Headspace: Meditation & Sleep
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I really like it, however seems very expensive. It's a common barrier when I recommend it to people, given all other subscriptions left right and center. It's such a pity. I've decided to resubscribe, having left it for a while, but found myself hesitant on account of the fee. Nothing negative to say about the app. There's an awful lot there to work with, good intro, good stuff to maintain things thereafter, and to target specific areas of need.
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This is the BEST app by far for mindfulness
It’s almost embarrassing to say this, but I have been a “meditator” for about 30 years and I have to say that I never really got very much out of doing it. I tried so hard, but I’m finding out I never truly understood that “trying” to be a good meditator or mindful person, was missing what doing this was about. What I’m learning through this app is that “mindfulness” is about me - understanding myself first, and it’s a lot about acceptance. So with that understanding and acceptance I can begin to see “things” so much more clearly and why previous ways of thinking, particularly about myself, were holding me back from living my life and loving myself. And I’m finding that the more I practice self acceptance, the fears about living fully and going after what I want out of my life, are disappearing. The previous version of myself is rapidly becoming someone I only used to know, and this new ME is much more in line with who I’d always wanted to be. I’m able to try and do so much more, all while in the comfort that I am lovable, even if I fail at something. I simply dust myself off and try some more. This app has completely changed me and the way I’m able to appreciate all the good that’s in my life. And I’m worthy of going after the things I want for my life, while freeing me up to share my gifts with others and society in general. If this is where you find your life stalling out, this app will bring you back to yourself. -
It's a nice app for guided meditation especially nice for beginners. 4 stars for the sleep cast: Missing feature: it is not possible to fast forward the sleep stories. For me this is more important than the randomized stories. I keep starting from the beginning, best would be to go where I fell asleep last time. Bit frustrating and goes against the purpose of this app.Furthermore would be great to be able to download the story for phone in airplane mode. Can you add this? Many thanks!
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Facing down the rabbit hole
I discovered Headspace on Netflix. My life is a series of invitations to succumb to fear. My husband is a practicing psychologist who is on peritoneal dialysis for 10 hours every night and works remotely with patients for about 10 hours every day without complaint. We have been waiting for a kidney for two years. I am optimistic by nature but even if this was the only focus for concern it would be a lot. Unhelpfully, the list goes on with equivalent issues. I can’t work; I need to be on call because I am the go-to for support. I occupy my mind and time writing a book and renovating every room of our home one at a time amidst being available for nine blended (mostly grown) children and 5 grandkids, many of whom have special needs. I am busy but isolated like so many due to covid-19. Trying the Headspace series felt like meeting air; filling the natural and effortless need to breathe. It has provided me with a new lens through which to focus on challenges and see potential. I incorporate it into my waking routine at dawn and it positions me for whatever happens throughout the day, and differentiates a space that is my own. I turn 61 this month and for maybe the first time in a while, life feels lighter and brighter. It’s not about what you fear or can’t control or even the fact of fear. It’s about the lens through which you interpret your fears or challenges and making them your strengths and allies. Thank you Andy :-) -
The only reason I'm giving 4 stars is because for some reason, Google Assistant is often triggered in the middle of a sleep story causing it to stop. I've changed my mic settings, even turned it off and it still happens. Also, you should be able to have the option in all stories to choose with male or female voice to tell the story. I like some of the stories the women read but don't find their voices as relaxing.
