mitr suggests one thing to do today, chosen for how you are today rather than from a fixed program. On a heavy day it will be something small. On a steadier day it will ask a little more. Each suggestion comes with a verse, its exact citation, and a short explanation in plain language of why this, now.
Nothing here takes long. The practices are meant to fit inside an ordinary day rather than to require one to be rearranged.
When things are at their worst, the instruction is deliberately modest. The aim at that point is to do something at all. A practice that gets completed is worth more than a better one that does not.
This is also why mitr suggests one thing rather than a list. A list is easy to read and easy to postpone.
A good many of the practices end on a page. That is deliberate: writing something down is itself the practice, not a record of one. Once a worry is on the page, the mind can stop holding it in place, which is most of what an unsettled evening is made of.
The Peace Journal is where that goes. You can start from a prompt when you do not know where to begin, or write cold. You can keep a verse, or something mitr said that landed, and set your own response beside it. Nothing has to be long. A few sentences is a complete entry.
Over weeks it becomes the one record of this that is entirely in your own words: what you were carrying, and what you did about it. A score tells you that a week was hard. The journal tells you why.
It is private. Nothing written there is posted anywhere, shown to anyone or read by mitr. It is yours, and it is deleted with your account. How deletion works.
A single practice is a single practice. The value is in repetition, and the research the app draws on points the same way: regularity matters more than intensity. Whichever practice you keep doing is the one that counts, and the strongest predictor of whether you keep doing something is whether you enjoy it.
Used daily, the check-in also becomes a record. Over weeks it shows which part of your life tends to slide first, and what usually comes before it. That pattern is more useful than any single day's reading.
Some of what steadies a person is not a practice at all. It is other people, and being somewhere with them. Two of the five parts of life the check-in covers — the heart, and a sense of purpose — are the ones least likely to improve in private.
So mitr also helps you find what is actually around you: temples, meditation and yoga centers, community halls and the gatherings held at them. You can keep the ones you want to return to. Online gatherings are listed too, for people who are not near any of this or would rather start at home.
We do not stand between you and the host. mitr takes no bookings, sells no tickets and handles no payments. Where a gathering asks you to register, you go to the host's own page and deal with them directly. We do not tell anyone you are coming, because we have no way to, and we would rather say so than let you arrive somewhere expecting to be expected.
There is nothing to perform here. No attendance counts, no followers, no likes, no public record of who went where. What you save is yours.
Everything here is a suggestion, not a recommendation we stand behind. Places and gatherings are collected largely automatically from public listings and from what hosts tell us. Listing something is not an endorsement, a check or an approval of the venue, its organizers or anyone involved with it. We do not verify that any of it is accurate, safe, lawful or right for you.
Please do your own checking. Confirm the time, the address and the nature of the gathering with the host before you set out, and judge for yourself whether it suits you. Details go out of date, venues close, and organizers change what they do. The decision to attend is yours, and so is the responsibility for it. mitr is not responsible for what happens at a place or an event you find through the app, or on the way there.
Experience will vary. A gathering that steadies one person will do nothing for another, and we make no promise about how any of it will turn out. If something is wrong — a venue that has closed, a time that has changed, a listing that should not be there — it can be reported from the listing itself, and reporting is never behind the subscription. The full terms covering places and gatherings are in our Terms of Use.
Coverage is uneven, and will be for a while. Listings are fullest in the cities we have started in and thinner elsewhere, which is why online gatherings matter in the meantime. It will fill in city by city rather than everywhere at once.
Separately from all of this, there is a quiet place to sit with what other people are carrying, anonymously unless they choose to show a name.
It is your own answer. The score reflects what you reported at the check-in. Completing a practice does not move it by itself; it changes the next time you check in and say how you are.
It is not a clinical measure. It does not diagnose anything, it is not validated against any clinical instrument, and it should not be read as a health metric.
There is no target. A high score is not an achievement and a low one is not a failure. The score exists to decide what to suggest, not to grade you.
We do not claim that regular practice will raise anyone's score by a given amount. We have not run a trial and we do not have that evidence. What the approach does rest on is set out here.
The practices are for ordinary days. They are not treatment, and they are not a substitute for a clinician or for the people in your life. If you are in crisis, use a helpline rather than the app.