“Apple wants you to take a deep breath, savor the moment, and slowly let it go,” Stephanie M. Lee reports for BuzzFeed News. “Preferably while wearing an Apple Watch.”
“Last week, Apple unveiled Breathe, an app that will be the tech giant’s first foray into quantified mindfulness when it becomes available on the Apple Watch this fall,” Lee reports. “Annie Wood, a yogi who writes about mindfulness, said that guided meditation apps similar to Breathe are useful for beginners because they send you reminders: ‘It’s like having a yoga teacher tap you on the shoulder and say, ‘Hey, take a breath.”
“The concept behind Breathe is straightforward: Every four hours (by default, but this can be adjusted), Breathe pops up with a prompt reminding you to inhale and exhale for one to five minutes,” Lee reports. “You can follow along while you watch concentric circles shift around on the screen, or you can respond to a series of haptic touches on your wrist. At the end, you see your heart rate.”
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MacDailyNews Take: We tried out Breathe in the watchOS 3 and we liked it! Whether via the deep breathing itself or placebo effect, we really did feel nice and calm.
Oh no, meditation. When watchOS 3 comes out, fundamentalist Christian trolls will have a whole new tune to shout, lol. “Oh my gosh like can you believe it? Like apple, the best Christian company out there, has meditation now, that like eastern thang that’s the devil and all that.” That’s when we’ll really need to breathe, lol.
Rubbish. Trolls aren’t true Christians; they are small-minded, nasty, childish bullies, who use religion only as a crude cudgel. True Christians aren’t Trolls; they spread Good News, not issue condemnation. And the more fundamentalist the Christian, the more pure the desire to save and be saved through the Word — nowhere to be seen on the Troll agenda.
Yes there are liars out there on the pulpit. They are weak in both spirit and flesh, and disgrace themselves with their wrong-headed preaching of doom to sinners. As educated people we must be able to judge them based on our understanding of their religion’s precepts, not on their bald claims of authority or from fear of a cruel God coloured blood-red by their fanciful story-telling.
Threats are reprehensible coming from a teacher, immoral coming from a leader. Something to think about on election day… and on every other day of decision.