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Tranquility
This app will give you more peace of mind than railing an ounce of horse tranquilizers in an open field. -
Encouraging
I’ve subscribed to Headspace for several years. I’m “not good” about meditating; I’ll go months without it even though I know it’s helpful when I do meditate. Even so, the messages and mindfulness are enduring. One of the features I really appreciate are the encouraging notes that come through every day. They’re so low pressure; there’s nothing about the notes that make me feel guilty - rather, they’re just an additional benefit. I do find value in the messages. Another helpful feature are the sleep sounds. The 8 hour ones are especially helpful to me overnight. I’d love it if they’d develop more 8 hour ones. Today, I had a date to meditate with my friend. This year we’re an ocean away from each other. We both feel the loss and we’re both having some trying times. Our shared meditation was a really positive expression of our connection. I absolutely recommend Headspace. -
Home button
There is no home button , you have to click back a bunch to get to Home Screen . Also need search icon too . Love the meditations and courses so far ! Day 10 for me helping me get a better routine and start my day ! -
Easy to Use
Relaxing, easy to use, large variety of meditations and sleep casts. You can tell they really care about their mission, and I know that sounds really cheesy but it’s true. -
FANTASTIC
Well at least when I make time to do it, but that’s on me, OVERALL this is a frigging phenomenal app and I highly recommend to anyone who wants to or already does practice meditation.
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I really like it, however seems very expensive. It's a common barrier when I recommend it to people, given all other subscriptions left right and center. It's such a pity. I've decided to resubscribe, having left it for a while, but found myself hesitant on account of the fee. Nothing negative to say about the app. There's an awful lot there to work with, good intro, good stuff to maintain things thereafter, and to target specific areas of need.
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This is the BEST app by far for mindfulness
It’s almost embarrassing to say this, but I have been a “meditator” for about 30 years and I have to say that I never really got very much out of doing it. I tried so hard, but I’m finding out I never truly understood that “trying” to be a good meditator or mindful person, was missing what doing this was about. What I’m learning through this app is that “mindfulness” is about me - understanding myself first, and it’s a lot about acceptance. So with that understanding and acceptance I can begin to see “things” so much more clearly and why previous ways of thinking, particularly about myself, were holding me back from living my life and loving myself. And I’m finding that the more I practice self acceptance, the fears about living fully and going after what I want out of my life, are disappearing. The previous version of myself is rapidly becoming someone I only used to know, and this new ME is much more in line with who I’d always wanted to be. I’m able to try and do so much more, all while in the comfort that I am lovable, even if I fail at something. I simply dust myself off and try some more. This app has completely changed me and the way I’m able to appreciate all the good that’s in my life. And I’m worthy of going after the things I want for my life, while freeing me up to share my gifts with others and society in general. If this is where you find your life stalling out, this app will bring you back to yourself. -
Facing down the rabbit hole
I discovered Headspace on Netflix. My life is a series of invitations to succumb to fear. My husband is a practicing psychologist who is on peritoneal dialysis for 10 hours every night and works remotely with patients for about 10 hours every day without complaint. We have been waiting for a kidney for two years. I am optimistic by nature but even if this was the only focus for concern it would be a lot. Unhelpfully, the list goes on with equivalent issues. I can’t work; I need to be on call because I am the go-to for support. I occupy my mind and time writing a book and renovating every room of our home one at a time amidst being available for nine blended (mostly grown) children and 5 grandkids, many of whom have special needs. I am busy but isolated like so many due to covid-19. Trying the Headspace series felt like meeting air; filling the natural and effortless need to breathe. It has provided me with a new lens through which to focus on challenges and see potential. I incorporate it into my waking routine at dawn and it positions me for whatever happens throughout the day, and differentiates a space that is my own. I turn 61 this month and for maybe the first time in a while, life feels lighter and brighter. It’s not about what you fear or can’t control or even the fact of fear. It’s about the lens through which you interpret your fears or challenges and making them your strengths and allies. Thank you Andy :-) -
A Bright Spot in a Dark World
