![]() 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. Every meditation starts off with easy instructions (breathing and visualizations) before you’re whisked off to a soothing nature scape. ![]() 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. 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.
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