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Without a doubt, many of us are feeling anxious as we navigate the uncertainty of COVID-19. We're feeling it too, and we wanted to share some of the tools we're using to take care of our minds and stay grounded.
We created a free resource page with meditations, stories, music, talks and more, all hand-picked to support your mental and emotional wellness.
All of these resources are free of charge — so that you can share with anyone who might need them.
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Download the Calm app to develop your meditation superpowers, drift off into dreamland with our Sleep Stories, select music for your mood, or try a breathing exercise.
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What Do You Get for Your Money?
With over one and a half million five-star reviews, Calm is one of the most popular meditation and relaxation apps available.
But is it right for you? Here's what features you can expect on the free version of the Calm app, as well as a look at its premium content. Now you'll know exactly what you get for your money when buying the Calm app.
What Free Features Does Calm Offer?
The Calm app is totally free to try. Unlike some free trial apps, you do not need to enter credit card information to access the basic features. There are, however, several reminders on the free version that upgrading to premium is always an option. Anything you cannot access will feature the image of a lock.
Download: Calm for Android | iOS (Free, subscription available)
Meditations
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First up, several meditation tools are available on the free version of Calm. From the Discover menu, navigate to the meditation section and then select the Less Guidance option. This provides access to the open-ended meditation timer, which can play the sound of a bell at regular intervals.
You can select the bells to sound every minute up to every eight hours. It can be used during active meditation, or you can use the regular bell sounds throughout the day as a reminder to focus on your breathing and awareness.
The app also offers several multi-day programs for meditation, and the intros are free to play. For example, the intro to 7 Days of Sleep, titled Understanding Sleep Challenges, is available to free app users. The rest of the program does require a premium subscription, however.
Breathing Exercises
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Breathing exercises are another feature on the Calm app, and one is available to try for free each day. You may learn how to practice box breathing, deep belly breathing, or extended exhale, for instance.
Beginner-friendly and straightforward, these exercises can help you relax and destress by focusing on your breath. The simple animation is calming, too.
Sleep Stories
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Lastly, you can get a sense of the app’s Sleep Stories by listening to Blue Gold for free.
Narrated by Stephen Fry, this 25-minute narrative journey through Provence is a soothing, pleasant way to relax.
You'll get to try out the appeal of hearing these bedtime stories for listeners of any age. Nearly all other sleep stories are locked for free users, however.
"How Are You Feeling?" Self-Checks
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The self-check-ins are also free to access on the free version of Calm. These prompts help you gauge your emotional well-being at the moment, as well as focus on reasons to have gratitude. You can record daily check-ins and track how your moods change over time.
Additional Free Content From Calm's Website
For more free features, look to the Calm website. The Calm resources page includes a whole trove of free content. There’s a selection of guided meditations, many featuring the same narrators whose soothing voices fill the app. Relaxing music, content for children, and even some of the famed sleep stories are available, too.
Wonder, narrated by Matthew McConaughey, is a pleasant starting point. It’s another way to get a feel for the app’s premium content without committing to any payments.
What Paid Features Does Calm Offer?
Access to all meditations, original music, soundscapes, the Sleep Stories collection, and masterclass discussions require premium access.
All Guided Meditations
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Premium subscribers can make the most of the Calm app's selection of over 100 guided meditations. The Daily Calm presents a 10-minute guided meditation on a different topic each day.
In addition, a selection of courses for beginners helps ease newcomers into meditation practice. Several meditation series, with a focus on everything from mindfulness to pain management, are also available.
Original Music and Soundscapes
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Tailored specifically for the app, the Calm music selection features a wide range of songs for any mood.
Use the Relax or Sleep categories to find wind-down tunes. There's also a selection of calming music for focus. Gentle piano pieces, ambient pieces, electronic, and curated lo-fi beats are all available.
There's even a selection of popular songs created or remixed specifically for Calm, featuring artists such as deadmau5, Sam Smith, Ellie Goulding, and Keith Urban.
Soundscapes are relaxing tracks of background music to use for sleep, focus, or relaxation. Falling rain, ocean surf, and forest ambiance are just a few of the available soundscapes.
Sleep Stories
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The full selection of Sleep Stories include readings from Jane Austen and Shakespeare, as well as plenty of original tales. You can take an aural journey around cities from all over the world, or enjoy one of the popular train ride tales.
There are also plenty of sleep stories aimed at children starring sleepy sloths, classic fairy tales, and even minions.
