Meditation Anytime, Anywhere, With Insight Timer

Sometimes all you need to get through the day is a short 20 minutes of deep breathing and relaxation. Let’s be honest, with so much on our minds it can be hard to step away from our busy lifestyles and clear the mind. Let Insight Timer guide you through a quick, daily meditation and connect you with others that are doing the same!

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Insight Timer is an app that will guide your quick meditation practice by allowing you to focus inward instead of on the clock. We all know how it feels to try and take a quiet moment to ourselves but in the midst of our relaxation worries swoop in and eyes stray towards the closest clock in the room. Its time to step away from the clock.

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Not only does the app time your mindfulness but it makes your meditation social by transforming your smartphone into a spiritual link to the worldwide community of mediators, using what the app calls, “insight connect”.

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Within the app, you will experience exotic bell sounds, instruments of the Tibetan far east, and other soothing sounds to help you relax and ease the mind. The developer Brad Fullmer, states that these sounds are actual recordings recorded, "with high quality digital audio equipment at a famous meditation center”.

Studies have been done showing that meditation can improve focus and productivity, increase overall brain power as well as, decrease stress and anxiety. It has also been shown that having the support of your colleagues and peers adds a layer of accountability to help follow through with resolve change in habits. Habits like, putting time aside to take that deep breath once in a while. Insight Timer successfully brings these two things together. The app has been downloaded over 300,000 times and has tracked over 4 million meditation sessions. Making it the world’s most popular mediation timer!