Muse S (Gen 2) – Starter Information

Might 16, 2022

Hi there and Welcome to Muse!

Muse S is an unbelievable instrument that can assist you sleep and that can assist you begin or deepen your meditation apply. 

The Muse S has been designed that can assist you sleep soundly by way of modern sleep experiences, together with digital sleeping capsules that allow content material to fade out when your mind indicators it’s prepared for sleep and fade again in, in case you get up within the night time that can assist you fall again asleep once more. 

Muse’s meditations will show you how to discover ways to meditate or deliver your meditation apply to a brand new degree with real-time suggestions in your mind, coronary heart, breath, and physique in the course of the meditations. These show you how to study to higher focus your consideration and calm your thoughts and physique. 

Under we’ve compiled necessary data on easy methods to get essentially the most out of your new Muse. It’ll present you easy methods to arrange and suit your new Muse, easy methods to navigate the components of the app to get pleasure from all of our sleep and meditation experiences, and easy methods to use post-session reviews to see the progress of your sleep and the way your meditation apply has helped you focus your thoughts. 

We’re excited that can assist you entry the advantages {that a} meditation apply and higher sleep can deliver and the way the 2 can work collectively to enhance your days and nights. 

Bounce to Part:

Connecting Your Muse

Becoming Your Muse

Meditating with Muse

Sleep Experiences & Sleep Monitoring with Muse

Monitor Your Progress

Meditation Ideas & Sources

Sleep Ideas & Sources

Further Sources

Obtain the Muse app

In the event you haven’t already, obtain the Muse app by visiting choosemuse.com/obtain in your cellphone or pill and create an account. You may as well click on the hyperlinks under in your cellular or pill system to obtain the Muse app on Apple or Android units.

Obtain on the Apple App Retailer >

Get it on Google Play >

Flip On Your Machine

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 while you see three orange, LED lights shifting backwards and forwards as Muse seems to attach through Bluetooth to your cellular system.

Verify Your Battery Life

To test the cost degree of your Muse click on the pod button yet one more time after the scarf has been turned on and it’ll point out how charged the scarf is by the variety of lights which can be full. If just one or two are lit up, it might 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 you need to have Bluetooth and placement providers in your cellular system turned on. Bluetooth and placement providers may be adjusted in your cellular system’s primary settings. As soon as Bluetooth and placement providers are on you may come again to the Muse app and pair your headband by clicking on the Bluetooth icon on the prime left hand of your display.

Muse Sensor Verify & Calibration

Earlier than each session, sensor test will present you in case you’re sporting your Muse accurately. Every of the sections corresponds with the bodily areas of the sensors in your Muse system. There are sensors throughout the brow, together with a photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor on the appropriate aspect and sensors behind the ears. 

As soon as sensor test 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 necessary as a result of it offers Muse with an image of your energetic mind to match 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 primarily based in your present state.

Through the calibration section, enable your thoughts to wander because it usually would all through the day. This can enable Muse to obtain essentially the most correct image of the present state of your mind to match your meditation session towards.

Loosen the Muse S Band

To loosen the strap, pull the adjustor away from the appropriate aspect of the material band and in direction of the magnetic clasp. Pull sufficient slack in order that it’s bigger than your head measurement earlier than becoming your Muse.

Tighten the Muse S Band

To tighten the strap, pull the elastic away from the adjustor. Because the adjustor strikes away from the magnetic clasp, the loop will turn into bigger.

Match Your Pod within the Band

Discover ways to assemble the Muse S (Gen 2) pod to the tender band by watching the video under.

1. Take away the protecting sticker with the blue pull tab on the pod’s PPG sensor.
2. On the pod, you’ll discover two hooks that may assist safe the pod to the band.
3. Seize the band, and make sure the Muse emblem is oriented right-side-up.
4. You will notice two inserts for the pod hooks on the appropriate pod wing.
5. Angle the pod hooks into the appropriate pod hook inserts.
6. As you press the pod hooks into place, chances are you’ll hear a click on.
7. You’ll know that you simply’ve achieved this accurately if there is no such thing as a hole between the pod and the wing.
8. Then, safe the left aspect of the pod to the left pod wing utilizing the magnets. Chances are you’ll hear one other click on.
9. Guarantee there aren’t any gaps between the pod and each pod wings. 10. You do not want to take away the pod from the band between makes use of however it is best to all the time bear in mind to take away the pod earlier than cleansing your tender band.

