I tried five VR meditation apps, and a clear it was best

Virtual reality is an amazing number of attention -focus apps, and I am their goal demographic. I want to progress the great eight -fold path, and/or experience a decrease in stress and other benefits Come carefullyOn the other hand, I feel the attention, and I think I can get the same rest benefit from sitting in a dark room and listening to Hawkwind anyway. But perhaps VR is the answer? I checked a bunch of VR Meditation apps to see if they could be helpful, and each was rated on a scale of 5 (freedom from the affliction and cycle of rebirth) from 1 (wandering the ego stuck in his own prison).

First, a specialist weighs

I know a lot about VR, but less about meditation, so I talked with it Shawna thibodoA meditation teacher and spiritual patron. He explained that there are various schools of meditation, and “concentrations meditation” describes a lot such as VR experience I have tried. “With concentrations meditation, we are focusing our focus what is called an anchor, like breath,” Thibodo said. “When you focus your focus on something other than your thoughts, you begin to get awareness in your thoughts. And then, every time you come back to your anchor, you are trained to come to your mind to come to the present moment.”

But VR meditation is a strong barrier among applications that I have seen and most traditional forms of meditation: view. If you are starting transdantal meditation, say, step 2 (“Close your eyes”) “)”) “)”) But reality is not virtual with your eyes closed. According to Thibodo, visualization/expression meditation may be better for the virtual world:

“What we are doing is changing the energy situation in which we are sitting … the energy situation that we are really sitting in reality,” Tibodo explained. “If you are sitting in a state of abundance or expansion, this energy will begin to influence your external reality, and you can really see changes in your outside world. Synchroncies may come to you, new opportunities, and your life can be really shifting in a really interesting and kind of magical way.”

I asked Thibodo to imagine a VR meditation app, which used to use the kind of practice, and he said: “There should be a scene that basically helps you go to that high state, okay? So I don’t know, maybe they may like to win the lottery, and then it inspires you to like, ‘how does it feel?”

Except for the efficacy of meditating on the expression, it seems better to the virtual world than traditional attention, but also sounds like a virtual reality (and video game), already put people into a state where they are completely tall in an experience that they probably reveal: Most of the video games are power fantasies. Does that power appear in the real world, this is a big question.

Trip

Tripp VR can be the most famous of relaxation/meditation platforms. It incorporates a ton experiences designed to users to practice mindfulness, improve focus, or enter “cool”, directed attention, visual respiratory trainers, psychedelic “focus trips”, and trippy abstract scenes that are pulses and vanis, all are heavily wrapped in a new-yellow-yellow-yatra-tachbro. Some experiences are directly inspired by cycadelic experiences – a series called “machine alves” that is clearly based on DMT visuals, and the app itself pointed to that vibe in its own marketing, “Inner space,” in the context of “inner spaces,” extended states, “and” digital cycadelix “. Many people like Trip, but I felt it heavy. The sessions were clever, but it left me the best. This means to calm down, but it increased my internal critic. It is like taking drugs Feeling As you are taking drugs, if it makes sense. It is also expensive: Monthly membership is $ 9.99.

best for: Psychy

Enlightened-o-meter score: 2.5 out of 5

Attention

Credit: Stephen Johnson – Directed Meditation VR

Unlike the trip and, taking into account its no-bucket title, meditation does not offer a tonn gimmick. It has “five 10 minutes of” experience “to give mental clarity, calm the mind and renew your body through” healing sound frequency. “In practice, it contains a soothing voice that tells you to chill and just sit there,” music “(I can really not tolerate the music that is synonymous with spiritually colorful relaxation) and the graphics of caves, volcanoes, and other natural things that they look out MincraftIt is resting, I think, but mostly because “rest” and “boring” are practically roommates. But, hey, this is only $ 1.99, so you can try it quite cheaply.

best for: Budget-conscious neobs

Enlightened-o-meter score: 2 out of 5

Marginal

Liminal is more ambitious than attention and has graphics feature which are completely Xbox360-level. It provides a ton of various interactive and non-inactive VR “experiences”, which classifies into rough categories. It seems that “fear” and “energy” are the most popular and have some cool technical demo/mini-marks features, but I was interested in “quiet”, where there are noticeable mini-marks. Those I tried were not especially groundbreaking. One was about to hypnotize me, but did not. In the second, I was told in the voice of that drone “spiritual” music and a revered woman that when I saw digital birds, I asked me to breathe more slowly.

Best for: gamers who want Malevolent relax

Enlightened-o-meter score: 3 out of 5 (but mostly for non-meditation experiences)

Floborne VR – Biofedback Breathe attention

If you have ever tried to meditate and do not know whether you are breathing from your stomach, then this app will answer you! You “play” VR by resting a controller on your intestine. It tracks how far your stomach spreads and contracts while breathing. Deep breaths from the diaphragm move you faster through a semi-evolved landscape. In other words, this app gives you a way to track how well you are breathing, and A Reason To focus on it. Finally I can be best in breathing! Personally, I do not like to think about my breathing because it seems that there is another shame that I have to worry about, but if the breath is your thing, and you want to improve it, then this app will do it.

best for: Breathwork Nard

Enlightened-o-meter Score: 3 out of 5

Pillow

The pillow does not make high claims about consciousness, mindfulness, or peace, but I found that it is more calm and meaningful experience than any other meditation app that I tried. The pillow is lying on your back in the bed, already has more comfort experience than other apps. Its five mini-marks (called “Dreams”) is “The Meditator”, the best meditation app I tried overall. It uses the same controller AS-Breath-Monitor as Floborne VR, but the soundtrack has chills Little Indie loops rather than strange drones. Excessive. Another standout from the pillow: “The Fisherman,” an experience that lets you reel you from your roof into a virtual fish. Each fish has a recorded voice of another user of the pillow, which answers a question like “What would you like to do most in your life?” Or “What moment would you like to give relief?” I found that a partner is asked to connect with human thoughts, while flowing to sleep and being more meaningful/spiritual that old graphics are being asked to stare and imagine connectivity. Instead of explaining this, and $ 9.99 is a small price to pay for such strange beautiful experience.

best for: Chill Wordos and Insomnia

Enlightened-o-meter score: 4 of 5