Need help mellowing out lately? These meditation apps might calm you down

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/03/30/need-help-mellowing-out-lately.html

This might be the most relevant and timely boingboingshop post ever.

How old am I that seeing the headphone jack come out of the bottom of that phone stresses me?

Don’t answer that, please.

Deep… relaxing… breath…

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Yeah, but meditation and relaxation shouldn’t cost so much, especially at times like this.

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Insight app has 40k free meditations, with a decent system for sorting them out, by topic, by voices or not, music or not, male or female voices, duration, etc.

https://insighttimer.com/meditation-app
Click on “meditiations” in the first screen, then “meditations” in the second screen.
There is a paid option, but they’re not at all pushy.
Also long playing nature sounds for cheery background while working, or for getting to sleep.

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I agree. Those prices are, for the most part, absurd.

I’m a big fan of https://mynoise.net for soothing background sounds. Best of all it’s mostly free, but you can make a modest donation if you wish.

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I recommend “Mindfulness in Plain English” by Henepola Gunaratana. The whole book can be downloaded as PDF for free, is very technical and low on dogma.

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