Waking Up: Meditation & Wisdom

This is the app that I can say changed my life in non hyperbolic way.

If you’re looking for guides and references on meditation and enlightenment which shy away from making audacious metaphysical claims but without militant skepticism, this app is for you.

Consciousness Altering, Sam helps me to realize a way to look into consciousness differently and it definitely had an amazing impact. I loved the mix of Mindfulness and Metta meditation - since it brings an awareness to our desire to love and be loved. Thank you Sam and the team for creating this amazing experience.

- It explains not only the meditation, but also the science behind it (the science is including but not limited to neuroscience, psychology, etc). - It helps me to find a better purpose for meditation. - The practice makes me more aware of my body, thoughts, emotion, consciousness.

I’ve tried several apps to guide me through meditation and this app has been a tremendous help. I really recommend to listen to the theories first to get the right mindset before practicing meditation. Love all the different contents the teams kept on adding to the app. Great conversations and now the new metta love chapters. Thank you!! You’ve changed my life!

I have tried to learn meditation several times over the years. Sam’s course is the only thing that has worked for me. I love his passion for leading you as well as he possibly can on a journey to witness your own consciousness. I sense he is trying his utmost to share with you a beautiful practice that he knows so well, but which remains elusive for many. His careful coaching is practical and specific, like the ‘playable’ direction given by a great movie director. Thanks to this wonderful course I feel a new excitement about life and a new sense that any moment can be fascinating if I focus my mind on it. And any difficult time can be more bearable too. Thank you Sam.

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!