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Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 15/09/99 05:09:26 , Ed a =E9crit :
> "Allnoun" by Tom Breton isn't really all noun and doesn't claim to
> be; it's all nouns and *punctuation marks*, which are extremely
> important to the way it works. Also, every sentence carries an
> implicit verb: "X exists" where X is the rest of the sentence.
> =20
french grammarians (out of fashion now) consider such "X exists" as
a range of (5 - i think) descriptive or communicative
relations between an "entit=E9" and a "comportement"
(pr=E9sentatif, existentiel, etc.)
the 6th being the relation of "sch=E8me g=E9n=E9ral d'entendement"
pairing a "th=E8me" and a "propos" (not yet a topic and a comment,
or a predicate and an argument).
that relation may be attributive (dependence) or active (actance)
(i guess it's pretty much =E0 la chomsky ?)
no verb or noun morphem and no syntax is needed to understand
that relation. some say such relation is countlessfold given the number
of semantic relations between concepts. others say you can count
them down - not as such, but as lexies capturing both entity and
comportement. others try to chase them down by listing all the different
aspects for all possible kinds of actors of all possible kinds of processes
and states because another theory over here (can't say
about elsewhere) has it that when the dog barks it's not a dog anymore,
only the "-s" on "barks" (my free translation) nomore differently than=20
"bark-er" or "bark-ing" are. so you can categorize
entities according to their possible comportements - syntax being only
taken *in that regard* as a clue to another relation.
this implies that entit=E9s exist through their possible comportements
and conversely so you can map these matches.
i think that's what wordnet does actually.
i told you already french lingo-computer guys in grenoble and nancy
believe they can do that - like you make ariane or tgv or whatever
according to state planification.
it looks like Tom Breton flatly puts the lid on the pan and calls all that "=20
: "
I'm not familiar with "integration process," but it sounds like
something I might want to know about. Can you explain it to me? (And
remember, I can be a little slow sometimes.)
oh yeah, we all noticed that ;-)
Not knowing about it, I would assume that turning nouns into verbs is
a blending process. By putting the word "man" into a syntactic slot
which demands a verb, one essentially asks the hearer to create a new
verb, a transitive one, which has as a salient feature the referent of
the noun "man" -- a man -- and which could plausibly take as a direct
object the d.o. of the sentence -- the ship. One draws upon context
(encyclopedic knowledge: ships need crews to run them) and comes up
with "to provide with a crew" or "to be a crew for."
exactly. int=E9gration is creating a lexie (lexicalized concept)
by putting comportement or entit=E9 in dependence.
word "man" is a clue for detecting
a comportement #xxx or entit=E9 #yyy within syntax.
but the word "man" also happens to express a lexie
(entit=E9+comportement) with listed actors : ship, crew
+ possible factive agent. you can use "man for", "to be crew", etc.
that doesn't change anything but i guess it's good to list that too
so you can identify it better at the syntax level.
very dumb, isn't it ?
Is that more or less what you're talking about, or is it something
sorry ? what are we talking about anyway ? ;-)
It could be that Charles Sanders Pierce was right after all, and
there are three ultimate categories of experience: Firstness,
Secondness, and Thirdness, and that any relation involving more than
three participants is reducible to relations among three participants,
but that trinary relations are not reducible.
well, i don't know that guy but there is a theory used here
to explain that since ages.
very roughly speaking some comportements
imply another comportement from another entit=E9.
for instance, "i punish him" implies he did something
wrong, "i talk to him" implies he can listen,
"i protect him" implies something else may threaten him, etc.
the relation between two comportements is called continuum and
is prospective (from identified comportement) as opposed to
retrospective (from identified entit=E9) which is a rupture.
for instance
"to tell the kids the story" :
kids =3D prospective understanding (hopefully)
+ story =3D retrospective pattern
wordnet calls pattern a "3rd entity".
same with so-called factive :
"to teach script to children" :
chidren =3D prospective learning
+ script =3D retrospective pattern
that's how serial verbs work.
(nothing to do with transitive or factitive).
A THING profiles a region within a conceptual domain. The most
prototypical nouns -- physical objects -- are primarily understood as
regions within the domain of three-dimensional space, but any
conceptual material can serve. Regions with definite boundaries are
count nouns; regions without definite boundaries are mass nouns.
Nouns symbolize things.
we call that "permanence".