You won’t regret buying a Headspace subscription. I often joke with people that Headspace is the one thing I would want to take with me to a desert island. If I were to cancel all of my subscriptions today, Headspace is the one exception I would make. I’m a high school English teacher, and our administration put together a month-long mindfulness education program for our students shortly after I subscribed. I had already raved to many of them about the app and the benefits of taking a couple of minutes out of their day to sit and be present. Lo and behold, Andy pops up on the next slide as our Ted Talk speaker of the day! On a more serious note, I suffer from debilitating chronic pain. I’m currently on long-term disability and a leave of absence from the classroom. Mindfulness, and the courses on managing pain, have been a tremendous help in my journey. Not only that, but I struggle with insomnia. My favorite part of Headspace, because of my (admittedly) vivid imagination, are the sleepcasts. I love falling asleep to Rainday Antiques. I can’t imagine doing anything but that ever again. I have learned to manage stress and anxiety in a way that I had never thought was possible. I have meditated in the waiting room of The Cleveland Clinic before my appointments. I once laughed at the idea of mindfulness and meditation. Now it’s an integral part of my life. It’s part of my journey, and I think everyone could benefit from it. -
The most useful thing I’ve done in 2020
This app has given me tools to deal with constant change. This past year, I’ve needed to pivot every day to face some new challenge outside as an essential worker, and at home in isolation with my partner. The tools I Iearned to use to be present in the moment and to accept change has benefited my partner and colleagues at work as much as my own peace of mind. I have very little control over my environment, but I can see my reaction, accept the emotions that rise up, and move on instead of getting lost or bound by them. This app has also benefited me by helping me get through insomnia. Sometimes it helps me get to sleep in the first place. Mostly it gives me tools to use to calm my mind and body when I wake up in the night buffeted by anxiety or lingering frustration from the day. Lastly, this app has given me a language to express the emotional upheaval and troubling questions that I used to just call anxiety. Naming what makes me feel upset has brought clarity to what can feel like a tempest at the time and allow me to look at my thoughts or, rather, face them. After acknowledging them, I can let them go. Sometimes I’m better at that than at other times. Regular exercise strengthens my focus, my ability to pivot and refocus, and builds roads of calm and quiet that the brain finds easier to fall into and travel due to constant use.
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It's a nice app for guided meditation especially nice for beginners. 4 stars for the sleep cast: Missing feature: it is not possible to fast forward the sleep stories. For me this is more important than the randomized stories. I keep starting from the beginning, best would be to go where I fell asleep last time. Bit frustrating and goes against the purpose of this app.Furthermore would be great to be able to download the story for phone in airplane mode. Can you add this? Many thanks!
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The only reason I'm giving 4 stars is because for some reason, Google Assistant is often triggered in the middle of a sleep story causing it to stop. I've changed my mic settings, even turned it off and it still happens. Also, you should be able to have the option in all stories to choose with male or female voice to tell the story. I like some of the stories the women read but don't find their voices as relaxing.
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Too pricey for a college kid!
I love this app. I tried the free trial and loved it. The guided meditations really make the work easy and I found myself in a inducing a meditative state without lots of effort. They literally have a guided meditation for any situation or mood so it feels like their library is limitless. Unfortunately my free trial ran out and I bought a few months of headspace. In a way buying the app encouraged me to use it because I was spending my own money so that was good. However, when I moved into my first apartment I didn’t have enough money to keep my subscription going. I would love to buy headspace for life but I just don’t have $300 extra dollars sitting around to spend. I also feel that the subscription is pricey for something i don’t always want to use everyday. On days where I wanted to take a break from using my phone I lost my meditation streak which was disappointing. Sometimes I have a great day and don’t feel the need for headspace, but the subscription still takes the money from my pocket. On days when I really have a particular funky mood headspace is great because I feel like it can guide me through any kind of funk. I just wish it wasn’t so pricey. Buy this app if you like the meditations and have the money, but if you don’t have the dough, free meditation may be the way to go. -
Love this app!!