Match Your Muse

It will be significant that your Muse S (Gen 2) is fitted correctly to make sure the sensors have robust sign high quality.

To arrange to placed on the scarf, make sure the Muse emblem is going through proper aspect up. The pod in the midst of the band will likely be going through out and the beige brow sensors will likely be going through you. The beige ear sensors that run alongside the aspect of the band will face down and can sit behind your ears as soon as on.

1. Unclip the steel clasp behind the band. 
2. Loosen the band strap so it’s bigger than your head measurement. With sensors going through you and ear sensors going through down alongside the ears, place the scarf in your brow, and join the band on the again round your head by attaching the magnetic clips. 
3. Guarantee your sensors on the brow and behind your ears are making good contact with the pores and skin by eradicating any hair between your pores and skin and the sensors. 
4. Tighten the strap as you gently maintain the sensors in place in your brow.

The band ought to sit cosy and comfy round your head. 

We suggest watching the video under to discover ways to correctly suit your Muse S system.

Get Good Sign High quality

In the event you’re having problem getting sign high quality there are a few alternative ways to treatment this. 

1. Apply a moist tissue or fabric (moistened with water) to the Muse beige sensors. Give them a delicate wipe to help conduit of the sensors together with your pores and skin. 
2. Or use the damp fabric or tissue and run throughout your brow and behind the ears to enhance sensor connection. You may as well take a moist 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 resembling 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, you will notice Muse Program. Scroll to the appropriate to view every program and click on in to look at. Applications present a sequential meditation course to reinforce your apply. The most effective 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 appropriate to view every expertise and click on in to discover an inventory of soundscapes on your chosen Meditation Expertise.

Additional down, you’ll discover all Premium Subscription Experiences. Subscribers can now discover all Premium options below the Premium Experiences part together with Guidances, Guided Programs, My Library, and Biofeedback+.

Applications

Discover ways to arrange and suit your new Muse, easy methods to navigate the components of the app, easy methods to use post-session reviews to see the progress of your sleep, and the way your meditation apply has helped you focus your thoughts.

Muse S Starter Information:

Uncover all of the app has to supply, discover ways to leverage your post-session reviews, get the very best headband match, and extra within the Muse S Starter Information.

Biofeedback+:

Discover ways to layer biofeedback+ together with your favourite apps and easy methods to customise your session on your finest 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 day by 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 appropriate to view every expertise and click on in to discover an inventory of soundscapes on your chosen Meditation Expertise. When you’ve chosen a soundscape, select the size of time you’d wish to meditate.

Begin a Thoughts, Coronary heart, Physique, or Breath Biofeedback Meditation

1. Suit your Muse & join your system to the Muse app.
2. Choose a Meditation Biofeedback Expertise.
3. Choose a Soundscape from the listing.
4. Select the size of time you’d wish to meditate.
5. Full sensor test.
6. Full calibration.
7. After calibration is full, your session will start.
8. When your soundscape has ended, click on ‘Cease Monitoring’ to finish your meditation session. You may be prompted to replicate in your temper, or you need to use the Journal to jot down any ideas or insights you will have noticed throughout your meditation.
9. Subsequent, for any Thoughts, Coronary heart, or Physique Biofeedback Soundscape Expertise, you may assessment your outcomes out of your post-session report that features your % calm, common coronary heart charge and BPM, and % stillness. In the event you 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 will pop up. Right here you may merely toggle how refreshed you’re feeling after every meditation session. Do you’re feeling calm, impartial, or pressured? Based mostly on how you’re feeling over time, you may experiment together with your meditation routine and make any tweaks wanted that can assist you discover targeted calm.

The Journal characteristic permits you to shortly jot down any moments of perception, or issues which can 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 can show you how to shortly study while you’ve turn into distracted so you may deliver your consideration again to your breath. Over time, with the assistance of this biofeedback, the quicker you’re in a position to understand your thoughts has wandered, the quicker you’ll be capable to get again right into a targeted state.

Thoughts Meditation Biofeedback

Your chosen soundscape will regulate to offer real-time biofeedback to let you realize when your thoughts is energetic 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 you realize your thoughts is calm. 

When Do I Earn Birds with Thoughts Meditation? 

