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1.9.10 — Guided Meditation & YouTube

This release adds a collection of guided meditations and adds an embedded YouTube player so that practicing these guides is more fun.

Read on for everything we know about meditation.


We’ve done two investigations into meditation. Last year we investigated successful meditation practices and then, for this release, we’ve searched for experts who can lead you through a guided meditation.

When we looked at successful meditation practices, we found one very strong signal: start small.

People who became successful meditators started with 2-5 minute sessions and had low expectations about their ability to keep a clear mind. People who failed to build a meditation practice had the opposite expectations: that they could sit down for 30 minutes with a perfectly clear mind.

The people who were failing were really missing the point. The point (or at least, one of the important points) is to practice control of your focus. A wandering mind is a prerequisite for that practice—your mind wanders, you notice, then you wrangle it back to your a focus point as defined by your meditation practice, repeat.

Increasing your ability to control your focus is why many people consider meditation to be a performance practice. It’s a super power to have access to your full attention and brain power while everyone around you is distracted and multi-tasked to death. Plus people respond to you differently—this is what’s called presence. I’m not joking when I say that meditation is the training system for an actual super power.

Now, given the above, what makes a great guided meditation? We’ve scoured all of YouTube trying to find the best meditation collections in order to recruit great meditation guides. Let me tell you about them.

  • Six minute guided relaxations from Calm.com. They’ve been a long time supporter of Lift. Their founder, Alex Tew, is a kindred spirit who’s had a long tech career (he’s the creator of the Million Dollar home page) and now wants to focus on projects that do good in the world. Calm is a great dedicated meditation app and Alex is being super generous in sharing some of their guided meditations with the Lift community.
  • We’ve included two organizations, InnerSpace and WildDivine, who are devoted to spreading meditation throughout the world. One of our goals is to give you multiple voices to choose from when you meditate. These two have great voices.
  • We also want to give you true variation. We’ve included two affirmation programs. I turn to these as a change of pace when I’m having a stressful day.
  • Lastly, we’ve included a far out program that visualizes yourself in Middle Earth. I smiled so hard when I saw this program. Meditation is about control of focus, and this program shows how much room their is for creatively interpreting what you should focus on. Major props to the creators, The Honest Guys, a UK duo on a mission to share meditation with the world.

Of course, if you happen to know a great meditation guide, we’d love to add them to the collection.


I have two other things to share, which I’ve been telling a lot of people in person, but haven’t had a chance to share more widely.

I’ve been telling a lot of people that our 1.9 series of releases is a transitional phase of the app. There were a lot of things in our 1.0 version which we wanted to redo. The only way for us to do that was to tear them down and then try to rebuild better versions of them. This release, and the next few, feel like we’re finally starting to feel the promise our 2.0 goals. We’ve had coaching plans for months now, but this category of guided meditations along with the body weights category are the first two that fulfill the promise of in-app coaching—if you tap into one of these categories you’re going to find guidance no matter what level you’re starting at.

Finally, this is the last release that my co-founder, Jon, contributed to directly. He’s been my friend and advisor since 2000, but is, at heart, a technologist. He is moving on to work on his authentic passion, hard computer science problems. I invite you all to send him major props. Lift is a company, an app, a culture and a mission. We would have none of those without Jon. I’ve also asked him to stay on the board to make sure I don’t screw up this special company.

With gratitude,

Tony & Matt, Erin, Alicia, Herzog, Dan, Terrie.