![]() ![]() Now, I’m happy to report that I’ve entered a new phase with the app. What if I skipped a day with the timer?! I’d end my “Zen winning streak”, as I called it in this piece, “ From Recording Every Poop and Pee to a Mindset of Letting Go.” And that reaction was just as unhealthy as not spending any time with Insight Timer in the first place. The healthy habit of taking time daily to yoga and meditate started to become an anxious addiction. I got so incredibly stuck on it, that I got terrified of missing a day. And something I could stick with.īut STICK, I did. But we weren’t talking to one another much those days.Įventually, prompted by persistent hip pain, I decided to give a morning home yoga practice a try. Each day, before breakfast, I would scroll through the app to find some music that lasted around 10 minutes, and I’d do a hip-focused yoga session. So my use of Insight Timer was hit or miss for a while, as I tried to find a new rhythm. But for some reason I didn’t love that either. (Perhaps trying to sit and meditate on the cold, hard, bathroom tile wasn’t the best idea.) Then, I tried to do it before bed at night. I dabbled with doing 1-2 minutes with the timer in the bathroom, before taking a shower in the morning. I switched jobs, and my beloved go-to park bench and hotel lobby weren’t part of my morning path to work anymore. Adolescence and AddictionĪlas, my early enthusiasm and eagerness eventually took some stormy adolescent turns. Re-oriented my head away from the chaos of morning drop-off, and helped me look forward to the work I had left home to do. This practice changed the way I walked into my office in the morning. And then, on the walk from the metro to my office, I’d stop off for 5 minutes (or to be more exact, 5.3 minutes!) on a park bench or, in bad weather, in a hotel lobby. When did I squeeze in the use of the app? Mostly on my way to work. Micro-self-care was the name of my game, back then. And I knew, deep down, that even that little amount of time absolutely helped bring calm into my life. These stats – all recorded in the app, of course – were something I used to beat myself up over. (I know, I know, not exactly the point of meditating or of the app.) But it was what I could manage. Back then, as I wrote, I managed to meditate with the timer exactly 34% of my days, with an average session of 5.3 minutes. My kids were both incredibly little (1 and 3 at the time), and I was looking for any tiny microcosm of calm I could find in my day. It was the time in life when 1 child + 1 child felt like 85 children, and I described life as the BHP Iron Ore Train, the longest train in the world.Ī mere three months into my adventure with Insight Timer, I wrote this about my early days with a meditation practice: My Boppy is My Zafu, and Other Musings on Starting a Meditation Practice with Little Kids. I uploaded Insight Timer onto my phone in a year of desperation. And my use of the app feels like a relationship that’s grown and evolved as my children and my own parenting has grown. This relationship also felt worth chronicling here. Since then, I know through app data, that I’ve had 511 days with an Insight Timer session. But the app tells me that’s when it happened! No, I don’t remember “The Downloading of The Insight Timer App” as a significant event in my life. My love affair with this app stretches back a few years, having joined on September 6, 2014. It keeps stats on when and for how long you use the app, and you can choose sessions for the exact amount of time you happen to have. It’s known both for its meditation timer, and for its amazing library of guided meditations and calming music. ![]() The app that has probably been on my phone the longest, and that has gotten the most consistent use over the past few years, has been Insight Timer. ![]()
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