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For a onetime fee users can download and listen to timed meditations on their smartphone with basic guided meditation vocals and optional background music or nature sounds. There are limited options, although the simplicity is what makes this app appealing. Mary is a counsellor and healing arts practitioner, and her husband is a music composer. This is a straightforward app created by husband and wife Meditation Oasis team, Mary and Richard Maddux. Like Smiling Mind, Stop, Breathe & Think was created by a non-profit organisation (Tools for Peace), and is entirely free. What better way to instil this concept than to Stop, Breathe & Think? This wonderful mindfulness app makes it easy to take a daily pause in your day to check in with yourself, and through regular practice, you can broaden perspective and ‘create your own personal force field of calm and peace.’ Users can enter their present mood and then the app provides options for the most useful meditations to use. Mindfulness is all about being present and aware in each moment. Calm continually adds more unique content, but users have to subscribe for access.

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The app can be downloaded for free with plenty of content, including more than 20 soothing audio/visual nature backgrounds, trackable timed sessions and free guided meditations, such as the 7 Days of Calm series and a meditation for easing tension and a body scan. CalmĬalm is a simple smartphone app that teaches mindfulness and makes it easy to follow a daily meditation practice. Tracking statistics, the ability to connect with friends and rewards help to make Headspace one of the most engaging smartphone mindfulness apps. This app focuses on training the brain through a selection of special series meditations in areas such as health, relationships and performance, as well as through dozens of one-off and bite-size guided meditations for a quick centring, calming mindfulness fix.

Headspace, conceived by meditation teacher Andy Puddicombe, coins itself as ‘a gym membership for the mind.’ Users can start out with a free 10-day mindfulness meditation program known as ‘Take 10,’ and then begin a paid subscription if interested in more content. Badges, reminders and a recorded history help to encourage daily use and make practicing mindfulness a purely positive, rewarding experience. Kids start with a fun meditation called ‘The Bubble Journey,’ while adults start with a basic body scan. Each age group is given a set of guided meditations designed to bring users from a beginning level to a ‘mindful master’ level over time. The app can be downloaded for free, and then getting started is as simple as registering and choosing your age preference. With soothing colours and a simple, modern design, Smiling Mind is enjoyable to use and very intuitive. It was created as a non-profit initiative to improve the lives of Australians through increasing clarity, calm and contentment and reducing stress via mindfulness instruction and encouragement. Smiling Mind is a lovely Australian mindfulness meditation smartphone app to experience, for both adults and kids.

Here we review the top 5 mindfulness apps recommended by psychologists. There are many mindfulness apps for smartphones that can guide people through practicing mindfulness each day. Psychologists, like us, can only see patients for a short time each week, but patients can work on mindfulness exercises to reduce anxiety throughout the week with the help of new technology. Mindfulness is at first glance a simple concept (if you need a refresher check out our mindfulness 101 post), but without regular practice, the mind will tend to fall back into its old habits of worrying about the past and future and allowing negative thoughts to create unnecessary, harmful doubt and anxiety.

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