You meditated this morning. It felt great. It's not helping right now.
Meing is a thirty-second check-in for the exact moment the spiral grabs you. Which, sometimes, is right now.
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Someone said something at 11:15 and you're still arguing with them in your head... except you're winning, this time.
You're not lazy. You're not broken. You're just somewhere else.
Almost half the time, it turns out.
Two Harvard researchers pinged five thousand people at random moments (a quarter of a million pings) and asked what they were thinking about. Minds were somewhere else 47 percent of the time. And that wandering predicted unhappiness better than someone's job, income, or circumstance.
You're not broken. You're just like the rest of us. But all of us are losing half our lives!
The fix isn't more meditation. You already meditated. The fix is a way back to now small enough to use at 2:47, in the middle of the mess, between meetings.
Killingsworth & Gilbert, “A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind,” Science, 2010.
Touch the screen. Feel your fingertip land. You just came back to your body.
One or two slow breaths, guided. You choose.
One true sentence to walk out with.
Then it lets you go. Three tiny shifts that change how you go through your day. That's the whole practice.
Download Meing on iOSUnder thirty seconds a visit. Free daily use.
Paid unlocks unlimited check-ins and your universe.
Your practice is yours. Some days you'll check in five times.* Some days, not at all. Both are fine.
Miss a day and something breaks. Guilting you into retention.
Come back whenever you come back. You're welcomed, not scolded.
You return on your timeline. When it feels right.
A tap on the shoulder, never a tug on the sleeve.
Points, levels, competing with strangers at who can be the most calm.
Every check-in becomes a star in a sky that is uniquely your own.
No engagement traps. No bottomless feed.
The practice is meant to live in you, not on an app.
Shame never made anyone more aware. Meing is built on the opposite belief.
*More than once a day is available only to paid subscribers
Meing grew out of Ilia Grace's guided practices on Insight Timer. Here's what her listeners say.
“That was LIFE CHANGING… I am the source of my discomfort and unhappiness.”
“I felt so lost and off. Thank you for this gentle tugging back.”
“Normally I have trouble centering enough to calm and focus on the present, but this really worked wonders.”
“I needed that reminder to just let go.”
Quotes from Ilia's guided practices on Insight Timer — the practice Meing is built on.
Every time you come back to the present, meing marks the moment with a star. After a day you'll see Mercury, two days Venus, three days Earth, then the moon marks your first week. All set in a night sky that belongs only to you.
Check in through a hard week and watch your night sky light up, one moment at a time. Miss a day? Nothing disappears. Your universe only ever grows.
Most apps show you what you missed. Meing shows you what you made.
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I've been teaching spiritual health concepts for years. My guided practices on Insight Timer have been played more than 29,700 times, rated 4.76 stars by over 3,600 listeners.
”My morning meditation couldn't save me from myself. Even though I felt calm, cool and collected in the am, somehow by noon I lost my shite. It wasn't until I found a way to be present all through the day, that things actually started to change.
Meing is the all through the day practice I needed when my morning meditation wasn't enough.”
~ Ilia Grace
Right here, reading this sentence. Notice that? You just came back. It took about three seconds.
The spiral, the overthinking, or the overwhelm will return this afternoon, as it does. But next time it starts up with, "I can't turn my mind off, what's wrong with me, what's the point" you'll have somewhere to go that takes less than 30 seconds and asks you for nothing else.
Free to start. No credit card required.
Launching this July during Self-Care Month.
