Sit comfortably, focus on your breath, and reflect. Although it sounds simple, the complexities of meditative practice are often underestimated. Preventing your mind from wandering is a skill that requires practice. If you're new to meditation or want to try out a different style, guided sessions are an ideal place to start. 4improve is the world's first holistic lifestyle app, helping you to train your mind as well as your body. Its bank of easy-to-follow audios can help you to achieve a diverse spectrum of meditation goals, from unlocking your creativity to lowering your blood pressure. Whatever your reason for meditating, 4improve facilitates daily practice that has been shown to have profound effects on your physical, mental, and emotional well-being.

What Are Your Meditation Goals?
Whatever your meditation goals are, 4improve can help you.

You Want To Become More Self Aware
The aim of meditation is not to clear your mind but to pay close attention to the present moment. As you acknowledge your feelings, emotions, thoughts, sensations, and connection to the external world in real-time, you will begin to recognise patterns. This grants insight into what makes you, you.

You Want To Manage Your Stress Levels
Meditation goals are often centred around reducing stress. Regular practice promotes acceptance, resilience, and positive thinking. If you can gain a new perspective on stressful situations and learn how to let go of negativity, your stress, and anxiety will decrease. Lowered blood pressure and an improved resting heart rate can also be achieved with stress-reducing meditation.

You Want To Enhance Your Sleep Quality
Busy, clouded thoughts can make falling to sleep a challenge. Meditation helps to focus your mind, allowing you to relax and unwind. Daily practice also increases your natural melatonin production, which prepares your brain for sleep and supports sleep quality. Using 4improve's guided sessions shortly before you go to bed will help you to achieve your sleep-related meditation goals.

You Want Fewer Negative Thoughts And Emotions
Meditation foes not necessarily eliminate pessimistic thoughts, it gives you the tools to disrupt negative thought patterns. By training your brain to achieve sustained focus, you can implement this strategy when unhelpful thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations intrude. Until you begin meditating, you may not be aware of the negative stream of thoughts that subconsciously direct your behaviour. Daily meditation with 4improve can help you to break this cycle.

You Want To Unlock Your Inner Creativity
A calm and spacious mind, free from encroaching thoughts can strengthen your creative flow. In his book, Mindfulness for Creativity, Danny Penman suggests that meditation enhances 3 essential skills for creative problem-solving: divergent thinking, improved attention, and resilience to setbacks. Meditation can open your eyes to new ideas and give you the courage to be innovative.

Set Meditation Goals Using 4improve
4improve eases the passage to holistic living. The app plays host to guided meditations, workouts for all abilities, recipes, and meal planning, as well as water and step trackers. It encourages you to reflect on your life and decide where to implement changes. One by one, these lifestyle adjustments help you to improve your physical and mental wellness.

If you're a newcomer to meditation, 4improve's diverse range of guided audios teaches you the fundamental aspects of the practice. A calming voice guides you through meditative techniques, including visualisation, mindfulness, and breath work. More experienced users can choose from a wide variety of relaxing music and nature sounds to play as a backdrop for self-led practice.

To achieve your meditation goals, we recommend selecting a specific time of day to practise. This helps you to integrate meditation into your routine more easily before it becomes habitual. Setting an alarm for the first couple of weeks acts as a reminder to pause your day and give yourself some 'me-time'. Alternatively, make use of 4improve's 'Plan Your Week' to help stay consistent.

Download From The App Store or Google Play
To experience the extensive benefits of holistic living and achieve your meditation goals, download 4improve from the App Store and Google Play. The app is FREE for a short time only, so be sure to tell your friends!