An ATEMPORAL RELATION is similar in some ways to a THING; the region
that is a THING consists of a group of interconnected entities, where
an entity is absolutely anything that can be consciously or
unconsciously conceptualized. In a THING, the entity or entities are
profiled, whereas in an ATEMPORAL RELATION the interconnections
themselves are profiled. This is why a "group" is a THING but
"together" is an ATEMPORAL RELATION. The same content, construed in
different ways, here becomes a THING or a RELATION.
Adjectives symbolize atemporal relations.
we call that "immanence".
immanence is thought as revealing entity (permanence) through
comportement (remanence) or else as shaping comportement
(remanence) into entity (permanence).
reality is only another viewpoint ;-)
A PROCESS is like an atemporal relation, in that relationships are
profiled, but it is processed differently than an atemporal relation:
it is SEQUENTIALLY SCANNED rather than SUMMARILY SCANNED. This is one
of Langacker's bolder proposals: he suggests that "the jumping monkey"
and "the monkey jumps" are actually processed differently by the mind;
in the former, the act of jumping is considered as a whole, while in
the latter, the act of jumping is considered in its temporal parts,
start to finish, in order. (This does not necessarily imply that this
is conscious, or that it involves a vivid, movie-like mental picture.)
Incidentally, Langacker distinguishes two types of process, which he
calls "perfective" and "imperfective," which are similar to but not
identical with the concept of "active" and "stative." Perfective
processes, like count nouns, are structured, individualized, and
distinguishable, while imperfective processes, like mass nouns, are
indefinitely divisible without loss of structure.
Verbs symbolize processes.
it's called "remanence" over here.
That's the gutted, ripped-from-context,
i like it, takes us back to philosophy courses
(never had the opportunity to get back to them since baccalaur=E9at)
---------- and christophe wrote
For me, it is obvious that syntax and semantics aren't autonomous, and
I wonder why it is a debated question. Even in a language where word
order is free enough (a purely syntactic feature), using a word order
instead of another generally convey a different meaning (a semantic
feature). Syntax is only the mean used to carry a meaning. I can't
understand why it could be seperated from semantics (even if the same
syntactic feature can carry many different meanings).
not at all.
let's take everything from the beginning and prove to the
unquestionable contrary. only then we know we're right.
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Robert Mapplethorpe was controversial when he was alive, and has remained so ever since, despite the fact that the art world has long acknowledged his stature, his original prints have fetched hundreds of thousands of dollars at auction and his work can be viewed on the walls of the nation's most respected museums.
The great irony of his life and career is that while he reveled in putting his own nakedness on display, including the famous self-portrait with the end of a bullwhip inserted into his rectum, Mapplethorpe was and still is the enigmatic chameleon of contemporary art.
"Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures," the first full length documentary about the artist since his AIDS-related death in 1989, attempts to get to the heart of who Mapplethorpe was and what made him tick. And if filmmakers Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey don't entirely succeed in their goal, it is only because Mapplethorpe's greatest creation was Mapplethorpe. He did it so well, it's almost as though he stage managed his own elusive legacy.
The film, airing April 4 on HBO, takes its subtitle from a rant by the late Sen. Jesse Helms, delivered on the floor of the Senate, denouncing the supposed artistic value of Mapplethorpe's work. "Look at the pictures," Helms decried, waving a handful of prints in the air as he railed against a traveling exhibition of Mapplethorpe's work.
It's impossible not to look at the pictures, whose subjects range from portraits of friends such as Patti Smith and Carolina Herrera, to floral still lifes, to a crawling man in a latex suit, a man urinating in another's mouth and self-portraits of every conceivable variety. Mapplethorpe made pictures you had to look at, applying his finely honed sense of composition, light and texture equally to subjects both seemingly innocent and profane. Beauty was the common denominator, but there was nothing common about his work.
Mapplethorpe was a gangly Catholic Long Island boy whose family priest recalls that he was "the only person I know who could sit on the couch and chew his toenails."
He was known as Bob back then, but schoolmates called him "Maypo," after a popular breakfast cereal whose commercial featured a kid whining, "I want my Maypo." After graduating at 16 from high school, Mapplethorpe moved to Brooklyn to study at the Pratt Institute, against his conservative father's wishes.
Being on his own transformed Mapplethorpe, and his later move to Manhattan, where Patti Smith became his girlfriend and artistic collaborator, only furthered his emersion from the chrysalis of an unremarkable suburban youth. Art became his life to the point where there was no separation between who he was and what he was, says his younger brother Edward, and New York was the catalyst of his evolution. The artist Brice Marden accurately describes the city's allure in the 1970s: "You came to New York because you had to be in New York."
