Poorva Kelkar it blew my mind when that soothing and just amazing voice of the animations was the founder himself. I thought it was someone they hired lol
The Headspace app brings accessibility to meditation practices. I went to Coimbatore for a silence program and it changed my life; opening up so much. With the Headspace app, you are not limited to space or there's no need to be in an ashram to be fulfilled and happy. Joy and happiness are always there. Andy Puddicombe and Rich Pierson's story moved me. It's incredible how nonlinear life is and how our encounters serve a purpose.
I totally like this interview. Few months ago I taught a friend’s child about meditation and mindfulness practice. She seems to get it right away and continue to do it. She expressed to me that it helps her.
My doctor suggested I used Hradspace for a sleep problem a few years ago. I was amazed watching this to discover Andy was brought up in Bristol UK, you see I too was brought up there. I really enjoy watching this as it shows how the best meditation app there is was started. Yvonne:
From what I´ve seen of it Headspace is an excellent app for meditation. I´ve recommended it to quite a few people and they have all benefited from it. If you can´t get to a group, or don´t want to, this is a great place to start.
Once upon a time mature students got help. Mature students in England get little to no financial assistance. Tuition fees and maintainance loans are the only way anyone can study after the age of 18. Education is no longer considered a human right but a commodity now.
The website "don't" work? If you're going to criticize someone you might want to make an attempt at using proper English. I don't know anything about these guys but I was reading comments and it just blew me away that you would use such backward English to criticize someone. I don't mean to sound ugly but you might want to read a book.. or take a remedial English class 🥺
Amazing animations but the app is really a money grab. Why? Because 95% of the meditations are exactly the same and if they mention different techniques it's still the same thing with a different name. For example in one pack they talk about "Noting" and the other they call it "Focused Attention". What are they? You are allotted a period of time to observe thoughts and when they appear you gently dismiss them. You perform exactly the same thing but use different names and in packs for "depression" or "anxiety" the only difference you'll get is a bit of a foreword at the beginning of the course otherwise it's exactly the same stuff. Pros - Implies structure and development in specific areas - Has an easy UI - The videos explaining techniques are attractive animations - The guy's voice is suitable for meditation Cons - It just all feels like hours of the same thing with different labels - No breath pacing function - It talks about it costing X amount per month but you have to buy the whole years worth in one go - Huge gaps of silence during sessions I liked the free introduction sessions. - No option of different speakers/voice actors The free introduction sessions were well structured and got to the point in a digestible way using excellent analogies. I also appreciate and fully understand the idea of disciplining your mind every day and giving it a chance also to rest. If you want the £40+ out of this app just do this. Breathe deeply in through your nose and out through your mouth for a minute. Then close your eyes and perform a body scan. Then listen to everything in your environment with sharp ears. Finish with counting your breath to 10 repeatedly for 5+ minutes. This is literally 95% of entire app. Wanna fall asleep? They ask you to do all of that then count backwards from 10,000 which is a flipped version of "counting sheep". When you have been meditating for a year or more this comes across as really lazy stuff. Insight Timer on google play is just a hub of thousands of lead meditations you just have to trawl through what works for you. I really wanted something with structure and progression but I would only recommend an app like Headspace for a novice for perhaps a month. I am so disappointed it's insane.
”Same techniques with different names”. Its more like ”same mind with different themes”. Your mind doesnt care if you meditate on creativity, focus, Relationship or kindness. Its all the same thing and ultimately the only thing we are trying to do is see all of the themes, concepts and contexts in our lives with same type of balanced perspective THROUGH the different techniques our mind can be engaged in.
You are arguing semantics. Meditation is an umbrella term for many different practices that involve disciplining the mind. The app's methods are the same repeated with different packaging to make you feel like you're doing something new and justifying the 12 month subscription. If you had used the app extensively and used something like Insight Timer for comparison you wouldn't be making such a straw man argument. Your points are so intensely vague, so much that you are avoiding saying a truly discernible opinion making it seemingly harder for someone to disagree with you. Regardless, what you've said holds no merit to what I've expressed. The app is a con for anyone after 1 month of use, max.
@SleepingTurtle1. Meditation is great, the app is rubbish compared to so many others. It's not like I didn't explain myself very carefully. A random username with "Meditation practitioner since 2004" means literally nothing as there is no context. You could be taking salsa classes for 25 years and still be not very good if the classes were not good either......... Meditation is great, much better guidance is found away from the Headspace app. If someone reads these comments and wants to learn meditation then please do just don't take Headspace as much more than a brief foot beginners foot into a much larger world of techniques and practices.
This is not a fair comment. You are stating something libellous without supportive information. Headspace is definitely one of the best apps on mindfulness meditation, I recommended it to many people as a counsellor and heard much good feedback from them. So why is it a "scam"? If this is a successful business as well - good luck and I do not resent the financial return.
I am in love with Andy's voice...calming itself..
Poorva Kelkar it blew my mind when that soothing and just amazing voice of the animations was the founder himself. I thought it was someone they hired lol
Same
The Headspace app brings accessibility to meditation practices. I went to Coimbatore for a silence program and it changed my life; opening up so much. With the Headspace app, you are not limited to space or there's no need to be in an ashram to be fulfilled and happy. Joy and happiness are always there. Andy Puddicombe and Rich Pierson's story moved me. It's incredible how nonlinear life is and how our encounters serve a purpose.
what? they milk people with subscription revenue for a predominantly static application. it's a total money grab
I totally like this interview. Few months ago I taught a friend’s child about meditation and mindfulness practice. She seems to get it right away and continue to do it. She expressed to me that it helps her.
