Friday 27 February 2015






by Jessica Stillman

culled from:http://www.inc.com
These tech tools promise to deliver everything from a calmer mind to more good karma.
The things you can accomplish with an app these days are truly impressive. With a couple of taps on your smartphone a taxi will pull up at your door, a tasty dinner appear on your table, or your dirty socks transform into neatly folded clean laundry. These feats can mightily improve your quality of life, sure, but can technology go deeper, addressing not only your material needs but boosting your mood as well?
That's what a whole range of apps designed to help make you happier claim. On blog Shareable recently, Cat Johnson rounded up a hefty 15 entrants in this category. Some serve specific niches such as couples, while others are more geared towards improving physical health (or sleep habits) as a way to improve mood, but others are intriguing tools that entrepreneurs hoping to be a bit happier might want to check out.

1. Gratitude Journal

"Something as simple as writing down three things you're grateful for every day for 21 days in a row significantly increases your level of optimism and it holds for the next six months," Harvard's Shawn Achor previously explained to Inc.com. That's scientific backing for the idea behind Gratitude Journal ($1.99), which as the name suggests, helps you boost your happiness by keeping track of all the good things in your life.

2. Calm

Don't have the cash to jet away to some nature retreat and clear your mind? There may be a way to calm down free of charge--just download aptly named app, Calm. "Featuring guided meditations, nature sounds, and a step-by-step guide to finding that all-too-elusive peace of mind, Calm is a great app to reach for when the fast-paced world gets a bit too much," explains Johnson.

3. Headspace

You need to hit the gym to keep your body in shape, so why do you think your mind will work its best without a workout? That's what Headspace provides, offering "tons of content focused on creativity, decreasing stress, increasing happiness, conscious eating, and open-hearted living."

4. Mindfulness

Whether you're a newcomer to meditation or an expert with a long-standing practice, app Mindfulness has something to offer you, including a timer for meditators and guided meditations. A clearer mind will cost you $1.99.

5. Happy Habits: Choose Happiness

Meditation isn't the only route to a healthier mindset and a happier life. You could also harness the insights of psychological science with this free app. Based on cognitive-behavioral therapy principles, Happy Habits offers tools "to assess your happiness, audio guides for relaxing and creating happiness, a journal for affirmations, a Happy To Do list, and graphs to keep track of your happiness levels." It's free.

6. Mood Kit

This is another app based on psychological insights. For $4.99 Mood Kit claims to help "you discover unhealthy thought patterns and behaviors so you can recognize them and ditch them," writes Johnson.

7. Pay It Forward

One of the surest ways to feel better yourself is to do something nice for someone else. Pay It Forward is a tech tool designed to encourage you to do just that, sending daily suggestions for small acts of kindness, as well as offering features to track and share your good deeds (in case good karma isn't motivation enough). Cost: $0.99.
Do you think an app can really make you happier?

17 comments:

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  2. excellent idea, good.but nobody cannot make you happy except yourself

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  3. these should make us uderstand happiness is more valuable than every other thing in life. i believe these apps would help, that is if you are ready to make yourself happy

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  4. excellent idea, good but nobody cannot make you happy except yourself. Adeleke Tolulope Sola

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  5. ADELEKE BEATRICE OMOLOLA
    This article let us to know that Moral kit is an apps for psychological insight.

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  6. Engage more on things that naturally makes you happier everyday that would increased your immune system, definitely you will feel much more better.

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  8. TIJANI LATIFAT IBIDUNNI
    One of the surest ways to feel better yourself is to do something nice for someone else. This are ways by which you could also make yourself happy

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  9. DURODOLA TAIWO OLUBISI
    From this article i have been able to understand that I could find it happy when I help people.

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  10. BOLARINWA ABIODUN IDRIS
    Due to the development of technology some apps can know keep you happy

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  11. AKANBI OLUBUKOLA ITUNU
    TECHNOLOGY HAS REALY DEVELOPED AS TO THE EXTENT THAT THERE ARE APPS THAT COULD BE WORKED UPON THAT MAKES US HAPPY.

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  12. ADEDIRAN FUNMILOLA ELIZABETH
    THANKS TO TECHNOLOGY, WE NOW HAVE APPS THAT CAN MAKE US LAUGH AND FEEL HAPPY

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  13. KOLAWOLE BABATUNDE SAMUEL
    THE TRUTH IS ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY HAS REALLY DEVELOPED APPS THAT MAKES ONE HAPPY

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  14. ADEBIYI WALIU
    THANKS TO ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY THERE ARE NOW APPS THAT COULD MAKE ONE HAPPY

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  15. AGBAJE ADESHOLA MICHAEL
    TRULY THERE ARE NOW APPS THAT MAKES US HAPPY

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