Feeling Good: Mental Fitness

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3.1
178 reviews
50K+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

The Feeling Good app is accredited by NHS digital - a mark of its effectiveness, safety and good function. The app is very easy to use, just plug in your earphones and play to start feeling the positive benefits.

Centring around ā€˜Positive Mental Trainingā€™ these audio modules uniquely combine applied relaxation with goal-focused visualisations derived from the latest neuroscience and Olympic sports coaching techniques. The method of change is upstream CBT (uCBT) whereby emotions are targeted to drive cognition and behaviour change. Using a positive psychological approach, positive emotions are increased thereby reducing negative emotions, rather than traditional CBT which focuses on negative thinking (cognitions) to drive emotional and behavioural change.

The app contains the scientifically proven programme Feeling Good for Life a series of 12 Mental Health focussed audio tracks to help you build essential skills, not only to deal with mental stresses and strains, but to bounce forwards and become mentally stronger and more resilient. This module can help you:
* Develop deep relaxation to quickly calm your mind and body
* Build resilience to support your mental health and wellbeing
* Lift your mood, helping you feel more positive and relieve symptoms of depression
* Let go of worries and aid in anxiety relief
* Sleep better and deal with stresses more easily.
* Increase motivation and confidence to help you reach your goals

It can also help with physical symptoms of stress, such as headaches, irritable bowel, fatigue and chronic pain. It improves your ability to focus on a task, to feel positive about yourself when talking to others, to perform at your best when you need to.

Like traditional CBT, these audios can change your negative thinking patterns, your behaviour and generate more positive feelings. Just as repeating physical exercise builds muscle strength, so repeated listening to our audios can build mental strength.

There are other modules on the app, to help you sleep better, feel positive about ageing, stop smoking, help for long covid symptoms and achieve a healthy weight. All contain the same beginning tracks from Feeling Good for Life to give you a good foundation.

The app is free to download with free access to several tracks. Unlock the whole app with a referral code or a one-time payment. Customise your choice of reader and music including relaxing nature sounds. Track your listening progress with growing leaves and monitor your mood at 2 and 7 weeks and set reminders. Data collection is anonymous, we do not collect or sell identifiable personal data.

Listening to this app is not a substitute for medical diagnosis, advice or treatment. We recommend that you read the guidance on use in the setting tab, before listening to the tracks.

How it started:
Feeling Good was first used within the NHS for patients with low mood, stress and depression and we soon found that it was also being used by the doctors and nurses for their own benefit too. It can help with all life stresses, including burnout and sleep problems.

The tracks in Feeling Good for Life began as audio CDs, when Dr Alastair Dobbin, a GP and Dr Sheila Ross, a health promotion specialist, teamed up. They wanted to help people build good mental health and so adapted a Swedish Olympic Sports performance programme, drawn to its a positive self-development focus, rather than a clinical illness-based approach. Since then research has demonstrated its ability to build positive emotions and good psychological functioning, as well as recovery from depression and anxiety. The App is used within the NHS by staff and patients, in many colleges and universities for staff and students and recommended in Public Health England ā€˜Every Mind Mattersā€™ campaign.

We are working on making the Feeling Good App as accessible as possible so everyone can use the app. Our accessibility statement: https://www.feelinggood.app/feeling-good-app-accessibility-statement/
Updated on
Feb 27, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
App activity and App info and performance
This app may collect these data types
Personal info and Health and fitness
Data is encrypted in transit
Data canā€™t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

3.1
171 reviews
Mariia Kotova (Leo Manrick)
March 22, 2024
Very nice, really improving your state. Never thought that my body stretch, breathing and mental calmness are so interconnected Could you please add an opportunity to listen just the background music? I love to sleep down with your guitar after the training but it's very short
Dominic Fitzpatrick
June 26, 2023
Good app, very helpful for relaxation if used consistently. The choice of voices and background sounds is a nice touch. There should be an option to listen to tracks in the same module consecutively without having to stop relaxing, wind past the footer/header, and manually start the next track. This feature would be unlocked once the tracks had been listened to the appropriate number of times. I hope the developers will implement this.
2 people found this review helpful
Positive Rewards
June 29, 2023
Hi thanks for your kind feedback and we're working on exactly this kind of feature - good to have it validated! We really appreciate your taking the time to write.
Steph Saunders
June 7, 2022
Accessed the app through work due to suffering mental health issues. I love this app! You can pick and choose the sessions of meditation that you want to do depending on your needs, eg I use a 3 minute one before I leave the house for work, and a sleep one before bed. Really well organised app, can continue with your phone on idle/lock. I like that you can choose the backing music guitar piano or nature. 5 star app!
3 people found this review helpful
Positive Rewards
June 7, 2022
Hello there, thank you so much for your kind words and amazing review. It's great to hear that you're finding useful resources to fit different scenarios, like the Shorts and sleep tracks. Have a great day!

What's new

- support for Welsh language
- new monthly snipped
- fixed a bug with audio restarting incorrectly