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It’s perfect for the meditation novice, and even as someone who’s been doing breath work for years, I found that the device offers something a silent savasana and guided meditation could never: a nonjudgmental companion in your ear (a rain cloud, a wind chime, okay, even the loud tribal drum) that keeps you accountable before your mind wanders too far off. Muse S (Gen 2) EEG-Powered Meditation & Sleep Support Using advanced EEG technology to respond to your mind, heart, and breath, Muse S is a comfy brain sensing headband that helps you understand & track how well you focus, sleep and recharge so you can refocus during the day and recover each night.
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The whole experience feels like a mash-up of the Headspace meditation app and an interactive video game - plus a gratitude journal thrown in. Every session ends with an invitation to log your emotions and journal in the Muse app, plus glimpse a graph of your progress. The heart meditation consistently told me – through the usage of increasingly louder tribal drums, signifying a faster heart rate – that I needed to work on doing less stimulating activities (meaning fewer YouTube binges) before bedtime.
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The body meditation is a similar game with a wind chime that’s louder when you fidget, while the breath meditation teaches you how to inhale and exhale, with an ocean wave crashing in the backdrop. You may even hear a smattering of bird song if you decrease your brain activity for an extended period of time. A “busy mind” will create a rainstorm a calmer mind reduces it to a lighter drizzle. This is where it gets good: In the “forest” environment of the mind meditation, your aim is to deep-breathe in order to calm down the chatter in your mind.
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Every meditation starts off with easy instructions (breathing and visualizations) before you’re whisked off to a soothing nature scape.
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You do this before every meditation to make sure the thing is actually logging your brain activity. Then the Muse app asks you to adjust the headset (put the ends over your ears like glasses, with the metal “brain sensing” strip flush against your forehead) while the thing calibrates by taking a snapshot of your brain. Via Bluetooth, you sync your headset to the Muse app on your phone and put in earbuds. Unlike its predecessor, which only offers one mind meditation, the Muse 2 includes three more: a heart meditation, a body meditation, and a breath meditation (and by now you’ve probably heard how beneficial deep breathing is). If you’re familiar with the original Muse - the headband that uses EEG technology to map your brain activity - the Muse 2 is a few steps ahead. As someone who’s meditated on my own for years, I couldn’t not test the Muse 2 headset. When properly worn, the EEG (electroencephalography) sensors. Among all of the health innovations that have landed in my in-box, nothing jumped out quite as much as “brain-sensing headband” when that email arrived in October. Muse sits across your forehead like a headband, and rests behind your ears like a pair of glasses.