So, it is quite useful as it provides various content other than meditation.

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When you first install the app, it is complicated because you have to enter quite a lot of information.

You need to check your age, the time you want to use, the nationality of the coach you are taking classes from, and the field you are interested in.

Although it is a bit cumbersome, it has the advantage of allowing you to quickly find the information that is right for you by recommending content to suit your tastes based on the data.

You can also select the content you are interested in, and it is divided into 11 types of content, including mindfulness, ASMR, prayer, and work wellness. You can also choose a topic based on when you want to use the app. For example, if you need advice and coaching on health management, health coaching,

If you need to manage stress at work, then check on ‘Work’

When you are depressed, you can choose the ones that suit you by selecting ‘Depression’. In particular, the Aura app also has a separate session called Beginner Meditation, which will be helpful for those who are starting to meditate for the first time and do not know how to form habits, starting with breathing.

App Functions

After basic settings, there are 5 tabs at the bottom.

Sleep tap includes sounds, ASMR, music, stories, etc. that help you fall asleep. You can set the duration of the time, this content will continue until you fell asleep. Additionally, there are even stories that are good for children to listen to before going to bed. If your child does not sleep well, it would be a good idea to help them develop sleeping habits by listening to this content together.

Coaching is conducted 1:1, and after choosing an instructor that suits you, you can learn about your attitude toward life and stress management methods by taking classes. However, for this part, you must pay an additional amount to the instructor. This is not a free service.

The Live tab has the advantage of allowing you to actually listen to teachers’ coaching, so if you find a coach that suits you, you can continue taking their classes over and over again.

Aura’s home page recommends sessions, classes, and podcasts worth listening to today. When you click the mail icon on the right, the notifications item appears, where you can check the features session. In particular, you can listen to the health management know-how of famous celebrities, and by listening, you can learn about how they managed their mental health to get to that point.

Lastly, on the me page, you can check the content you recently listened to or saved. There is also a section at the bottom where you can check your mood called My mood. You can check how your mood is changing while using the app.

Aura Review

I used this Aura app for 5 days so far, I really enjoy this app. It pushes an alert nudge and reminds me to start the mindfulness course. It is really helpful for my insomnia. Usually, I can’t sleep well by thinking something has not happened yet, however, once I start listening to the ASMR, or calm music, I stop thinking, and makes me relax too.

Also, once in a while, I took a celebrity session from New on Aura. That is also really helpful to how to maintain my mental health.

Application for meditation: Headspace

This Headspace app focuses on well-being with mindfulness. You have to pay $12.99 for one month or $69.99 for one year, and you can use it for free for 14 days.

I especially like the app because of its cute UI, and I have been consistently sending meditations where I can enjoy happy ticks and other features. After initially installing, you will almost see a screen like this, and you can turn it on by pushing it to start with pairing, filling, and breathing.

It consists of three tabs. First, the Today tab introduces content that can be done in the morning, afternoon, and evening, and can be compared in your own time.

The tab consists of various contents based on keywords. Surprisingly, there are keywords with interesting topics such as Women’s collection and Beginner Meditation, so I will continue to use the app for a long time. Also, there is Mindful Money, and there are items introduced on how to manage and save money. Also, most videos are about 3 to 5 minutes long, so you can watch them without any pressure.

The My Page section allowed me to keep a record of the videos I had watched. In the part where I ask questions, I am trying to analyze my mind’s tasks so that I can see if my stress is a big deal.

Headspace Review

This Headspace app is a simple and really cute design with practical content. I believe this is a really good app for the beginner of meditation and mindfulness

So far, I just reviewed the Application for meditation (Aura, Headspace). I will use more apps and share it soon!

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