June 22, 2022
Hiya and Welcome to Muse!
Muse 2 is an unbelievable instrument that can assist you begin or deepen your meditation observe.
Muse’s meditations will enable you discover ways to meditate or deliver your meditation observe to a brand new stage with real-time suggestions in your mind, coronary heart, breath, and physique in the course of the meditations. These enable you study to higher focus your consideration and calm your thoughts and physique.
Under we’ve compiled essential info on how you can get probably the most out of your new Muse. It should present you how you can arrange and suit your new Muse, how you can navigate the elements of the app to get pleasure from all of our meditation experiences, and how you can use post-session reviews to see the progress of your sleep and the way your meditation observe has helped you focus your thoughts.
We’re excited that can assist you entry the advantages {that a} meditation observe can deliver.
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Meditation Suggestions & Sources
Obtain the Muse app
If you happen to haven’t already, obtain the Muse app by visiting choosemuse.com/obtain in your telephone or pill and create an account. You may also click on the hyperlinks beneath in your cellular or pill machine to obtain the Muse app on Apple or Android units.
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Flip On Your System
To show in your headband, click on the small button subsequent to the charging port in your Muse pod. You’ll realize it’s on if you see blue cascading lights shifting backwards and forwards as Muse appears to be like to attach by way of Bluetooth to your cellular machine.
Examine Your Battery Life
To examine the cost stage of your Muse click on the facility button another time after the scarf has been turned on and it’ll point out how charged the scarf is by the variety of lights which might be full. If just one or two are lit up, it could be time to cost. Whereas three lights point out a full cost.
Connecting Your Headband to the Muse App
To pair your headband to the Muse app it’s essential to have Bluetooth and placement companies in your cellular machine turned on. Bluetooth and placement companies could be adjusted in your cellular machine’s major settings. As soon as Bluetooth and placement companies are on you possibly can come again to the Muse app and pair your headband by clicking on the Bluetooth icon on the prime left-hand of your display screen.
Muse Sensor Examine & Calibration
Earlier than each session, sensor examine will present you in case you’re sporting your Muse appropriately. Every of the sections corresponds with the bodily places of the sensors in your Muse machine. There are sensors throughout the brow, together with a photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor on the best aspect and sensors behind the ears.
As soon as sensor examine is full, calibration will begin and final for one minute. The outcomes of a Muse session are depending on the standard of the calibration earlier than your session. This stage is essential as a result of it supplies Muse with an image of your lively mind to check towards in the course of the session. Your mind adjustments from second to second, so the one-minute calibration course of is a required step to ensure Muse will present correct and responsive suggestions based mostly in your present state.
Through the calibration section, permit your thoughts to wander because it usually would all through the day. This may permit Muse to obtain probably the most correct image of the present state of your mind to check your meditation session towards.
How one can Match Your Muse
To appropriately suit your Muse 2, gently lengthen the adjustable earpieces whereas being conscious to not lengthen additional as soon as you are feeling stress. Overextension can result in inside injury in your Muse machine. Your headband needs to be prolonged in order that it’s barely bigger than your head measurement earlier than adjusting it in your head.
Place your Muse alongside the center of your brow with the rubber ear sensors resting behind your ears. The earpieces ought to sit behind your ears simply as a pair of glasses would. Alter each side concurrently to tighten it again up for a cosy match that feels snug. Each earpieces needs to be equally prolonged to make sure there are not any gaps and that each one sensors have good skin-to-sensor contact. The headscarf ought to run throughout the center of your brow – not too excessive (close to your hairline) or too low (close to your eyebrows.)
Ensure that there isn’t a hair between the sensors and your pores and skin, as this may stop Muse from getting an excellent sign. Transfer any hair from above or behind your ears as you regulate the match for the perfect outcomes. You probably have lengthy hair we suggest tying it up.
You might want to regulate your Muse headband a number of instances to acquire the perfect match and most constant sign high quality. Please pause for 30-60 seconds after making any changes to permit the sign to settle. In time, you’ll discover the match that’s best for you and this step will turn into second nature earlier than you begin a meditation session.
When you might have completed your session, retailer your Muse machine in a Muse laborious case or the unique field that it got here in to assist protect your machine for years to return.
