This is just a sampling of the large number of wellness and meditation apps available. the LLC is not recommending these particular apps, but just providing some ideas to get you started and help you to see the variety of services they provide.
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Guided meditations, videos, talks, and sleep content will help you build (or boost) your meditation practice, and stick with it. |
Meditation made simple, teaching you life-changing mindfulness skills in just a few minutes a day. |
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Buddhify has easy-to-follow guided meditations to help you reduce stress and anxiety, or get a better night's sleep. |
An emotional wellness platform's mission is to help people build the emotional strength to tackle life's ups and downs. |
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An app for sleep, relaxation, and meditation. Includes video lessons on breathing, mindful moving and stretching. |
The largest library of free guided meditations on earth. |
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Track your mood in a simple, quick and easy manner. Log your thoughts through notes and the emotions you felt. |
Using scientifically proven strategies based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help you learn to relax and be mindful. |
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Learn how to de-stress and sleep better in just 5 minutes each day with a personal mindful coach. |
Opens up a world of professional guided meditations that help you towards a more peaceful and healthier state of mind. |
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With Aura you get unlimited access to 1000+ meditations, life coaching, stories, music, & nature sounds. |
This app has several quick exercises to help you calm down, get to sleep, or feel at peace. |
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Shine is a self-care app that inspires users to look after their mental health with the help of meditation, gratitude exercises and journaling |
Jump into the daily Happiness Workout, a quick 8-step routine to help you boost your feel-good hormones |
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The Mindful Awareness Research Center
The Mindful Awareness Research Center's mission is to foster mindful awareness across the lifespan through education and research to promote well-being and a more compassionate society. MARC is a partnership between UCLA and the Norman Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology and was created to bring to a renowned mental health research institution the ancient art of mindful awareness in a scientifically supported and rigorous form. The website includes links to paid classes and workshops as well as free online resources and programming.
The American Mindfulness Research Association
The mission of the American Mindfulness Research Association (AMRA) is to support empirical and conceptual efforts to establish an evidence base for the process, practice, and construct of mindfulness; as well as promote best evidence-based standards for the use of mindfulness research and its applications. They provide a scientific database of academic publication references on mindfulness from a contemplative psychology and practice perspective.
Tiny Buddha is about reflecting on simple wisdom and learning new ways to apply it to our complex lives—complete with responsibilities, struggles, dreams, and relationships. The site features stories, tips, and insights from readers about happiness, love, relationships, change, meaning, mindfulness, spirituality, simplicity, minimalism, letting go, and more. Much of it has its roots in Buddhism, but this is not a site about religion.
The mission of Mindful is to inspire, guide, and connect anyone who wants to explore mindfulness—to enjoy better health, more caring relationships, and a compassionate society. They offer personal stories, news-you-can-use, practical advice, and insights that speak to anyone from novice meditators looking for guidance to corporate managers exploring new ways to cultivate workplace engagement and fulfillment.
Pursuing deep thinking and moral imagination, social courage and joy, to renew inner life, outer life, and life together.
These audios include the In Conversation series where you can learn more about anxiety from leading experts, to downloadable files on calm breathing, mindful body scans, visualizations, and more.
The Crisis Centre provides some mindfulness tools, with links to learn more about mindfulness, how it might help, and to try out simple practices. They also provide links to additional resources.
BCalm (BC Association for Living Mindfully)
BCALM is a non-profit society dedicated to education, research and advocacy around the benefits of mindfulness in homes, in schools, and in workplaces throughout BC. They offer presentations and workshops, and the site includes research and additional resources.
