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The Trouble with Mindfulness Apps (2016)

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Post by DoreenMichele »

eberfreitas wrote: post #9
fermienrico wrote: post #4

Meditation and mindfullness are free. You really don’t need an app. What you need is a book to get started and learn: Cudalasa’s Mind Illuminated is absolutely life changing. When it comes to mindfullness, there is a lot of bullshit out there. As an objective and critical person, I find it hard to trust anyone. If you’re in the same boat, delete all these apps and buy a copy of Cudalasa. Once you’ve internalized the…

Where can I get the book for free?

Put it on your Amazon wish list and hope someone gifts it to you.

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Post by rhizome »

Narretz wrote: post #23
fermienrico wrote: post #4

Meditation and mindfullness are free. You really don’t need an app. What you need is a book to get started and learn: Cudalasa’s Mind Illuminated is absolutely life changing. When it comes to mindfullness, there is a lot of bullshit out there. As an objective and critical person, I find it hard to trust anyone. If you’re in the same boat, delete all these apps and buy a copy of Cudalasa. Once you’ve internalized the…

I need to read a 500 pages book to get started? I've had a few mindfulness mediatation sessions with a teacher, and he was able to convey the most important parts in 10 minutes.

If anybody just wants to have some grease to start, get the Kabat-Zinn book and listen to the CD.

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Post by weego »

bunderbunder wrote: post #21
eberfreitas wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where can I get the book for free?

I hope you were just asking for directions to your local public library. Violating Buddhism's Second Precept isn't an ideal way to get started on Buddhist practice.

I thought we were talking about mindfulness. When did we get to Buddhism?

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Post by jnordwick »

tripzilch wrote: post #35

> Brewer predicts that as more apps for behavioral treatments come to market—and as others surface that aren’t clinical apps but use medical language in their marketing—organizations like the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration, which provides guidelines for evidence-based treatments and a national registry of programs, could inherit a role in this wild west. Why does it have to be US-based organisations…

Sorry to say this, but other places still regularly place faith in pseudo sciences like Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, acupuncture, etc. Sadly this is invading medicine, and I wish the push back was stronger.

While our health insurance system is a disaster, our dedication to the scientific method is still best, I believe (even with our Integrative Medicine-like foul ups).

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Post by tunesmith »

pivotal wrote: post #32
SnowingXIV wrote: post #27

Completely felt the same about these kinds of apps previously and likely still do, I've a had a few people recommend them to me and I've dismissed them immediately because to meditate or clear my head I want less electronics, I want to be away from anything remotely related to pixels on a screen. Since I haven't had much luck on my own, I recently started to use headspace, basically it's just audio of a guy talking f…

I feel the same way. Headspace's guided take 10 course was a solid introduction for me, but once I got used to regular practice, headspace's "extras" weren't needed anymore. Now all I really want is a timer and tracking of when I meditated, so I use Insight Timer.

That's exactly what I did - the ten-talk intro for headspace, straight to the Insight Timer timer with some background sounds.

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Post by skinnymuch »

epalmer wrote: post #33
criddell wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it depends on if you see a fee as buying mindfulness or supporting a teacher . I really don't have a problem with the latter. I downloaded and have been using Oak for a few weeks now and so far, I think I like it. I haven't seen ads and the app is pretty basic. They have guided and unguided sessions and I find myself returning to the guided version even though I've pretty much memorized the instruction. The v…

What is this "Oak" app you mentioned? There are a lot of Android Apps with Oak in their name. Thanks.

Looks like it is for iOS only. https://www.oakmeditation.com. Apparently by Kevin Rose of Digg among other things fame.
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