Throughout Thoughts Meditation you’ll hear and earn birds while 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 chances are you’ll make them fly away.

When Do I Earn Recoveries with Thoughts Meditation?

You’ll earn restoration stars when you will 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 show you how to monitor what number of occasions you recovered throughout meditation by bringing your focus and a spotlight again to the meditation. You may take delight in your recoveries as a result of they imply you might be reaching progress by figuring out when you should settle your thoughts, physique, breath, and coronary heart throughout your meditation apply.

What Do My Thoughts Meditation Outcomes Imply? 

The Thoughts Meditation outcomes will show you how to perceive how usually your mind was energetic, impartial or calm in the course of the meditation. Energetic means your thoughts was wandering or distracted. Calm means you have been in a deeply restful state targeted in your breath, and impartial is a pure resting state.

The aim is a better % of calm than impartial or energetic. You may 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.

This sort of meditation may help you self-regulate in occasions of bodily or emotional stress.

Coronary heart Meditation Biofeedback

Throughout your Coronary heart Meditation, your chosen soundscape will regulate to offer real-time biofeedback to let you realize when your coronary heart charge is rising or has lowered as you take heed to the meditation. This trains you to have the ability to self-regulate in occasions of stress.

When Do I Earn Birds with Coronary heart Meditation?

When your coronary heart charge drops to a brand new low throughout a coronary heart meditation, or in case you constantly keep a low coronary heart charge you’ll hear and earn birds.

When Do I Earn Recoveries with Coronary heart Meditation?

You’ll earn restoration stars when your coronary heart charge goes from excessive to low in comparison with the standard charge.

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 charge graph together with your highest and lowest coronary heart charge all through the meditation session in addition to historic excessive and low to have the ability to reference for enchancment sooner or later. Keep in mind that day by day stress and feelings can be a consider how you’re feeling. Use these stats to see in case you’ve managed to decrease your coronary heart charge to search out calm within the meditation.

Physique Meditation

Why Do a Physique Meditation?

The Physique Meditation will show you how to discover a comfy place to search out stillness.

It’s regular to fidget and transfer throughout apply whilst you’re settling into your respiratory or in case you get distracted – this expertise may help cue you to while 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 may be rewarded with birds.

When Do I Earn Recoveries with Physique Meditation?

You’ll earn restoration stars while you get well from an energetic 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 ascertain your relaxed and energetic zones.

Breath Meditation

Why Do a Breath Meditation?

Your breath is a strong pressure that connects your thoughts and physique. If you end up unable to concentrate on 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 while you want it.

Breath Meditation Biofeedback

Throughout a Breath Meditation as you observe the guiding sounds and match the respiratory sample, your physique and heartbeat will likely be in concord, and also you’ll hear musical tones to affirm your progress to maintain you on monitor with the breath meditation. 

When Do I Hear Birds in Physique Meditation?

Whenever you stay in concord with the breath steering for five seconds you’ll obtain and earn a hen.

When Do I Earn Recoveries with Breath Meditation?

You’ll earn restoration stars while you regain concord with the audio information.

What Do My Breath Outcomes Imply?

Because the breath meditation performs you observe the breath audio. The Breath Meditation post-session reviews present a graph to indicate you ways in concord you have been with the breath steering – from low, medium to excessive concord.

Low concord is rated as 50% in concord, medium falls between better than 50% however lower than 90%, and excessive concord is 90% or better. You may monitor 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 mess 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 keep up their streak rating.

Will I Hear Birds with Timed Meditations? 

Throughout a Timed Meditation expertise, you’ll hear a light-weight stress-free soundscape and occasional steering. You gained’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 primarily based on the variety of minutes meditated. Submit-session reviews usually are not obtainable with Timed as your headband will not be wanted to hear to those meditations.

Premium Subscription Experiences

When you have a Premium Subscription you’ll have entry to over 500 Guided Meditations in addition to Biofeedback+. Discover out extra under. 

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 show you how to deepen your meditation apply and supply meditation classes primarily based on completely different meditation themes.

Your Guided Meditation Outcomes

In the event you put on your headband to take heed to a guided meditation you’ll obtain: 

• % Calm which reveals you ways targeted
• % Nonetheless
• Common Coronary heart Price & BPM per minute

In the event you listened to a guided meditation with out your Muse headband you’ll obtain Muse factors primarily based on the variety of minutes meditated.

