The Wellbeing Apps You Need Right Now

April 6th, 2020

Life is stressful at the moment, it can feel tough to keep a positive mindset with all that’s happing in the world, especially during these uncertain times. It can be difficult to not let anxiety and stress overwhelm you, however, there are many great wellness apps to help.

These are The Isbourne’s favourite wellbeing apps that will help you live a positive, mindful life while also helping you with your anxiety, stress and mental health.

Headspace

Headspace is an easy app that helps you think mindfully every day. Through meditation and mindfulness tips, this app is fundamentally like a workout for your brain. Involving short 10-minutes meditations, visualisation, and mindful techniques, headspace will help calm, clear and open your mind. Users have said the app has increased their awareness, attention span and overall, helped keep them calm.

 

My Possible Self

My Possible self helps you monitor how you are feeling. Using the Moment’s section of the app, you can enter and track how you are feeling each day, enabling you to monitor your mental health, your emotions and effectively see what triggers your stress and anxiety. Helping you to deal with your mental health on a daily basis through effective tools.

 

Happy Not Perfect

Happy Not Perfect encourages you to mindfully reflect on your mood by asking you how you are feeling today and selecting an adjective that best reflects your mood.  You are then given effective motivation and facts to help clear your mind and mood.

 

Calm

Calm is a versatile app that offers an array of audios, tips, and facts to help track and resolve a range of different health issues mindfully, such as stress, anxiety and sleep.

 

Beeja

Tackling the stigma of mediation, Beeja, is designed for people seeking meditation at all levels. Whether you are a mindful meditation practitioner or a beginner, Beeja is here to help you through your journey for a more calm and mindful life, with useful tips and techniques for meditation.

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🎸Meditation for creativity🎨 In these times of social distancing and self isolation, many of us are rediscovering or taking up creative pursuits to keep ourselves occupied. Whether it’s getting in a bit of guitar practice, inventive cooking from a lockdown kitchen or cracking out the oil paints, creativity is both a vital part of self-care and also the way we will find solutions moving forward. This is why it’s a great idea to meditate – this practice has been found to support our creativity in a variety of ways! Brain scans demonstrate that meditators exhibit greater thickness in their prefrontal cortex, a part of the brain that Arne Dietrich (Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and author of How Creativity Happens in the Brain) argues is central to creativity. The practice of meditation can develop areas of the brain which are vital to our imagination, while also putting us in what is known as an alpha brain state. When we meditate, our brains produce alpha brain waves – something which can also happen when we are truly happy and relaxed, or out in nature. Evidence suggests that alpha waves generate unusual associations, with one study finding that when participants had higher levels of alpha brain waves in their right temporal brain area, they came up with associations that were more remote and less expected – perfect for creative work! #alphawaves #creativity #meditation #beeja #creativesofinstagram #meditatedaily

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