Cell Phone Apps to Relax Your Brain

Headspace: Get out of your head and more into it with Headspace, a app that is ideal for ​ people just starting a meditation routine. The first 10 exercises are free. The animations add a cute, light-hearted touch to help you understand meditation.

Calm: Calm offers a wide range of guided to assist people in adding more relaxation into ​ their lives. The selections range from 3 minute to 25-minute sessions. There are also breathing exercises, sleep stores and 25 soothing sounds to help improve sleep.

Breethe: and meditation techniques to support people with regular meditation practices. ​

Stop, Breathe and Think: This meditation app boasts more than 55 options for ​ selections. , Breathe and Think will recommend meditations for you to practice each day based on how you feel so that all you have to do is select one and play.

Chill: Daily quotes and reminders for practicing mindfulness. ​

MindShift: Struggling with anxiety? Tired from missing out? There are things you can do to stop ​ anxiety and fear from controlling your life. MindShift is an app designed to help teens and young adults cope with anxiety. It can help you change how you think about anxiety. Rather than trying to avoid anxiety, you can make an important shift and face it.

Deep Calm: A customized sleep and relaxation aid app with nature sound effects and relax melodies. ​ It’s best for sleep, relaxation, , meditation.

Breathe2Relax: Lower your stress and reduce your anxiety with this app. The relaxing app trains you ​ on the belly breathing technique that has proved benefits for your overall mental health.

Insight Timer: Check out more than 4500 free guided meditations and 750 meditation music tracks. ​ Customize your meditation using the background sounds and meditation tool intervals to create a unique experience that works best for you.

Smiling Mind: Get your little ones into the practice of meditation using Smiling Mind, an app that can ​ be tailored to different age groups - even children as young as seven.

Mindshift: This app will help you learn to relax, improve helpful ways of thinking, and identify active ​ steps that will help you take charge of your anxiety. This app includes strategies to deal with everyday anxiety, as well as specific tools to tackle: making sleep count, riding out intense emotions, test anxiety, perfectionism, social anxiety, performance anxiety, worry, panic, and conflict.