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Here are a few helpful apps to help you look after your mind.

Headspace

Meditation made simple. Guided meditations suitable for all levels from Headspace. Meditation can help improve your focus, exercises mindful awareness, relieve anxiety and reduce stress.

Calm

Calm is the app for mindfulness and meditation to bring more clarity, joy and peace to your daily life. Enjoy a calmer mind with guided meditations and experience more restful sleep with Sleep Stories.

Pacifica

An app to reduce your anxiety. Free daily tools for stress and anxiety based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy & Mindfulness.

Smiling Mind

Smiling Mind is modern meditation. This simple tool helps put a smile on your mind, anytime, anywhere and every day.

ReachOut WorryTime

Everyone has worries pop into their head from time to time, but sometimes they won’t go away and start to impact your everyday life. This app interrupts this repetitive thinking by setting aside your worries until later, so you don’t get caught up in them and can get on with your day.

1 Giant Mind

The 1 Giant Mind app is for anyone who wants to feel less stressed, more calm and present and experience greater health and wellbeing. Learn to meditate in 12 easy steps, then take the 30 day challenge to make meditation a daily habit.

Recharge

Recharge is a personalised six-week program that helps improve your general health and wellbeing by focusing on four key areas. (currently for iOS only)


Stop, Breathe & Think

If other meditation apps expect you to dive right in, Stop, Breathe & Think wants to help you get acquainted with mindfulness first. Check in with how you’re feeling and try short activities tuned to your emotions.

InsightTimer

Home to more than 3,500,000 meditators, Insight Timer is rated as the top free meditation app on the Android and iOS stores.

Aura

You are important. Prioritize health & happiness effortlessly with 3-minute meditations.

Omvana

Whether you’re a beginner who would like to learn how to meditate, or you wish to take your meditation practice to the next level, this app can help. Choose from hundreds of guided meditations, inspirational speeches, binaural tracks and much, much more.

Aware

Why be aware? Aware makes mindfulness meditation simple for you to help you stay calm, reduce stress, improve productivity and bring much more positivity into your life. Use mindfulness to re-frame recurring and intrusive thoughts for clearer thinking and relaxation.

Mindbliss

Mindbliss offers mindfulness meditation and breathing exercises tool for stress relief, deep breathing, positive affirmations and confidence boosters.

Mindfulness Daily

This app structures mindfulness around your daily life. Build a daily mindfulness practice, with just a few minutes per day.

Breathe2Relax

Initially designed for the military community but beneficial for use by anyone, this relaxation app trains you on the “belly breathing” technique that has proven benefits for your overall mental health.

Breethe

Learn simple mindfulness and meditation techniques to help you bring more happiness, calm and peace of mind into your life.

10% Happier: Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics

A clear, simple approach to meditation with a NY Times bestselling author and some of the most respected (and cool) meditation teachers on the planet. Designed for skeptics, built to help you keep it going.

Sattva

Sattva is a meditation timer and tracker with challenges, trophies and guided meditations to inspire you to meditate everyday! If you’re a competitive sort and are always looking to improve, try this app.

The Mindfulness App

Start your journey to a more relaxed and healthier state of mind with The Mindfulness App. Whether you are just starting out or experienced in meditation, The Mindfulness App will help you to become more present in your daily life.

SimpleHabit

A daily 5 minute meditation aimed at busy people or those who just do not want to spend half an hour getting into the mindset for meditation.

MindFi

This app helps you to set up quick and easy mindfulness routines that users will find easy to stick with. You don’t even have to close your eyes.

Not on your phone?

No problems. Here are a few desktop applications that can bring a little mindfulness and happiness into your day…

 

Pixel Thoughts

A 60 second meditation tool to help clear the mind. Do it right at your desk, nothing needs to be installed. All you need is an internet connection.

Bliss

This is a Chrome extension that helps you become happier and more successful with the most effective exercises from positive psychology. It starts by fostering the habit of gratitude.

Bell of Mindfulness

This is a Chrome extension that reminds us to breathe and be mindful of our body and mind. It will chime a bell at an interval you choose and at a volume you choose. (previously also available on Firefox but won’t work with Firefox Quantum)

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