Adults are welcome to enjoy these tales, too!
Masterclass Discussions
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Similar to podcasts, Calm's masterclass discussions feature multipart audio content on a range of topics. Experts share their wisdom in a series of eye-opening and compassionate lectures. You can hear about how a psychologist and neuroscientist is rethinking depression, or learn more about mindful eating with advice from a medical doctor.
How Much Does Calm Cost?
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A single yearly subscription to Calm costs $69.99 USD, and a lifetime Calm membership is available for $399.99 USD. Keep an eye out for occasional sales or discounts on subscriptions.
You can pay for premium access to the Calm app with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or PayPal, as well as most major credit or debit cards. The first seven days of your purchase consist of a free trial.
At $99.99 per year, Calm family plans are also available for up to six users.
These can go to any friends and family members, and they do not have to live in your household. Each member gets their own account.
In addition, students can get discounted access to Calm through Amazon Prime Student. After a three-month free trial of the premium service, Amazon Prime Student users can get a yearly subscription to Calm for $8.99 USD per year.
Other Meditation and Relaxation Apps Like Calm
If Calm isn't quite right for you, don't fret. There's no shortage of meditation and relaxation apps that offer similar content. In fact, some apps like Medito are free to use forever. It all depends on what you're looking for in your meditation experience.
Another wildly popular meditation app, Headspace also offers a variety of courses for meditation practice. A yearly subscription to Headspace is $69.99 USD, and monthly subscriptions are available for $12.99.
Should You Subscribe to Calm?
Free to try, the Calm app is a multipurpose meditation and relaxation tool.
Even total newcomers to mindfulness practices can start learning with the free version's straightforward practices and breathing timers.
People who are more practiced at meditation may find the free selections a little thin, however. If you want to access meatier content like guided meditations or original music, then paying for the premium version is a must. Anyone who is serious about making meditation a daily practice (and doesn't mind the price) should consider a paid Calm subscription.
How to watch YouTube videos on Android without internet connection
June 5, 2014Android
This article will show you two ways to download YouTube videos to your tablet for offline viewing.
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0 One of the successful ways to combat procrastination is to use delayed reading services, the best of which is Pocket. You simply use it to save the article you are interested in, and then calmly view it on any device in your free time, and for this you do not even need a network connection.
Interestingly, is it possible to do the same with the contents of the YouTube service? After all, it would really be great if the video you need was automatically downloaded to your gadget for later viewing on the way home or anywhere else.
We have found two ways to do this, which we want to introduce you to in this article.
1. Built-in function of the application
The YouTube service allows you to delay watching the videos you need. To do this, in the playback control panel of each video there is a special button "Watch later".
But how can I make this video automatically download for offline viewing? It turns out it's not that hard.
To do this, we will use the function built into the proprietary YouTube client for Android, which, however, not everyone knows about.
- Open the YouTube app on your tablet or smartphone.
- Go to the application settings and go to the "Preload" section.
- Check the "Watch Later List" box.
Now any clip you mark will be automatically saved to your device for later viewing. Caching occurs while the device has access to Wi-Fi and is connected to the network. The readiness for viewing will be indicated by a small arrow in the lower right corner of the playback window. Unfortunately, there are a few more significant nuances that largely limit the use of this method:
- the video is stored on your device for two days;
- this feature is only available on operating systems older than Jelly Bean;
- to play you will need at least some, even the weakest, access to the Web, so you won’t be able to go completely offline.
Finally, the most annoying thing is that in the latest update, Google removed this feature altogether. It seems to be promised to be returned after completion, but for now, we can advise you to install YouTube of the previous version, which you will find on this page.
2. YouTube Downloader app
Google has a very negative attitude towards any attempts to download videos from YouTube, so it regularly removes the relevant tools from the app store.
Because of this, the program of interest to us will have to be downloaded from the developer's website.
YouTube Downloader, as the name implies, is designed to save videos on your device. And he does it very quickly, allows you to select the desired format, can extract only the audio track, and so on. In addition, we will need a simple recipe for the IFTTT service, which can send a link to a video of interest to your smartphone or tablet. This can be done in several different ways.
by e -mail:
through the Pocket service:
using the PushHbullet service:
after the link to the video in one way or another was on your device, you need to be necessary send it to the YouTube Downloader app. This is very easy to do using the standard "Submit" menu. After that, you just have to select the desired format and save the file on your device for later viewing.
