Smart Care: Top 4 Apps to Change Your Life for the Better

We're all human beings. This means that we are all sometimes sad, anxious, do stupid things, succumb to harmful influences, get sick, and suffer.

14:41 18 January 2022

It's okay to want to be happy and live the life we would like to live. From public lectures, calm games at CasinoChan, and books to endless workshops and psychotherapy, the modern person has plenty of resources to improve their life and health. Only it can be hard to make yourself get to all of these. But what if a happy life lies literally at your fingertips?

Meditation Apps

If you want to cope with stress, level out your emotions, be more productive, and connect with others, you're in for a treat. Your smartphone will be a great help along the way. There are so many meditation apps now that it's impossible to count them all. Some require a paid subscription, some offer paid bonuses, and some are even free.

Insight Timer

Every day the instructor community posts over 50,000 hours of meditation recordings here, sorted by author, topic, duration, language, and so on.

Insight Timer can also be used as a timer so that the melodious sound of the Tibetan bowl counts down the beginning and end of the practice if you want to spend that time in silence.

Every time you use the app, you can see how many hundreds of thousands of people around the world are meditating with you right now and also share their impressions and ask questions in thematic chats.

Smiling Mind

The creators of this app want to help everyone thrive. Given the statistics of mental disorders in the world, the Smiling Mind team decided to take a preventive approach to support the mental health of its users. That's why the hallmark of this app is that they offer not just meditation audio recordings for children ages 7 and up, for adults and even for athletes, but also ready-made programs of mindfulness courses. For schools and other educational institutions, you can order ready-made lesson plans, training for teachers, tutorials for the entire school year, even posters for the classroom, and for the first few months you can stay in touch with the team of experts to set up the process of introducing new practices. The same is offered for the workplace: with the support of Smiling Mind, you can launch a course on the development of awareness, for example, for the team of your company.

Apps for Psychological Self-help

A personal psychologist on your phone, isn't that convenient? Research in the field of mental health has managed to step far enough to develop certain protocols and algorithms with proven effectiveness. While that doesn't negate the need for live communication and building therapeutic relationships to achieve results, self-help apps can be the first step or quality accompaniment on your journey to yourself.

MoodKit

MoodKit has been voted the best app for people with depression by Healthline. MoodKit was developed by two clinical psychologists based on numerous studies proving the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral psychotherapy in dealing with depression and other mental health disorders.

If you want to change your mood, behavior, and life for the better day by day, all you need is the four tools:

• Activities. Advice on specific exercises and steps to regulate your emotional background.
  
  
• Thought Checker. A system for recording and modifying negative thoughts with the ability to monitor and analyze one-type situations over the long term.
  
  
• Mood Tracker. Notes of daily moods, weekly or monthly graphs which can be exported by e-mail in order to share the data with your psychotherapist, for example.
  
  
• Journal. A diary for recording daily observations with a set of templates that you can use and change at will.
  
  

Happify 

Like MoodKit, this app is based on scientific and psychological research, but here the focus is on positive psychology, often called the science of happiness. The creators of the app believe that happiness is a skill that can be learned and pumped up.

An interesting option of Happify is based on this belief - a tool for measuring your happiness in points, returning to this result over time, and the ability to compare your score with the average scores of other users of the app.

It will give you the understanding that other people are struggling and working on it, just as you are. If they can do it, so can you. The tasks and games offered in Happify help you make small changes in your life that, over time, will add up to a picture of holistic happiness.