I liked that I could fit meditation into my day in a way that worked with my schedule. Insight Timer allows you to search by session length, so if you have less than 5 minutes to meditate, you can head to that category. Experienced practitioners can comfortably meditate for an hour or two, but for me, just starting out, 7-10 minutes felt spot-on for me. I’ve always heard that people who are new to meditating regularly should increase their session times slowly-in other words, don’t go from 2 minutes to 20 in only a couple days. The longest meditation I did during the 30-day challenge lasted 19 minutes. Over time, you can meditate through distractions. Finding my ‘sweet spot’ session length helped There are many ways to search the meditations available on Insight Timer: you can head to the categories to browse popular meditations, search keywords, or create a custom meditation with your preferred sounds and music. But my favorite has to be Tropical Vacation, which whisked me away to a beachy paradise for nine minutes of bliss. I also enjoyed Rainforest Creek, a visualization meditation that switched on all my senses. I found some favorites during my 30-day challenge, like the Good Morning Meditation which included thought-provoking, mood-lifting questions that eased me out of a headache.
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Luckily, Insight Timer currently offers 8,940 free meditations guided by professional teachers worldwide, which appeal to nearly every mood and whim. Let’s be honest-the sounds of happy birds or a teacher saying, “Look on the bright side!” might be just a little too much positivity for a low mood. I’m very much a “mood-based” person, meaning I like to go with the flow of my moods and respect those times when I’m tired, stressed, or burnt out. Having flexibility and choices make meditating easier The morning was when I noticed the highest numbers-at times, I would be meditating in the morning alongside more than 5,000 people. When you first open the Insight Timer app, it tells you how many other users are meditating right at that moment. It felt like a nice bridge between my morning activities and the rest of my workday, and this is the time that I felt my focus was the best.Īnd I’m not alone in this. I usually spend the first two hours of my day reading and having breakfast, so after that was wrapped up, I often meditated. After tracking the exact times I meditated, I realized that my perfect meditating time is 8:30 a.m., a couple hours after my alarm goes off. So, I tried out lots of different times-after waking up, lunchtime, in the middle of my workday, right before bed. When I set out to complete this challenge, I knew that I wanted to find my “ideal” time of day for meditating. The right time of day can help you get into the Zen zone. Meditating at the right time of day is key Insight Timer works for me, and I learned some other important things about myself and meditation along the way. Through this process, I learned that to be a triumphant meditator, you need to discover “the thing” that works for you. Today, as I write this, I’m feeling calmer and more centered than I did at the start of my challenge. I needed a boost, a jolt-something to pull me out of my less-than-sunny mood.Īnd you know what? It worked.
I started meditating in mid-March, a gray, lackluster time here in Wisconsin, and I was still deep in the throes of my seasonal affective disorder. And the timing couldn’t have been better. So, I started a personal challenge of using the Insight Timer app every day for 30 days. But in order for me to finally succeed at meditating, I needed something a bit more multifaceted, with plenty of options to fit my every mood. These apps opt for simplicity, so if that’s your goal, these are your apps. My thoughts always wandered in spite of my best efforts. I tried other meditation apps- Headspace and Calm-but found them a bit limiting. I tried repeating affirmations from a book for a while, too, but reaching the “sacred number” of 108 affirmations in one session left my tongue tired. Almost a decade ago, I actually studied with a private meditation teacher to combat my stress-incredibly effective, but also incredibly expensive. I’ve tried my fair share of meditation methods over the years. The search for the meditation enlightmentment
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I would also probably add distracted, unfocused, and uncooperative to the list, too.Īt least, this is how it used to be before I tried Insight Timer, which calls itself the “top free meditation app on the Android and iOS stores.” It has a nearly five-star rating on both platforms, so it’s an accurate claim. This is exactly how I would describe myself if I were a meditation teacher observing my student.
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