Mapplethorpe and Smith lived in the Chelsea Hotel, in a room said to have been once occupied by Oscar Wilde. Mapplethorpe wasn't into photography at first — he made collages from images he clipped from gay porn magazines, which, we're told, he stole from a blind news dealer. He began taking Polaroid photos and played with the emulsion before it dried to turn the images into amoeba-like forms. Smith was his frequent model and muse.
But Mapplethorpe's sexuality was no more fixed than those wet Polaroids, and soon he was hooking up with men he met at places such as the Mineshaft. He would find an interesting subject to photograph, bring him home, create art and have sex, sometimes a couple of times a day with different men.
Edward Mapplethorpe's observation about the union of man and art should be considered next to this observation by Sam Wagstaff, Mapplethorpe's lover and benefactor, as the most concise summary of Mapplethorpe's work: "He is absolutely wedded to the truth and opens it up in front of his camera in an almost surgical way."
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Those statements offer insight into many of Mapplethorpe's most provocative photographs, especially the self-portraits. His body was often his instrument, from the early film of him having his nipple pierced that was screened at New York's Museum of Modern Art, to the infamous bullwhip photograph. And if it wasn't his own body in the photograph, it was often bodies of men he had sex with. A few, such as Marcus Leatherdale, became his lovers. There is a kind of artistic logic in his need to possess these men artistically through his camera and physically through sex.
We might ask where the artistic truth was in some of Mapplethorpe's bondage-themed work, and the answer seems to be in his Catholic boyhood. Mapplethorpe himself says in the film, "The way I arrange things is very Catholic, not religious." And the family priest, George Stack, points out that the themes of Mapplethorpe's bondage and S&M images evoke the Catholic martyrology.
Of course, these and other sexual images were what made Mapplethorpe controversial.
There is no question that he was motivated to shock through his work, but to what end? It was not, as Helms and other detractors would have it, for prurient reasons, but rather for artistic ones. "I was always fascinated with the idea of taking a loaded subject like sexuality and somehow bringing it to a level it had never been to before," he said.
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Yes, some of the images are initially shocking, but the more you look at them, the less shocking they become. Soon enough, the experience of looking at one of the "Calla Lily" photographs and that of viewing, say "Mark Stevens (Mr. 10½)" become oddly similar. You can point to the classical arrangements of the two photographs, to the play of light and shadow, to the phallic suggestion of the lily stem's downward arc, the quasi-still-life display of Stevens' genitalia, but what it really comes down to is one simple truth: both images represent the creation of art through the application of visionary purpose.
"Look at the Pictures" mirrors what Mapplethorpe did with his own life and career: It uses the pictures to tell a version of Robert Mapplethorpe while leaving us with the nagging feeling that there was much more to him than met the eye — either the eye of his lens, or the eyes of those who were transfixed by his images.
David Wiegand is an assistant managing editor and the TV critic of The San Francisco Chronicle. Follow me on Facebook. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @WaitWhat_TV.
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hi all
we are a new client and want to start on the right foot.
mostly, we're a web app team. we develop on our workstations and publish to dev/test.
this will not work to well with the ram requirements of QV.
We contracted a partner for the install and stand-up of QV. Their reccomendations seems to be that we develop on the server via RDP.
what are you guys doing? limiting record sets ? server development ?
thanks, TD
Installing Qlikview in a server and connecting it through RDP is a good option since there is no need to have additional RAM on individual machines. We follow the same for our development.
This also eases the issues in opening connectivity to the source systems and also, all the documents can be maintained in the server without any local copy.
Working on stand alone machines by limiting the record sets might not be good option, since you will not be able to test the performance of the document with full data loaded. This suggestion is based on my experience and you will get more such inputs from others 🙂
thanks for the quick response.
do you ever have connection limitation issues?
we are planning to allow some "super users" to develop as well. does your shop do that? currently, we do not allow non-IT people to connect to servers.
thanks again for the response
I guess, the number of RDP connections is based on the number of terminal services licenses available in the windows server and you can run multiple sessions in parallel provided there are enough terminal services license.
In Qlikview end, you can run multiple sessions, provided there is enough server capacity and you have developer license to allow parallel sessions.
I am not sure about 'Super Users' and I guess this is related to the windows account management.
We develop by maintaining files on the server, usually no local copy. There is a development, test, and production environment. However, our test environment should really be called "staging for production", because in practice, we test everything in development, and not in test.
