Years ago, I bought and read a book called Ten Percent Happier on the recommendation of a friend. I found it to be a good book and persuasive, but it was written for people who weren’t meditators yet and weren’t sold on the benefits of meditation, and so at the time, as someone who taught meditation, it wasn’t a great fit. But I still have the book and recommend it to people who aren’t into meditation. Recently, though, Apple started a program at work, a sort of meditation contest where if you meditated consistently you got some cool small prizes and I figured, what the heck. It turns out they are using the Ten Percent Happier app and as part of doing well in the contest I got to keep a premium version of the app for a full year. It’s been really great; I use it every morning just after breakfast. It’s filled with a lot of really good content; different videos about meditation and then a ton of guided meditations. You can do a different one every day and not run out for a looong time. I think it’s kind of expensive for a full premium version but the free version is already a really great start and has - if I remember right - over two weeks of daily meditation content that you can of course go back and reuse. I really like the layout; it’s clean and simple and doesn’t have any “gamification elements”; it doesn’t look like a game app or a 90s web app. Nothing is blinking. And the attitude of the guy who started it - Dan Harris - is really approachable. I recommend checking it out.
