Wellness Apps To Help You Meditate, Focus, And Improve Yourself Over The Break
Use this quarantine break wisely!
We’ve got a long quarantine break ahead of us. And with the enforced “stay at home” policy, without the hours spent on the road, and the night-outs with friends and family, many of us are suddenly finding more time on our hands. If you’re looking for ways to make use of your time more wisely, why not use this time to start improving on yourself and start embarking on things you’ve always want to try?
Wellness is a journey, a constant and consistent effort to live healthy and clean. But the thing about starting your wellness journey is that it actually requires focus and commitment. With less things on your plate right now, take the time to get into the wellness zone.
What’s great about this quarantine period is that it may last weeks. And building a routine doesn’t happen overnight. Take advantage of these weeks to start your wellness journey and embed it into your everyday so by the time the quarantine lifts, you’re prepared to still stick to your new routine as you go back to your normal grind.
Whether you’re wanting to start eating better, get into a more mindful state, learn how to meditate, or improve on your overall focus, here are some wellness apps that could help you get on and start working on your wellness goal.
Wellness Apps to Download Now
Wellness Apps to Download Now
Fabulous: Daily Motivation
Developed by Duke University Behavioral Economics Lab, Fabulous is an app that wants to help you better yourself slowly and surely. Upon launching the app, it tries to know you more and your goals through a series of questions so that it can tailor-fit its challenges for your needs. It then starts a four-week program that lets you slowly start building good habits to target things you want to improve. It’s all about starting and following through with small habits such as drinking water or exercising or preparing a healthy breakfast. These habits start small and few, but then builds up into a good morning ritual that can kick your day off with energy and focus.
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Remente – Self Improvement
As much as you need to exercise your body, you also need to exercise your brain’s strength to handle tasks, goals, and everyday stress. Remente is a sort of a virtual coach to help you set goals to stay motivated such as completing 10,000 steps a day, keeping a journal, start saving, or reading a book in 7 days. Just like Fabulous, it banks on creating that routine you can keep bringing with you as time pass. Create a daily planner of to-dos, access the life assessment tool to give you an overview of what you focus on in your life, understand your mood changes through the mood journal, and get access to curated articles and exercises to improve your outlook in life.
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Headspace: Meditation & Sleep
Headspace is an app that lets you start on your mindfulness journey through guided meditation. It lets you improve on different aspects of your life such as self-esteem, handling stress and anxiety, increasing your productivity and focus, and so much more through hundreds of meditation sessions. Whether you’re just a beginner who wants to start learning about guided meditations or you’re someone who wants to improve their meditation practice, you’ll find this app very useful—just like Emma Watson and Gwyneth Paltrow did!
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Calm – Meditate, Sleep, Relax
Take this opportunity to find the calm in the storm with this award-winning meditation and relaxation app. Just like Headspace, Calm also offers a variety of self-guided meditation sessions to help you address your own personal problems like anxiety, social media toxicity, or just achieve overall mindfulness. It also comes with masterclasses hosted by experts for more informational sessions that can help you overcome obstacles and challenges that you might face on your mindfulness journey.
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Smiling Mind
We’re all prone to spending time thinking about the past, worrying about the future. But what if you can fully engage your senses deliberately and process what we see, hear, feel, touch, to be more connected to the present? Smiling Mind is an app developed by a non-profit organization to encourage modern meditation, a few minutes a day, to achieve mindfulness in things we do. What’s interesting about this app is that it has tailor-fit programs for all ages and needs, from kids as young as seven years old to adults to sports enthusiasts and to those in the workplace.
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Quit Meat – Eastiest Way to Become Vegan
Maybe this is the time to start trying to be the vegan that you’ve always wanted to be? Quit Meat will help you reduce your meat intake at your own pace and lets you keep track of your animal products consumption, so you’ll see how much you’ve improved day to day. It also shows you the positive impact you’ve left in the environment because of your little efforts, to motivate you to continue eating less and less meat, until you’ve fully transitioned into a plant-based diet. It also comes with vegan recipes and substitutes so you’re always inspired to try and eat something new.
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Audible – Audiobooks and original series
You can also greatly improve your overall wellness by listening to books that resonate with you. Audiobooks have become popular because it lets you rest your eyes and you can listen to them while doing something else. Audible has the world’s largest selection of audiobooks and original podcasts. You can stream or download audiobooks, discover books related to your history, sync your library across different devices, control the narration speed, use a sleep timer for when you’re about to sleep, or even sample audiobooks you’re interested in purchasing.
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Sleep Cycle: Sleep Analysis & Smart Alarm Clock
Sleep is one of the most important things to help you boost your immune system, especially in these times of pandemic. If you want to improve on your sleep quality, sleeping aids like Sleep Cycle can help you. One, it can help you track your sleep quality depending on what you’ve done for the day—have you exercised, are you sick, did you take a bath before bed—so you know which circumstances lead you to better sleep. It can also track how long you snore, and wake you up during your lightest sleep phase so you’ll wake up energized. If you have trouble sleeping, you can also listen to stories that can help you get to sleep. At the end, it can come up with a comprehensive sleep data report to analyze your light sleep, deep sleep, and overall health.
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StayFree: Phone Usage Tracker & Overuse Reminder
This quarantine time is the best time to spend time with your family and do things that you’ve always wanted to do together—like cook, bake, learn how to dance or sing, play games, or clean. And by staying away from your phone and social media, you’ll actually find yourself spending more time with the people in your life. StayFree can help you beat your smartphone addiction and exercise more control in how you consume social media, by tracking how much time you spend on each app and even let you set usage limits for specific ones. You can also track how you improved in your usage throughout the week or month.
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Forest: Stay Focused
Forest is another interesting and multi-awarded app that helps curb your phone addiction. It can encourage you to stay focused on tasks you want to do or spend more time with your family, away from your phone and social media. Once you put down your phone, a seed will be planted in the Forest. And as time goes by, this seed will gradually grow into a tree as long as you don’t touch your phone. You can whitelist apps that won’t kill your tree if these apps can help you in your work such as e-mail apps. In fact, you can even plant real trees using coins earned through the app.
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