{"id":37167,"date":"2022-09-27T16:52:26","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T20:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=37167"},"modified":"2022-10-07T16:37:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T20:37:10","slug":"oak-2-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/27\/oak-2-5-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Oak 2.5.2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2022\/09\/23\/meditate-for-free-with-the-oak-app\/\">Josh Centers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2022\/09\/23\/meditate-for-free-with-the-oak-app\/\">\n<p>Both [<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/calm\/id571800810\">Calm<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/headspace-mindful-meditation\/id493145008\">Headspace<\/a>] require an annual subscription fee, so I tested their free trials. [&#8230;] It turns out that I find celebrity voices distracting.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/oak-meditation-breathing\/id1210209691\">Oak<\/a> has a small set of both guided and unguided meditations [&#8230;] Along with a few short breathing exercises [&#8230;] And a couple of routines to help you fall asleep<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>As someone with three kids and thus a noisy house, I appreciate the large library of background sounds, which includes things like cave water, fireplace, rain, Tibetan &ldquo;om,&rdquo; and simple white noise.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The main thing you miss with Oak is variety. Calm and Headspace offer new meditations daily with different lessons or things to think about. I find those distracting. I just want a few minutes to clear my head, not be inundated with a message of the day.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"oak-2-5-2-update-2022-10-07\">Update (2022-10-07): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CraigGrannell\/status\/1574876526729912321\">Craig Grannell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CraigGrannell\/status\/1574876526729912321\">\n<p>I generally recommend Oak as well. But if people want tailored and don&rsquo;t fancy a massive fee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smilingmind.com.au\/smiling-mind-app\">Smiling Mind<\/a> is a good bet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Centers: Both [Calm and Headspace] require an annual subscription fee, so I tested their free trials. [&#8230;] It turns out that I find celebrity voices distracting. [&#8230;] Oak has a small set of both guided and unguided meditations [&#8230;] Along with a few short breathing exercises [&#8230;] And a couple of routines to help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-09-27T20:52:29Z","apple_news_api_id":"79e4ba86-712d-4982-bcc9-6a64b46adb0f","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-10-07T20:37:13Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAw==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AeeS6hnEtSYK8yWpktGrbDw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[95,1918,920,31,2185,26,2284],"class_list":["post-37167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-audio","tag-health","tag-healthkit","tag-ios","tag-ios-16","tag-iosapp","tag-oak"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37167"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37267,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37167\/revisions\/37267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}