In case your machine will not be performing as anticipated, we might love to listen to from you to assist enhance your expertise. Please contact our Buyer Care crew right here.
The band ought to sit cosy and cozy round your head.
We suggest watching the video beneath to discover ways to correctly suit your Muse S machine.
How one can Get Good Sign High quality
If you happen to’re having problem getting an excellent sign high quality there are a few alternative ways to treatment this.
- Apply a humid tissue or fabric (moistened with water) to the Muse sensors. Give them a delicate wipe to help conduit of the sensors together with your pores and skin.
- Or use the damp fabric or tissue and run throughout your brow and behind the ears to enhance sensor connection. You may also take a humid fabric to your brow and behind your ears to enhance sign high quality.
It is a assortment of biofeedback meditation experiences designed that can assist you discover targeted calm. Within the meditation part, you’ll discover Thoughts, Coronary heart, Physique & Breath Biofeedback Experiences, plus Timer and Premium Experiences akin to Guidances, Guided Programs, and Biofeedback+.
Navigating the Meditation Part of the Muse App
Discover all Meditation Experiences by tapping the lotus icon on the principle backside navigation.
On the prime of your display screen, you will notice Muse Program. Scroll to the best to view every program and click on in to observe. Packages present a sequential meditation course to reinforce your observe. The perfect half is – they’re free!
Under applications, you’ll discover all of our Muse Meditation Biofeedback Expertise from Thoughts, Physique, Breath, Coronary heart, and Timer. Scroll to the best to view every expertise and click on in to discover a listing of soundscapes on your chosen Meditation Expertise.
Additional down, you’ll discover all Premium Subscription Experiences. Subscribers can now discover all Premium options beneath the Premium Experiences part together with Guidances, Guided Programs, My Library, and Biofeedback+.
Packages
Learn to arrange and suit your new Muse, how you can navigate the elements of the app, how you can use post-session reviews to see the progress of your sleep, and the way your meditation observe has helped you focus your thoughts.
Muse 2 Starter Information:
Uncover all of the app has to supply, discover ways to leverage your post-session reviews, get the perfect headband match, and extra within the Muse 2 Starter Information.
Biofeedback+:
Learn to layer biofeedback+ together with your favourite apps and how you can customise your session on your greatest meditation expertise in Biofeedback+.
Meditation Biofeedback Experiences
Our Thoughts, Coronary heart, Physique & Breath Meditations are designed to assist educate you the ability of targeted consideration and mindfulness. Analysis reveals that each day meditation can:
- Enhance reminiscence
- Enhance focus
- Enhance relationship satisfaction
- Scale back stress
- Strengthen emotional management and resilience
Discover all of our Muse Meditation Biofeedback Expertise from Thoughts, Physique, Breath, Coronary heart, and Timer. Scroll to the best to view every expertise and click on in to discover a listing of soundscapes on your chosen Meditation Expertise. When you’ve chosen a soundscape, select the size of time you’d prefer to meditate.
How one can Begin a Thoughts, Coronary heart, Physique, or Breath Biofeedback Meditation
- Suit your Muse & join your machine to the Muse app.
- Choose a Meditation Biofeedback Expertise.
- Choose a Soundscape from the checklist.
- Select the size of time you’d prefer to meditate.
- Full sensor examine.
- Full calibration.
- After calibration is full, your session will start.
- When your soundscape has ended, click on ‘Cease Monitoring’ to finish your meditation session. You can be prompted to replicate in your temper, or you should use the Journal to jot down any ideas or insights you will have noticed throughout your meditation.
- Subsequent, for any Thoughts, Coronary heart, or Physique Biofeedback Soundscape Expertise, you possibly can assessment your outcomes out of your post-session report that features your % calm, common coronary heart fee and BPM, and % stillness. If you happen to full a Breath Biofeedback Soundscape Expertise, you’ll obtain the above plus, % breath in concord with the information.
Replicate & Jot Down in Your Journal
Upon ending your meditation session, a Reflection display screen will pop up. Right here you possibly can merely toggle how refreshed you are feeling after every meditation session. Do you are feeling calm, impartial, or burdened? Primarily based on how you are feeling over time, you possibly can experiment together with your meditation routine and make any tweaks wanted that can assist you discover targeted calm.
