@lnchoi Thanks for your input here and I regret not making the landing page our home website: www.fitmind.co. While some meditation teachers tell you to stick with one technique, others believe there is value in sampling from the buffet before choosing your "meal." One of my personal mentors, Culadasa (a.k.a. John Yates, Ph.D.), wrote the Mind Illuminated, perhaps the most widely-read guide to Vipassana, yet he recommended I explore other methods as well. I think it is good to eventually go deep in one practice that works for you (as SN Goenka says, "If you keep digging shallow holes, you'll never build a well."), but everyone's mind is different. There's a risk for someone to practice Vipassana for decades and never try another method that may have been quite beneficial to them. I hope this answers your question. FitMind aims to present many different methods of meditation as an introduction, whereby someone could acquire many tools and then decide which ones are worth pursuing long-term.

@lnchoi Great question! I think there is currently no objective metric to go on there (studying the inner workings of the mind beyond chemical firings and blood flow is quite difficult, so we might be decades away from an optimal solution here). That said, the FitMind program encourages you to be your own mental trainer. As your metacognitive introspective awareness improves, you begin to understand your mind better and will get a sense for what seems to be working best for you. For example, if you spend the entire meditation lost in thought, you might go back to focused attention techniques, like a body scan or breath focus. In the later stages of the program, you might find that certain of the "glimpse" practices are able to shift your state of mind dramatically. Dr. Jeffery Martin, founder of The Finder's Course and a former guest on my podcast, has been working hard to explore this very question as scientifically as possible. Based on years of results from delivering his course, Jeffery believes that generally one week is long enough to know if you align with a method. "Alignment" is defined as an increase in wellbeing, better emotional regulation, less mind-wandering, less critical inner thoughts, and less reactivity, all subjective measures (that are admitted also effected my many other factors as well - best self-testing practices would involve holding as many other factors in your life constant as possible obviously). So my recommendation is to go through the FitMind program and then go back to the methods that seemed to help the most and try focusing on each for a week, recognizing that some methods are more supplemental than primary perhaps, like metta/emotional priming for example. Does this make sense? I wish I had a better answer but I think you've pointed to an incredibly important question of future scientific inquiry. Imagine if we could take one look at someone's current neural wiring and suggest the optimal meditation practice? I hope that's an option in the future.

@stanislav_dim Thank you for this candid feedback - your objection is noted. Please see above for an explanation of how this product is different. I'll add that while well-established apps primarily teach mindfulness meditation, FitMind is for those who would like to explore other methods as well (meditation is an umbrella term like exercise, with over 300 different techniques!). The risk is that meditation gets "McMindfulized" in the west and many folks never realize that there are so many different tools in the toolkit for training a better state of mind. That's why I felt it was necessary to create this app. Hope this was helpful.

@cataplines Thank you for your patience. I'll keep you posted!

@marc_bielas Thank you for the support and thoughtful questions. I think there are really 4 key areas that set FitMind apart from other meditation apps: 1. Western psychological explanations of each meditation technique 2. A systematic progression through exceedingly "advanced" methods 3. Daily Challenges that help you integrate your meditation practice into everyday life 4. The ability to ask questions about your practice in the app to the FitMind team The app provides guidance that starts with the basics and becomes progressively more "advanced" (as most teachers would define them). It moves from focused attention to open awareness and then natural awareness practices/glimpses etc. You go through the full spectrum of awareness practices, experiencing different shifts of mind. These come primarily from Advaita and Dzogchen and are either not taught on other apps or hardly taught at all in the West. They are very powerful and just starting to make their way to the West, as many of these teachings were not allowed beyond the confines of their traditions for thousands of years.

@rafaelyenikieiev Working on it, thanks for your patience!

@charu_singhal That's great to hear! Thank you for your support

@kerrie_lamb Thank you Kerrie!

@liammccl Hi Liam, FitMind looks awesome! How about an interview about it at StartupRadius.com? Send me an email to Paul(at)StartupRadius.com if interested!

@prasshanth_guru I'm sorry for your trouble downloading. If the links on www.fitmind.co aren't working for you, you can search "FitMind" in the Apple App Store

Thank you! The first week is currently free and then $4.99/month, a significant reduction from other meditation apps

@max_proulx That's up next - hoping 2020! Thanks for your support

@max_proulx @liammccl Any waitlist for Android ?

@max_proulx @liammccl @lucien_dubois How about here? Waitlist, please

@max_proulx @lucien_dubois @ken_lyle If you sign up for my weekly newsletter at www.fitmind.co I'll be sure to let you know when the Android version is out. Thank you for your interest!

@will_moore2 I would say Richard Lang and Loch Kelly