Meditation has helped relax thousands of people for as many years, returning them to their daily routines with a sense of calm.
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Some studies on meditation indicate that it helps to reduce insomnia and stress.
Modern technology has developed some great apps for people who want to meditate.
Here are some of those great apps for your iPhone and Android devices.
Omvana is a library of guided meditation apps, offering a library of recordings that target everything from decreasing stress to losing those last five kilos.
It has a large collection, which provides a lot of creative audios.
Omvana also connects to HealthKit (that app on your iPhone with the pink heart in the middle, for the uninitiated) to suggest meditations based on your stress levels.
Insight Timer offers several guided meditations by teachers like Eckhart Tolle who wrote the cult self-help book, The Power of Now.
If you wish to meditate in complete silence instead, Insight Timer will time your session and wake you to the sound of an authentic Tibetan singing bowl.
You can also configure it to ring at any interval you wish.
Calling itself “your very own personal trainer, here to help you train your mind”, Headspace will teach you the basics of meditations, provided you surrender 10 minutes of your day.
If you opt into the program, it offers you a tracking page for your progress, a buddy system designed to help you motivate your friends, reminders for staying on track, and a wide range of recordings for different moods and lifestyles.
The Mindfulness App, named for the popular cognitive self-help method, lets you create your own guided meditations -customising how long and what type you want to do that day.
It also has a convenient reminder function, to help maintain your practice throughout the day.
Buddhify is for those looking to get something specific out of a guided meditation.
The app contains custom recordings for 15 possible scenarios from your day, including “feeling stressed”, “difficult emotions”, “going to sleep”, “travel” and “walking in the city”.
Want to gauge your progress?
It stores all the stats and presents graphs to track your activity.
Walking Meditations is a great app if you are stuck at your desk most days.
We recommend this app for busy people who want to meditate when they can fit it in.
There’s a choice of three short tracks, each with a different focus - ideal for a mindfulness fix on your lunch-break.