The Journal function permits you to shortly jot down any moments of perception, or issues which might be taking your focus away out of your breath.
Thoughts Meditation
Why Do a Thoughts Meditation?
With Thoughts Meditation, you’ll obtain real-time suggestions in your mind exercise which is able to enable you shortly study if you’ve turn into distracted so you possibly can deliver your consideration again to your breath. Over time, with the assistance of this biofeedback, the sooner you’re in a position to notice your thoughts has wandered, the sooner you’ll be capable to get again right into a targeted state.
Thoughts Meditation Biofeedback
Your chosen soundscape will regulate to supply real-time biofeedback to let when your thoughts is lively or calm all through your session. For instance, when the climate will get louder it’s a reminder that your thoughts is wandering. And because the climate will get quieter it lets your thoughts is calm.
When Do I Earn Birds with Thoughts Meditation?
Throughout Thoughts Meditation you’ll hear and earn birds if you’ve reached a deep, restful focus in your breath for longer than 5 seconds. Be conscious of the birds, however don’t fixate on them as you might make them fly away.
When Do I Earn Recoveries with Thoughts Meditation?
You’ll earn restoration stars when you might have acknowledged your thoughts has turn into distracted and you’ll be able to shortly deliver your consideration and focus again to your meditation. When your thoughts returns to a targeted calm state and the climate turns into quieter you’ll obtain a restoration star.
Consider Recoveries as a measure of your mindfulness muscle. They enable you observe what number of instances you recovered throughout meditation by bringing your focus and a spotlight again to the meditation. You possibly can take pleasure in your recoveries as a result of they imply you might be attaining progress by figuring out when you could settle your thoughts, physique, breath, and coronary heart throughout your meditation observe.
What Do My Thoughts Meditation Outcomes Imply?
The Thoughts Meditation outcomes will enable you perceive how usually your mind was lively, impartial or calm in the course of the meditation. Energetic means your thoughts was wandering or distracted. Calm means you had been in a deeply restful state targeted in your breath, and impartial is a pure resting state.
The objective is a larger % of calm than impartial or lively. You possibly can monitor your progress by reviewing how a lot time you spent in every state after every meditation.
Coronary heart Meditation
Why Do a Coronary heart Meditation?
The Coronary heart Meditation guides you to sync your heartbeat with the soundscape to show you to tune into your inside cues to decelerate your heartbeat and discover calm.
Any such meditation can assist you self-regulate in instances of bodily or emotional stress.
Coronary heart Meditation Biofeedback
Throughout your Coronary heart Meditation, your chosen soundscape will regulate to supply real-time biofeedback to let when your coronary heart fee is rising or has lowered as you take heed to the meditation. This trains you to have the ability to self-regulate in instances of stress.
When Do I Earn Birds with Coronary heart Meditation?
When your coronary heart fee drops to a brand new low throughout a coronary heart meditation, or in case you constantly preserve a low coronary heart fee you’ll hear and earn birds.
When Do I Earn Recoveries with Coronary heart Meditation?
You’ll earn restoration stars when your coronary heart fee goes from excessive to low in comparison with the standard fee.
What Do My Coronary heart Meditation Outcomes Imply?
As soon as your Coronary heart Session has ended you’ll be offered together with your coronary heart meditation outcomes.
Your Coronary heart Meditation outcomes will current your coronary heart fee graph together with your highest and lowest coronary heart fee all through the meditation session in addition to historic excessive and low to have the ability to reference for enchancment sooner or later. Do not forget that each day stress and feelings may also be a think about how you are feeling. Use these stats to see in case you’ve managed to decrease your coronary heart fee to search out calm within the meditation.
Physique Meditation
Why Do a Physique Meditation?
The Physique Meditation will enable you discover a snug place to search out stillness.
It’s regular to fidget and transfer throughout observe whilst you’re settling into your respiratory or in case you get distracted – this expertise can assist cue you to if you’re shifting that can assist you discover stillness once more.
Physique Meditation Biofeedback
As you take heed to a physique meditation, the real-time biofeedback will deliver your consideration to your motion shifts, constructing your consciousness of your posture and actions.