So I started using this app because my boyfriend said that I needed to start meditating due to my high levels of stress (and how easily I get stressed and I have poor stress management) and my because I am very easily angered and to him I just overall seem unhappy with life. I am only 24 so my stress shouldn’t be what it is in my opinion. So I took his advice on meditation and did some research and found this app. I’m still in the free trial stages of it but I will most definitely buy is once it ends. The reason I give 4 start is because I wish there were more mindful activities because of my job. I wake up at 6 am and come home from anywhere between 5pm - 11pm depending on the day I have. So it would be nice to have more mindful activities where I can use the app an work or do things at home with out it being the same thing. Or more on commuting. I’m driving all day long so to have something I can listen to while driving that isn’t music or just for a commute home would be nice. But other than that I have no complaints! I love it and I hope it gets me where I would like to be. And that is to be happy and content with my life as it is now. And not get so angry with things. I am really excited to keep using this app! -
New to Headspace Old to meditation
I started meditating in high school during my senior year when I did a solo project on the Dalai Lama and Thich Naht Hanh. Meditation was rejuvenating and grounding. Fast forward the next 15 years and meditation was lost to the hustle and bustle of life. My work recently offered a trial of Headapace to a select few prior to launching for the entire team. I immediately signed up knowing although my current mind stated, “you don’t have time for that” but my deep mind stated “you need this!” And here I am remembering again the importance of living in the moment, taking in and appreciating the sounds, smells and feel of the world around me. Meditation got me through some very tough times as a teenager when I nearly lost my mother to a brain tumor and my father to mental illness. Now with the coronavirus pandemic, job insecurity and political unrest I again need to ground myself. Headspace allowed me to treasure again the here and now, to not only calm my flighty mind but feel my body the aches and tension releasing it. Just like physical health you must make the time to nourish your brain. 10 minutes a day is reasonable and will make a world of difference! Thank you Headapace for reminding me again to live in the moment and treasure the beauty of every day.
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Lots of variety in his app, however my biggest complaint is that the meditations (not the stories etc) don't have any music. I really don't find these resonate with me at all and have a hard really getting anything out of them. The sleep music and nature sounds are ok but a lot sound the same. Kind of disappointed that I paid for a year. I could probably find nature sounds on youtube.
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Pushing the premium package make the app unusable, the app no longer works, I end up in a cycle of stupid breathing exercises being forced on me to complete and then back to a premium service advert. I can't get into the main app. It was working several months ago, someones clever idea hasn't worked. Shame as apart from that it's really good. After being advised to re-install and app this is now working correctly, not much to use without purchasing the full version.
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Pricy but I like the programs. It is rather annoying that the layout changes fairly often. I'll just manage to figure out where the things I like are, then it's all jumbled up again. I've pretty much given up at this point. Navigation now consists of going to history, check the name, then search for it. The menus are ridiculous.
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Great resource!
This is really helpful! The only reason I didn’t give a higher rating is because there’s a strong overlying tone of a sales pitch there. Which is unfortunate, because I think people would be able to see the value easier if there wasn’t a push for money after every meditation and for many of the things on the app people would want to explore. Kind of stalls progress of the meditation itself when you’ve just worked so hard to pull yourself back, only to be instantly asked for money right after. From a company stand point I also think it would be more beneficial to work on building value and then freely offering the option to see what monthly costs are and also show a detailed description of what’s involved with a paid membership. I know this has worked well financially for other services and I’ve seen increases in sales by simply looking at things from the customers perspective. And I feel like the customers perspective is a miss here :( However quite and easy fix and overall this app is amazing! It not only teaches the basics of meditation, but teaches different techniques as well. This makes it good for beginners all the way to experts. I truly believe that the basis of this app is pure in intention and I can see what a help it is to many people who walk the path of life. -
This is such a good app and thank you for the effort that you have put into this. However, I know that you have to buy and unlock stuff and have a trial bla bla bla and stuff, but even if you don't unlock or buy anything, most of the sounds and audio COULD BE FREE. It's a bit annoying because, I dont want to buy or unlock anything, and the ONLY thing I can listen to right now, and I MEAN, the ONLY THING, is the one called Rainday Antiques. Not really fair and its disappointing :( still good app
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