We do open the server files on our own computers, so our own computers must have sufficient RAM. There are a few applications that are too big to open in 32-bit, which is what all our desktops are. For these applications, we have single, shared 64-bit development machine. We just "remote desktop connection" to it as necessary. Since there are only a few applications that need this, we've never had any conflicts that couldn't be resolved by communication and a brief discussion of priorities.
We do not have connection limitation issues. Though I suppose I'm not sure what you mean by connection limitation issues.
We do not have super users doing any development. Like you, we planned to have them, but none of our super users ever did more than poke around at things with very little understanding of what they were doing. They very quickly lost interest, asked IT to do everything, and we abandoned the super user idea. But yes, during that phase, our super users had access to the development server only. We did, though, have different directories on the server, with different people authorized to each. So the super users couldn't, for instance, go in and delete an IT-controlled application.
thanks for responding and good info.
windows server is limited to 2 concurrent connections via rdp unless we make it a terminal service machine. as i understand it, those licenses are expensive so we are to stay away from that idea. to be honest, i'm relying on my server guys on this subject.
we have another remote option via sccm which, in our environment, is hosted on citrix. that is not quite as clean as rdp but we may not have much choice.
thx, td
I think my question stems from this conversation. Excuse me if not, I'll open a new one if you think I should.
For the last 12 months I was a in a Graduate position working closely with QlikView applications. We use RDP sessions to our Dev/Prod servers as suggested above. Until recently we only ever had 3-4 people working on QlikView (Or had any QlikView knowledge at all).
QlikView is now beginningto be widely used across our businesses and now there are a number of projects in the pipeline and the number of developers working on these servers is approaching 10+.
Simply put, the file structure we ue on Dev/Prod is a mess, we have no documentation detailing any standards or practices to be followed.
To nip this in the bud before it becomes a problem I am working to tidy the files we already have and produce documentation to have guidlines for new developers.
Does a best practice model exist for file structure of QlkView servers?
I don't know about BEST practice, but if we ever cleaned up our actual practice, it would probably look something like this:
There are certainly more directories, but that's the basic idea, and now I'll explain. Each big category of the type of data has its own directory. These directories have separate access control over who can get to the applications within. The Master_Data directory contains most of the QVWs that do nothing but create QVDs, and the results go in the QVD sub directory. Some categories of data, like accounting and particularly payroll data, are sensitive enough that they should be protected from most people in IT as well. So the sensitive QVDs go into those specific directories so that access is more tightly controlled. The QVWs that create those QVDs obviously go in the controlled directories as well.
We don't have any issues with concurrent development because for the most part, each QVW has an owner, specified on a fairly standard format About tab. Some of the QVWs in the Master_Data directory don't have an owner, but they're rarely touched, and we at least often chat about what we're doing even if we don't have an official check out policy for them, so we've never had any problems that I'm remembering. For an environment with 10+ developers, unless you have an owner for each application, you'll probably need something more sophisticated than "hey by the way, I'm adding some fields to this QVD". I'd recommend some sort of code versioning and collaboration software. I have no specific recommendations as far as what software to use. If you don't want to go that far, perhaps you could implement a policy where if you want to develop an application, you copy it from the server and put your name at the end (e.g., Customer_Orders.qvw.JohnWitherspoon). Then when you're done, copy it back and remove the old file. If someone sees your name on a file, they know you have it checked out and know who to talk to.
As far as standard practices, we initially tried to create some standards documentation. This has not been followed. I haven't followed it. I'd rewrite it now to match my own practices, but that wouldn't change anything.
Perhaps a good approach would be to set up a template with examples of everything from your standard color scheme to how date fields look and how line charts should look. We haven't done that, and I don't know if that would be effective in practice.
Something I've recently done that I wish I'd done a lot earlier is set up a Calendar QVD. This lets me stop repeating calendar logic (however simple it is in practice), and makes sure that all applications using the standard Calendar also get the standard formatting for dates, months, quarters and so on. If you can do something like that and get everyone to use it, that might help with enforcing standards.
This is pehaps only peripherally related to the question, but I recommend forbidding developers to EVER load * from any data source but an inline or resident table. If your application doesn't have control over the source, never ever load *. Yes, when your QVD only has 10 fields, and you want those 10 fields, listing them all may seem like a pain. But that is NOTHING compared to the pain you'll suffer when someone adds another field to that QVD that they require, and then your application reads it in, and then it links up your data models in incorrect ways, and breaks your application. And even if it doesn't break your application, the slow accumulation of fields you don't need in your tables will take more and more memory and make your application slower and slower. Multiply that by 10+ developers and 100+ of applications, and hopefully you can see the problem. A little investment up front can save a lot of trouble later.


