{"id":503,"date":"2015-03-01T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/?p=503"},"modified":"2015-08-12T21:03:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T04:03:11","slug":"meditation-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/2015\/03\/01\/meditation-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditation apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can a smartphone (or tablet, or laptop) be conducive to the cultivation of mindful awareness? It just might if it happens to equipped with a <strong>meditation app<\/strong>. The NY Times Personal Tech file published <a title=\"Apps for Meditation and Calming | NY Times, Personal Tech, Feb 25, 2015\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/02\/26\/technology\/personaltech\/video-feature-apps-for-meditation-and-calming-on-iphone-and-android.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&amp;smprod=nytcore-ipad&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>reviews<\/strong><\/a> of four iOS and Android meditation apps, <a title=\"Calm | iTunes\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/calm-meditate-sleep-relax\/id571800810?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Calm<\/strong><\/a>, <a title=\"Headspace | iTunes\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/headspace.com-meditation-mindfulness\/id493145008?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Headspace<\/strong><\/a>, <a title=\"Happier | iTunes\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/happier\/id499033500?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Happier<\/strong><\/a>, and <a title=\"Digipill | iTunes\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/digipill-sleep-relaxation\/id578068250?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Digipill<\/strong><\/a> that claim to help users calm down, cultivate awareness, get better sleep, and so on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Some of these apps are free and some are not. I have not tried any of them and I am not endorsing any of them. If you decide to try one, let me know what your experience is like.<\/p>\n<p>Update (Mar 30, 2015): Robin passed along info about another app: <a title=\"Simply Being | iTunes\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/simply-being-guided-meditation\/id347418999?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Simply Being &#8211; Guided Meditation for Relaxation and Presence<\/strong><\/a> (available for iPhone and iPad).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can a smartphone (or tablet, or laptop) be conducive to the cultivation of mindful awareness? It just might if it happens to equipped with a meditation app. The NY Times Personal Tech file published reviews of four iOS and Android meditation apps, Calm, Headspace, Happier, and Digipill that claim to help users calm down, cultivate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,14,18,19,5],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-apps","tag-awareness","tag-instructions","tag-sleep","tag-stress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":686,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}