Useful Meditation Apps

There are some wonderful Apps now available to support you in your meditation practice.   here's a few that I like:

Insight Timer

 Available for I-Pad, I-Phone and Android

This is a wonderful App from Spotlight Six Software for those who like to keep track of your Meditations.  If you are a therapist, masseur or some other healer, it's also a really nice way to time your sessions and gently let your client know that the session is coming to an end.

It has some lovely bells to start and finish your meditation in the gentlest of ways, and you can set the length of your meditation for whatever period you like.  You can even set interval bells for meditations that have different phases to them or just as a mindfulness reminder to bring you back into the present if you have a tendency to wander off in your meditation.   

Another great feature is the bells will ring, even if your phone is set to ‘silent’ so you don’t have to worry about any irritating phone calls whilst you are using the app during your meditation.

But it is so much more than just a meditation timer.

Quite often I will have wonderfully creative ideas during Meditation, that if not captured either after or even during the meditation, can drift back off into the ether never to be recovered.    Insight Timer has that covered as it has a journal attached that you can use to capture any insights, ideas or revelations immediately after your meditation.    

It also keeps a record of when and for how long you have meditated which can also be a useful thing.  It’s quite interesting to be able to note the correlations of what’s happening in your life generally against the regularity of your meditation practice.  For me, things always seem to be working better when I’m meditating regularly.

The graphics are very smart, navigation is easy and intuitive, and there are quite a lot of extras you can do like choose your own picture to have on the screen while you are meditating.

I give this App 5 stars.

Relaxing Sounds of Nature

  

Whilst not formally a ‘Meditation’ App this is a great App fpor those who like to be ‘meditated,’ using the latest technology.

There’s a heaps of these ‘relaxation’ apps available, most of which have sounds of birdsong, crickets, rain on a tin roof, waves etc, but Relaxing sounds of Nature is pretty sophisticated in that it allows you to:

• Mix 70 beautiful nature sounds (including 2 sets of Aussie birdsong) with 96 other relaxations sounds and music, including bells, windchimes, chanting, zen flutes etc.
• All sounds have their own individual volume controls, so you can make up mixes just the way you want.
• Save mixes that you particularly like.
• Set a timer, or have it fade out as an aid to gently falling to sleep at night, or even use it as an alarm clock for a soothing start to the day.
• There’s even some nice lullaby tunes for using with kids that are reluctant to fall asleep.
• Included are brain-wave entrainment tones for Beta, Alpha, Theta and Delta, if you are wanting to explore and develop different brain-wave states.
• Can be played whilst using other apps
• You can even mix the sounds of nature with tracks form your own iTunes library!

Free for the lite version, but only .99c full the full version - great value for money.

Five stars for this one too.

Just on this theme of Nature Sounds, below is an interesting TED Talk by Julian Treasure on Sound Health, which includes a section on healthy things to listen to that support good hearing and good health.

If you have some favourite apps that support your personal evolution, then please let us know... we're always on the lookout for good ones to share with people.  
Thanks
StJohn