Loops to play on repeat
A loop is up to ten short notes, read aloud in order, on repeat, over gentle music. These are ready-made: open one and press play. In the MindLoops app you can make your own, in your own words.
Confidence
For walking in, speaking up and backing yourself.
- Confidence
Ready for the Interview
For the hour before a job interview, in person or on video. Play it on the way there or while you wait to be called in.
Play it - Confidence
Before I Present
For the minutes before you present to a class, a client or the whole company, when your hands feel shaky and your mind feels blank.
Play it - Confidence
New Job, First Week
For your first days at a new job, when everything is unfamiliar and you feel slow. Play it on the commute or before you log on.
Play it - Confidence
Brave on the First Day
For a child starting a new school or a new class. Play it together at breakfast or in the car, in words a 5 to 10 year old knows.
Play it - Confidence
My Hand Goes Up
For teens and students who know the answer but freeze before raising a hand. Play it on the way to school or before a seminar.
Play it - Confidence
Calm Hands on the Wheel
For new and nervous drivers, teens or adults. Play it before a driving lesson, a practice drive or your road test, never while driving.
Play it - Confidence
First Date, Just Me
For the hour before a first date, whether you met online or through friends. Play it while you get ready or on the way there.
Play it - Confidence
Ready to Ask for More
For the day you ask for a raise or negotiate a job offer. Play it before the meeting, once your numbers and examples are ready.
Play it - Confidence
Back to Work After Baby
For mothers and parents going back to work after parental leave. Play it on the first mornings back, after drop-off, on the way in.
Play it - Confidence
Before I Step on Stage
For actors, singers, dancers and musicians before an audition, recital or show. Play it in the wings or the corridor while you wait.
Play it - Confidence
Game Day Nerves
For athletes of any age before a big game or match. Play it on the bus, in the locker room or as part of your warm-up routine.
Play it - Confidence
I Belong at the Gym
For anyone nervous about the gym, whether you’re new or coming back after a break. Play it in the car or on the walk there.
Play it - Confidence
I Earned This Seat
For when you feel like a fraud at work or school and someone’s about to find you out. Play it before a big meeting or a new task.
Play it - Confidence
Speaking It Anyway
For language learners and anyone living in a new country who understands more than they dare to say. Play it before you go out.
Play it - Confidence
The Only One in the Room
For when you’re the only woman, the only Black person or the only one like you at the table. Play it before you walk in.
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Focus
For deep work, study and doing one thing well.
- Focus
Just the First Five Minutes
For the task you keep putting off, at work, at school or at home. Play it once, then give the task five minutes and see what happens.
Play it - Focus
Bar Prep, Day by Day
For law graduates in the long weeks of bar prep. Play it before each study block, when the outlines feel endless and the exam feels close.
Play it - Focus
Homework Time, I Can Do It
For kids aged about 5 to 10 who find homework hard to start or easy to give up on. Play it together just before homework time.
Play it - Focus
Working From the Kitchen Table
For remote and hybrid workers whose home is full of distractions. Play it as you sit down to work, in place of the commute you don’t have.
Play it - Focus
One Chapter at a Time
For grad students and undergrads writing a thesis or dissertation. Play it before a writing session, when the whole thing feels too big.
Play it - Focus
The Deadline Is Today
For the day something is due and there’s more left than you’d like. Play it before you start, and again when panic creeps in.
Play it - Focus
Monday, One Thing First
For Monday mornings when the inbox is full and the week already feels long. Play it before you open your email.
Play it - Focus
Through the Afternoon Slump
For the heavy hour after lunch when your eyes are tired and your focus drifts. Play it at your desk, then get back to one small task.
Play it - Focus
Words on the Blank Page
For writers of novels, essays, scripts or blog posts who sit down and freeze. Play it before a writing session to get the first words down.
Play it - Focus
Back From Vacation
For the first morning back at work after a vacation or a long weekend, when the backlog looms and your head is still away.
Play it - Focus
The Life Admin Hour
For the bills, forms, emails and calls you’ve been avoiding. Play it at the start of a set hour of life admin, then work down the list.
Play it - Focus
Steady Through the Night Shift
For nurses, carers and anyone working nights. Play it before your shift or on a break in the small hours, when your body wants to sleep.
Play it - Focus
Quiet Mind, Busy Room
For open offices, shared homes, coffee shops and libraries where noise keeps pulling you away. Play it in your headphones when you need to focus.
Play it - Focus
Learning to Code, Line by Line
For beginners and career changers learning to code. Play it before a study session, or when an error message has you stuck.
Play it - Focus
Through the Grading Pile
For teachers facing a tall stack of essays, tests or lab reports. Play it when you sit down to grade, at school or at the kitchen table.