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A long drive across the Italian peninsula on Tuesday brought us to Matera, an ancient town in Basilicata now noted for its sassi – dwellings excavated from the limestone caves dotting a deeply etched canyon.
It's an otherworldly sight, unlike anywhere we've been before.
Evoking ancient ways with stone pathways creating a labyrinth of alleys, and winding stairs, it's not too hard to imagine people living here long ago. An echo of poverty and reminder of terrible conditions exists, too; the 15, 000+ people who were forcibly removed from the sassi in the early 1950's for 'decent' housing apparently were living by that time in disease-ridden and squalid conditions, according to our guidebooks.
Matera's sassi are now a UNESCO World Heritage site, and are being rehabilitated by affluent residents, peopled by hotels and cafes, and signposted for tourists like us.
On a gray, overcast day, however, when the pathways were largely empty, it was easy to think of the people who had lived here over the centuries, dependent on an elaborate systems of water catchment and cisterns, caves that incorporated living space, work areas, and space for animals, after excavating the soft tufa rock. Overpopulation in the 18th and 19th centuries overwhelmed the capacity of cave dwellings, expansion into poorly ventilated areas resulting in poor living conditions by the mid 20th century.
We stayed in a lovely hotel—Caveoso Hotel, a renovated cluster of sassi near the San Pietro Caveoso square. Fueled by a delicious breakfast of croissants with custard, chocolate, or nutella fillings, slices of eggy Matera bread, Matera foccacia, and for me, a couple of delicious mugs of cappuccino, we decided to stay a second night, and headed out for a foggy day's exploration. Last night's dinner encouraged another night, too. A delicious antipasto of eggplant , a carrot/potato cake with crisped pepper, a mushroom tar, marinated zucchini was followed by homemade pasta with great sauces. Il Cantuccio seemed to be a place that locals were enjoying celebrations; a large business-oriented group and a mixed local/foreigner group had lively dinners.
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Are Meditation Apps Worth It?
These days, more and more people are seeking ways to manage stress and anxiety levels, hone focus and attention, and reduce negativity — and many are turning to meditation to do so. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the number of people who reported meditating has more than tripled since 2012. And because phones are such a large part of 21st century life, attention has fallen naturally to the utility and effectiveness of meditation apps.
We scoured the mobile meditation app market, then consulted five leading meditation experts, CDC, and countless studies on how meditation affects the brain and body. Whether you're new to meditation or a seasoned pro, there are a few key takeaways to consider before opting into a mobile meditation program — they aren't always the fast-track answer to a happier, stress-free life. Meditation is nuanced, and it isn't easy. In fact, a self-guided meditation app might even cause more problems than it intends to solve. We've outlined the pros and cons of the most popular apps on the market below, but it's best to think about your individual needs and goals before choosing an app if you want to reduce stress in the healthiest, most effective way possible.
What Is Meditation?
Although meditation and mindfulness seem to be synonymous, there are clear distinctions between the two. Meditation is a broader term that encompasses several different types of practices — mindfulness being one. Sharon Salzberg, meditation expert and author, describes mindfulness as "a quality of awareness where we can see the difference between our actual experience and what we might be adding to it, relinquish the add-ons, and get a cleaner, clearer sense of what our direct experience is."
Mindfulness intends to rein in unruly thoughts, including tendencies to ruminate on the past or make projections into the future. "[Mindfulness] meditation involves training our minds to come back to the present moment, so that we're not going to these places that are stressful — when we're in the present moment, we're not stressing," says Karen Bluth, Ph.D., an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who focuses specifically on mindful self-compassion. "We access the present moment through physical sensations, generally, like noticing what it feels like to have our feet on the floor, for example, or noticing the feeling of holding something in our hand."
The science of meditation
In-person meditation instruction
Meditation studies, particularly those focused on mindfulness, have increased exponentially in the past 30 years. Researchers have found benefits in a variety of areas:
- The brain: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), which takes a more intensive approach to meditation, has been shown to increase gray brain matter density and improve learning, memory, and the emotion-regulation process, among others.
- Stress reduction: Mindfulness-based meditation helps lower stress-related symptoms and hormones and may enhance coping mechanisms.
- Increased compassion: Compassion meditation has been linked to the stimulation of neural pathways that involve empathy and compassion.
