Mindfulness: 5 Android apps to meditate and relax your mind

Mindfulness or Conscious Attention, is a practice in which we become aware of the different facets of our experiences in the present. It is something like meditation, but focusing only on its more practical side for daily life.

The best Android apps to practice Mindfulness and meditation

Today, we review 5 Mindfulness apps for Android that will help us fight anxiety, to sleep better, to work the concentration of our brain, and, in short, to see life with perspective, in a more positive and relaxed way. All applications are free -some with premium plans for more extra content-, they can be downloaded directly from Google Play and several offer content in perfect Spanish.

1 # Insight Timer - Meditation

Insight Timer is one of the most popular guided meditation apps on Android, with more than a million downloads and a high rating of 4.6 stars. This mobile application has more than 4,000 guided meditations and more than 1,000 teachers, on topics such as self-pity, nature or stress.

For those who prefer a more silent meditation, the app also allows you to meditate simply with a timer, flashing bells or relaxing ambient sound. The application is in English, but it is really intuitive and easy to use.

Download QR-Code Insight Timer - Meditation, Sleep Developer: Insight Network Inc Price: Free

2 # Aura: Mindfulness & Happiness

The premise of Aura is really simple: each day you receive a personalized 3 minute meditation. The same meditation is never repeated, and the first time we use the app the system asks us certain questions about our age, stress level and optimism, etc.

From here on, Aura will present us with a different meditation each day depending on the mood with which we wake up. It also allows us to listen to relaxing sounds, and perform breathing cycles, in the purest style PranaBreath.

Recommended app if we are entering the world, or if we do not have much time to meditate. The ease of "a short meditation a day" may be just what we need.

Download QR-Code Aura: Mindfulness, Sleep, Meditation Developer: Aura Health - Mindfulness, Sleep, Meditations Price: Free

3 # Headspace: Guided Meditation and Pure Consciousness

The most used free Mindfulness app on Android. It has a lot of meditation packages (although not all of them are free), the guided meditations they are in Spanish and in general, it has a very neat and colorful interface.

When we start using the app, we will have to answer a small questionnaire, on which the app will be based to organize and offer us meditations that suit our needs.

Download QR-Code Headspace: Meditation and Sleep Developer: Headspace for Meditation, Mindfulness and Sleep Price: Free

4 # Stop, Breathe & Think: Meditation and Mindfulness

The name of the app translates to something like "Stop, breathe and think." It is made up of a large number of sessions, many of them in Spanish (up to 21). There are all kinds of themes: Body Scan, Gratitude, Change, Lion's Mind and more.

It also has Yoga videos for children and a page where we can see our progress throughout the days. Between his Midfulness sessions and guided meditations there is also space for brief one-minute meditations, sessions to sleep well, to concentrate etc. An application that touches almost all the sticks of mental health and relaxation.

Download QR-Code MyLife Meditation by Stop. Breathe. Think Developer: Stop, Breathe & Think Price: Free

5 # Calm

Calm is another really successful meditation app with over 5 million users. Its free version is shorter than other similar apps: 16 meditations, each lasting between 3 and 30 minutes.

It offers guided meditations of all kinds: calming anxiety, deep sleep, walking meditation, and more. To highlight the "Sleep Stories",little bed stories for adults with themes of all kinds (science fiction included) to fall asleep in the arms of Morpheus.

The only downside is that it is in English, but according to the developers, they are already working to include new languages ​​in future updates.

Download QR-Code Calm: Meditation and Sleep Developer: Calm.com, Inc. Price: Free

The truth is that until now I had only tried my luck with Pranabreath, an app that I became quite fond of a while ago. And the truth is that these that I just mentioned today go one step further and are more complete. Highly recommended to practice Mindfulness at any time and place.

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