The Mindfulness App App Reviews

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This is an excellent app for both beginning and developing a mindfulness practice. I will describe the features that have been most helpful, and the problem that caused me to give the app four stars instead of five. The "Getting Started"meditations are a very helpful introduction and orientation to beginning a mindfulness practice. The"Guided Meditations" are an excellent way to learn how to do mindfulness. The times can be gradually increased as your skill develops. Finally, the "Silent Meditations" are fully customizable way to carry on your mindfulness practice. The purchased/subscribed guided meditations seem like they would be very helpful but I have not use them to review them. In the first version of the app you had to purchase each one of these separately. In the current version you get a subscription which includes all of them. My favorite feature of the app is the statistics. You can see how many meditations, the duration of those meditations, the cumulative amount of time and number of sessions for each week, month, and year you have been practicing. This is a great help in keeping you motivated and seeing your progress in how your practice is becoming more skillful and regular. The only reason I gave this app four stars instead of five is that after about a year of problem free use it started developing bugs where it would freeze in the middle of meditations. At the suggestion of the developers I uninstalled and reinstalled the app in that appears to have resolved the problem. Unfortunately I lost all my statistics for over a year of practice. Prior to this problem I could look at each week, month, and year to see how my practice developed and where I was lapsing. I could actually see that I was meditating or during months that were more stressful, and slacking off of that when things were going well. But being able to see it was very helpful. Losing all that data was very upsetting. The problem seems to have been resolved by the uninstall and reinstall. Hopefully the developers will continue to improve the app and prevent this type of problem in the future.

Plug in some noise cancelling earbuds and prepare to zen out! I used this app to learn and implement the practice of meditation. The introductory guided meditations are great for getting started, and the guided meditations are excellent for moving forward with your practice from there. Easy to use, zero bugs to date, and very effective!