Meditation apps
While science on digital meditation apps is limited, the field is budding amid growing popularity and a desire to use meditation as a form of complementary treatment. Dr. Judson Brewer, associate professor and director of research and innovation at the Mindfulness Center at Brown University, says it's harder to understand the brain than it is to create an app. Unwinding Anxiety, the latest development in a trilogy of Brewer's behavior-changing mobile apps, uses science as the basis for the entire program, and a pilot study showed that the app led to a 50% reduction in anxiety in physicians within the first month of use. The course leads you down a path of reshaping "habit loops" — "hacking" reward-based learning systems where unhealthy thinking patterns and coping mechanisms are perpetuated.
"You're not just going to go out and mix something up with your chemistry set in the garage and then try it on people to see if it will help them with cancer: You find the mechanism of the pathway that's mutated and the gene, then you target that gene mutation — and that's how you get precision medication that works and doesn't kill people," Brewer says. "That's obviously an extreme example, but the same is true for trying to change behavior."
The company behind the Headspace app is also making waves, having funded and been the focus of recent studies that substantiate its claims about reduced stress and irritability. The company even looks to create a prescription meditation program with its app and redefine digital medication with its subsidiary, Headspace Health. This means that Headspace users could have access to a personalized, FDA-backed meditation program designed by health professionals by 2020.
Is meditation safe?
The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) states that meditation is typically safe for "most healthy people." However, Bluth says that while meditation and mindfulness seem to be pretty straightforward, they're actually more involved than they appear. Without the help of an instructor, experiencing difficulties — and not having any questions answered — could cause an aversion to meditation or even spark other complications, including those associated with asthma or breathing-related trauma. "Sometimes [students] start controlling their breath in some type of way — the actual breathing becomes an issue, and it starts raising anxiety levels," Bluth said.
Willoughby Britton, one of the founders of First Do No Harm: Foundational Competencies for Working Skillfully with Meditation-Related Challenges (a program that helps meditation teachers identify, modify, and manage adverse reactions to meditation), has helped bring awareness to the potentially complex implications of meditation. Brown told Tricycle: The Buddhist Review that mindfulness-based stress reduction and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy tend to pigeonhole participants into facing unpleasant or difficult experiences head-on, and that this could be "re-traumatizing."
The bottom line? While meditation is generally safe, most meditation apps lack the support network that makes it so. As such, apps may carry higher levels of risk for some people than a guided program, and finding an app with expert resources is critical if you're just starting out. To truly reap the benefits, it's best to choose an app that aligns with your level of experience.
Our Search for the Best Meditation Apps
Even though there's no hard-and-fast answer to what makes a good meditation app, there are a few baseline standards to take into account. Out of the thousands available, we took a look at 22 of the most popular meditation apps on the market based on ratings and consumer reviews and evaluated them on a few key criteria.
Free trial
Prior to digging into the content of a certain app, we checked to see whether it provided a free trial period or sample content to test. This step is critical, as you might find that you're less inclined to engage with the app if it's confusing or fails to give you a glimpse into what's behind the paywall.
iOS and Android compatibility
We looked for meditation apps that were widely available — if one wasn't offered to both iOS and Android users, we nixed it. If we noticed any price disparities, like an app that was free in the Apple Store but cost a few dollars to download from Google Play or vice versa, we tossed it. We ensured that the apps offered similar, if not identical, services to both iOS and Android users.
Of course, an app that claims to benefit your life in any way should be intuitive and easy to learn. To test user-friendliness, we downloaded each app and gauged how well they tracked progress, whether they allowed you to set helpful reminders or easily revisit sessions you hadn't quite finished, and if they provided a way to listen to meditations without Wi-Fi.
A mixture of freedom and structure
Everyone needs something a little different out of a meditation app. The ability to search for meditations by time, teacher, goal, and other topics is helpful for people who are more experienced with meditation. For others, that freedom may be overwhelming; more structured courses with clearer guideposts could be more manageable. We kept this in mind as we searched, ensuring that our top picks included options for many learning styles.
Expert support
As our experts outlined, meditation carries its own unique set of risks. One key, albeit overlooked, aspect of digital meditation is an outlet for questions or help when encountering confusion or difficulty. This is something that many of the most popular meditation apps today fail to provide. While we didn't eliminate any apps based on this lack of resources, we took special note of the ones that are setting the trend for healthier app-based meditation, including those with some level of scientific backing.
The Best Meditation Apps
Headspace offers a little something for everyone — beginners and experts alike. Before each meditation, you're given a brief animation explaining how to perform the following session, which makes the app digestible for those starting their meditation journey or comfortable with having a plan laid out before them. The app also offers a good deal of customization, meaning you can choose where you want to start and what to focus on, while also providing structure and simplicity. The only significant exclusion we noticed was the lack of a timer-only option.
