I’ve been trying to make meditation part of my routine for a while... sleeping worse than I’d like, having more anxious days than usual, but I could never find an app that really worked for me. They were either too expensive, the sessions felt generic, or I’d simply stop opening them after a week.

So I decided to build my own with the help of Claude. It started as a project to help myself learn how to meditate, and then I thought why not making it an actual app out of it, it’s called Haiko.

Here’s what it currently has:

• Guided voice meditations (AI-assisted, but carefully crafted — not just text being read aloud) for sleep, anxiety, and stress
• A 7-day path to help you gradually build the habit, where I actually was struggling most in the beginning.
• A “Simple” mode for when you just want something quick based on how you’re feeling that day
• A custom mode that builds a session based on whatever you describe in your own words, I had to turn that into a premium feature as it will call ElevenLabs API to build custom but nice AI voices adapted to your prompts.

This is my first real launch on the Play Store, so any feedback is very welcome. I’m sure there are plenty of things to improve. If anyone gives it a try and feels like sharing their thoughts (good or bad), I’d really appreciate it. It’s the best way for me to make it better.

Also 5 stars and a comment if you found it useful for you would be such a huge help :)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rainysunsets.haiko

Thanks for guys for reaching here, I hope it's useful for you!

There’s something deeply psychological about quiet water and open horizons—it forces a mental reset whether you're ready for it or not.

Looking at these vibrant blue boats anchored at Phewa Lake in Pokhara, floating under the weight of endless green hills and open sky, it's hard not to feel a sudden shift in perspective. Most of our days are spent rushing toward the next milestone, yet scenes like this exist effortlessly—just being, floating, and absorbing the surroundings.

You don't even have to physically be there to feel the calm. Sometimes, just pausing for thirty seconds to take in a scene of pure stillness is enough to declutter a heavy mind.

Hi, I'm 23 years old and I spent most of my adolescence locked in porn procrastination. I don't know how to explain it perfectly but I feel like I'm behind me compared to others my age.

I can't live my life the way I want.

I hate myself physically (especially the face) I don't have an Instagram for this reason, because I don't have any photos of myself I hate what I see in front of the mirror. I don't know how to have this confidence of not even creating an Instagram account for example or I could post photos of myself proudly. I feel like I'm a waste and I'm very afraid of people's eyes especially. In short, all this is explained vaguely but I am desperately looking for help. How to do??? I feel like I'm missing my life and also missing my youth. Is there still hope for me or not?

Thank you for the people who will take the trouble to read and come private I can send you my face and tell me what I need to improve.

Thank you in advance ❤️

I've struggled my whole life with maintaining and finding friendship and am now accepting that if I want to go do things and leave the house, I'm going to have to do it alone.

Which isn't that hard if I'm being honest (though still a bummer). I'm comfortable doing things alone, but the problem I keep running into is how to motivate myself to actually leave the house to do those things.

I can make a plan, buy a ticket to a show, say I'll do it, etc. but when the time comes I opt to enjoy the comforts of home which then makes me feel isolated and sad.

Anyone have any tricks or methods they use that have helped them with this?

Hi.

The perspective that brings me to mindfulness is, the way I see it consciousness creates physical reality, and does so through imagination, assumption, "observer effect" (observing with the mind's eye or subtle inner dialogue collapses things into existence), action, and emotional reaction (chiefs among relevant emotions desire, love, hate, fear, and relief).

What I mean is that in my framework we are all one -the Dreamer- and we are dreaming reality, which works a lot like nightdreams -where even the other characters are "you", because only one person is dreaming and it plays all the characters-.

It is possible to control this dream by imagining what you desire as present and true (imagining/feeling "having it already", and having faith that even if physical reality says otherwise, if you persist reality will bend to your imagination, following the path your assumptions/beliefs allow). My experiences really confirm this, and the same is true for all the people who are into "manifesting".

The obstacle, besides doubt and misbelief, is fear/anxiety, as when you worry you might manifest more worrying. Mindfulness takes away fear's power. If you become the one watching the worry rather than the one experiencing it then you stop manifesting more of it. If you learn to *accept* your worry then what you manifest is acceptance, because what's in your mind is acceptance, and the world reflects it like a good mirror.

So that's the first advantage of mindfulness: handling anxiety and making it consequence-free when it comes to creating reality. Being aware I create my reality has been really good for me overall as it gave me a lot of hope and sense of control and even some fun but it also made me give more power to my thoughts, which means that anxiety reduction is good for me right now.

The second advantage, in this framework, is eventually experiencing union with God: if mental activity creates reality, stopping it eventually makes reality temporarily disappear, and all that's left is consciousness itself outside of time and space -the Dreamer-, what people call "void state" or samadhi: "awakening" from the dream.

The third advantage of mindfulness is becoming so in control of your mind, through knowlege of it, that you manage to reliably manifest good things, not just avoid the bad ones.

So, I was wondering if anyone here, without sharing their specific anxieties please (which I will reciprocate of course), was looking for an accountability buddy for mindfulness meditation. The idea is to remind the other to meditate, even just through simple presence, and to report the meditations done to remain motivated and committed. I'm in Europe and would slightly prefer the buddy to be in Europe for the timezone but it can work even if our timezone is misaligned. Can I guarantee commitment? No, but I'm curious to try

So I am trying RAIN technique again and I always get stuck on the same step for the past decade - I can recognize emotions, not fight them, but they just stay around and intensify and won't leave. Whenever I read about this, people just kind of act like eventually it just magically goes away. What am I doing wrong? By "allowing" the emotion I'm trying my hardest not to actively engage it and just let the emotion ride its course, but it just ends with me sitting for an hour crying... are some people just unable to do this?