Bring yourself back home.Anytime. Anywhere.
Imagine someone tapping you gently on the shoulder in the middle of your day and saying: hey, you’re here.
Micro-meditations in the middle of a full day. Experience the transformation.
Seconds, not minutes
A micro-meditation is made for a full day. No meditation cushion, no preparation, no appointment in your calendar.
Without looking at your phone
The full text sits on your lock screen. Bind one practice to one sound, and over time the sound alone brings it back.
It comes to you
Nothing to remember, nothing to start. The ping arrives on its own — within the time windows you set.
Another meditation app?
No articles and talks that merely give you something to think about. Friendly Ping goes straight into practice, with concrete exercises. See for yourself how your life changes.
What qualities do you want to bring into your everyday life?
Pick what you want to carry into your day. Friendly Ping sends you small practices for it — as a gentle sound, spread across the day.
Be Present
Being fully in the here and now — instead of half in what’s next and half in what’s past.
Read moreThe foundation of Friendly Ping
Every ping has deep roots in at least one wisdom tradition thousands of years old.
- MindfulnessMindfulness is the capacity to notice present experience deliberately, without immediately judging it. The term translates the Buddhist sati; since the 1970s the practice has also been taught and studied outside its religious frame.
- SecularSecular here means practices with no religious or metaphysical superstructure. They come from psychology, behavioural research and everyday experience, and ground their effect in observation rather than doctrine.
- SomaticSomatic methods work through bodily awareness rather than through thinking about a problem. They arose in the twentieth century out of body psychotherapy and trauma research, using breath, muscular tension and ground contact as the way in.
- ZenZen is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that arose in sixth-century China as Chan, out of the encounter with Daoism. It puts practice above doctrine: sitting and ordinary activity count as equals.
- TaoismDaoism is a Chinese philosophical and religious tradition whose founding texts date from the fourth and third centuries BCE. Its central term wu wei means not inaction but acting without forcing.
- StoicismStoicism is a school of philosophy founded in Athens around 300 BCE, which took its best-known form in the Roman imperial era. Its practical core is the distinction between what is in our power and what is not.
- BreathworkBreathwork refers to techniques that guide the breath deliberately in order to influence one’s own state. They range from the Indian practice of pranayama to present-day methods; physiologically it is above all the lengthened out-breath that settles.
- Advaita VedantaAdvaita Vedanta is the non-dualist school of classical Indian Vedanta philosophy, founded on the Upanishads. Advaita means not-two: it distinguishes between what is observed and what observes, and holds that the split between them is only apparent.
- BuddhismBuddhism arose in northern India in the fifth century BCE. Its starting point is the Four Noble Truths: an examination of suffering, its cause and a way out — not a doctrine to believe but an instruction to test.
- Eightfold PathThe Eightfold Path is the fourth of the Four Noble Truths and describes the Buddhist path of practice in eight limbs, from right view to right concentration. They are not stages but fields that support one another.
- VipassanaVipassana means insight and denotes a Buddhist form of meditation in which bodily sensations are observed systematically without reacting to them. Its present shape goes back to a renewal movement in early twentieth-century Myanmar.
- Nonviolent CommunicationNonviolent Communication is a method of conversation developed in the 1960s. It divides statements into four steps — observation, feeling, need, request — and consistently separates what is observed from how it is judged.
- MettaMetta is the Pali term for loving-kindness and denotes a Buddhist practice in which goodwill is cultivated systematically: first for oneself, then for those close, for the indifferent, and last for difficult people.
- SufismSufism is the mystical current of Islam, which emerged in the eighth and ninth centuries out of ascetic movements. Its practices include the repeated speaking of divine names and a form of gratitude that runs through the day.
- ChristianityThis means the contemplative side of Christianity: forms of practice from monasteries and spiritual schools, developed over centuries. Among them are the evening review of the day, the practice of forgiveness, and short prayers tied to the breath.
- MantraA mantra is a word, syllable or short phrase repeated in order to gather attention. The practice comes from the Vedic texts of India and appears in similar form in almost every tradition of practice.
- Shadow WorkShadow work goes back to a term from depth psychology: the shadow, the part of oneself one does not want to acknowledge. The practice consists of reading strong reactions to other people as a pointer to it.
Build a bridge from the meditation cushion into your everyday life.
On the cushion, mindfulness is one thing. It gets hard in traffic, in a queue, before the fourth meeting of the day. That is exactly where a Friendly Ping arrives.
Pause in the middle of your day — and move on with more clarity
Bring mindfulness into the middle of your life. Just try it.