Andy Puddicombe, the voice of Headspace, its co-founder, and a former Tibetan monk, has a soothing voice and even pace. That said, Headspace offers only that one voice and perspective throughout your journey. And if you find yourself confused or frustrated, Headspace does not offer an outlet to contact instructors, experts, or even community members.
10% Happier, founded by Dan Harris, author of "Meditation For Fidgety Skeptics," provides meditation exercises from 16 experts and teachers, including Salzberg and Brewer, along with a "meditation coach" chat feature that lets you ask questions regarding your experience. When we tested this, we received a pretty detailed response in a little over four hours on a normal business day. This isn't the same as reaching out to an instructor in real time, but it's still helpful — especially considering that most apps neglect to include any sort of expert guidance.
This app also offers a good deal of customization in allowing you to choose where you want to start based on your own interests and curiosity. You can opt to meditate with a full-on guided course or look for one-off meditations, or "singles," depending on how long you want to meditate. If you're looking for other content, the app offers "talks," which serve as mini pep-talks or quick lessons on mindfulness implementation in daily life.
The app features 25 courses, each with around 12 to 15 lessons. While this might mean 10% Happier doesn't offer the same course volume as others, including Insight Timer, its library for one-off meditations is pretty robust. Additionally, you won't find a timer-only, unguided meditation session. If you're a beginner or intermediate meditator, 10% Happier's expert help and library of content make it a great resource.
If the thought of charting your own meditation journey feels overwhelming, Unwinding Anxiety might be the app for you. Although it isn't as popular as some of our other picks, Unwinding Anxiety uses a structured course path and provides several lines of communication and expert resources throughout the program, including an expert-moderated online community forum and a weekly Zoom classroom session run by Brewer himself. "We train our facilitators to keep an eye out for [people suffering from depression], so that we can resolve it," Brewer says. "If people are starting to display worrisome behavior through writings or reaching out, we can put them in contact with the people that will help them in an appropriate way."
The five-week program doesn't allow you to jump around or let your curiosity lead you when using this app — instead, you have to go through each lesson before unlocking subsequent lessons and features. These unlockable features include bonus modules, meditation exercises, and other courses designed to tap into or reshape certain behaviors or thinking patterns. While the structure may be too limiting for self-directed meditators, it's perfect for those who may find themselves otherwise overwhelmed by options, as the five weeks of introductory and teaching modules lay a solid groundwork for future mindfulness practice.
Insight Timer is partly known for its customizable timer-only option that allows you to choose different bell sounds, durations, and presets. In addition, Insight Timer sources over 2,800 meditation teachers for different courses (including Bluth, Brewer, and Salzberg) and provides full biographies for each one — the caveat is that, while the app is free, most of these in-app courses will cost you $5. The variety of courses can be a tad overwhelming when trying to decide where to start, especially if you're new to practicing; that, coupled with the timer-only option that makes the app famous, makes Insight Timer more suited for experienced meditators.
Partaking in a paid course also gets you access to a community of students taking the same course and a direct line of communication to the creator for any specific questions you have. Aside from communication with your instructor, you can also contact any people you have met or previously connected with in the messenger section in your profile.
Calm's interface is friendly: calming, in fact, and it's relatively easy to source the meditation you believe will be best fit for you. The app offers additional features, like music and meditations designed specifically for sleep, but it can be a tad difficult to personalize. For example, if you don't "favorite" a certain session or course, you might have to do some digging to find it again — these aren't automatically queued in your home screen. Calm does offer a free seven-day course on managing anxiety, but after that, you're led by your curiosity alone when it comes to deciding how to continue. For some people, the freedom might not be an issue. For others, it could be intimidating or off-putting, especially without a way to speak to an expert or others who have participated in the course.
How to Make the Most of Your (Mobile) Meditation Experience
Set realistic expectations
One of the most important tenets of meditation is learning to treat yourself with grace; it can be easy to find yourself discouraged when you can't quiet your mind or envision the narrative. Salzberg claims that it's also difficult to measure progress — the progress she's seen has been in less quantifiable areas, like greater clarity, focus, and kindness. Give yourself some time to seek help and figure out what works best for you, and keep your eyes peeled for how you feel in other aspects of your life. If you feel anxious, frustrated, or confused after a session, these are all just signs that you're human. "The goal is not to cut off thinking or annihilate feeling," Salzberg says. "The goal is to develop a different relationship to whatever we are experiencing, a relationship with more presence, balance, and kindness."
