Insight Timer app for meditation

Arkayik wrote:

Rickie The Grey wrote: Why do you all like this?

For myself - Probably for all the wrong reasons....!

I've typically just free-timed my meditation or used the timer on my watch or phone.

However, I've not "journal-ed" my meditations. I'm curious if this will give me an impetus to track and provide a basis for journal-ing my meditation.

Same reason for me - just like my fitness tracker gives me an incentive to do sports, I find using an app that keeps track of my practice to be an incentive to continue once my old habits try to re-establish themselves

Rickie The Grey wrote: Why do you all like this?

Do you dislike the idea? If so, why?

Rickie The Grey wrote: Why do you all like this?

It's useful. Traditionally monks would meditate with someone to ring a gong or bell to tell them when it was time to finish, this is a modern, technological equivalent you can carry around in your pocket.

Also like anything else, tracking one's progress helps to build and reinforce the meditation habit. I have Meditation Helper set so if I haven't completed a meditation by a certain time of day, it notifies me as a reminder. Given the number of times before I had it I'd intend to meditate and then forget until I was too tired, that's pretty handy.

In addition to that, prayers and mantras have been counted with beads for centuries--the beads don't help us pray, but they help us keep the habit of praying. (if anyone knows of a decent app purpose-built for those applications, do let me know. )

As to the Insight Timer app, there's also an email address one can contact to see about making guided meditations for the app. Perhaps, in the future, if we as a collective group came up with some in the course of TotJO activities or discussions, we could have someone (or a few someones) attempt to share them with our group on the app, too?

Cyan Sarden wrote: The group's now set up for those who wish to join


Cyan

I've joined it! Thx for setting it up!

steamboat28 wrote:

Rickie The Grey wrote: Why do you all like this?

Do you dislike the idea? If so, why?

Nope just curious.

thank you, I will give this a try as well.

Cyan, I saw you on the timer this morning, I hope your meditation was good!!

I am in a constant state of meditation, and although I do slip out, its not to often...

I enjoyed the app this morning, and will probably upgradde my version for a new bell sound, :lol:...

5 minutes today for me, and hopefully I can get a longer than 3 day streak, lol...

I think that was my record on the other app, lol...

Jestor wrote: Cyan, I saw you on the timer this morning, I hope your meditation was good!!

I am in a constant state of meditation, and although I do slip out, its not to often...

I enjoyed the app this morning, and will probably upgradde my version for a new bell sound, :lol:...

5 minutes today for me, and hopefully I can get a longer than 3 day streak, lol...

I think that was my record on the other app, lol...

- I've been on my longest uninterrupted streak ever since I started using the app on a regular basis. Now I just hope I don't get thrown off again like last time - had bronchitis and was out of the game for two weeks, took me a month to get started again. I like the Shürong and the Dêngzê best - the Basu (just quoting the app for the names - I no absolutely nothing of bell types) almost gives me a heart attack if I don't turn down the volume.

I used to enjoy my 15-30 minutes (depending on how much time I have) tremendously, but lately, I've been too tired for the longer sessions (got a baby at home...) and if nothing else helps, I'll probably have to reduce time and try to focus a bit faster. I'd love to be able to get more out of shorter sessions, it just takes me forever to calm down initially.

I am very fortunate as I can "drop out" in a second or two...

And even be snoring in minutes, lol...

I do have times of restlessness of course, but they are more the exception than the rule!

Lucky me!!

My wife is jealous of my "drop out" ability, lol...