![]() ![]() Get a free 7-day trial, a monthly subscription for US$14.99 or annual subscription for US$69.99. Learning to breathe is a key feature of Calm with the screen expanding and collapsing as you inhale and exhale.Ĭost and availability Available on iOS (Apple) and Android. Offering tons of content, there are guided Daily Calm sessions to help you unwind and refocus, a daily meditation series, celebrity-narrated ‘sleep stories’ (fancy a calming tale from Matthew McConaughey?), specially mixed music to help you focus or relax, and even a gratitude check-in feature which you can use to remind yourself of how lucky you are. Highly popular, Calm is a meditation, mindfulness and sleep stories app that delivers an array of programmes featuring everything from breathwork to meditation to playlists for sleep. Lifetime access will set you back US$299.99. While there are sessions for free, you will need to upgrade to download them or access all meditations with premium access costing US$11.99 per month or US$89.99 per year. There are also daily motivations, guided sleep sessions, and coaching from world-renowned experts – think mindfulness experts at Google to former monks.Ĭost and availability Available on iPhone and Android. Personalise your experience and discover more than 2,000 guided meditations for any situation and mood, including pre-sleep, between meetings, or when commuting. Designed by top meditation experts to help busy people, like Yunha herself, it promises to help you improve focus and memory, relieve stress, enhance creativity and improve sleep with just a few minutes of meditation a day. 2 Simple Habitįounded by former Wall Street investment banker Yunha Kim in 2016, and backed by Dropbox’s CEO Drew Houston, Simple Habit’s mission is to empower you to “stress less, achieve more, and live better”. Get a free 7-day trial then add additional sessions via subscription, which is US$12.99 per month or US$69.99 annually. Add to this, mental fitness activities, mindful cardio sessions, bedtime stories and soundscapes, and a very clever tool called SOS sessions that helps you get back to sleep if you wake in the night and staying stress-free is a breeze.Ĭost and availability Available on iOS or Android. ![]() There’s even bite-sized meditations (2-3 minutes) for when you’re between meetings. You can access purpose-driven meditations, like learning how to focus opt for one that deals with a common predicament or choose one tailored to your feelings. ![]() Designed primarily to help you to learn meditation and mindfulness, it offers a series of daily guided 10-minute meditation sessions that not only help to calm and centre you, but also help you learn a skill and build good habits. One of the first meditation apps to hit the market, Headspace describes itself as a “gym membership for the mind”. One of the world’s most popular stress-relief apps, Headspace, has found a more than 500% increase in interest from firms looking for mental health help for their workforce with the number of people starting its ‘stressed meditation’ offering up six-fold.įrom meditation and mindfulness to breathing and even game-playing, we highlight 10 apps for employers and employees to embrace in anxious times. More and more employers and individuals themselves are turning to wellbeing apps to help them track, understand, and manage their anxiety or stress. “Wellbeing must become a strategic priority for organisations of every size, not only to support employees experiencing anxiety and stress, but also to prevent people from becoming overwhelmed and overworked in the first place,” says Jackie Henry, managing partner for people and purpose at Deloitte UK.Īmong Deloitte’s list of nine recommended actions employers should consider in tackling mental health is to recognise the growing use of apps to support mental health. In the UK, the cost of poor employee mental health to UK businesses has increased 25% to £56bn in 2020-21 compared to £45bn in 2019, according to Deloitte, as more employees leave jobs citing burnout and exhaustion. As many as 200 million workdays are estimated to be lost due to mental health issues each year – the equivalent of US$16.8bn in lost productivity. Organisations that ignore or downplay these issues do so at their own peril. While employee mental health was a major issue well before Covid-19, the pandemic has exacerbated the difficulties already faced and taken a huge toll on people’s mental health.Īccording to the OECD, anxiety has as much as doubled in some countries, with employees no doubt questioning the role that their employers have in protecting their mental wellbeing. ![]()
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