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Five Zen Apps to Bring You Peace

July 18, 2014

Happy Friday!

Today we’re talking apps! There’s so many different health and wellness apps out there, and some of them are really useful! My all-time favorite app is MyFitnessPal, useful for tracking both calories and exercise. But did you know that there are apps out there that can help you be mindful, meditate, and help you relieve stress and anxiety?

Here are some of my favorite zen apps that can bring peace to your daily life.

Attitudes of Gratitude Journal

This app will help you develop daily gratitude. You can set it to remind you at a certain time (ex. bedtime) to make sure you list the things you are grateful for. By focusing on what we are thankful for, we are not focusing on the things we don’t have. I have mine set to go off at 8pm and I try to pick one thing per day to log!

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At Ease Anxiety & Worry Relief

This is a really cool app and is super useful for anyone with anxiety. It combines voice-guided meditations, exercises and journaling. The guided breathing meditations are simple and easy, and you can choose music or no music. Deep breathing can help calm you down during an anxiety or panic attack.

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The journal helps you increase self awareness and develop a method for dealing with your anxiety. It’ll ask you questions such as: Are you ever anxious about being anxious? What happens when you do that? Or, it’ll have you list reasons why your anxiety is not a real threat to yourself.

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Daily Yoga

With one million + downloads, this one’s a hit! Daily Yoga is a very dedicated yoga coaching app, with HD yoga exercises, videos, live voice guides, soothing music, and even a forum. This app has over 45+ yoga exercises, 300+ poses in the library, and 18 background music choices. What I like is that you can choose yoga for different goals, such as for runners, for arms, seated poses, etc. The social community has different forums where you can ask questions and meet other yogis.

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This app was co-created by a former Buddhist monk and is great for both beginner and pro meditators! There is a subscription fee, $7.99 a month. The app refers to this fee “like a gym membership for the mind”. You get 10-minute daily meditations, podcasts, reminders and mindfulness buzzers to help you stick to your goals. You can try it for free for ten days. I’ve done several of the sessions– the voice is very calming and the meditations certainly are effective!

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Buddhist Meditation Trainer

Focused more on Buddhist quotes and enlightenment meditation, this is for the more experienced meditator. It has a simple timer and displays a quote for you to meditate on. It also helps you remember to meditate with a daily notification.

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 Do you have any favorite health and wellness apps? I’d love to hear your suggestions!

 namaste

Emily Weeks, RDN, LD
Emily Weeks, RDN, LD

Hi! I’m Emily, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and self-taught intuitive chef. I firmly believe that cooking is the simplest and most important step we can take to improve our minds and bodies and build healthier communities. Join me and let’s bring food back to the kitchen!

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  1. Danielle Omar - Food Confidence RD says

    July 18, 2014 at 12:58 pm

    These are great, thank you! Feeling zen already. :)

    • Zen & Spice says

      July 18, 2014 at 1:10 pm

      Thanks for stopping by! Let me know if you try any of them and like them :)

  2. Kimberly says

    July 18, 2014 at 2:28 pm

    Oh my … I need some of these in my life! Going to check them all out now!

  3. lindsay says

    July 18, 2014 at 3:36 pm

    oh i’m all about the zen apps. Something i probably NEED. and daily

    • Zen & Spice says

      July 20, 2014 at 7:22 pm

      Definitely! I try to use at least one of these every day!

  4. Jennifer | The Deliberate Mom says

    July 20, 2014 at 12:03 am

    I’m not familiar with many of these. I keep on hearing about My Fitness Pal but I haven’t checked it out yet.

    Have you heard of SleepStream 2? It’s an awesome app that uses binaural beats to tackle all sorts of things from exhaustion to headaches to anxiety! I love it.

    Thanks for stopping by my blog earlier!

    Wishing you a lovely weekend.
    xoxo

    • Zen & Spice says

      July 20, 2014 at 7:23 pm

      Thanks for stopping by :) You should def check out MyFitnessPal! It’s wonderful. I haven’t heard of SleepStream2! I’ll have to check it out, it sounds really interesting!

  5. Adam Trainor says

    June 23, 2015 at 7:43 am

    I love the MyFitnessPal app I think it’s a great app for fitness newbies and for those who want to track their weight loss or just to track the food they are eating. Anyways more to the point on this post I have been reading some post on your blog and I think people need to concentrate on their well being and be more mindful than just being focused on physical health. It’s great that there is apps out there to help you be mindful. Exercise can help to relieve stress but maybe just 10 – 20 minutes of peace can also work. I like the second app … “At Ease Anxiety & Worry Relief” Are these all available on android and iphone?

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