App demo: The Mind Medic

When I used to read OMNI magazine I remember getting into the whole subliminal and self-hypnosis fad. I bought a few cassettes but didn't wind up seeing a ton of results. Maybe I was doing it wrong because there's some research that points to the possibility that positive affirmations, voiced while you sleep, may have an effect on your conscious thoughts. If someone whispered in my ear all night that I was a super guy, I could see how that might wind up making me feel a little better.

Enter The Mind Medic, an app to whisper in your ear through the night and provide you with affirmations designed to change behaviors. Quitting smoking is the classic use case for such an app. The app allows you to record your own affirmations and plays them back at specific intervals throughout the night. It doesn't just repeat them every 5 minutes — you'd never go to sleep! An update should be coming that will allow this app to run in the background as well, which would make it a bit more useful, I think.

The app is straightforward enough (and quite simple anyway), but check the video for a short demo and explanation from the developer.