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7 Days of Meditation Using Wellness Coach
Can meditation improve your life? I tested out the wellness app Wellness Coach which helps you build healthy habits in meditation and fitness.

Meditation is something that appeals to me- having a sense of calm and peace in my everyday life would improve my wellbeing. To me, there seem to be no downsides. The only issue is finding time to start and forming a habit. Over the years I have continued to come back to meditation and eventually break the habit even though I found it useful.
As anyone who has tried meditating in the past will know it is not easy for beginners. This is why I decided to try the app Wellness Coach to see if it could help me.
The app is filled with plenty of individual guided meditations along with affirmations and even fitness plans to choose from. I decided to go with the 7-day beginners plan for meditation to kick start what will hopefully be a new habit. There is a choice of guided meditations each focusing on a specific topic such as stress relief, focus, and sleep.
Day 1 — Am I Zen yet?
On the first day, I downloaded the app. It was the first one I found when searching for meditation — I have previously used Headspace and Calm and used…