Insight Timer
Meditation app built around a configurable timer and interval bells
A big free library of guided sessions sits on top of the part regular meditators tend to use most: a plain timer with bells you place at intervals you choose. That suits unguided sitting, where a bell part way through pulls a wandering mind back without a voice talking over it. A paid tier exists, though the timer and much of the library cost nothing.
People on record
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Does it: documented as part of their own routine. Recommends: explicitly advises other people to do it. Discusses: covered it substantively without clear personal adoption; this can include criticism or disagreement.
- Chris WilliamsonDoes it
Host · Modern Wisdom
Meditates with it unguided, straight after his morning breathwork, using the timer and its interval bells rather than a voice track. He rates it the most-used meditation app by hours.
Source: Ben Greenfield Life podcast transcript
Aimed at the same thing
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- App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Headspace
Guided meditation app built around ten-minute sessions, voiced by Andy Puddicombe
On record from 3 of 62 tracked people: 2 do it, 1 recommends it - App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Waking Up
Sam Harris's meditation course, heavy on the theory as well as practice
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it, 1 recommends it - App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Reveri
Self-hypnosis sessions for sleep, stress and pain
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Protocol$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Deliberate cold exposure
Cold showers or ice baths used deliberately, usually a few minutes at a time
On record from 25 of 62 tracked people: 19 do it, 6 have discussed it - HabitFREE, no cost
Daily meditation
10-20 minutes of formal practice, most days
On record from 21 of 62 tracked people: 17 do it, 1 recommends it, 3 have discussed it - HabitFREE, no cost
Deliberate solitude
Regular time with your own thoughts and no other inputs
On record from 12 of 62 tracked people: 9 do it, 3 recommend it
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