Each of the proposed methods has its advantages and disadvantages.
The first works completely automatically, but implies a number of restrictions. The second requires you to perform a few additional steps, but it works quite reliably. So the final choice, of course, is yours.
Do you know another way to watch YouTube videos offline?
English idioms | EF | Russia
English idioms, proverbs and sayings are an integral part of everyday English. They are quite common in both written and spoken English. Idioms are generally not to be taken literally. To understand this layer of language, it is necessary to familiarize yourself with the meaning and use of each specific idiom. At first glance, this may seem like a tedious task, but learning idioms is very interesting, especially if you compare English idioms with phraseological units in your native language.
When you learn to use common idioms and expressions, you will be able to speak English more fluently. Learn a few of these expressions, they will definitely come in handy.
The tables below compile the most common idioms in American English. You can start by learning the most common English idioms, as you will come across them regularly while watching American movies or TV, or when you travel to the United States. Once you've mastered them, you can move on. None of the idioms on this list are rare or old fashioned, so you can feel confident using any of them with native English speakers from all English speaking countries.
The most common English idioms
In America, these English idioms are among the most common in everyday speech. You will hear them in movies and TV shows. Use them and your English will become even more like native speakers.
| Idiom | Meaning | Application |
|---|---|---|
| A blessing in disguise | A good thing that seemed bad at first sight | as part of offer |
| A dime a dozen | Something simple, common | as part of offer |
| Beat around the bush | Avoid speaking directly, usually because it is inconvenient | as part of sentence |
| Better late than never | Better late than never | as part of |
| Bite the bullet | Get over something because it's inevitable | as part of offer |
| Break a leg | Good luck! | self |
| Call it a day | Stop working on something | as part of offer |
| Cut somebody some slack | Don't be too critical | as part of offer |
| Cutting corners | Doing something unimportant to save time or money ( | as part of sentence |
| Easy does it | Slow down, do something slower | self |
| Get out of hand | Get out of control, lose control | as part of offer |
| Get something out of your system | Do what you have long planned to move on | as part of offer |
| Get your act together | Do a better job or leave the job | self |
| Give someone the benefit of the doubt | Believe what someone says | as part of offer |
| Go back to the drawing board | Start over | as part of offer |
| hang in there | Don't Give Up | self |
| Hit the sack | Go to sleep | as part of offer |
| It's not rocket science | It's easy | self |
| Let someone off the hook | Stop making anyone responsible for anything | as part of offer |
| Make a long story short | Tell briefly | as part of offer |
| miss the boat | too late | as part of sentence |
| No pain, no gain | You have to work to get what you want | self |
| On the ball | Do your job well | as part of offer |
| Pull someone's leg | joke with someone | as part of offer |
| Pull yourself together | Calm down | self |
| so far so good | So far so good | self |
| Speak of the devil | The one we were talking about showed up. | self |
| That's the last straw | My patience is over | self |
| The best of both worlds | Ideal Situation | as part of offer |
| Time flies when you're having fun | When it's fun, time flies by | self |
| To get bent out of shape | Get upset | as part of offer |
| To make things worse | Make the problem worse | as part of offer |
| Under the weather | Unhealthy | as part of offer |
| We'll cross that bridge when we come to it | Let's not talk about this problem right now | self |
| Wrap your head around something | Understand something difficult | as part of offer |
| You can say that again | It's true, I agree | self |
| Your guess is as good as mine | I have no idea | self |
Common English idioms and expressions
In America, these are some of the most common English idioms in everyday speech.
You can hear them in movies and TV shows, and they are very useful in getting your English closer to that of native speakers. Feel free to use them in the appropriate context.
