Mindfulness apps are the must-have addition to your smartphone with Apple and Google picking wellness app 10% Happier as part of their app lists in 2018.
Now, there’s a new app in town named Moodrise, which aims to use digital content, nicknamed “digital nutrition”, to help alleviate pain, boost emotional resilience and improve experiences of everyday life.
Instead of focusing on meditation like other wellness apps, Moodrise offers up different forms of content so you can swap your daily Instagram scroll for something that could make you feel better instead.
The way it works is the app focuses on the six most popular mood states including happiness, confidence and focus, and the related neurotransmitters that lead to that mood state. Users choose the mood state they wish to address or improve. They are then served with a series of different content cards.
The content has been specifically created to help deliver the desired chemical reaction in the brain, backed up by scientific research.
The idea is that you use the app daily, taking in the different types of content like a “digital pill” to help improve mood states.
You can use Moodrise on your smartphone at the moment, with functionalities via Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and the Apple Watch coming soon.
Moodrise was created by entrepreneur Michael Moskowitz. Talking about the launch of the app, he said: “Unfortunately, health services aren’t receiving the funding to support the growing problem and dramatically reducing exposure to digital media (or ditching our phones altogether) isn’t realistic. That’s why we developed Moodrise – to empower people to proactively manage their mental health.
“The platform helps users improve their digital literacy or digital hygiene, so we can become more in-sync with their own biochemical needs and progressively enhance our emotional resilience.”
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The reason behind the growth in mindfulness apps is simple: we are in the midst of a mental health crisis. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that one in every four people will be affected by mental or neurological disorders at some point in their lives.
Digital platforms are one way to counteract the increase in anxiety across the world. Whether it’s tackling anxiety with audio like Inner Truth, or meditation apps like Headspace, people are doing what they can to try and manage their mental health by themselves. Another app, Calm, recently collaborated with Uber to offer in-app mindfulness features during car journeys.
It’s worth a try at least.
