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Radhika Sharma

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The world today is such a hard place, isn’t it? In this super competitive dog-eat-dog world, where time is money and your life is caught up between meetings with the manic boss, kids, presentations, your personal life may take a slight bit of a downturn. Having a fulfilled personal life may be the last thing on your mind after a hard day, and most of the times your motivation factor decreases and life becomes dull. Technology as always is your best friend and can spruce up your day with the spurts of motivation which are handy via apps! Whether it be calming meditation or blissful happy thoughts, influencing your state of mind to turn that frown upside down is now just a download away.

Head Space

Got time between two meetings and need to relax? An app that wants to train your mind, it teaches you basic meditation techniques for just 10 minutes a day. Download the app and the sessions and let your ears do the rest. You can also listen to these sessions offline and save on extra data cost. The app also allows you to map your journey and share achievements/stats with fellow users on the network, so you’ll have some company on your road to mindful meditation!

Happy Habits

What’s the easiest way to be happy? Develop some happy habits, of course! This is an Android app that helps users identify thoughts and activities that can increase happiness in a person’s daily life. It takes a scientific approach with info about depression and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to overcome one’s emotion of sadness. It provides a questionnaire that identifies problem areas and keeps people motivated.

Inner Balance

Remember the very famous line from the movie Kung Fu Panda? “You need to find your inner peace, Po!” While Master Shifu provided the young warrior with some much needed insight into life, the app Inner Balance can be your everyday sensei! The app is an innovative approach to improving wellness through training, education and self-monitoring. It gains reactions to stress, insights into your moods and its shifts, your anxiety levels and uses the data to help you create a more positive outlook to life. And guess what? You have a network of users along your journey too! Available only on iOS.

Expereal

Memories sometimes play games with us. Even though you’ve had a pretty good vacation, one bad day might spoil the entire memory of those happy times for you! Expereal is an app that allows users to rate their life at any time, by creating visualisations of data about their mood, work day and more factors. It helps analyse one’s mood over time and also compare their ratings with other friends on its social network. It lets users rate their life via 10 simple points and is available to download via iOS.

Moodkit

Is negativity affecting your mindspace? While we can rid our body of the negative factors, taking care of one’s mental health is a far bigger task. Moodkit is developed by clinical psychologists and works on CBT techniques. It is divided into four sections and has over 150 activities that can lift your mood in a few seconds. Improve your daily social banter and relationships, be more active and even stop to smell the roses once in a while! The app helps in all aspects — personal and professional and is available to download on iOs and Android — it is a paid app.