An Approach to Meditation Based on Awareness and Understanding – Waking Up: Meditation & Wisdom Review

I’ve been using this app for about two years with about 300 meditation sessions in that time. What makes Sam’s app different from most meditation practices and teachings, is that he focuses primarily on building an understanding of your conscious experience. This comes with all of the benefits of increased mental clarity, a feeling of being well rested, as well as decreased stress. However, all of those things are really secondary to the skill of understanding how consciousness is and being aware of how you’re feeling moment to moment. These skills will surely allow you to deal with negative emotions as well as experience greater levels of joy, but most importantly they will allow you to simply make better decisions in general because you will be more aware of your own experience. The app is becoming more feature rich and user friendly over time, and even the core functionality has been improving lately. These days I do a 20 minute session at lunch every day and it really makes all the difference. In the past I’ve had difficulty dealing with my anxiety, but due to the consistency and quality of practice this app has provided for me I’ve been able to develop skills that make me really feel like anxiety will never be a problem for me again and that it’s not something I’ll struggle with in the future.
Review by alphonso jenkins on Waking Up: Meditation & Wisdom.