Healthy Minds Program
The award-winning, freely available app to help you learn the skills for wellbeing.
Access our powerful proven path to wellbeing with the Healthy Minds Program free app.
With a combination of powerful lessons and immersive practices, you’ll learn what science says about the brain while developing the skills to thrive and flourish.
The ground-breaking Healthy Minds Program uses neuroscience, contemplative traditions, and skill-based learning methods to help you develop the skills for a healthy mind in the palm of your hand. Translating pioneering neuroscience into tools for everyday life, our unique framework guides you through the four pillars of the science of training the mind.
Awareness
Be present. Train your mind to be more calm and focused. Meditation training to strengthen mindfulness, attention, and self-awareness.
Connection
Feel connected. Develop skills to strengthen appreciation, kindness, and compassion through building connection skills.
Insight
Get curious. Learn how your sense of self shapes your emotions and reactions, and practice self-inquiry to decrease stress and emotional reactivity.
Purpose
Stay motivated. Strengthen your values and principles and learn simple skills to apply them in everyday life.
Tangible Benefits, Supported by Decades of Scientific Research
The scientific research at the Center for Healthy Minds, led by Dr. Richard J. Davidson, has led to breakthroughs in the neuroscience of wellbeing and how the mind can be trained to be more focused, calm, and resilient through meditation training.
Meet Our Healthy Minds Guides
Dr. Richard J. Davidson
“The Healthy Minds Program app is NOT simply a mindfulness app. While it includes mindfulness, it is based on research that identifies four key pillars of wellbeing that each need to be trained to establish enduring flourishing. It is the only app that has chosen domains of well-being to cultivate based upon modern scientific findings, including short mini-podcasts that provide the science associated with specific practices, as well as practices themselves. This harnesses two major modalities of learning that we know from neuroscience are required to firmly induce enduring change.”
Dr. Cortland Dahl
“Everyone’s path to wellbeing is unique. What makes the Healthy Minds program different is that there’s a clear path and step-by-step guidance, but also a lot of flexibility, with different ways to learn and practice.”
Daniela Labra Cardero
“The applicability of all practices into daily life is unique to this app. It allows one to tap into deep scientific and contemplative knowledge in simple yet profound ways, even as you do simple activities, like walking or doing the dishes! The flexibility to choose the length of your sessions, and if you want to do them actively or sitting, is unprecedented. All the while, you can track your progress and contribute to the science of wellbeing!”
Stephanie Wagner
“The Healthy Minds Program app is unique because it’s truly a step-by-step, guided program to train the mind in qualities associated with wellbeing. This program helps us to cultivate these qualities that already exist within us, we just don’t normally see them. What’s wonderful is when we train the mind in this way, we can experience well-being even in the midst of the demands of a busy, professional life.”
Jay Vidyarthi
“This is an app created by a nonprofit made up of world-renowned experts in science and technology who also happen to be deep meditation practitioners. Think about that for a second. You’re not going to find a more thorough approach with this level of integrity anywhere else.”
Dr. Ronné Wingate Sims
“What’s exceptional about The Healthy Minds Program app is that it’s both inviting and accessible no matter where you are on your journey toward wellbeing. Whether you’re new to meditation, seasoned in the practice or fall somewhere in-between, there’s something here for everyone.”
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The Healthy Minds Program App is freely available thanks to the generosity of our donors.