The Healthy Minds Program
The Healthy Minds Program is a free mobile app based on the Healthy Minds Framework, a scientific model developed by Cort, Dr. Richard Davidson, and Dr. Christy Wilson-Mendenhall that highlights four key dimensions of wellbeing. The Healthy Minds app presents a step-by-step journey to inner wellbeing. The app contains more than 200 guided meditation practices that can be done either as sitting meditations or active practices, interspersed with podcast-style lessons with insights from scientific research on meditation and wellbeing, personal stories, and important principles from the world’s meditative traditions.
Cort created the curriculum for the Healthy Minds Program as part of his Ph.D. dissertation and went on to build the app in close collaboration with Dr. Richard Davidson and with the help of designers from IDEO and the team at Healthy Minds Innovations. Cort is also the main guide for the program and wrote most of the content in the app.
Try a meditation from the Healthy Minds App
In this practice, we sharpen the skill of checking in with our current mental and emotional state and using what we find as a support for mindful awareness.
There are many ways to strengthen your ability to be present and avoid the toxic swirl of distraction. In this practice, you’ll do this by practicing mindful listening.
You can do this guided meditation as an active practice, linking a simple daily activity like walking, doing a household chore, or commuting to work as you meditate. In this practice, you’ll learn to use the rhythm of your breath to drop into a state of calm, restful awareness.
Listen to a lesson from the Healthy Minds App
Is your mind stuck in overdrive? Learn what the latest science says about distraction and how mindfulness can help.
The mind is constantly judging, classifying, and interpreting everything it experiences, and sometimes this gets us into trouble. What does science have to say about the mind’s restless energy and how it can be transformed through the practice of insight?
The Healthy Minds Program in the Media
- The Best Meditation Apps – New York Times
- 5 Cheap(ish) Things to Improve Your Self-Care Routine – New York Times
- Best Meditation Apps – Vogue
- How An App Helped Me Deepen My Meditation Practice – Mindful Magazine
- I Tried the Healthy Minds App in 2024, Here’s How It Went – Verywellmind.com
Scientific Research on the Healthy Minds Program
A full list of peer-reviewed research on the Healthy Minds Program can be found here.
