Might 16, 2022
Hi there and Welcome to Muse!
Muse S is an unimaginable software that will help you sleep and that will help you begin or deepen your meditation observe.
The Muse S has been designed that will help you sleep soundly by means of progressive 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 the event you get up within the night time that will help you fall again asleep once more.
Muse’s meditations will enable you discover ways to meditate or carry 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 raised focus your consideration and calm your thoughts and physique.
Under we’ve compiled necessary info on methods to get probably the most out of your new Muse. It’ll present you methods to arrange and suit your new Muse, methods to navigate the elements of the app to get pleasure from all of our sleep and meditation experiences, and methods to use post-session experiences to see the progress of your sleep and the way your meditation observe has helped you focus your thoughts.
We’re excited that will help you entry the advantages {that a} meditation observe and higher sleep can carry and the way the 2 can work collectively to enhance your days and nights.
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Sleep Experiences & Sleep Tracking with Muse
Obtain the Muse app
In case you haven’t already, obtain the Muse app by visiting choosemuse.com/download 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 gadgets.
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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 understand it’s on while you see three orange, LED lights transferring forwards and backwards as Muse seems to attach through Bluetooth to your cellular machine.
Verify Your Battery Life
To verify the cost stage of your Muse click on the pod button yet 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 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 site providers in your cellular machine turned on. Bluetooth and site providers might be adjusted in your cellular machine’s principal settings. As soon as Bluetooth and site providers are on you’ll be able to 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 Verify & Calibration
Earlier than each session, sensor verify will present you in the event you’re carrying 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 facet and sensors behind the ears.
As soon as sensor verify 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 lively mind to check towards in the course of the session. Your mind modifications 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.
Throughout the calibration part, enable your thoughts to wander because it usually would all through the day. It will enable Muse to obtain probably the most correct image of the present state of your mind to check your meditation session towards.
Methods to Loosen the Muse S Band
To loosen the strap, pull the adjustor away from the best facet of the material band and in direction of the magnetic clasp. Pull sufficient slack in order that it’s bigger than your head dimension earlier than becoming your Muse.
Methods to 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 out to be bigger.
Methods to Match Your Muse
It is crucial that your Muse S (Gen 2) is fitted correctly to make sure the sensors have sturdy sign high quality.
To organize to placed on the scarf, make sure the Muse emblem is dealing with proper facet up. The pod in the course of the band can be dealing with out and the beige brow sensors can be dealing with you. The beige ear sensors that run alongside the facet of the band will face down and can sit behind your ears as soon as on.
- Unclip the steel clasp behind the band.
- Loosen the band strap so it’s bigger than your head dimension. With sensors dealing with you and ear sensors dealing with 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.
- 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.
- Tighten the strap as you gently maintain the sensors in place in your brow.
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.
Methods to Get Good Sign High quality
In case you’re having issue getting an excellent sign high quality there are a few alternative ways to treatment this.
- Apply a humid tissue or material (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.
- Or use the damp material or tissue and run throughout your brow and behind the ears to enhance sensor connection. You may also take a humid material to your brow and behind your ears to enhance sign high quality.
This can be a assortment of biofeedback meditation experiences designed that will help you discover centered calm. Within the meditation part, you’ll discover Thoughts, Coronary heart, Physique & Breath Biofeedback Experiences, plus Timer and Premium Experiences reminiscent of 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 note Muse Program. Scroll to the best to view every program and click on in to observe. Packages present a sequential meditation course to boost your observe. One of the best half is – they’re free!
Under packages, 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 to 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, methods to navigate the elements of the app, methods to use post-session experiences to see the progress of your sleep, and the way your meditation observe 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 experiences, get the very best headband match, and extra within the Muse S Starter Information.
Biofeedback+:
Learn to layer biofeedback+ together with your favourite apps and methods to customise your session to 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 centered consideration and mindfulness. Analysis reveals that every day meditation can:
- Enhance reminiscence
- Enhance focus
- Enhance relationship satisfaction
- Cut 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 to your chosen Meditation Expertise. When you’ve chosen a soundscape, select the size of time you’d wish to meditate.
Methods to 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 record.
- Select the size of time you’d wish to meditate.
- Full sensor verify.
- 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’ll be prompted to mirror 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’ll be able to evaluation your outcomes out of your post-session report that features your % calm, common coronary heart fee and BPM, and % stillness. In case 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 screen will pop up. Right here you’ll be able to merely toggle how refreshed you’re feeling after every meditation session. Do you’re feeling calm, impartial, or harassed? Primarily based on how you’re feeling over time, you’ll be able to experiment together with your meditation routine and make any tweaks wanted that will help you discover centered 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 can enable you shortly study while you’ve turn out to be distracted so you’ll be able to carry your consideration again to your breath. Over time, with the assistance of this biofeedback, the sooner you’re capable of understand your thoughts has wandered, the sooner you’ll be capable of get again right into a centered state.
