How to Download and Sync Meditation Apps
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Get In Sync with Your Favorite Meditation App Practicing meditation can help lower stress levels, reduce symptoms of depression or anxiety, and increase focus. You can even earn 10 Vitality Points™ for 10 minutes of meditation with a supported app. Here’s how to sync your app with Vitality. Getting Started 1. If you haven’t already, download the Vitality Today™ app from the App Store® or Google Play™. 2. Next, download a supported meditation app, such as: • Headspace • Calm • Apple Breathe for Apple Watch® 3. Connect your meditation app to the Apple Health app (iPhone users) or Google Fit (Android users.) Make sure your Apple Health or Google Fit is linked to the Vitality Today app. Headspace Calm How do I connect Headspace to the How do I connect Headspace to the Apple Health app? Google Fit app? 1. Download and install Headspace from the App Store. If 1. Follow the prompts to link your Google account to the you already have the Headspace app, delete it, restart Google Fit app. your iPhone and reinstall the app. 2. Download and install Headspace from Google Play. 2. Once logged in, listen/re-listen to Basics Session 1 (this specific session is required). 3. Open Headspace, navigate to the Settings menu and tap Google Fit. 3. After completing Basics 1, you get the toggle card 4. Toggle the Connect (see the image below) Google Fit switch to allowing you to sync with the on position so the the Health app. Toggle the Google Fit app can start switch to the on position tracking your Headspace to allow access to your meditation sessions. Mindful Minutes. 4. On the Vitality Today app, 5. On the Vitality Today app, go to More > Health app > go to More > Health app > Meditation > Connected Meditation > Connected Apps to check that Apps to check that Headspace is listed. If it Headspace is listed. If it is, is, the Health app is ready the Google Fit app is ready to track your Headspace to track your Headspace meditation sessions. meditation sessions. 2. Calm How do I connect Calm to the How do I connect Calm to the Apple Health app? Google Fit app? 1. Download and install Calm from the App Store. 1. Download and install Calm from Google Play. 2. Tap More in the bottom right corner of the Calm app. 2. Tap the More button in the bottom right corner of the Calm app. 3. Tap Settings. 3. Tap Settings. 4. Tap Apple Health. 4. Find Save to Google Fit 5. Enable Mindful Minutes and toggle the switch to for Calm within Sources the on position. Confirm in the Health App. that you’d like to save sessions to Google Fit. 6. On the Vitality Today app, go to More > Health app > 5. On the Vitality Today Meditation > Connected app, go to More > Health Apps to check that Calm app > Meditation > is listed. If it is, the Health Connected Apps to check app is ready to track your that Calm is listed. If it Calm meditation sessions. is, the Google Fit app is ready to track your Calm meditation sessions. Use the Breathe App with Apple Watch To start a session: After completing your first Breathe session, enable 1. Press the Digital Crown® to go to the mindfulness minutes for Apple Watch in the Health app. home screen, then open the Breathe app. 1. Open Health app and tap Mindfulness on the home screen. 2. Turn the Digital Crown to set the session’s length. 2. Click the bar for the last session of mindfulness minutes you completed. 3. Tap Start when you’re ready. Remember to stay still while you breathe. 3. Click Data Sources and Access, scroll to the Apps Allowed to Read Data section and move the toggle to the on position for Vitality Today. Confirm your Apple Watch is also listed under the Data Sources. 3. Important Tips You only earn points for You can earn For Apple Breathe, the You can earn up to 200 points meditation if your supported 10 points each day from longest session is five for meditation per year. You can app is linked to Apple Health one or a combination of the minutes. You need to keep tracking your meditation app or Google Fit. supported meditation apps. complete more than one minutes on the Vitality Today session a day to have at app even after earning the least 10 minutes total. maximum points for this activity. FAQs Can I use multiple meditation apps? Yes. You earn 10 points for completing 10 minutes of meditation using one or a combination of the supported meditation apps. What if the meditation app I use isn’t on the list of supported apps? You can’t earn points for meditation sessions on an unsupported app. Can I keep tracking my meditation sessions after earning the maximum amount of points for meditation? Yes, but you can’t earn more points for your meditation sessions. Do I need to pay the premium membership fee for the Calm app? No. You can use the basic Calm offerings to earn points. The premium membership offers a seven-day free trial. If you don’t wish to start a premium trial, click the x in the top right corner of the screen to exit. Vitality HR Support Center www.powerofvitality.com 855.GO.MCKHR (855.466.2547) 877.224.7117 Press 1 for the McKesson Benefits Center for Health, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Central time, M-F Vitality and Pension questions. Benefit experts are [email protected] available 7 a.m. - 6 p.m. Central time, M-F. En español — entra a Vitality, ve hasta abajo y haz clic Oprime 1 para asistencia en español a través del en Languages > Español. McKesson Benefits Center. Spouses/Domestic Partners Total Rewards Library Go to www.powerofvitality.com. 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