Guided Programs

Our programs and collections supply a sequence of meditations with particular themes, resembling Happiness, Aware Work, or Altering Habits. Your Muse headband will not be required for this expertise, so you may 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 understand how 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+ offers you hundreds of various methods to discover easy methods to meditate with Muse’s real-time biofeedback to information you together with your favourite exterior content material.

How To Use Biofeedback+

1. Choose your Muse biofeedback content material & begin your session.  
2. Put in your Muse and full sign high quality test.
3. Toggl to your exterior app, choose your exterior content material, and press play.
4. Return to the Muse app and resume your session. Content material out of your different app will now play concurrently whilst you monitor with Muse.
5. When you’re achieved, 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 all the 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 all the 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 while 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 all the 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 may simply discover it later.

Customise Your Biofeedback Expertise

Settings

Faucet the settings button to entry controls on your expertise, together with quantity steadiness, steering, and alert.

Stability

Regulate the amount steadiness between the soundscape and voice steering. This feature is barely obtainable for experiences that includes voice and soundscape.

Repeat

Need to take heed to your meditation once more? Click on the repeat icon.

Really helpful Listening Gadgets

Wi-fi Headphone Suggestions

We have now discovered the very best 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

In the event you want to make use of wired headphones, we suggest Apple Earpods with a wire attachment.

It is a assortment of distinctive sound experiences designed that can assist you develop a wholesome sleep routine to be able to go to sleep extra simply, keep asleep and get up feeling refreshed and able to tackle the day. 

Right here, you’ll discover our customized sleep journeys, sleep soundscapes, sleep guidances with no background sound, and our assortment of digital sleeping capsules.

Navigating the Sleep Part of the Muse App

Discover all sleep experiences by tapping the moon icon present in the principle backside navigation bar.

On the prime of your display, you will notice Muse Applications. Applications present a sequential meditation course to reinforce your sleep.

Under applications, you’ll discover all of our Digital Sleeping Tablets. A “Digital Sleeping Capsule” or DSP is a responsive new sleep expertise that’s designed to place you to sleep. Click on in to discover an inventory of Sleep Tales & Meditations or Music & Nature.

Additional down, you’ll discover extra sleep experiences resembling Sleep Journeys, Soundscapes, Guidances, and Monitoring Solely.

Applications

Get Began with Muse within the Muse Starter Information Program. New applications will likely be launched often that can assist you keep motivated in your meditation and sleep journey.

Applications Embrace:

• Muse S Starter Information: Uncover all of the app has to supply, discover ways to leverage your post-session reviews, get the very best headband match, and extra within the Muse S Starter Information.
• Intro to Digital Sleeping Tablets: Study extra about our DSP smart-fade expertise, what to anticipate, and easy methods to arrange your DSP on your finest relaxation.

Sleep Biofeedback Experiences

What’s the Distinction Between Sleep & Meditation Biofeedback Experiences?

Our customized sleep experiences are geared that can assist you create wholesome sleep habits and show you how to get your finest relaxation. Sleep experiences are geared towards quieting the thoughts in preparation to easily drift off to sleep with out having to keep up a excessive degree of focus. This differs from our meditation which requires energetic focus in your breath to search out calm. You’ll additionally discover that there aren’t any birds in any of our sleep experiences. As birds are obtained with sustained energetic focus, we merely need you to hear, let go of the day, and go to sleep.

Digital Sleeping Tablets

Do you will have bother attending to sleep and likewise staying asleep? Strive our Digital Sleeping Tablets that lull you to sleep and likewise get you again to sleep with Sensible Fade expertise do you have to get up in the course of the night time. DSPs are tales and soundscapes that use an clever algorithm to reply to your mind exercise; audio softly fades away as you go to sleep and gently rises in case you get up to lull you again to sleep.

Sleep Journeys

Sleep journeys will take you on an imaginative expertise to settle your busy thoughts and show you how to go to sleep quick. They seamlessly mix soothing voice steering with a responsive biofeedback soundscape for personalised sleep soundtracks.

Sleep Soundscapes

Sleep soundscapes are made up of particular person nature sounds that reply to your thoughts and physique in real-time. For the occasions while you want to go to sleep with an immersive soundscape, as an alternative of voice steering, you may select from many distinctive soundscape experiences.