When Do I Earn Birds with Physique Meditation?
Throughout Physique Meditations when your physique stays in a relaxed state for an prolonged time frame, you’ll be rewarded with birds.
When Do I Earn Recoveries with Physique Meditation?
You’ll earn restoration stars if you recuperate from an lively state to a relaxed state of stillness.
What Do My Physique Meditation Outcomes Imply?
The Physique Meditation outcomes will present a graph with two ‘zones:
Relaxed is the time you spent in a nonetheless and steady place and an Energetic zone represents the time you had notable motion.
You’ll additionally discover a baseline that’s established throughout calibration and what’s used to determine your relaxed and lively zones.
Breath Meditation
Why Do a Physique Meditation?
Your breath is a strong power that connects your thoughts and physique. When you’re unable to deal with the tempo of your breath your thoughts can wander and your physique could turn into tense.
Muse Breath Meditation biofeedback will educate you to turn into conscious of the feeling of your breath and set its tempo that can assist you calm down your physique, calm your thoughts and even provide you with vitality if you want it.
Breath Meditation Biofeedback
Throughout a Breath Meditation as you comply with the guiding sounds and match the respiratory sample, your physique and heartbeat can be in concord, and also you’ll hear musical tones to affirm your progress to maintain you on observe with the breath meditation.
When Do I Hear Birds in Physique Meditation?
While you stay in concord with the breath steering for five seconds you’ll obtain and earn a chicken.
When Do I Earn Recoveries with Breath Meditation?
You’ll earn restoration stars if you regain concord with the audio information.
What Do My Breath Outcomes Imply?
Because the breath meditation performs you comply with the breath audio. The Breath Meditation post-session reviews present a graph to indicate you the way in concord you had been with the breath steering – from low, medium to excessive concord.
Low concord is rated as 50% in concord, medium falls between larger than 50% however lower than 90%, and excessive concord is 90% or larger. You possibly can observe your progress by viewing how usually you obtain a medium and even excessive concord with the meditation breath information.
Timed Meditation
Why Do a Timed Meditation?
Timed meditations can be found to make use of with out your headband and supply a large number of various soundscapes to search out your calm. A few of our Musers use Timed meditations to get in a fast 5-minute meditation and to take care of their streak rating.
Will I Hear Birds with Timed Meditations?
Throughout a Timed Meditation expertise, you’ll hear a light-weight enjoyable soundscape and occasional steering. You received’t obtain moment-to-moment suggestions or birds, however your minutes, streaks, objectives, and challenges will nonetheless depend to your general session depend.
Your Timed Meditation Outcomes
With every Timed meditation session, you’ll obtain Muse factors based mostly on the variety of minutes meditated. Put up-session reviews should not out there with Timed as your headband will not be wanted to pay attention to those meditations.
Premium Subscription Experiences
You probably have a Premium Subscription you’ll have entry to over 500 Guided Meditations in addition to Biofeedback+. Discover out extra beneath.
Entry to 500+ Guided Meditations
The Premium Subscription Expertise part is organized by Guidances, Guided Programs, Biofeedback+, and My Library. You’ll discover over 40 various kinds of guided meditation collections to select from together with sleep, resilience, focus, self-care, and extra. Programs enable you deepen your meditation observe and supply meditation classes based mostly on completely different meditation themes.
Your Guided Meditation Outcomes
If you happen to put on your headband to take heed to a guided meditation you’ll obtain:
- % Calm which reveals you the way targeted
- % Nonetheless
- Common Coronary heart Charge & BPM per minute
If you happen to listened to a guided meditation with out your Muse headband you’ll obtain Muse factors based mostly on the variety of minutes meditated.
Guided Programs
Our programs and collections provide a sequence of meditations with particular themes, akin to Happiness, Conscious Work, or Altering Habits. Your Muse headband will not be required for this expertise, so you possibly can take heed to a Guided Course at any time.
Biofeedback+
Biofeedback+ permits you to layer Muse’s real-time biofeedback on prime of any exterior content material together with your favourite music, mediations, or audiobooks plus obtain post-session reporting to see how your mind & physique responded.