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Calm
For anxious moments and busy minds.
- Calm
When I Wake Up Anxious
For mornings when you wake with a racing heart or a knot in your stomach before the day has started. Play it before you get up.
Play it - Calm
Ready for the Hard Talk
For the minutes before a difficult conversation with a partner, parent, friend or boss. Play it before you knock, call or walk in.
Play it - Calm
Sunday Night, Softly
For Sunday evenings when the week ahead starts to loom and your weekend mood slips away. Play it after dinner, before the dread settles in.
Play it - Calm
Calm in the Exam Room
For students with test anxiety, from high school finals to college exams. Play it on the way to the exam or outside the room.
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Steady in the Waiting Room
For anyone nervous about a doctor’s appointment, a checkup, a scan or a test. Play it in the waiting room or on the way there.
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Calm on the Flight
For nervous flyers at the gate, during takeoff, or when turbulence starts. Have it ready before you board and play it with headphones.
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While I Wait for News
For the days of waiting for medical results or any call that matters. Play it when the waiting feels hardest, often late at night.
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Calm When My Kid Melts Down
For parents in the middle of a tantrum, a meltdown or a battle of wills. Play it with one earbud in, or right after, when your patience is gone.
Play it - Calm
My Worries Can Get Smaller
For kids aged about 5 to 10 who worry a lot, about school, friends or things that might happen. Play it together when worries feel big.
Play it - Calm
Calm at the Family Table
For Thanksgiving, Christmas and other family gatherings that bring old tensions to the table. Play it on the drive over or in a quiet room.
Play it - Calm
Cooling Down After a Fight
For the hour after an argument with a partner, friend or family member, when you’re still hot and replaying it. Play it before you text back.
Play it - Calm
Facing the Bills Calmly
For when you’ve been avoiding your bank app, a pile of bills or a statement you dread. Play it right before you open them.
Play it - Calm
Calm Through Labor
For the last weeks of pregnancy and for early labor, at home or in the hospital. Practice with it now, then play it between contractions.
Play it - Calm
When the Headlines Are Heavy
For when the headlines leave you anxious, angry or helpless and you can’t stop refreshing. Play it, then put the news away for a while.
Play it - Calm
Easy in the Traffic
For drivers stuck in traffic, running late or getting angry at other drivers. Play it through the car speakers when the jam begins.
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Sleep
For winding down and letting the day go.
- Sleep
Sleepy Time, Snuggled In
For parents of kids aged about 4 to 10 who can’t settle at bedtime. Play it softly as the lights go out. It’s written in your child’s words.
Play it - Sleep
Rest Before the Exam
For students lying awake the night before a big exam, going over notes in their head. Play it with the lights off, once the books are closed.
Play it - Sleep
Phone Down, Lights Out
For late nights when you’re tired but still scrolling, and every video becomes one more. Play it, put your phone face down, and let it play.
Play it - Sleep
No Pressure to Sleep
For people who dread bedtime because they’re afraid they won’t sleep. Play it as you get into bed, to take the pressure off.
Play it - Sleep
Done Replaying Today
For lying awake replaying an awkward comment, a mistake or a conversation from today. Play it in bed when your mind won’t stop rewinding.
Play it - Sleep
Resting With the Bump
For pregnant people who can’t get comfortable or can’t switch off at night, especially in the last months. Play it as you settle into bed.
Play it - Sleep
After the Bad Dream
For adults who wake with a pounding heart after a nightmare and can’t shake it. Play it once you’re awake enough to reach for it.
Play it - Sleep
Twenty Minutes of Rest
For a short daytime nap when you’re running on empty, at home, in a parked car or on a break. Play it as you lie down, with an alarm set.
Play it - Sleep
Sleeping in Daylight
For nurses, drivers, carers and anyone sleeping during the day after a night shift. Play it as you lie down in a darkened room.
Play it - Sleep
A Strange Bed Tonight
For the first night in a hotel, a guest room or a new place, when the bed feels wrong and every sound is unfamiliar. Play it with the lights off.
Play it - Sleep
Up Early Tomorrow
For the night before an early flight, shift or start, when you’re afraid of oversleeping and keep checking the alarm. Play it with the lights off.
Play it - Sleep
When the House Is Too Quiet
For nights after losing someone you love, when the quiet is hardest and sleep won’t come. Play it softly in bed, as many nights as you need.
Play it - Sleep
Sleep When the Baby Sleeps
For exhausted new parents trying to nap or sleep in the short windows when the baby finally sleeps. Play it as soon as you lie down.
Play it - Sleep
The Night Before I Do
For brides, grooms and partners lying awake the night before the wedding, too excited or nervous to sleep. Play it once the lights are out.