Sleep Guidances

Sleep guidances are teacher-led guided meditations, in contrast to sleep journeys or sleep soundscapes they don’t present real-time biofeedback in the course of the session. Loosen up, settle your busy thoughts and relaxation higher while you take heed to any of our distinctive steering.

Utilizing Biofeedback+ with Sleep (Premium Subscribers Solely)

Muse Subscribers can now layer sleep monitoring with any exterior content material together with your favourite music, meditation, or audiobook app that can assist you drift off to sleep.

Monitoring Solely

For while you need to hold monitoring with none soundscape or steering, select “Sleep Monitoring Solely”.  This lets you monitor your sleep all through the night time and obtain your post-sleep reviews within the morning.

Begin and Full a Sleep Session with Muse

Begin a Sleep Session

1. Suit your Muse S system and connect with the Muse app.
2. Within the app, faucet on the moon icon discovered within the backside navigation bar.
3. Select a Sleep Expertise after which faucet ‘Begin Session’. You may choose a Digital Sleeping Capsule, Sleep Journey, Soundscape, Steering, or Monitoring Solely. Study extra about every Muse Sleep Expertise under.
4. Full Sign High quality Verify and Calibration. As soon as full, your sleep session will start.
5. Loosen up and let Muse information you to a deep restful sleep.

Finish a Sleep Session

1. Finish your session by tapping ‘Cease Monitoring’ on the participant display. 
2. Replicate on how you’re feeling within the Reflections report (this pops up robotically while you finish your session) and jot down any ideas or goals in your journal.
3. Evaluation your Sleep Session Outcomes and faucet save.

Replicate On Your Sleep Session

Upon waking and ending your session, a Reflection display will pop up. Right here you may merely toggle how refreshed you’re feeling after every sleep session. Do you’re feeling absolutely refreshed or nonetheless a bit groggy? Based mostly on how you’re feeling over time, you may experiment together with your sleep routine and make any tweaks wanted that can assist you sleep finest.

The Journal characteristic permits you to shortly jot down any goals, late-night moments of perception, or issues which can be protecting you up.

What To Count on – Sensor Verify

As soon as you set your headband on and select your sleep expertise, you’ll be offered with a sensor test display. Loosen up, breathe usually as Muse ensures it’s prepared to trace. When prepared, the sensor checks and coronary heart charge monitor will likely be fully full. 

Take discover, in case you obtain a battery test, this may occasionally point out you’d don’t have sufficient energy to final a full night time, in case you’ll be leaving your headband on for in a single day monitoring. When you begin your session, chances are you’ll obtain a notification that muse is now monitoring your session.

Adjusting Sleep Settings

Throughout your chosen Sleep Expertise, you may regulate your sleep settings resembling quantity, fade in and fade out choices (for Digital Sleeping Tablets solely), and extra.

For Digital Sleeping Tablets, regulate how lengthy it takes on your content material to fade out as you start to go to sleep, plus regulate how lengthy it takes your content material to fade again in do you have to get up in the course of the night time. For DSPs that characteristic voice and soundscape collectively, you may regulate the amount steadiness to fit your wants.

In the event you don’t need the sleep expertise content material to fade again in throughout sleep you may select to show this characteristic off by tapping the ‘Loop’ icon. After selecting these settings you may run a simulation of your fade-in and fade-out expertise to see the way it feels.

For Sleep Journeys, you may regulate the Voice to Soundscape quantity by shifting the toggle to the left or the appropriate alongside the slider to search out the precise ratio of Voice to Soundscape that fits you. If you need extra voice, slide the toggle to the left. If you need extra Soundscape, slide the toggle to the appropriate. Use your system’s quantity settings to regulate general quantity ranges. 

In a single day Monitoring

As soon as your session begins, you may put your cellphone down and let your chosen content material lull you to sleep. Tapping the pause button at any time will pause your audio content material whereas nonetheless permitting your headband to trace your sleep session. The Muse app will proceed to trace your sleep till you faucet ‘Cease Monitoring’ within the morning to finish your session. Upon waking, finish your session, and full your Reflection or jot down any ideas in your Journal. You’ll then be offered with a post-session report together with your sleep outcomes.

In a single day Sign Loss

What occurs if my Muse S loses sign throughout a Sleep Journey? Will I be notified? Will it impression the outcomes/sound?  