Why Use Biofeedback+
Ever been curious to know the way your mind responds when listening to music, a podcast, an audiobook, or any favourite app content material? Have a podcast or audiobook that may immediately ship you to dreamland, and need to get in-depth reviews on how deeply you slept and the way lengthy it took you to go to sleep?
Biofeedback+ provides you hundreds of various methods to discover how you can meditate with Muse’s real-time biofeedback to information you together with your favourite exterior content material.
How To Use Biofeedback+
- Choose your Muse biofeedback content material & begin your session.
- Put in your Muse and full sign high quality examine.
- Toggl to your exterior app, choose your exterior content material, and press play.
- Return to the Muse app and resume your session. Content material out of your different app will now play concurrently whilst you observe with Muse.
- When you’re executed, come again to the Muse app, click on “Finish Session” and assessment your outcomes.
Your Biofeedback+ Outcomes
Simply as you’d in a daily Muse Biofeedback Meditation session, you’ll obtain the entire common post-session reviews together with Thoughts, Coronary heart, and Physique.
Monitoring Solely
The Biofeedback+ “Monitoring Solely” expertise permits you to get pleasure from your favourite exterior content material with out listening to Muse’s Biofeedback sounds. Muse merely tracks your thoughts & physique within the background whilst you take heed to your favourite content material. After you’ve ended your session, you’ll obtain the entire common post-session reviews together with Thoughts, Coronary heart, and Physique.
Birds Solely
The Biofeedback+ “Simply Birds” soundscape permits you to layer exterior content material with Muse’s biofeedback+ to earn birds if you maintain your focus for no less than 5 seconds.
With ‘Simply Birds’ you’ll hear solely birds when your in a position to maintain your focus for no less than 5 seconds
throughout Biofeedback+ together with your exterior content material and no different Muse biofeedback ‘cues’.
After you’ve ended your session, you’ll obtain the entire common post-session reviews together with Thoughts, Coronary heart, and Physique.
My Library
Love a sure guided meditation or course? Save them to your library so you possibly can simply discover it later.
Customise Your Biofeedback Expertise
Settings
Faucet the settings button to entry controls on your expertise, together with quantity stability, steering, and alert.
Stability
Alter the quantity stability between the soundscape and voice steering. This feature is simply out there for experiences that includes voice and soundscape.
Repeat
Wish to take heed to your meditation once more? Click on the repeat icon.
Really useful Listening Gadgets
Wi-fi Headphone Suggestions
We’ve discovered the perfect wi-fi headphones to be the Apple Airpods. In case you are an Android consumer we suggest the Shure Wi-fi Sound Isolating Earphones.
Wired Headphone Suggestions
If you happen to favor to make use of wired headphones, we suggest Apple Earpods with a wire attachment.
Monitor Your Progress
‘Me’ Dashboard
You’ll discover all your meditation and sleep stats within the navigation beneath the ‘Me’ part, merely click on to find your present and full historic stats historical past. The app additionally supplies a historic view that can assist you observe your progress and hold you motivated to construct your meditation observe.
The ‘Me Dashboard’ permits you to observe progress and see your all-time stats. On the very prime of the web page, you’ll discover your streak quantity, the variety of days you’ve meditated in a row, alongside together with your longest streak achieved. Use this to assist inspire you to construct your each day meditation.
Your Meditation Historical past
Instantly beneath, you’ll discover two areas to toggle between; your meditation stats and your sleep stats. Within the meditation tab, you’ll be capable to see your session historical past by sort of Muse expertise. For instance, Thoughts or Coronary heart. This supplies an summary over time and you’ll scroll on the historical past graph to check day-to-day. You possibly can toggle between the various kinds of experiences to view your stats over time. If you’d like a extra in-depth view of a session, click on on Session historical past. This supplies a listing of all of your accomplished meditations and post-session outcomes.
All-Time Stats
A bit of additional beneath the ‘Me Dashboard’ historical past graph, you’ll discover a number of motivational instruments that can assist you keep on observe together with:
- Complete Minutes: This supplies you with an all-time variety of minutes you’ve meditated.
- Recoveries: This supplies you with an all-time variety of restoration stars you’ve earned throughout your meditations over time.
- Birds: This supplies you with an all-time variety of birds you’ve earned throughout your meditations over time.
