1. Featuring our scientific Awareness, Connection, Insight, and Purpose, Well-being Framework, the Healthy Minds Program is a holistic, all-encompassing meditation app that offers the best of both guided meditations and opportunities to learn.
2. Richard Davidson and the team at Healthy Minds Innovations & the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, the Healthy Minds Program trains your mind through meditation and podcast-style lessons to develop skills for gaining focus, reducing stress, and maintaining positive social connections.
3. Thanks to our pioneering scientific research, the Healthy Minds Program offers the first mobile mental and emotional well-being assessments.
4. Research with the Healthy Minds App showed that just 5 minutes a day of practice leads to a 28% reduction in stress, an 18% reduction in anxiety, a 24% reduction in depression, and a 13% increase in social connection.
5. You’ll learn simple skills to enhance personal well-being, build healthy relationships, and improve communication, performance, and creativity.
6. The Healthy Minds Program is made possible by our donors, who support our vision of a kinder, wiser, more compassionate world.
7. Learn about your current level of well-being and contribute to cutting-edge research on the science of well-being.
8. While many meditation apps can claim the scientific benefits of meditation, our practices are developed directly from neuroscientific research.
9. Our guided path offers step-by-step instructions for becoming more present in the moment and developing a sense of purpose, meaning, and connection in life.
10. Our app features active meditation practices that fit into your busy lifestyle.
11. You’ll also hear from the world’s foremost neuroscientists about neuroplasticity and how to train your mind.
1. Here are some of the best features that make this one of my favorite meditation apps: - ALL content is free, with no ads! - Research-based, includes interviews with experts in academia - Choice of sitting or active mode.
2. So far, this app feels like a full-fledged experience, complete with guided lessons and practice, for the price of zero dollars.An amazing way to stay on track with guided meditations to help with stress relief and compassion.
3. Active mode is great for when you are driving or doing chores - See your progress over time with their quizThe app is really great when it works, I've never managed to sustain a mindfulness practice this long on my own.
4. Just when it seemed like they might have fixed the bug causing it to lose my place along the way, now it stops opening altogether! I love this app! It's aided me in getting into a habit of meditation.
5. It is customizable with active and sitting meditations and your choice of voices and durations of sessions.
6. I like the program and want to continue, but the constant interruptions to the app working are making me want to look elsewhere for something more reliable.I’ve been using Healthy Minds about 3 weeks.
7. I enjoy seeing my progress, and look forward to the exploring the additional meditations when I complete the main journey!My favourite app.
8. It's nice that the tone is neutral, does not seem to be an ideology being pushed.This app did have some bugs and glitches before, but it seems to be working well now.
9. It is well worth your time, and I have even donated to the cause... It does have one flaw: no offline mode.
10. However, the android software user interface is clunky and bug ridden making it hard to pause, rewind, or repeat sessions.
11. But, the bugs are annoying!Great for beginners! I just started practicing, and the way this app was developed makes it easy for me to choose how and when I meditate.