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they like, simultaneously or concurrently. All courses have Q and A chat rooms following each session where students and instructors can connect.<h2 id="5577">How do you find your way around?</h2>On the home screen, all content is organized under ten categories. Users have the option of organizing the category icons, but the default setting shows the humble Timer as the first option, which seems only fitting.The Timer itself is tastefully designed. Nine different bell sounds that can be set to chime at the beginning, middle, and end of the meditation session. And if complete silence is not your style, 18 different ambient sounds are available.The second major category, Guided Meditations, is organized into eight sub-categories, including Learning to Meditate, Mornings, Anxiety, and Stress. All guided meditations can also be filtered according to session length (from five to 30+ minutes), New and Trending, Alphabetically, Benefits (e.g., Recovery and Healing), Practice type (e.g., Concentration, Movement, Sound), or Origins (e.g., New Age, Science, Religious).For those who feel overwhelmed by the sheer quantity and variety of content, the Daily category features a curated collection of 365 “mindfulness practices for each day of the year.” Aside from removing decision-making and guesswork from your meditation experience, each Daily meditation offers three session length options of 5, 10, or 20 minutes. If you decide to try Insight Timer and have no idea how or where to begin, this is the place to start.The Yoga category features a month-long calendar of live yoga events that users can sign up for, and tune into, when the event goes live. The remaining categories are Courses, Parents, Sleep, Beginners, and Talks.If you have read this far, I hope you are now inspired and curious enough to download Insight Timer to have a look for yourself.Three more features of the organization are worth mentioning. In the toolbar at the bottom of the home screen, tapping the heart

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icon will open your Library of Bookmarks, Playlists, and Courses in which you have enrolled. The circle icon, one of the newest features, opens a screen that allows users to create meditation or chat groups with friends, family, and co-workers.<h2 id="9516">What I like most about Insight Timer</h2>For years, but especially during the pandemic, using Insight Timer has become a cornerstone of my morning routine, first in line before getting dressed, having breakfast, and starting in on email and to-do list bullet points. I am still amazed at how it offers thousands of hours of expert guidance in becoming kinder, less distracted, more compassionate, and aware — for free and without advertising.It also matters to me that the freebies are offered not as a way to incentivize purchases of paid content, but as the main feature of the platform. I am deeply grateful to the founders Christopher Plowman and his brother Nicho for their commitment to making guided meditations freely available to everyone in the world. This could not have been easy in the early years, but they stuck with their vision and values. With over 18 million subscribers and counting, it seems that they have made a good start.<h2 id="f199">Is Insight Timer for you?</h2>Well, what have you got to lose? For many, working from home has meant struggling with creating ways of managing time. And we all continue to deal with less physical/social contact with friends, family, and colleagues. Starting the day with even five minutes of consistent mindfulness training gets things off on the right foot. I usually listen while lying in bed.And I have found the positive effects to be cumulative. The longer I practice (over days, weeks, and months), the better I seem to feel. In particular, I am better at pausing before expressing opinions that may hurt others and may not be necessary, when it comes right down to it. Even one or two moments of awareness like this in a day create ripple effects that make everything go lots better.And this could be true for you, too.</article></body>

Insight Timer®, An Outstanding Meditation App Worth Discovering

The founders took a gamble that is paying off for everyone

Recently, I Zoomed with a niece I hadn’t spoken to in a while. Johanna is a nutritionist and certified yoga instructor, and she told me that since the pandemic descended, she’s been meditating more regularly than usual. I asked her if she’d ever heard of Insight Timer, my go-to meditation app. She hadn’t, and I felt surprised, yet again, by how many people I’ve met who don’t seem to know about it.

If you have never heard of Insight Timer or have, and don’t know much about it, let me introduce you to what may become your new best friend for managing stress, working with anxiety and depression, and getting a good night’s sleep. And if you tend to be balanced and calm, you will still find Insight Timer terrific support for strengthening mental focus.

What is free on Insight Timer?

Six years after its launch, Insight Timer hosts over 80,000 guided meditations by world-renowned teachers and coaches. The app also features many talented up-and-coming instructors. Add to these thousands of music tracks, podcasts, yoga instruction, live events, online social groups, and of course, a meditation timer, all offered without advertising of any kind.

What does the paid subscription offer?

Ninety-nine percent of Insight Timer’s content is free, but for $60/year, paid subscribers enjoy the extra benefit of access to over 600 courses on a wide range of high-interest topics. Most of these are 10-day courses (though some are as long as 50 days). Each daily session lasting about 10–15 minutes. Subscribers are free to take as many courses as they like, simultaneously or concurrently. All courses have Q and A chat rooms following each session where students and instructors can connect.

How do you find your way around?

On the home screen, all content is organized under ten categories. Users have the option of organizing the category icons, but the default setting shows the humble Timer as the first option, which seems only fitting.

The Timer itself is tastefully designed. Nine different bell sounds that can be set to chime at the beginning, middle, and end of the meditation session. And if complete silence is not your style, 18 different ambient sounds are available.

The second major category, Guided Meditations, is organized into eight sub-categories, including Learning to Meditate, Mornings, Anxiety, and Stress. All guided meditations can also be filtered according to session length (from five to 30+ minutes), New and Trending, Alphabetically, Benefits (e.g., Recovery and Healing), Practice type (e.g., Concentration, Movement, Sound), or Origins (e.g., New Age, Science, Religious).

For those who feel overwhelmed by the sheer quantity and variety of content, the Daily category features a curated collection of 365 “mindfulness practices for each day of the year.” Aside from removing decision-making and guesswork from your meditation experience, each Daily meditation offers three session length options of 5, 10, or 20 minutes. If you decide to try Insight Timer and have no idea how or where to begin, this is the place to start.

The Yoga category features a month-long calendar of live yoga events that users can sign up for, and tune into, when the event goes live. The remaining categories are Courses, Parents, Sleep, Beginners, and Talks.

If you have read this far, I hope you are now inspired and curious enough to download Insight Timer to have a look for yourself.

Three more features of the organization are worth mentioning. In the toolbar at the bottom of the home screen, tapping the heart icon will open your Library of Bookmarks, Playlists, and Courses in which you have enrolled. The circle icon, one of the newest features, opens a screen that allows users to create meditation or chat groups with friends, family, and co-workers.

What I like most about Insight Timer

For years, but especially during the pandemic, using Insight Timer has become a cornerstone of my morning routine, first in line before getting dressed, having breakfast, and starting in on email and to-do list bullet points. I am still amazed at how it offers thousands of hours of expert guidance in becoming kinder, less distracted, more compassionate, and aware — for free and without advertising.

It also matters to me that the freebies are offered not as a way to incentivize purchases of paid content, but as the main feature of the platform. I am deeply grateful to the founders Christopher Plowman and his brother Nicho for their commitment to making guided meditations freely available to everyone in the world. This could not have been easy in the early years, but they stuck with their vision and values. With over 18 million subscribers and counting, it seems that they have made a good start.

Is Insight Timer for you?

Well, what have you got to lose? For many, working from home has meant struggling with creating ways of managing time. And we all continue to deal with less physical/social contact with friends, family, and colleagues. Starting the day with even five minutes of consistent mindfulness training gets things off on the right foot. I usually listen while lying in bed.

And I have found the positive effects to be cumulative. The longer I practice (over days, weeks, and months), the better I seem to feel. In particular, I am better at pausing before expressing opinions that may hurt others and may not be necessary, when it comes right down to it. Even one or two moments of awareness like this in a day create ripple effects that make everything go lots better.

And this could be true for you, too.