My brother emailed me to tell me to check out the website Headspace. He said he was loving the quick start meditation program. I checked it out in the early days of my blog so I am resurrecting (and adding to) the post.
Here is the original post from August 2012:
As I have mentioned several times in the past few months, one of the things I really want to do for me (and my health) is to learn to meditate and practice it! Maureen sent me a great website to learn more.
Headspace (“The world’s first ‘gym membership for the mind’”) is a subscription service with over 270 hours of available instruction for meditation. There are daily lessons and programs, as well as additional content and a great blog. These can be viewed on a PC or via a mobile app. The “Take 10” program is free so you can see if this works for you. The site has great graphics (and Andy “the Jamie Oliver of meditation” has a cool British accent!) and is easy to use.
At Maureen’s suggestion, I signed up for Take 10 and will let you know how it goes. The intro and 1st lesson were less than 20 minutes in total and I really enjoyed them. The program pricing is pretty reasonable – Maureen and I were discussing that sometimes paying for something makes us use it. (I also really liked Andy’s blog post this week on holding a grudge. I may have a little crush on Andy – sorry Neal ;))
What do you think? Do you subscribe to any online paid services? If so, do you use them more thank free sites?
If you are interested in meditation, check out Take 10 at Headspace and let me know what you think!
By way of updates, there is also a free app for Headspace that I will check out AND I clearly did not keep up with the program after I did the 10 days. I am going to do Take 10 again and then consider a paid membership if I can get into a groove with it.
I still want to know if folks pay for services like this and if you feel it would be more likely to be used if you pay than if it is a free program.
The original post also had this blurb: “Another thing I want to make time for (25 hour day anyone??) is the “Top 20 Ted Talks“. Maybe I can watch one of those after each meditation (or before?)”. Well, I did do so well here either! I have seen about 15% of these. I did write a post about one of them so that is something! It is the second one in this post. I think the first one by Amy Cuddy also belongs on this list!
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