Waking Up: Meditation & Wisdom

This app is building me into a better person for myself and people around me. It’s filled with many interesting and beautiful concepts and teachings that are organised and given in a way that guides you and not overwhelm you with information. It’s everything; your friend that offers you comfort and understanding and also a wise teacher that offers wisdom and guidance. I’m attached to it and grateful for it and I really recommend it:)

This app is making me better in unique ways. I feel like I’m taking part in my life more and more. Be it the coffee you barely taste as you daydream, or the interactions with others you’re barely taking part in as worries of all kinds occupy your attention, all of us are missing moments that aren’t coming back. Sam’s simple instruction invites you back to moments like these and a day’s worth of others. It’s not so much changing my life, as it’s helping me actually live it. I’m thankful to have found this app, and I invite you to try it.

Very good app with perfect introductory course for beginners. The best meditation app that I tried.

This is the very first meditation app that actually taught me how to relax and enjoy in meditation (without being nervous all the time)! I really recommend it!

I’ve already tried a couple of meditation apps but I’ve been using Sam’s for more than 6 months now and use it almost daily. It really helps me with accepting and observing my thoughts. I think I’ve really progressed also because of this app and the value I get from it.

I was looking for a more "advanced" meditation app, app which would go more into the depths of consciousness, behavior, feelings and emotions. Through this app, Sam provides really good insights on meditation practice. I especially like how they separated theory from practice. I have tried many other meditation apps but I find content in this one most influential.

The title says it all-mindfulness training without the religious baggage taught by a real spiritual savant(that’s meant to be a compliment, Sam 😀).

Waking Up is hands down the most valuable app I’ve ever encountered. From in-depth conversations with world-class experts to diverse meditation styles rooted in real practice and research, the content is unparalleled. Each session tackles important topics—procrastination, distraction, and pain management—and is both enlightening and practical. As someone dealing with ongoing health challenges, I’ve found genuine relief and support through its guided meditations for physical and emotional pain. With experts from Zen, Dzogchen, and beyond, Waking Up offers an inclusive, comprehensive path to mindfulness. I’ve recommended this app to everyone I know not for any incentives, but simply because I believe in its value.

i am immensely grateful for the revitalized experience of daily living you furnish through teachings of this platform please never stop (pardon typos that follow) —- make room/ i know the nuance of feverish contraction/ first from the vantage point of being captured/ in the present moment ensnared by the influence of horse blinkers/ so restricting sensory experience/ there is an entire world in the periphery ceasing to exist/ having been made such a distant memory/ almost relegated as an element of imagination/ while the sear of that brand of anxiety/ freshly removed from between the coals and forcefully applied/ collapses all of existence into the ingress of intolerable… high pitched whines and blindingly bright convulsions of the mind/ this is the forest of misery from which the trees cannot be seen while in the thick of it/ even while unable to expunge the catalogue of catastrophic drops in the gut as such/ through the lens of contemplative practice/ the key hole broadens to an open door/ grisly sensations need not relinquish for coordinates located at my lonely to grasp point of reference/ see self as set of conditions where these transient elements collide/ furnishing them ample room to rage/ and scale the crazy to apocalyptic/ with neither clinging nor aversion activated and engaged/ still in the forest but catapulted to an elevated position from which valleys… summits and rivers remain visible/ make space for it all/ be taken by and identify with none/ dropping back into the space of consciousness/ there is just this/

I joined for a free month a while back and I got a taste of the 28 introductory course with Sam Harris. I love his style of guided meditation, and that there’s time to sit quietly (I add his background music too), and also to contemplate the concepts he’s bringing to my attention. Now I’m in the daily guided meditations and I love that you can add minutes to them, in the middle of the meditation to have more time to sit. I’ve never been consistent at meditation and Sam’s app has been drawing me into it on a daily basis. I love it. Thank you!