Free Content in the Happier App
The Happier app has some free content and some that requires a subscription.
- The free content's available inside the Happier app on Apple and Android mobile devices.
- If you don't have the app on your iPhone, iPad or Android device yet, download it for free from Apple's App Store or the Google Play store and create a free account.
- We don't have this available for computers so if that's what you want to work on, check out our Help Center article Happier on a Computer.
Open this page on the same cellphone you use for your app and tap the links below to go straight to the free content. You can also search for them inside the app.
Free Courses
- The Basics Course with Joseph Goldstein: Happiness and resilience are skills, and meditation can help you hone them. In this short starter course, you'll build a foundation in mindfulness with one of the world's most respected teachers.
- The Dalai Lama's Guide with the Dalai Lama, Roshi Joan Halifax, and Dr. Richie Davidson: One of the wisest humans on Planet Earth, in a paradigm-shifting collaboration with leaders in neuroscience, presents scientifically-proven steps you can take to live a happier life. Journey with us to Dharamsala, India, where we’ll walk you through the key findings and show you how to put them into practice. Welcome to the Dalai Lama's Guide to Happiness.
Free Individual Guided Meditations
- Starting with Mindfulness
- Be Simple and Easy
- Mindfulness Meditation
- Simple Body Scan
- Scattered
- Attending to Awareness
- Mindfulness in the Body
- Making Space
- Cultivating Balance in Relationships
- Balance in the Midst of Everything
- Basic Breath Meditation
- Parents Have Needs Too
- Reduce Anxiety, Build Resilience
- Compassion Amidst World Conflict
- Dismantling Perfectionism, Accepting Yourself
- Grateful for Your Body
- When Your Inner Critic is Unrelenting
- When Meetings Stress You Out
- Understanding Stress
- Stress is Natural
- Less Anxious
- For an Anxious Moment
- Deeply Accepting Yourself
- Loving Your Many Sides
- The Protection of Loving-Kindness
- Kindness for Loved Ones
- You Are Not Alone
- A Cure for Catastrophizing
- Being with Racial Pain
- Going Deeper: Seeing Change
- Daily Gratitude Booster
- Recalling Kind Moments
- Radical Amazement
- Loneliness and Connection
- Soothe Stressful Thoughts
- Gratitude for Benefactors
- Frustration Buster
- Dealing with Uncertainty
- Point Meditation
- Wake Up with Perspective
- Joy for Any Mood
- Joy
- Flipping the Stress Switch
- For A Moment of Panic
- Kindness for Inner Strength
- Body Relaxation
- Counting the Breath
- How To Calm Down
- A Very Simple Meditation
- Come Into Balance
- Reflect on Gratitude
- Energized and Calm
- The Judging Mind
- Learn Mental Noting
- Practicing with Thoughts
- Running as Meditation
- For Coronavirus Responders
- Mindful of the News
- Self-Kindness for Stress
- Resilience
- Counting the Breath
- 1 Minute to Sanity
- Ground Yourself
- Curious About an Itch
- Enjoying the Body
- Formal Walking
- This Physical Body
- An Inherent Instability
- Lying Down
- Working with Stress in the Body
- Power Down
Content's often added to the free section for short periods of time to go along with a theme on the Ten Percent Happier Podcast or something we're currently sharing with the community so this list might not include everything.
This list is subject to change.
If you have questions about how to meditate, like what to do if you have an itch or how to do walking meditation, check out our Meditation FAQ.