You may be notified in case you lose sign high quality inside the first two minutes of a Sleep Journey with a delicate audio notification and visible directions on easy methods to regulate the scarf. 

We acknowledge that you’re making an attempt to go to sleep and need to make {that a} precedence. Though gathering information is necessary, we imagine that nothing is as necessary as night time’s relaxation. Any sign high quality losses that happen outdoors the primary two minutes of a session will go on with none notification. In the event you select to disregard a notification, it is not going to seem once more throughout that session.

Understanding Your Sleep Outcomes

Your sleep session reporting offers you with detailed sleep stats that can assist you uncover your most restorative sleep. Your sleep outcomes will show the variety of hours slept, your sleep phases, your coronary heart charge development, and your sleep place throughout sleep. 

The sleep part additionally offers post-sleep session journals that can help you enter notes all through the night time, do you have to awake, or within the morning to report how you’re feeling upon waking. Are you refreshed or nonetheless feeling drained? 

These may be leveraged and in contrast towards your sleep stats that can assist you determine the explanations for or a tricky night time’s sleep. For instance, let’s say you discovered that you simply had an awesome sleep and observed that for that night time’s sleep, you primarily slept in your left aspect and had a very long time in deep or REM sleep. You observed different nights with poorer sleep that you simply had different sleeping positions. These are clues on easy methods to get your finest relaxation.

Sleep Rating

Scored out of 100, your sleep rating offers a fast reference to how effectively you slept and can be utilized to trace your nightly sleep expertise periods. The sleep rating is calculated with a lab-grade algorithm that features time spent in mattress awake versus sleeping, your whole sleep time, time in deep sleep, and REM phases. 

On common, our customers are likely to have a sleep rating of about 75, which can be utilized as a relative baseline. A rating above 75 may point out an awesome high quality of sleep, however sleep scores are all distinctive. So it’s finest to match towards your individual baseline. When you’ve gathered sufficient sleep information, a historic view will likely be obtainable that may show you how to start to grasp what your distinctive baseline sleep rating is and monitor it often that can assist you get essentially the most restorative sleep.

Sleep Stage Overview

Earlier than we clarify sleep stage insights, we’d like to offer a bit details about sleep phases generally.

There are two sorts of sleep – REM and non-REM. Inside non-REM sleep, there are three phases you move by way of – awake, mild, and deep sleep. Every night time we cycle by way of these 4 phases a number of occasions. Non-REM cycles are usually longer towards the start, whereas REM is longer towards the top of your sleep.

 As you begin to go to sleep, you’re between an awake state and light-weight sleep. As you begin to drift off, you may awaken simply, and this lasts for only some minutes. As you progress into mild sleep, your muscle groups calm down extra, your physique temperature drops, your mind slows and your eye actions cease. 

The following stage of non-REM is deep sleep. Your coronary heart charge and respiratory are at their lowest and your muscle groups are fully relaxed. That is the stage the place lots of restorative processes are at work, resembling tissue restore and immune system optimization. 

Your REM or Speedy Eye Motion sleep stage is your dream state. This happens about 90 minutes after you go to sleep. On this stage, your mind may be very energetic. Your coronary heart charge will increase, your respiratory hurries up,  and your eyes, though closed, begin shifting quickly. REM sleep is necessary for reminiscence, temper, and studying. In the event you sleep eight hours, you’ll enter REM sleep about 5 occasions each 90 minutes or so. On common, we spend nearly all of time in mild sleep, roughly 50%, and simply 13 to 23% in deep sleep. And eventually, REM accounts for roughly 20 to 25%.

Sleep Stage Outcomes

Now that you simply perceive a bit bit about sleep phases, let’s assessment the sleep stage ends in the Muse app. The sleep stage graph shows the completely different phases of your sleep and the way lengthy you might be in every section. These are calculated utilizing a biosensor algorithm. 

The graph offers the variety of hours in every stage that can assist you perceive in case you’re getting sufficient deep sleep and REM sleep. When assessing sleep high quality, take note of the period of time you spend in every stage and the way this adjustments over time in relation to your sleep habits and way of life decisions.

