If you feel like you could use some time for yourself, Calm may be a significant first step toward getting back that time. It helps to relax, sleep better and feel energized during the day without losing focus. Curious to learn more?

What Calm Can Do For You

Calm started as a meditation app. Even if you are not interested in meditation, you may still want to use it. Calm has grown to offer much more than initially intended. It features music for relaxing or focusing, physical exercises, and stories and sounds to help you fall asleep.

A meditation app may seem a bit ironic. Isn’t meditation about avoiding distractions? Our electronic gadgets are the primary sources of distraction nowadays. It seems counterproductive.

Instead of waging war against the attention thieves, the authors of Calm adopted a different strategy. Why not use the distractors as the power for good?

So what is a meditation app?

If you wonder what meditation app is about, let me explain. It features guided meditations (which you can also find on places like YouTube or SoundCloud), breathing exercises, and open meditations. The last ones play a background sound with an occasional bell to help you notice the flow of time.

Calm is no longer just a “meditation app,” though. First, it started its expansion towards other areas of our mental well-being. Sleep stories, for example, help you to fall asleep. Calm Music is a collection of instrumentals that help with various everyday activities like focus, relax, or sleep.

Next, there are the Calm Masterclasses. You can think of them as video courses related to topics such as gratitude, parenting, rest, or habits. The recent additions moved Calm from mental fitness into overall fitness category with the addition of Calm Body.

Calm Body provides simple physical exercises. Instead of focusing on increasing strength or endurance, these exercises focus on caring about our back, waking up, winding down, or stretching. In short, on this subject, we usually forget about in our busy lives.

Due to all those features and its connecting theme, it is safe to call Calm an antidote to the unhealthy life we often live.

The omnipresent stress and little distractions are slowly killing us, but some tools can help us better cope with them. One such tool is Calm.