A calmer and peaceful self is not just an ideal thought, you can achieve it by giving yourself just 5-10 minutes daily. In a fast-paced life, where you have to fit everything in just under 24 hours, it is natural to push several things under the rug to accommodate time for higher priority things. But if the thing under the rug is your peace and healthier mind then you need to stop.
Sitting in the privacy of your room you can tap into these calm-inducing, self-care apps which help you relax through guided meditation:
1. Calm
Calm is one of the most popular apps in the field of software-driven relaxation techniques. It helps its users meditate, sleep, and relax. It promises visible effects on its users in terms of lowering stress levels, anxiety, and more restful sleep through guided meditations.
Just by downloading this app, you’ll discover how meditation can improve your mood and your life. It has features ranging from nighttime relaxation to a music section.
The first session is free in a series of 7 Days to Focus, 7 Days to Happiness, and 7 Days to Self-Esteem. The subscription is cheap if you’re looking to invest in a daily healthy habit of checking in with your emotions.
Available for iPhone and Android.
2. Headspace
Achieving mindfulness and conscious happy thoughts are made simple with guided meditations suitable for all levels from Headspace. Why should you try this at least once? Meditation is said to help improve your focus, exercise mindful awareness, relieve anxiety and reduce stress. Start off simple and easy with the apps free Take10 programme and you’ll be taught the basics of meditation in just 10 minutes each day.
Available for iPhone and Android.
3. Pacifica
Stress and anxiety can be crippling and come in the way of you living your life. Pacifica describes itself as an app for “stress, anxiety, and depression based on cognitive-behavioural therapy, mindfulness, and wellness. Pacifica is designed as a daily tool to help people address stress and anxiety at a gradual pace.” An overall helpful app, Pacifica encourages you to track your daily activities and asks how they might relate to your stress. Logging emotions is highly recommended for adults, so this app helps you record your daily thoughts and feelings. This will help melt away your worries.
Available for iPhone and Android.
4. Adult Colouring
Children find the smallest of joys in scribbling on walls and blank pages, newspapers and magazines. We don’t know why but their creativity flows freely and this triggers happiness. But colouring books are not for children only.
The hot new relaxation trend is the Adult Colouring Book. Turn on the mesmerising ambience and occupy yourself in idle hours of peaceful colour therapy with hundreds of designs to colour in. Designs include complex mandalas, flora, fauna, geometric, and many more types of artwork.
Available for iPhone and Android.
