Meditation has been in practice for thousands of years. This practice of bringing the mind and body to a state of tranquility offers innumerable benefits, like better focus, better stress management, improving sleep quality and offsetting negative emotions that plague our minds.

To make meditation and mindfulness practices accessible and easy, apps have been designed that take this practice a notch higher.

Here are seven popular meditation apps that are being used in the country.

1. Calm

With an impressive interface, and offerings like breathing exercises and mindfulness practices, this app has become a go-to for all those wanting to find peace and relaxation.

Features like nature sounds, sleep stories, open ended unguided meditation programs and auto switch offs truly make the app a favorite among many.

2. Headspace

Probably the number one name to pop up when one mentions meditation apps. If you want to manage stress and incorporate mindfulness with emphasis on bettering sleep patterns, head to Headspace.

The app offers guided meditations, mindful movement and mood-boosting activities and workouts, stress relief and coping mechanisms and a lot more to help ease your stress relief journey.

3. Tide

Tide offers soothing music with occasional small instructions like to keep yourself hydrated or just breathe in and out once.

The calming music will instantly pacify and settle you into any mood that you want to experience, like a rainy night or a serene winter evening with its vast collection of
meditative and relaxing music.

4. Smiling Mind

A personalized meditation app, its features will literally blow your mind. After a sample meditation, one can choose their meditation plans as per requirements and levels of
practices done before.

Here one can find different meditation plans like for a mother-child duo, or a working professional or even a beginner wanting some moments of serenity in the day.

But what sets this app apart from others, is its ‘body scan’ option, that keeps a track of your mood before and after your mediations to see a visible difference in your mind
and body.

5. Zen

With relaxing songs, tranquil meditation screens and mood screens to track your mood, the Zen app will help you loosen up, relax and live happier.

Zen offers mantras for health, love, happiness, deep sleep, and anxiety relief and helps live a more balanced life.

6. Simple Habit

Simple Habit is an award-winning audio wellness app for daily sleep and stress relief, with more than 2,500 guided audio sessions from world-class meditation teachers,
therapists and coaches.

The app helps busy people care for their mental wellness in just 5 minutes. With new features like a meditation studio that allows users to invite family and friends to meditate
together, the app is taking the concept of meditation to a whole new different level.

7. Aura

Aura brings together the world’s best mentors, coaches, therapists, and storytellers with diverse expertise to create a wonderful meditative experience for its users.

Aura offers meditations for sleep, sleep tales, music and sounds to help with insomnia, and also offers relief from anxiety and stress on demand.