The search for relaxation is a high priority. The global demand shows increase in meditation Apps, the market analyst App Annie in the Report ‘The State of Mobile in 2019’ reported.
In addition, the owner would have spent inside and owners of mobile devices, in 2018, three times more money for health and meditation Apps than in the comparison year of 2016.
“Mobile Mindfulness”, i.e., the mobile mindfulness has become a household word. “Most of the people are by the needs of daily life rather mindless, so in a panic, and life in Autopilot,” says Ann-Carolin Helmreich, who works as a Coachin in Berlin.
Every day about 30 minutes to meditate made the least. “Mindfulness helps us to be present and to get back in the driver’s seat of life. Therefore, the Mobile Mindfulness is becoming more and more popular,” says Helmreich.
App Meditation between the door and the Angel
Many Apps rely on short meditation exercises that can be done between the door and the Angel, the Breakfast and the workplace. Can that be relaxing?
“For me personally, meditation Apps don’t go far deep enough,” says the psychologist Eva Kaczor from Berlin.
“Generally speaking, I find that Mindfulness Apps have created a great Opening and super applicability for the subject.”
Nevertheless, the Trend is towards mindfulness “to go”. The most popular Anti-Stress application in August 2019, according to App Annie, the evaluation of Headspace.
It attracts with Mini-meditations are also Stressed, which can not meditate for hours on your mind. “Even during the lunch break. breathing exercises for more energy for the rest of the day to generate,” says Ann-Carolin Helmreich.
And: “A short Meditation, for example, before a difficult Meeting, combines the own focus, makes more visible and more powerful.”
Relaxation incorporate into everyday life
Who incorporates meditation Apps in his daily life, and regularly meditate can benefit in the long term, such as Eva Kaczor explains: “The Regulation of the stress response is improving.”
In addition to Apps for mindful thoughts in order, but also popular, offering special breathing exercises, Calm, for example.
Users should wegatmen the Stress in short Exercises formally. Does it work? Yes, says Eva Kaczor: “We can affect the Autonomous part of our nervous system through the breath.”
Other Apps work with specific sounds. The so-called binaural Beats to help via headphones during the Meditation, says Helmreich. “There are in the App Insight Timer a lot.”
But the cell phone as a meditation Coach can go to the well? The excessive use of Smartphones is associated with stress and mental illness in adolescence, as psychologists, the American universities of San Diego and Florida State in a research article to describe.
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Mindfulness is also without a Smartphone
“Of course, mindfulness also comes without a mobile phone,” says Helmreich. A long walk in the forest, combined with a breathing exercise, do something that could reach the App never.
“It would also practice enough to make a calendar entry to a day of mindfulness – for example, when walk – to”, says the expert.
Also meditation Apps, users of help shortly before bedtime, are in the Trend. The App “Relax Melodies: Sleep and Yoga was one of” the Top Five Mindfulness Apps in August 2019. Here, users can create Songs, to weigh in the mind by gently lapping, birds singing and the soothing sound of the sea in the bedroom.
Other Apps that rely on deep relaxation: “I think Apps are great, the working with Yoga Nidra, the enlightening of sleep. This is kind of a more alert state of sleep. The effect after 30 minutes, they say, is equivalent to six hours of sleep,” says psychologist Eva Kaczor. Yoga Nidra is one such App.
For a change, you have to be ready
However, the developers of Mindfulness Apps usually require a fee for full access to all the content.
“Before you take out a subscription, you may ask the same question as in the gym: Is this really something I’m ready to pull. I want to change something in my life and a new habit to establish itself? Those who are committed to a subscription, you can safely go to be a day, the Exercises reminded,” says Helmreich.
Those who try actually to spend more time with the Smartphone, in order to counteract Stress, there are plenty of Mindfulness Apps in the App Stores.
Sources
- App Annie study (2019): The State of Mobile in 2019, archived from the original on 27.19.2019: https://www.appannie.com/en/insights/market-data/the-state-of-mobile-2019/
- App Annie study (2019): results – “Mobile mindfulness on world mental health day”, retrieved on 27.12.2019: https://www.appannie.com/en/insights/mobile-minute/mobile-mindfulness-on-world-mental-health-day/
- J. M. Twenge, T. E. Joiner (2019): Increases in Depressive Symptoms, Suicide-Related Outcomes, and Suicide Council Among U. S. Adolescents After 2010 and Links to Increased New Media Screen Time, archived from the original on 27.12.2019: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2167702618824060
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