New App Turns Android Phone Into a Habit Changer

July 20, 2011 - PRLog -- Want to break a bad habit or create a good one? Well, soon you'll be able to turn your Android phone into a lean, mean habit changing machine.

The MotivAider® For Mobile app is designed to replicate much of the functionality of the MotivAider®, an ingeniously simple electronic device that has enabled people of all ages in over 40 countries to quickly, easily and effectively make desired changes in their own behavior and habits. Despite its simplicity - or perhaps because of it - the MotivAider has an impressive 24 year track record of success in the education, healthcare, business, sports and self-improvement industries.  

The MotivAider app isn't like other phone apps that promise to help you change habits merely by helping you record your goals and track your progress. The MotivAider app actually changes your behavior.

"It works by correcting for a largely overlooked glitch in the design of the human mind - the lack of a dependable mechanism for keeping good intentions on the front burner," says Dr. Steve Levinson, clinical psychologist and inventor of the MotivAider. "It allows you to change your behavior by preventing your good intentions from getting lost in the shuffle."

According to Levinson, the app works privately and automatically to cut through the clutter and keep your attention focused on making whatever change you decide to make. It uses a private vibration prompt to repeatedly trigger the desired behavior.  

Levinson says Behavioral Dynamics, Inc., is developing the app to introduce smartphone users to the MotivAider concept and allow them to experience some of the same benefits that MotivAider users typically enjoy. He admits that the app is something of a compromise between convenience and effectiveness. "On the one hand, it's certainly convenient to be able to use your cell phone to change your habits, " he said. "On the other hand, the dedicated MotivAider device is more effective."  

MotivAider® For Mobile is easy to use. First you decide on a desired behavior and devise a brief personal message that will remind and urge you to engage in that behavior. You then choose a vibration pattern to use as your private prompt, and you decide how often to receive prompts - from as often as once a minute to as seldom as once every 4 hours. Then you simply "associate" your personal message with the vibration prompt so that whenever you feel the selected vibration pattern, you will automatically think your personal message. You can modify your behavior change projects as needed, pause and resume them as you wish, and you can even set prompting to automatically start and stop at chosen times each day.

The MotivAider For Mobile app is clean, compact and fully self-contained. It requires no internet connection and does not share any personal data. App users will have access to the same free resources developed to help MotivAider® users achieve great results.

Behavioral Dynamics, Inc. expects the MotivAider For Mobile app to be released late in the summer of 2011. It will be available on the Android Market and elsewhere and will be priced at under $5. Behavioral Dynamics, Inc. is considering developing similar apps for the iPhone and Blackberry platforms.

To learn more about the new MotivAider app, visit http://habitchange.com/motivaider-for-mobile.php

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Behavioral Dynamics, Inc. is a proudly small and highly focused Minnesota firm that was founded in 1987 to develop, manufacture and market the MotivAider® and support its users worldwide.