Thoughts Meditation Biofeedback
Your chosen soundscape will alter to offer real-time biofeedback to let you recognize 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 you recognize 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 might have acknowledged your thoughts has turn out to be distracted and you’ll be able to shortly carry your consideration and focus again to your meditation. When your thoughts returns to a centered 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 occasions you recovered throughout meditation by bringing your focus and a focus again to the meditation. You possibly can take pleasure 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 observe.
What Do My Thoughts Meditation Outcomes Imply?
The Thoughts Meditation outcomes will enable you perceive how typically 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 centered 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.
This kind of meditation will help you self-regulate in occasions of bodily or emotional stress.
Coronary heart Meditation Biofeedback
Throughout your Coronary heart Meditation, your chosen soundscape will alter to offer real-time biofeedback to let you recognize when your coronary heart fee is growing 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 fee drops to a brand new low throughout a coronary heart meditation, or in the event you constantly keep 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. Keep in mind that every day stress and feelings will also be a think about how you’re feeling. Use these stats to see in the event 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 the event you get distracted – this expertise will help cue you to while you’re transferring that will help you discover stillness once more.
Physique Meditation Biofeedback
As you take heed to a physique meditation, the real-time biofeedback will carry 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 better 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 robust pressure that connects your thoughts and physique. When you find yourself unable to deal with the tempo of your breath your thoughts can wander and your physique might turn out to be tense.
Muse Breath Meditation biofeedback will educate you to turn out to be conscious of the feeling of your breath and set its tempo that will help you calm down your physique, calm your thoughts and even offer you 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 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?
If 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 experiences present a graph to indicate you ways 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 typically 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 take care of their streak rating.
Will I Hear Birds with Timed Meditations?
Throughout a Timed Meditation expertise, you’ll hear a lightweight enjoyable soundscape and occasional steering. You gained’t obtain moment-to-moment suggestions or birds, however your minutes, streaks, targets, and challenges will nonetheless depend to your total session depend.
Your Timed Meditation Outcomes
With every Timed meditation session, you’ll obtain Muse factors based mostly on the variety of minutes meditated. Publish-session experiences are usually not accessible with Timed as your headband just isn’t wanted to pay attention to those meditations.
Premium Subscription Experiences
In case you 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
In case you put on your headband to take heed to a guided meditation you’ll obtain:
- % Calm which reveals you ways centered
- % Nonetheless
- Common Coronary heart Price & BPM per minute
In case you 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 courses and collections supply a sequence of meditations with particular themes, reminiscent of Happiness, Conscious Work, or Altering Habits. Your Muse headband just isn’t required for this expertise, so you’ll be able to 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 wish to get in-depth experiences on how deeply you slept and the way lengthy it took you to go to sleep?
Biofeedback+ offers you 1000’s of various methods to discover methods to 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 verify.
- 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 accomplished, come again to the Muse app, click on “Finish Session” and evaluation your outcomes.
Your Biofeedback+ Outcomes
Simply as you’ll in an everyday Muse Biofeedback Meditation session, you’ll obtain all the common post-session experiences 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 experiences 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 not less than 5 seconds.
With ‘Simply Birds’ you’ll hear solely birds when your capable of maintain your focus for not 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 experiences together with Thoughts, Coronary heart, and Physique.
My Library
Love a sure guided meditation or course? Save them to your library so you’ll be able to simply discover it later.
Customise Your Biofeedback Expertise
Settings
Faucet the settings button to entry controls to your expertise, together with quantity steadiness, steering, and alert.
Steadiness
Regulate the amount steadiness between the soundscape and voice steering. This feature is simply accessible 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 Units
Wi-fi Headphone Suggestions
Now we have discovered the very best wi-fi headphones to be the Apple Airpods. If you’re an Android consumer we suggest the Shure Wi-fi Sound Isolating Earphones.
Wired Headphone Suggestions
In case you favor to make use of wired headphones, we suggest Apple Earpods with a wire attachment.
This can be a assortment of distinctive sound experiences designed that will help you develop a wholesome sleep routine with the intention 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 screen, you will note Muse Packages. Packages present a sequential meditation course to boost your sleep.
Under packages, you’ll discover all of our Digital Sleeping Drugs. 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 a listing of Sleep Tales & Meditations or Music & Nature.
