Hello everyone. Welcome to the Keep Productive YouTube channel, my name is Francesca, D'Alessio and welcome back to another video.
So in today's video
What I've wanted to do is sort of do a review on an application called Oak
Meditation now for those who don't know Oak Meditation is a meditation
application and can be used to help you reduce stress and anxiety as you go about your day now
I'm a big fan of these sorts of applications and I do
Think they relate to productivity now for those you out there who have not tried meditation or even any sort of yoga practice?
I highly recommend it. I
personally used to
suffer to some extent from
overthinking things and maybe even just
General work stress and since doing it since being able to do it for two years now almost two years
I have found a real benefit from it and an application that came into my past about a year ago was oak
Meditation now over meditation have recently released a new version. This version is gorgeous
So I wanted to give you a full review of it here today on Cupid octave YouTube channel
So meditation has been created by a very prolific startup entrepreneur called Kevin Rose now
Kevin Rosa is a podcaster. He's also a very much an advocate of healthy lifestyle and living now
kevin has made a really neat application here and he's done it with the help of a Facebook community of people who are
Meditators and have really wanted to hone in on proving the application
now the Facebook group is particularly a special part of the application and it's definitely worth giving
That a mention because Kevin bells post regular updates on here and it's a very big community
So the application is really easy to use and what I would say is it's probably one of them
Simplest applications in the latest redesign they've redesigned the home screen which makes it look a lot easier to get started with
Now inside of the application that you can do two main things
meditation and breathing
Now what meditation is?
Obviously a very good practice to have if you've got 10 minutes in the morning or 10 minutes in
End of the day or even 10 minutes during the day I particularly been doing out here 2 p.m
Meditation to really calm myself before I go into the second part of my day
But I used to do it regularly in the morning
Which I've recently changed up from now meditation can really help just to calm the nerves or do a range of things
So I recommend it for whatever
Concerns you have and back your head. It's good for clearing your mind
Now meditation inside of the application is really easy
You can choose from three types of meditation the first being guided meditation
Which allows you to take you with an instructor through sessions very simplistic sessions
They're very easy to get started with the second is called
loving-kindness
Loving-kindness is an ancient practice
I think it's 400 BC that it states in its focuses on appreciation and gratitude
allowing me to really get a
Much more like focused
Meditation and it has an instructor as well
So it's more of a kind of meditation but will help you channel just positive thoughts to some extent and then it sounds really cheesy
about the the small things in life and being grateful for every little element and the final area is
Unguided meditation and this is great for those who sort of past guided meditation
or just want a really just a quiet meditation to reflect on their own thoughts or
Release those sorts now. There's no real one way of doing meditation I'd say but if you're beginner
I'd recommend doing guided meditation because you'll probably just get you started. The next section of the application is called breathe
Now I found this section particularly useful and I tend to do a breathing exercise after I do a guided meditation
now the breathing exercise is really easy to do and
Particularly easy when you're like looking at the visuals on the screen
I know it sounds weird
But for example when you look at the screen
you see visuals that pop up and
Actually give you an indication of how you should be breathing the speed and intensity of that
so for example when it comes up and you've got a brief to do in you can
And
There's actually hold moments, which is great
So the actual exercises are fantastic and look great in terms of the actual getting into the meditation
Once you're in a meditation of via timer
And if you do non guided or guided they'll obviously be an instructor or not and the same with the proven activity
Now the great thing with the growth section is you can see exactly how much meditation you've done so far
Per week per day and also how much the community's done - you can also collect badges for streaks and loads of different things
Whether that's you doing your classes or or you doing an exercise on a routine basis
It's quite a nice addition because it helps keep you motivated
towards progressing with your meditation
Now what I particularly like about this application is the design they've recently upgraded it so I can see more classes being added
and the
Experience and looks great sort of like Instagram stories to some extent they know where they would have gotten that design from anyway
I thought I'd share that feature with you. You can download it for iOS in the description below
I think they're working on an Android application
But I'll double check on that and add it below - but I think it's a great application
And I highly recommend it for those who are beginning out on meditation. And also just want to calm down and relax
Anyway, guys, I hope you enjoyed this feature
as I said
I'm gonna be doing more of these sort of lifestyle occations because I think that falls under
productivity and trying to keep a healthy mind is
Essentially very important because you you know you it's part of the longevity element of productivity
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