Deep Sleep Depth & Factors Outcomes

Whereas deep sleep is vital for feeling refreshed, not all deep sleep is created equal. We all know that getting sufficient sleep is essential for our thoughts and physique to restore and recuperate every night time. The Delta waves or gradual waves of deep sleep have an effect on mind operate, bodily renewal, hormonal regulation, development assist, temper, immune operate, and extra.

Take note of the time of night time that your highest peaks occur. For instance, in case you discover that you simply don’t get your deepest sleep till a lot later within the night time, you would possibly attempt adjusting your pre-bedtime routine that can assist you get into deep slumber sooner.

Sleep Place Outcomes

There’s no one-size-fits-all in relation to the very best sleep place. In actual fact, there are advantages to every. Let’s learn the way you leverage the sleep place, and graphs to search out your finest relaxation. The sleep place graph reveals you in case you are a entrance, again, or aspect sleeper or all of them, and your commonest place. You’ll be capable to evaluate your physique place chart together with your sleep phases that can assist you discover clues in your finest relaxation. Do you sleep on the left or proper aspect throughout deep sleep? This may be the very best place to discover a restorative night time’s sleep.

Coronary heart Price Outcomes

The center charge graph reveals your common resting coronary heart charge, your lowest level in addition to fluctuations all through the night time. Your rating within the prime proper nook reveals your common coronary heart charge over the course of the sleep session. Ideally, your coronary heart charge ought to dip and be the bottom in the midst of your sleep session, which signifies your physique is relaxed and can rise to night time’s relaxation.

Monitor Your Progress

‘Me’ Dashboard

You’ll discover all your meditation and sleep stats within the navigation below the ‘Me’ part, merely click on to find your present and full historic stats historical past. The app additionally offers a historic view that can assist you monitor your progress and hold you motivated to construct your meditation apply.

The ‘Me Dashboard’ permits you to monitor 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 encourage you to construct your day by day meditation. 

Your Meditation Historical past

Straight under, 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 offers an summary over time and you may scroll on the historical past graph to match day-to-day. You may toggle between the various kinds of experiences to view your stats over time. If you need a extra in-depth view of a session, click on on Session historical past. This offers an inventory of all of your accomplished meditations and post-session outcomes.

All-Time Stats

A little bit additional below the ‘Me Dashboard’ historical past graph, you’ll discover just a few motivational instruments that can assist you keep on monitor together with:

• Whole Minutes: This offers you with an all-time variety of minutes you’ve meditated.
• Recoveries: This offers you with an all-time variety of restoration stars you’ve earned throughout your meditations over time.
• Birds: This offers you with an all-time variety of birds you’ve earned throughout your meditations over time.
• Muse Factors: This offers 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 show you how to construct a constant apply with Muse. To set your subsequent week’s aim, go to the ‘Me’ part of the Muse app and scroll down below your Meditation Historical past. Faucet “This Week’s Purpose” after which “Subsequent Week’s Purpose” on the prime of the web page.  Scroll to the regulate the period of time you want to meditate and click on “Save”.

Leveraging In-App Challenges

The Muse app additionally offers in-app challenges that can assist you set up a day by day or weekly routine that can assist you construct your meditation apply. Challenges could embody a better variety of minutes of meditating each within the morning and at night time, or for a number of days in a row. This can assist you determine what works finest for you whereas additionally constructing your motivation to maintain up together with your new meditation behavior.

What are Milestones?

Whenever you hit a brand new meditation Milestone, Muse will congratulate you in your achievement. Milestones show you how to honor your new meditation behavior and routine. Nothing to do right here, however congratulate your self on a meditation job effectively achieved. Milestones embody:

Whole Birds Milestones:

• Hey, a hen! – Incomes your first hen
• 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

Whole 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

Whole Calm Session (Spending greater than half of your session calm):

• 1st Calm Session
• 5 Calm Periods
• 10 Calm Periods
• 25 Calm Periods
• 50 Calm Periods
• +50  Calm Periods for every following milestone

Whole Variety of Muse Periods:

• 5 Periods
• 10 Periods
• 25 Periods
• 50 Periods
• +50 Periods 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 way of thinking 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% energetic on your present session
• Good Timing Award – Session was lower than 10% calm
• Wanderlust Award – Your calm % to start with third of your session was 20% greater than the final third of your session
• Aviary Award – Incomes no less than one hen 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 way of thinking in your present session

And plenty of extra!

Meditation Ideas & 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 Ideas & 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 >

Meditation For 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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