- Muse Factors: This supplies you with an all-time variety of Muse Factors you’ve earned throughout your meditations over time.
How Do I Set Weekly Targets?
Weekly Targets enable you construct a constant observe with Muse. To set your subsequent week’s objective, go to the ‘Me’ part of the Muse app and scroll down beneath your Meditation Historical past. Faucet “This Week’s Objective” after which “Subsequent Week’s Objective” on the prime of the web page. Scroll to the regulate the period of time you wish to meditate and click on “Save”.
Leveraging In-App Challenges
The Muse app additionally supplies in-app challenges that can assist you set up a each day or weekly routine that can assist you construct your meditation observe. Challenges could embody a larger variety of minutes of meditating each within the morning and at evening, or for a number of days in a row. This may assist you determine what works greatest for you whereas additionally constructing your motivation to maintain up together with your new meditation behavior.
What are Milestones?
While you hit a brand new meditation Milestone, Muse will congratulate you in your achievement. Milestones enable you honor your new meditation behavior and routine. Nothing to do right here, however congratulate your self on a meditation job nicely executed. Milestones embody:
Complete Birds Milestones:
- Hey, a chicken! – Incomes your first chicken
- A Host of Sparrows – Incomes a complete of 25 birds
- A Occasion of Jays – Incomes a complete of fifty birds
- A Parliament of Owls – Incomes a complete of 100 birds
- A Murmuration of Starlings – Incomes a complete of 200 birds
- An Exaltation of Larks – Incomes a complete of 500 birds
- A Watch of Nightingales – Incomes a complete of 1000 birds
- A Pod of Pelicans – Incomes a complete of 2500 birds
- A Flock of Seagulls – Incomes a complete of 5000 birds
- One with the Birds – Incomes a complete of 10000 birds
Complete Minutes of Calm
- 15 Minutes of Calm
- 30 Minutes of Calm
- 1 Hour of Calm
- 2 Hours of Calm
- 5 Hours of Calm
- +5 Hours of Calm for every following milestone
Complete Calm Session (Spending greater than half of your session calm):
- 1st Calm Session
- 5 Calm Classes
- 10 Calm Classes
- 25 Calm Classes
- 50 Calm Classes
- +50 Calm Classes for every following milestone
Complete Variety of Muse Classes:
- 5 Classes
- 10 Classes
- 25 Classes
- 50 Classes
- +50 Classes for every following milestone
Marathon
- 1 Day Marathon Milestone: Every time you set a brand new private report for many time spent Musing in a single day.
- Longest Session Milestone: Every time you set a brand new private report for the longest single Muse session.
- Calmest Session: Every time you set a brand new private report for time spent with a relaxed frame of mind in a single session.
What are Awards?
There are over 100 Awards and Milestones inside the Muse utility. Under is extra details about our awards milestones and the way you obtain them.
- Courageous Adventurer Award – 60% lively on your present session
- Good Timing Award – Session was lower than 10% calm
- Wanderlust Award – Your calm % at first third of your session was 20% increased than the final third of your session
- Aviary Award – Incomes no less than one chicken for each minute of your session
- Bronze Medal – You achieved 100 factors in present session
- Silver Medal – You achieved greater than 130 factors in present session
- Gold Medal – You achieved 150 factors in present session
- Platinum Medal – You achieved greater than 170 factors per minute in present session
- Marathon Award – Accomplished a session longer than 20 minutes
- Composure Award – You achieved greater than 1 minutes in a relaxed frame of mind in your present session
And plenty of extra!
Meditation Suggestions & Sources
What’s the best time of the day to meditate? >
The Advantages of a 5-Minute Meditation >
What’s the distinction between meditation and mindfulness? >
A Deep Dive Into Brainwaves: Brainwave Frequencies Defined >
Sleep Suggestions & Sources
The Advantages of Sleep Trackers & How Tech Can Assist >
Deep Sleep: Why It’s Key To Your Well being (& How To Get Extra Of It) >
What Is The Finest Sleep Place For You? It Relies upon. >
The Distinction Between Meditation and Sleep >
How Many Hours of Sleep Do I Want Every Day for My Age? >
Did You Know Getting Prepared for Mattress is Nearly as Essential as Sleep? >
Further Sources
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