Simple Habit: Meditation vs Smiling Mind: Mental Wellbeing Usage & Stats

Smiling Mind gives you a head-start to managing the ups and downs of everyday life. Welcome to your versatile and practical mental fitness toolkit. The Smiling Mind App helps you learn the skills that underpin wellbeing and create the habits to thrive. Develop your own, unique approach to building your mental fitness, navigating challenges and meeting your goals. It’s your daily workout for life, in your pocket. Our app is underpinned by the Smiling Mind Mental Fitness Model, designed by psychologists and mental health experts to help you develop the foundation for your mind to thrive. Smiling Mind supports you to practise mental fitness through five core skill sets, empowering you to: live mindfully, embrace flexible thinking, grow connections, act purposefully and recharge your body. The Smiling Mind App provides you with personalised content, tools and resources to support your specific wellbeing needs and goals. There’s a range of content for minds of all ages and stages, with children’s collections suitable for ages 5 to 12, and adult collections that take you from beginner practice to everyday habits! The Smiling Mind App has: * 700+ lessons, practices and meditations * 50+ curated collections With a range of special features, the app helps you build mental fitness and resilience; support good sleep, study and sports training; reduce stress; improve relationships; and promote the development of new social and emotional skills. SMILING MIND FEATURES MEDITATION & MINDFULNESS * Beginner meditations through to programs for experienced practitioners * Meditations in Indigenous Australian languages (Kriol, Ngaanyatjarra & Pitjantjatjara) * Content and programs covering sleep, calm, relationships, stress, mindful eating, and much more * Programs for kids and families including sleep, emotional skills development, back to school, and much more MENTAL FITNESS Develop mental fitness skills to: * Increase your sense of calm * Manage your technology use * Enhance the important relationships in your life * Reduce stress and anxiety * Improve mental health and wellbeing OTHER FEATURES * Download content to use offline * Build a mental fitness habits with personalised routines * Track your mood with wellbeing check-ins * See your skill development progress with the mental fitness tracker * Dark mode to help you relax before sleep We have a history of creating positive impact, and a vision to create generational change, empowering everyone with the tools for lifelong mental fitness. Smiling Mind has been at the forefront of mental health innovation for over 12 years, helping minds thrive with evidence-based tools and resources. We’re proud to have impacted the lives of millions of people globally. Over the last decade we have followed a vision to help every mind thrive, and are proud to have impacted so many lives in that time. Now, amidst a mental health crisis, we’re looking to the future at how Smiling Mind can create long-term change in mental health and wellbeing that will ripple into future generations. Smiling Mind’s new mission, Lifelong Mental Fitness, is built on the evidence that shows positive mental wellbeing can be proactively developed. And it’s our intention to empower everyone with the skills they need to do this. “The best thing about Smiling Mind is that it relaxes you and helps you think straight.” - Luke, 10 “We listen to it most nights for my son and I’m not sure what I would do without it truthfully. Thank you for helping our children and family feel better inside and out.” - Year 3 and 5 Parent