Guided meditation apps deliver enabling environments in a mass medium

Much more than typical “learning apps,” a Guided meditation app is often a legitimate Enabling environment.

• They’re generally focused on deeply meaningful growth (understanding the nature of mind and of being), rather than on skill-building: Enabling environments focus on creating opportunities for growth and action, not on skill-building
• They’re focused on actually doing the thing: Enabling environments focus on doing what’s enabled
• The activities aren’t some bitter pill you need to swallow: even early sessions fulfill an intrinsically meaningful purpose. Enabling environments’ activities directly serve an intrinsically meaningful purpose.
• The teaching practices arose as a by-product of serious contemplatives’ own attempts to deeply understand: Powerful enabling environments usually arise as a byproduct of projects pursuing their own intrinsically meaningful purposes.
  • Though these apps present easily-digestible forms of traditional practices, meditation methods are defined by the practice of experts, not of novices (e.g. contra grade school math): Powerful enabling environments focus on expert use
• Enacted experiences can bootstrap active participation in enabling environments; meditation apps do this: Guided meditation apps deliver enacted experiences in a mass medium