Simple. Effective. Grows with your Capacity
Used this for a year now. And tried many others. Always return back to this one. Because it’s simple, elegant and grows with you. There are fancier ones out there with lots of “moods” and ways to personalize...I found them all too distracting and requiring too much of my input and attention. In the end, it’s all about training attention, so why add more distractions? It sets a baseline with an initial breath capacity test and then it just works. 4 simple, core “states”. Answer two questions after each session and it will grow, stay the same, or regress accordingly.
I use it as a “bridge” to both my morning meditation (Be Present) and for falling asleep (Fall Asleep). I suffered through a horrendous case of Covid in March which almost took me out for good. I wholeheartedly believe that this app, because I’d been using it pre-Covid, and had a very fit lung capacity, helped me survive when 3/4 of both my lungs were pulped by that ferocious virus. I’m back to full capacity after months of recuperating and using this app daily to force O2 and fresh blood into/around growing lung tissue.
I have recommended this to other Covid survivors. And just sent it to a friend who suffers from anxiety to use as a bridge to a calmer “state”...
(*Only gripe is that the developers short-change themselves by not providing an easy way to share the app with others from WITHIN the app.)