About:

ThoughtCloud is a mobile app developed to promote healthy stress reduction through mindfulness-based practice (released February, 2013).

ThoughtCloud is intended as a positive intervention for managing stress, mood, and anxiety, and brings mindfulness to a uniquely tangible space.

Description:

Based on an effective stress-reduction technique often used by cognitive therapists, ThoughtCloud allows you to let go of negative thoughts by placing them on a cloud, and pressing on the sun to make them disappear.

This method of stress reduction is effective because it promotes observation and awareness of thoughts, rather than immediate judgment, reaction, or attachment to various thoughts and feelings.

ThoughtCloud is intended as a complement to the mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) programs for addressing a variety of medical health concerns, including anxiety, depression, addiction, borderline personality disorder, and eating disorders. Insights in mind-body medicine have also revealed that mindfulness-based interventions are highly effective at improving psoriasis, irritable bowel syndrome, pain management, and smoking cessation (Brown et al., 2013; Grossman et al., 2004).

References:

Brown, A.P., Marquis, A., & Guiffrida, D.A. (2013). Mindfulness-based interventions in counseling. Journal of Counseling & Development, 91(1), 96-104.

Grossman, P., Niemann, L., Schmidt, S., & Walach, H. (2004). Mindfulness-based stress reduction and health benefits: A meta-analysis. Journal of psychometric research, 57, 35-43.