Additional down, you’ll discover extra sleep experiences reminiscent of Sleep Journeys, Soundscapes, Guidances, and Monitoring Solely.
Packages
Get Began with Muse within the Muse Starter Information Program. New packages can be launched recurrently that will help you keep motivated in your meditation and sleep journey.
Packages Embody:
- Muse S Starter Information: Uncover all of the app has to supply, discover ways to leverage your post-session experiences, get the very best headband match, and extra within the Muse S Starter Information.
- Intro to Digital Sleeping Drugs: Study extra about our DSP smart-fade expertise, what to anticipate, and methods to arrange your DSP to your greatest relaxation.
Sleep Biofeedback Experiences
What’s the Distinction Between Sleep & Meditation Biofeedback Experiences?
Our customized sleep experiences are geared that will help you create wholesome sleep habits and enable you get your greatest relaxation. Sleep experiences are geared towards quieting the thoughts in preparation to easily drift off to sleep with out having to take care of a excessive stage of focus. This differs from our meditation which requires lively focus in your breath to search out calm. You’ll additionally discover that there are not any birds in any of our sleep experiences. As birds are obtained with sustained lively focus, we merely need you to pay attention, let go of the day, and go to sleep.
Digital Sleeping Drugs
Do you might have hassle attending to sleep and likewise staying asleep? Attempt our Digital Sleeping Drugs that lull you to sleep and likewise get you again to sleep with Sensible Fade expertise must you get up in the course of the night time. DSPs are tales and soundscapes that use an clever algorithm to answer your mind exercise; audio softly fades away as you go to sleep and gently rises in the event 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 enable you go to sleep quick. They seamlessly mix soothing voice steering with a responsive biofeedback soundscape for customized 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 favor to go to sleep with an immersive soundscape, as a substitute of voice steering, you’ll be able to 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. Calm down, 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 will help you drift off to sleep.
Monitoring Solely
For while you wish to maintain monitoring with none soundscape or steering, select “Sleep Monitoring Solely”. This lets you observe your sleep all through the night time and obtain your post-sleep experiences within the morning.
Methods to Begin and Full a Sleep Session with Muse
Methods to Begin a Sleep Session
- Suit your Muse S machine and hook up with the Muse app.
- Within the app, faucet on the moon icon discovered within the backside navigation bar.
- Select a Sleep Expertise after which faucet ‘Begin Session’. You possibly can choose a Digital Sleeping Capsule, Sleep Journey, Soundscape, Steerage, or Monitoring Solely. Study extra about every Muse Sleep Expertise beneath.
- Full Sign High quality Verify and Calibration. As soon as full, your sleep session will start.
- Calm down and let Muse information you to a deep restful sleep.
Methods to Finish a Sleep Session
- Finish your session by tapping ‘Cease Monitoring’ on the participant display screen.
- Replicate on how you’re feeling within the Reflections report (this pops up routinely while you finish your session) and jot down any ideas or goals in your journal.
- Assessment your Sleep Session Outcomes and faucet save.
Replicate On Your Sleep Session
Upon waking and ending your session, a Reflection display screen will pop up. Right here you’ll be able to merely toggle how refreshed you’re feeling after every sleep session. Do you’re feeling totally refreshed or nonetheless a bit groggy? Primarily based on how you’re feeling over time, you’ll be able to experiment together with your sleep routine and make any tweaks wanted that will help you sleep greatest.
The Journal function permits you to shortly jot down any goals, late-night moments of perception, or issues which might be protecting you up.
What To Count on – Sensor Verify
As soon as you place your headband on and select your sleep expertise, you’ll be offered with a sensor verify display screen. Calm down, breathe usually as Muse ensures it’s prepared to trace. When prepared, the sensor checks and coronary heart fee monitor can be utterly full.
Take discover, in the event you obtain a battery verify, this will likely 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’ll be able to alter your sleep settings reminiscent of quantity, fade in and fade out choices (for Digital Sleeping Drugs solely), and extra.
For Digital Sleeping Drugs, alter how lengthy it takes to your content material to fade out as you start to go to sleep, plus alter how lengthy it takes your content material to fade again in must you get up in the course of the night time. For DSPs that function voice and soundscape collectively, you’ll be able to alter the amount steadiness to fit your wants.
In case you don’t need the sleep expertise content material to fade again in throughout sleep you’ll be able to select to show this function off by tapping the ‘Loop’ icon. After selecting these settings you’ll be able to run a simulation of your fade-in and fade-out expertise to see the way it feels.
