Thursday, July 18, 2019

Jud Brewer's Apps

I have been following Jud Brewer, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, ever since he put some of my meditation teachers in an fMRI machine and measured their brain activity.

I eventually learned that he has recently created a number of apps for
  • Anxiety - Unwinding Anxiety
  • Eating - Eat Right Now
  • Smoking - To Quit
A close friend began using the Unwinding Anxiety app and has gotten good results.  These are paid apps, but much of the material and process is covered in the first couple of months.  They introduce mindfulness as a part of understanding and becoming aware of the patterns involved in anxiety, overeating, and addiction.  The apps use daily videos combined with multiple random reminders a day to engage in a few seconds of mindfulness practice, in this case a basic form of noting.  They encourage a day by day, moment by moment approach that slowly builds - you can't jump ahead to future lessons.  Best of all, the apps have been refined with real world testing.

If you are dealing with some of the problems above, these apps could be helpful as well as being a painless way to start getting into mindfulness practice.

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