Healthy Minds Program 4+

Meditation & Mindfulness

Healthy Minds Innovations, Inc

Designed for iPad

    • 4.9 • 6.4K Ratings
    • Free

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Description

• 2024 Pick: Best Meditation App by Healthline, The New York Times Wirecutter, Vogue, and Sports Illustrated

Well-being is a skill that can be learned. We’re here to guide you along the way.

Backed by four decades of research from world-renowned neuroscientist Dr. Richard Davidson and the team at Healthy Minds Innovations & the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, the Healthy Minds Program trains your mind through meditation and podcast-style lessons to develop skills for gaining focus, reducing stress, and maintaining positive social connections.

Research with the Healthy Minds App showed that just 5 minutes a day of practice leads to a 28% reduction in stress, an 18% reduction in anxiety, a 24% reduction in depression, and a 13% increase in social connection.

Featuring our scientific Awareness, Connection, Insight, and Purpose, Well-being Framework, the Healthy Minds Program is a holistic, all-encompassing meditation app that offers the best of both guided meditations and opportunities to learn. You’ll learn simple skills to enhance personal well-being, build healthy relationships, and improve communication, performance, and creativity.

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What makes us unique?

Developed from Science:
While many meditation apps can claim the scientific benefits of meditation, our practices are developed directly from neuroscientific research. You’ll also hear from the world’s foremost neuroscientists about neuroplasticity and how to train your mind.

Made for Busy Lives:
Our app features active meditation practices that fit into your busy lifestyle. Don’t have time to sit for 20 minutes? Put on an active practice and train your mind while you fold the laundry.

Guided by Measurement:
Thanks to our pioneering scientific research, the Healthy Minds Program offers the first mobile mental and emotional well-being assessments. Learn about your current level of well-being and contribute to cutting-edge research on the science of well-being. Our app also integrates with Apple Health to track your mindful minutes.

Goes Beyond Mindfulness:
Our guided path offers step-by-step instructions for becoming more present in the moment and developing a sense of purpose, meaning, and connection in life.

Driven by Mission and Supported by Donation:
The Healthy Minds Program is made possible by our donors, who support our vision of a kinder, wiser, more compassionate world. Unlike other apps that require a subscription, the Healthy Minds Program is available by donation, driven by a mission to translate science into tools to cultivate and measure well-being.

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Read the End User License Agreement and Terms of Use here:
https://hminnovations.org/hmi/terms-of-use

Read our Privacy Policy here:
https://hminnovations.org/hmi/privacy-policy

What’s New

Version 8.6.8

Bug fixes and performance enhancements.

Ratings and Reviews

4.9 out of 5
6.4K Ratings

6.4K Ratings

Thumper3357 ,

Learning to have mindfulness

This is a long journey, and even after completion here, I still think my journey will continue. I’ve been dealing with Chronic Pain, RSD or CRPS in particular, and learning how to process my pain (not letting my mind and stress make a mountain out of a mole hill). Your mind gets into these cycles, and meditation (insight here) gives me more perspective about my pain and focus on how bad it may actually be in that moment.

Meditation was given to me years ago, and it has been my saving grace! Dealing with what’s known as the “Suicide Disease,” it really drives your mind in many directions, but I’m learning how to gain more control (instead of my mind going where IT pleases, I have more control steering). Mindfulness has allowed me the opportunity to grow and see I have control, if so choose to master this ability, and that my days can be better. My pain can be less as well! Look up studies in an MRI machine out of California, where they watched a flame (MRI machine was making flame bigger or smaller based on activity of the brain in the pain center). This is the same as mindfulness, just without a machine, radiation, and needing more practice…but exact same concept.

Anyway, gives this a good effort and you’ll notice small changes. Continue this effort, and your changes will grow exponentially over time. Best of luck to you all and I hope this inspires some to better their lives. 🙏🏼

JZM7568 ,

Deeply Beneficial

I’m deeply grateful to have found Healthy Minds. With every other recommended app out of my budget, I wasn’t sure how I would go about learning to meditate—a practice I knew I needed to begin for my mental, spiritual and physical health. The curriculum is perfectly paced for a beginner, it carries a wonderful balance of instruction and practice, and the teachings are data-backed and fulfilling. I am about halfway through and already plan to start over and include my tween and teens in order to introduce mindfulness to them at an earlier age than I’ve discovered it. Thank you to the developers for putting so much thought, research and heart into this app. And thank you for making it accessible.

A note: I wish specific lessons/practices were easier to find after listening the first time. Accessing a catalog of previously listened to sessions would be very helpful in giving myself additional practice and for sharing with others.

ZzzzzzzuZu ,

Presentations too fast, poorly organized content

The concepts behind this app are important and probably ground-breaking, but it is so frustrating to use, I will be deleting it. First, it's close to impossible to return to specific meditations or learning sessions that you may find helpful, unless you take the time to back out of the lesson, then note and memorize how it is "mapped", like on a PC. Or is the assumption that users will become proficient at or memorize these sessions after only one hearing? (I think there is ample evidence in the literature to illustrate that memorization is not a good strategy for learning.) Second, one of the main presenters consistently speaks too fast, like a radio newscaster with a limited time slot or a student rushing through a class presentation that he just wants to be over. The speed at which the lessons are presented is so nerve wracking, it's a relief when the principal investigator makes cameo audio appearances, as both his tone and presentation speed are easy to settle into, enhancing comprehension. Finally, meditations meant to prepare for sleep are no different in tone or speed to other meditations-definitely not relaxing. I will be deleting this app and instead, read the primary research.

Developer Response ,

We are grateful for your feedback. Please reach out via email at support@hminnovations.org if you'd like to connect further!

App Privacy

The developer, Healthy Minds Innovations, Inc, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Linked to You

The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

  • Health & Fitness
  • Contact Info
  • Identifiers
  • Usage Data
  • Sensitive Info
  • Diagnostics
  • Other Data

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

  • Location

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

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