We just published habit data & insights from successful meditators on Lift, our goal-tracking app (http://lift.do/ http://lift.do/). The research includes answe

We just published habit data & insights from successful meditators on Lift, our goal-tracking app (http://lift.do/ http://lift.do/). The research includes answers to your questions (and really cool graphs). http://bit.ly/meditationhabits http://bit.ly/meditationhabits - time of day, position, styles & session length http://bit.ly/marchmeditationtips http://bit.ly/marchmeditationtips - likelihood of continuing meditation, frequency, session length, apps What we learned: There doesn't seem to be a correlation between time of day & whether you see benefits. 48% of people on Lift meditate upon waking or in the morning. 2/3 of all survey respondents started feeling benefits within a week regardless of when they meditated. 45% sit on the floor, 30% a chair, one person said they meditate while swimming. Mediation gets easier after 11 days of daily practice. 90% of people with an 11 day streak went on to have a 12 day streak & that trend continued for 60 days (we didn't look after that). To compare, it takes 14 days to see that trend in the Eat Breakfast habit. Most people started with 3-5 minutes per session. Average session length we see on Lift is 16.8 minutes. 62% of people who meditated more than 3 days a week used an app compared to 50% of people who meditated 3 days a week or less. Data comes from Lift data + surveys to Lifters in the Meditate habit. We're running a Meditation Challenge this month & we're learning a lot about this habit a lot of people say is their most important one. You can ping me at @liftapp with more questions.