Note your preferences
One of the first things we noticed when testing these products was how heavily the pacing and voice of the instructor influenced our desire to pay attention. This is, of course, driven by subjective preferences; our experience meditating won't look anything like yours. Although it seems trivial, whether you actually find the program and message pleasing influences how often you're likely to practice. Take advantage of products' free trials to determine which style, voice, or pacing most appeals to you.
Explore non-traditional meditations
Almost all of the experts we consulted touched on the fact that there's no tried-and-true method to meditating, and you certainly shouldn't feel stuck doing something you don't enjoy or find uncomfortable. In fact, traditional meditation might not even be the right outlet for you. There are meditations designed for those who prefer being more active or who don't want to focus solely on breath. If sitting for 30 to 60 minutes doesn't appeal to you, some apps like 10% Happier, Insight Timer, and Headspace let you filter by time and offer some meditations that take less than three minutes. When we reached out to 10% Happier to ask about alternatives, the expert directed us to a few sessions that even involved "walking" meditations. Calm, Insight Timer, Headspace, and Unwinding Anxiety either offer different forms of meditation or resources to help better customize your experience.
Verify your instructor
"One of the things that's really important to note is that there's zero quality control out there on who's a qualified [mindfulness] teacher for recorded meditation," says Diana Winston, director of mindfulness education at UCLA's Mindfulness Awareness Research Center. This means it's worth doing a little research or background-checking on your app's meditation teacher(s) before engaging. A more qualified teacher — or someone with several years of experience or research under their belt — might be more equipped to answer any questions you may have about their work or meditation in general.
Some apps that feature many teachers, like Insight Timer and 10% Happier, either provide bios or full rundowns of names and descriptions for the person delivering the message. Others, like Stop, Breathe & Think, only list the first name of the instructor, making it more difficult to see who actually designed the lesson and what kind of training they have.
Stick with it
There is no definitive answer as to how often and for how long we should meditate. However, consistency seems to be the key. Salzberg recommends setting aside 20 minutes every day, but five at the very least: "It's the everydayness of it that seems to be the most important factor." With most of the apps we picked, you can select the amount of time you want to meditate for a certain course or session.
It's also important to think about mindfulness meditation as an intricate practice, beyond the casual connotations and trendiness that surround it today. "There's a lot of hype around meditation, particularly mindfulness right now — that it's going to solve all our problems, it's going to transform our education system, make workers more productive, but in order for it to have an effect, you have to do it," says Winston. With constant practice, we can eventually use mindfulness to enhance quality of life through even the most mundane activities.
Try a course
Remember, mobile meditation carries higher risk than in-person courses, particularly if you're new to meditating. Before diving into a mobile app, it may be worth exploring meditation with an in-person course:
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction — a course recommended by Bluth before engaging in an app — is geared toward those dealing with chronic pain and other medical conditions and aims to help people manage and respond to stress.
- Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy is an eight-week group intervention for those who experience recurrent depression. The program combines meditation practice with cognitive therapy components to help people identify conditioned patterns in their mind and mood that may perpetuate depression or incite relapse. "By cultivating increased awareness, people are in a better position to skillfully respond to the warning signs of depressive relapse before the symptoms become severe," Ruth Whitall, LICSW, an adjunct faculty member and a certified MBCT instructor at the University of Massachusetts Center of Mindfulness, says. "By the end of the [MBCT] course, people often report feeling more empowered by what they have experientially learned from themselves and from others in the class."
Read how the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness compares the two.
The Bottom Line
Mobile meditation apps seem to have nailed the intentions behind easing stress and anxiety and heightening focus and attention — it's the science that hasn't had time to keep pace with the market. And if you're a beginner and serious about meditation as a complementary treatment, it's best to seek counsel from professionals and research (mindfulness) meditation courses in your area.
That said, if you've taken a course or are familiar with meditation, mobile apps could be a helpful tool to facilitate continued practice — and consistent practice will help yield results. Though the best meditation app for you ultimately comes down to personal preference, our favorites cater to a variety of learning styles. Unwinding Anxiety boasts robust online support and a structured, clinically supported course. Headspace caters to both beginners and experts, with courses designed for each. Calm, 10% Happier, and Insight Timer offer a plethora of options for those with more experience or less time. Whatever your needs, we recommend taking advantage of free trials to see which app best suits your experience level and needs.
Note: These are just suggestions based on our research and feedback from the experts we consulted. They are not intended to replace those of a trained professional or physician. If you believe that you're dealing with anxiety and/or depression, first seek professional counsel.
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