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The House to Myself
For nights when you’re home alone, your partner is away or you’ve just started living alone, and every creak keeps you awake. Play it in bed.
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Habits
For building the habit you keep meaning to start.
- Habits
Shoes On, Out the Door
For runners of any level on days when the couch is winning. Play it while you put your shoes on, and let it get you out the door.
Play it - Habits
Done With the Vape
For anyone quitting vaping, from the first day to the tricky weeks after. Play it when a craving hits, or every morning to start the day.
Play it - Habits
Before I Click Buy
For when you’re about to buy something you didn’t plan to, online or in a store. Play it with the item still in your cart.
Play it - Habits
Bedtime Is Mine Too
For people who stay up too late because the evening is the only time that feels like theirs. Play it at the time you mean to start winding down.
Play it - Habits
Up on the First Alarm
For anyone stuck in the snooze-button cycle. Play it the night before as you set your alarm, and again once you’re up in the morning.
Play it - Habits
Fewer Drinks, Clearer Mornings
For anyone cutting back on alcohol, taking a dry month or sober curious. Play it before a night out or at the hour you’d usually pour a drink.
Play it - Habits
Twenty Pages Tonight
For anyone who wants to read more books but ends up on their phone instead. Play it as you get into bed, then pick up the book.
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A Page a Day
For anyone who keeps buying journals and leaving them empty. Play it at the time you plan to write, with the notebook already open.
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Ten Quiet Minutes
For beginners trying to meditate or sit quietly each day who find it hard to start or to stick with. Play it just before you sit.
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Practice Before Perfect
For musicians of any age, from teens learning piano to adults picking up the guitar again. Play it before you practice, with your instrument nearby.
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Cooking at Home Tonight
For tired evenings when ordering takeout feels easier than cooking. Play it on the way home or as you walk into the kitchen.
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Ten Minutes of Tidy
For anyone overwhelmed by clutter who wants a tidier home without giving up a whole weekend. Play it, then tidy until the timer goes.
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Ready for School, Step by Step
For kids aged about 5 to 10 who dawdle, forget steps or melt down on school mornings. Play it at breakfast so the morning has a rhythm.
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My Rehab, Rep by Rep
For anyone recovering from an injury or surgery who struggles to keep up with home exercises. Play it before you start your physical therapy routine.
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Hands at Rest
For adults and teens who bite their nails without noticing, especially when stressed or bored. Play it each morning and whenever you catch yourself.
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Goals
For the thing you're working towards.
- Goals
Through the Job Search
For job seekers in a long search, when the applications pile up and the replies don’t. Play it before an hour of applications or after a rejection.
Play it - Goals
Saving for My Own Home
For anyone saving for a down payment or a first home, when the goal feels far away and spending feels easier. Play it on payday.
Play it - Goals
Paying Down the Debt
For anyone working through credit card, student or personal debt, one payment at a time. Play it when you make a payment or when the total feels heavy.
Play it - Goals
Building It on the Side
For anyone building a small business or side project around a day job. Play it before your evening or weekend work session.
Play it - Goals
A Fresh Start in January
For New Year’s resolutions and January fresh starts that usually fade by February. Play it on New Year’s Day and on mornings you need a nudge.
Play it - Goals
A Career Change at Any Age
For anyone changing careers in their 30s, 40s, 50s or beyond, when starting over feels risky. Play it before a class, an application or after a hard day.
Play it - Goals
My College Applications
For high school seniors working on college applications and essays, or waiting for decisions. Play it before a writing session or on decision day.
Play it - Goals
Stronger Than Last Month
For anyone starting or sticking with strength training, at any age or size. Play it before a workout, when you want to feel capable.
Play it - Goals
Working Toward the Promotion
For anyone working toward a promotion or a bigger role. Play it on Monday mornings or before a one-on-one with your manager.
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Mile by Mile to Race Day
For first-time and returning marathoners in a long training block. Play it before a long run, during a tired week or on race morning.
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Studying After a Full Day
For adults studying for a degree or certificate while working, and often parenting too. Play it before an evening study session.
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Wobbly Wheels, Brave Me
For kids aged about 4 to 9 learning to ride a bike, or any new skill that takes falling and trying again. Play it together before practice.
Play it - Goals
A New Chapter in Retirement
For people newly retired, or about to be, who are working out what comes next. Play it with your morning coffee when the days feel wide open.
Play it - Goals
Posting My Work Anyway
For writers, artists, musicians and creators sharing their work online and growing slowly. Play it before you post, or when the numbers feel discouraging.
Play it - Goals
Learning to Swim, Finally
For adults learning to swim later in life, including anyone nervous in the water. Play it before a lesson or a session at the pool.
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Self-kindness
For talking to yourself like a friend would.