Thanks for that great Interview.Headspace was/is really a massive gamechanger in my life❤❤❤
My doctor suggested I used Hradspace for a sleep problem a few years ago.
I was amazed watching this to discover
Andy was brought up in Bristol UK, you see I too was brought up there.
I really enjoy watching this as it shows how the best meditation app there is was started.
Yvonne:
From what I´ve seen of it Headspace is an excellent app for meditation. I´ve recommended it to quite a few people and they have all benefited from it. If you can´t get to a group, or don´t want to, this is a great place to start.
I LOVE THIS CLASS
Thankyou so so much
wonderful guys :) ..thanks for sharing
I like headspace because of the little animation they have. it is so cute
I love these guys!
Andy and Rich, I'm intrigued but apprehensive. But i think meditation and mindfulness could save me life.
Meditation part - 50:50
Thanks so much for sharing this talk! Really interesting :)
i legit read andy pudicombe with rich person
Once upon a time mature students got help. Mature students in England get little to no financial assistance. Tuition fees and maintainance loans are the only way anyone can study after the age of 18. Education is no longer considered a human right but a commodity now.
01:30:00
Your website don't work........
The website "don't" work? If you're going to criticize someone you might want to make an attempt at using proper English. I don't know anything about these guys but I was reading comments and it just blew me away that you would use such backward English to criticize someone. I don't mean to sound ugly but you might want to read a book.. or take a remedial English class 🥺
Love the app, saddened to see you guys using disposable plastic bottles.mindfulness of the environment please
Good luck on your meditation journey, it seems to be about to start!
Amazing animations but the app is really a money grab. Why? Because 95% of the meditations are exactly the same and if they mention different techniques it's still the same thing with a different name. For example in one pack they talk about "Noting" and the other they call it "Focused Attention". What are they? You are allotted a period of time to observe thoughts and when they appear you gently dismiss them. You perform exactly the same thing but use different names and in packs for "depression" or "anxiety" the only difference you'll get is a bit of a foreword at the beginning of the course otherwise it's exactly the same stuff.
Pros
- Implies structure and development in specific areas
- Has an easy UI
- The videos explaining techniques are attractive animations
- The guy's voice is suitable for meditation
Cons
- It just all feels like hours of the same thing with different labels
- No breath pacing function
- It talks about it costing X amount per month but you have to buy the whole years worth in one go
- Huge gaps of silence during sessions I liked the free introduction sessions.
- No option of different speakers/voice actors
The free introduction sessions were well structured and got to the point in a digestible way using excellent analogies. I also appreciate and fully understand the idea of disciplining your mind every day and giving it a chance also to rest.
If you want the £40+ out of this app just do this. Breathe deeply in through your nose and out through your mouth for a minute. Then close your eyes and perform a body scan. Then listen to everything in your environment with sharp ears. Finish with counting your breath to 10 repeatedly for 5+ minutes. This is literally 95% of entire app. Wanna fall asleep? They ask you to do all of that then count backwards from 10,000 which is a flipped version of "counting sheep".
When you have been meditating for a year or more this comes across as really lazy stuff. Insight Timer on google play is just a hub of thousands of lead meditations you just have to trawl through what works for you. I really wanted something with structure and progression but I would only recommend an app like Headspace for a novice for perhaps a month. I am so disappointed it's insane.
”Same techniques with different names”. Its more like ”same mind with different themes”. Your mind doesnt care if you meditate on creativity, focus, Relationship or kindness. Its all the same thing and ultimately the only thing we are trying to do is see all of the themes, concepts and contexts in our lives with same type of balanced perspective THROUGH the different techniques our mind can be engaged in.
You are arguing semantics. Meditation is an umbrella term for many different practices that involve disciplining the mind. The app's methods are the same repeated with different packaging to make you feel like you're doing something new and justifying the 12 month subscription.
If you had used the app extensively and used something like Insight Timer for comparison you wouldn't be making such a straw man argument. Your points are so intensely vague, so much that you are avoiding saying a truly discernible opinion making it seemingly harder for someone to disagree with you. Regardless, what you've said holds no merit to what I've expressed.
The app is a con for anyone after 1 month of use, max.
I don´t think you get it. Please don´t let this comment put you off. Meditation practitioner since 2004.
@SleepingTurtle1. Meditation is great, the app is rubbish compared to so many others. It's not like I didn't explain myself very carefully. A random username with "Meditation practitioner since 2004" means literally nothing as there is no context. You could be taking salsa classes for 25 years and still be not very good if the classes were not good either......... Meditation is great, much better guidance is found away from the Headspace app. If someone reads these comments and wants to learn meditation then please do just don't take Headspace as much more than a brief foot beginners foot into a much larger world of techniques and practices.
Can you suggest any better apps? How does one find this "much larger world of techniques and practices" with no guidance/classes/mentor/etc?
Money making scam...enjoy!
You need to wake up 'some'....
so glad for you. This stuff turned my around for twenty years and ....well I will leave you to find out. BUT I wish you all the best
This is not a fair comment. You are stating something libellous without supportive information. Headspace is definitely one of the best apps on mindfulness meditation, I recommended it to many people as a counsellor and heard much good feedback from them. So why is it a "scam"? If this is a successful business as well - good luck and I do not resent the financial return.
Fair enough.
Whoops ! got mixed up with other programmes, fair enough. Good luck to you also