| Idiom | Meaning | Application |
|---|---|---|
| A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush | A bird in the hand is better than a crane in the sky | self |
| A penny for your thoughts | Tell me what you think about | alone |
| A penny saved is a penny earned | The money you save today can be spent later | self |
| A perfect storm | Worst possible situation | as part of offer |
| A picture is worth 1000 words | Better to show than tell0106 | self |
| Actions speak louder than words | Believe in people's deeds, not words | self |
| Add insult to injury | Make matters worse | as part of offer |
| Barking up the wrong tree | Make mistakes, look for solutions in the wrong place | as part of offer |
| Birds of a feather flock together | People who are similar in something are often friends / Two pair of boots (used more often in a negative context) | self |
| Bite off more than you can chew | Take on a project you can't finish yourself | as part of sentence |
| Break the ice | Making people feel more comfortable | as part of offer |
| By the skin of your teeth | With great difficulty, barely | as part of offer |
| Comparing apples to oranges | Comparing two incomparable things | as part of offer |
| Costs an arm and a leg | Very expensive | as part of offer |
| Do something at the drop of a hat | Do something unplanned in advance | as part of offer |
| Do unto others as you would have them do unto you | Treat people fairly. Known as the "golden rule" | self |
| Don't count your chickens before they hatch | Do not rely on a successful outcome until the event has occurred | self |
| Don't cry over spilt milk | There is no reason to complain about what cannot be changed | self |
| Don't give up your day job | You are not very good at this business | self |
| Don't put all your eggs in one basket | What you are doing is too risky | self |
| Every cloud has a silver lining | Good follows bad | self |
| Get a taste of your own medicine | You are treated the way you treat others (with a negative connotation) | as part of offer |
| Give someone the cold shoulder | Ignore someone | as part of offer |
| Go on a wild goose chase | Doing something is pointless | as part of offer |
| Good things come to those who wait | Be patient | self |
| He has bigger fish to fry | He has bigger things to do than we are talking about now | self |
| He's a chip off the old block | Son as father | self |
| Hit the nail on the head | Understand something very accurately | self |
| Ignorance is bliss | You better not know | self |
| It ain't over till the fat lady sings | It's not over yet | self |
| It takes one to know one | You are as bad as me | self |
| It's a piece of cake | It's just | self |
| It's raining cats and dogs | Heavy rain | self |
| Kill two birds with one stone | Do two things at once (Kill two birds with one stone) | self |
| Let the cat out of the bag | Give away the secret | as part of offer |
| live and learn | I made a mistake | self |
| Look before you leap | Think a Hundred Times Before Taking Risks | self |
| On thin ice | Conditionally. If you make another mistake, there will be problems. | as part of offer |
| Once in a blue moon | Rarely | as part of offer |
| play devil's advocate | Assert the opposite just for the sake of saving argument | as part of offer |
| Put something on ice | Put project on hold | as part of offer |
| Rain on someone's parade | Ruin something | as part of offer |
| Saving for a rainy day | Save money for the future | as part of offer |
| Slow and steady wins the race | Reliability is more important than speed | self |
| Spill the beans | Reveal the secret | as part of offer |
| Take a rain check | Postpone plan | as part of offer |
| Take it with a grain of salt | Don't take it too seriously | as part of offer |
| The ball is in your court | This is your decision | self |
| The best thing since sliced bread | Really good invention | as part of offer |
| The devil is in the details | Looks good from a distance, but if you look closely, you will see problems | self |
| The early bird gets the worm | Those who come first get the best | self |
| The elephant in the room | The Big Problem, the Problem Everyone Avoids | as part of offer |
| The whole nine yards | Everything from start to finish | as part of sentence |
| There are other fish in the sea | Even if the opportunity is missed, there will be others. | self |
| There's a method to his madness | He looks crazy, but he's actually smart. | independent |
| There's no such thing as a free lunch | Nothing is absolutely free (Free cheese is only in a mousetrap). | self |
| Throw caution to the wind | Take a chance | as part of offer |
| You can't have your cake and eat it too | You can't have everything | self |
| You can't judge a book by its cover | A person or thing may seem ugly on the outside, but they are good on the inside (Don't judge a book by its cover) | self |
Famous English idioms and proverbs
These English idioms and proverbs are familiar and understood by native English speakers, but are generally not used in everyday speech. If you haven't mastered the more common idioms yet, it's best to start with them.
But if you are already familiar with these expressions, the idioms below will spice up your English.
| Idiom | Meaning | Application |
|---|---|---|
| A little learning is a dangerous thing | People who don't fully understand something are dangerous | self |
| A snowball effect | Events by inertia are layered one on top of the other (Snowball) | as part of offer |
| A snowball's chance in hell | no chance | as part of offer |
| A stitch in time saves nine | Fix the problem now or it will get worse later | self |
| A storm in a teacup | Big fuss about a small problem (Make a molehill) | as part of offer |
| An apple a day keeps the doctor away | Apples are good for health | self |
| An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure | You can prevent the problem now with a little effort.    Copyright © · The Wright Initiative · Articles · Site Map 
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