- Self-kindness
Gentle With Myself After Us
For the days and weeks after a breakup, when you miss them, replay everything and wonder what went wrong. Play it whenever the ache gets loud.
Play it - Self-kindness
Just Us at 3 A.M.
For new moms and parents up in the middle of the night with a baby who won’t settle. Play it quietly during a night feed or a long rock.
Play it - Self-kindness
Kind Eyes in the Mirror
For hard days with your reflection: getting dressed, trying on clothes or catching yourself in a mirror. Play it when the critic gets loud.
Play it - Self-kindness
My Own Pace
For when social media leaves you feeling behind, with everyone else’s life looking better than yours. Play it after you put the phone down.
Play it - Self-kindness
After I Lost My Temper
For parents after a hard moment, when you shouted, snapped or said something you regret. Play it once things have calmed down, before you go and repair.
Play it - Self-kindness
After the Layoff
For the days after a layoff or losing your job, when shock, worry and self-doubt hit at once. Play it in the morning or whenever the spiral starts.
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Permission to Rest
For women who carry everyone and everything, and feel guilty the moment they stop. Play it when you finally sit down, or when burnout feels close.
Play it - Self-kindness
Strong Enough to Ask
For men who keep things to themselves and find it hard to talk, ask for help or admit they’re struggling. Play it before a call, a talk or an appointment.
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When I Feel Left Out
For teens who feel left out by friends, excluded from plans or on the edge of the group. Play it after school or when the group chat goes quiet.
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Kind to Me, Kind to You
For kids aged about 5 to 10, to help them be kind to others and to themselves. Play it together on the way to school or at bedtime.
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Looking After a Parent
For adult children caring for an aging or ill parent while juggling appointments, worry and their own life. Play it before a visit or at night.
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After a Hard Day in Class
For teachers after a tough day, with a class that didn’t listen, a difficult parent or a lesson that fell flat. Play it on the drive home.
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Letting Go of the Grudge
For when you’re holding onto hurt or resentment toward someone and want to stop carrying it. Play it when the old anger comes back.
Play it - Self-kindness
Gentle on a Low Day
For people living with chronic illness, pain or fatigue, on a bad day or during a flare. Play it in bed or on the couch when energy is low.
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Missing My Pet
For anyone grieving a pet: a dog, a cat or any animal who was family. Play it when the house feels empty or the guilt creeps in.
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Gratitude
For noticing what's already good.
- Gratitude
Around the Thanksgiving Table
For Thanksgiving Day, whether your table is full, small or far from home. Play it in the morning, while you cook, or before everyone sits down.
Play it - Gratitude
Three Good Things Today
For kids aged about 4 to 10, to end the day noticing what went well. Play it together at bedtime, then share three good things from today.
Play it - Gratitude
Grateful Before the Day Begins
For the first quiet minutes of the morning, coffee or tea in hand, before the day picks up speed. Play it before you look at your phone.
Play it - Gratitude
Something Good, Even Today
For days when everything feels heavy and gratitude feels out of reach. Play it in the evening, or in a quiet moment when you need a little light.
Play it - Gratitude
Grateful for You
For couples, to notice and appreciate the person you share your life with. Play it on the way home, before date night or after a rough patch.
Play it - Gratitude
Friday, Looking Back
For Friday afternoon or the commute home, to close the work week by noticing what went well. Play it before you switch off for the weekend.
Play it - Gratitude
Grateful for This Home
For the first weeks in a new home, apartment or room, among the boxes, when it doesn’t feel like yours yet. Play it on your first night or a quiet evening.
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A Body That’s Healing
For anyone recovering from illness, surgery or injury, to appreciate what your body is doing. Play it on a quiet rest day or after a small step forward.
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Grateful for My Friends
For anyone who wants to appreciate their friends, old and new, near and far. Play it after time with a friend, or when you miss them.
Play it - Gratitude
Before We Eat
For families who want a simple, faith-neutral moment of thanks before dinner. Play it at the table as everyone sits down, then eat together.
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Grateful for Enough
For when money worries crowd out everything else, to notice what you already have. Play it on payday, after paying bills or when comparison bites.
Play it - Gratitude
Looking Back on This Year
For the last days of December, to look back on the year with thanks before starting the next one. Play it on New Year’s Eve or a quiet evening.
Play it - Gratitude
Why I Teach
For teachers who need to reconnect with why they chose this work. Play it before school, during a planning period or at the end of the school year.
Play it - Gratitude
Another Year Older
For your birthday, whether you’re celebrating big or keeping it quiet. Play it in the morning, to start your new year of life with thanks.
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Thankful on the Trail
For a walk, hike or quiet time outdoors, in a park, on a trail or by the water. Play it as you set off and let it slow you down.
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