This year has been tough. Tough for business. Tough for lifestyle. Tough for emotional stability. The antidote to all this Covid-induced challenge is building positive mental health habits that help now and into the future.
Mental health not-for-profit, Smiling Mind, and digital agency, Versa, are helping with that. Now that Smiling Mind has been added to Google Assistant, practising mindfulness in the home is simple for all. Google Assistant can connect anyone with free content in a natural conversational manner from any room in the home. Meditation can take place in the bath, bedroom or backyard simply by asking Smiling Mind for a meditation. The voice-based experience was developed by Versa and has been designed to be natural and peaceful, introducing earcons to indicate the start of a mediation and replacing the built-in Google Assistant synthetic voice, with the calming voice regularly heard in Smiling Mind meditations.
Nick Cust, chief product officer at Smiling Mind, Nick Cust, commented, “Whether someone is accessing Smiling Mind meditations for the first time, or they’re a long-time user, the experience must be seamless and natural. We’ve delivered our first iteration of a voice experience that enables everyone to gain a greater connection to sleep, focus and relaxation; all through voice commands, driven by natural language processing. The uptake has been substantial with thousands of regular users already, showing the increased need to engage and practise mindfulness in the home.
“The experience can integrate directly with your account, so if you’ve signed up to the Smiling Mind app, you can continue on with meditation from where you left off. We’ve also made it fully voice accessible, opening up the Smiling Mind experience to more Australians and people globally.”
Kath Blackham, chief executive officer at Versa, added, “Now more than ever, looking after our mental health is so important and Smiling Mind gives us all a way to stay connected with our inner selves, accessing meditations from anywhere in our home. Versa is committed to helping people do their life’s work, and we are proud that this conversational experience is creating peace in a time of crisis.”
If you could do with some mindful meditation in your day-to-day life, just say “Hey Google, meditate with Smiling Mind.”
For more information on Smiling Mind visit smilingmind.com.au or download the Smiling Mind app.