Insight Timer claims to be the most popular meditation app, when measured by hours of usage (despite having fewer downloads than other apps like Headspace). If you don’t want to show up to other users, you can change it in the settings under Privacy. Users who have meditated every day for the last year are shown with a “365” badge. For example, “Donald Trump is meditating for 30 minutes with the Timer” (OK, that’ll never happen, but I think he should). The Today screen shows stats about other meditators, but isn’t all that usefulīelow, you will be shown specific examples for from the Insight Timer community. You will be shown a world map with the locations of the people who currently meditating marked as dots (I’m assuming this, it doesn’t actually explain it). You will see that hundreds of thousands of meditations have been completed with Insight Timer each day and thousands of people are meditating with the app right now. This shows various stats that emphasise that you are not alone in your meditation. Unless you have changed this setting, Insight Timer will open to the Today tab. There are also Timer Settings where you can set Bell strike interval, background image, and auto-lock delay after finishing a meditation. My top tip: if you are using Insight Timer primarily for the timer, and you are not so much interested in the social features, be sure to go into the profile settings and set the opening tab to “Timer” instead of “Today”. These can be helpful, particularly if you are struggling to relax into a meditative mood.Ĭonfiguring all this can take some time, but luckily there is a feature to save as a “preset” so you don’t have to reconfigure it in future. You can optionally select one of 19 ambient sounds: Moonlight, Zen guitar, Eternal stream, Deep Om, Raindrops, Bird song, Celtic harmony, Nature’s melody, Ocean wave, Reflections, Stillness, Tibetan sunrise, Angel choir, Enchanting, Into the wild, Limitless, Lucid dream, Secret garden, and Winter fire. The possibilities here are intriguing but it feels like the user interface is not well designed for the simple and common case of a single bell repeating at a regular interval. You can even set multiple different bells to create some elaborate pattern of intervals. You can set any number of interval bells. Most of the singing bowls are named after places in Tibet. You may be wondering where all these exotic names come from. It’s even possible to do this for interval bells, which are optional (this makes no sense to me). Gong Hanchi is perhaps my favourite of all the sounds, but this large gong is perhaps a little overblown for a typical meditation session!.Ombu, Zhada, and Shürong are larger, deeper singing bowls.Sakya is a small singing bowl, but not quite as high pitch as Basu.Kangsê and Dêngzê are medium sized singing bowls. ![]()
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