Namaste - Calm Down, Regain Peace of Mind, Pause Anxiety and Stress Relief Mental Trick

Look, this is REALLY a good 'start' at something that CAN be a very useful tool for helping with stress. But that so -called smoke truly needs some working on. It should be slowly and SMOOTHLY moving around, IF we want to be seeing it as what it is called - SMOKE! RIGHT? On my iPad-3, there is NO fluid dynamics going on at all. The image we see HERE before download represents NOTHING what I see when using the app. I do love what this app represents for us, and I hope the thing gets continually updated for improvements. The right idea is THERE. Now let's get that SMOKE looking like the free flowing swirly stuff it should be, not a 'frame-by-frame staccato movement.

Something so simple makes you stop and reflect on what's bothering you. This works, and you will be able to breath when you're done.

Since having this app I feel like I have more patience and I am able to communicate more calmly to others. :)

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When it was first released, Namaste was like Whisper, but private. It was for casual/trivial venting. That was what I paid for. Then they updated it and turned it into a wellness app.

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You type in whatever is bothering you and then rub your finger over the screen (and rub, and rub, and rub) to create layers of badly rendered "smoke" that eventually turns black and obliterates the text. Then, poof! Problem solved! But yeah, no it isn't. Unless, of course, your problems are trivial enough that spending 2 minutes rubbing your phone screen eradicates your "stress" about them. In that case, you're the perfect sucker... I mean, customer that will gladly hand over a buck to do this. Just the fact that the smoke turns black is a horribly thought out design choice for a "de-stress" app. Why not have the text be white and the smoke lighten from gray to white to wipe it away? I mean, the app would still be essentially worthless, but at least the visual would appear more positive.