For Sleep Journeys, you’ll be able to alter the Voice to Soundscape quantity by transferring the toggle to the left or the best alongside the slider to search out the precise ratio of Voice to Soundscape that fits you. In order for you extra voice, slide the toggle to the left. In order for you extra Soundscape, slide the toggle to the best. Use your machine’s quantity settings to regulate total quantity ranges.
In a single day Monitoring
As soon as your session begins, you’ll be able to put your telephone 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 affect the outcomes/sound?
You’ll be notified in the event you lose sign high quality throughout the first two minutes of a Sleep Journey with a delicate audio notification and visible directions on methods to alter the scarf.
We acknowledge that you’re attempting to go to sleep and wish to make {that a} precedence. Though gathering information is necessary, we consider that nothing is as necessary as an excellent night time’s relaxation. Any sign high quality losses that happen exterior the primary two minutes of a session will go on with none notification. In case 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 will help you uncover your most restorative sleep. Your sleep outcomes will show the variety of hours slept, your sleep phases, your coronary heart fee pattern, 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, must you awake, or within the morning to document how you’re feeling upon waking. Are you refreshed or nonetheless feeling drained?
These might be leveraged and in contrast towards your sleep stats that will help you establish the explanations for an excellent or a tricky night time’s sleep. For instance, let’s say you discovered that you just had an important sleep and observed that for that night time’s sleep, you primarily slept in your left facet and had a very long time in deep or REM sleep. You observed different nights with poorer sleep that you just had different sleeping positions. These are clues on methods to get your greatest relaxation.
Sleep Rating
Scored out of 100, your sleep rating offers a fast reference to how properly you slept and can be utilized to trace your nightly sleep expertise classes. The sleep rating is calculated with a lab-grade algorithm that features time spent in mattress awake versus sleeping, your complete 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 important high quality of sleep, however sleep scores are all distinctive. So it’s greatest to check towards your individual baseline. When you’ve accrued sufficient sleep information, a historic view can be accessible that may enable you start to know what your distinctive baseline sleep rating is and observe it recurrently that will help you get probably the most restorative sleep.
Sleep Stage Overview
Earlier than we clarify sleep stage insights, we’d like to offer slightly details about sleep phases typically.
There are two forms of sleep – REM and non-REM. Inside non-REM sleep, there are three phases you cross by means of – awake, gentle, and deep sleep. Every night time we cycle by means 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 lightweight sleep. As you begin to drift off, you’ll be able to awaken simply, and this lasts for just a few minutes. As you progress into gentle sleep, your muscle tissues 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 fee and respiratory are at their lowest and your muscle tissues are utterly relaxed. That is the stage the place loads of restorative processes are at work, reminiscent of tissue restore and immune system optimization.
Your REM or Fast Eye Motion sleep stage is your dream state. This happens about 90 minutes after you go to sleep. On this stage, your mind could be very lively. Your coronary heart fee will increase, your respiratory hastens, and your eyes, though closed, begin transferring quickly. REM sleep is necessary for reminiscence, temper, and studying. In case you sleep eight hours, you’ll enter REM sleep about 5 occasions each 90 minutes or so. On common, we spend the vast majority of time in gentle sleep, roughly 50%, and simply 13 to 23% in deep sleep. And at last, REM accounts for roughly 20 to 25%.
Sleep Stage Outcomes
Now that you just perceive slightly bit about sleep phases, let’s evaluation the sleep stage leads to the Muse app. The sleep stage graph shows the completely different phases of your sleep and the way lengthy you might be in every part. These are calculated utilizing a biosensor algorithm.
The graph offers the variety of hours in every stage that will help you perceive in the event 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 modifications over time in relation to your sleep habits and life-style selections.
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 sluggish waves of deep sleep have an effect on mind perform, bodily renewal, hormonal regulation, development assist, temper, immune perform, and extra.
Take note of the time of night time that your highest peaks occur. For instance, in the event you discover that you just don’t get your deepest sleep till a lot later within the night time, you may attempt adjusting your pre-bedtime routine that will help you get into deep slumber sooner.
Sleep Place Outcomes
There’s no one-size-fits-all relating to the very best sleep place. In reality, there are advantages to every. Let’s learn the way you leverage the sleep place, and graphs to search out your greatest relaxation. The sleep place graph reveals you in case you are a entrance, again, or facet sleeper or all of them, and your commonest place. You’ll be capable of examine your physique place chart together with your sleep phases that will help you discover clues in your greatest relaxation. Do you sleep on the left or proper facet throughout deep sleep? This is perhaps the very best place to discover a restorative night time’s sleep.
Coronary heart Price Outcomes
The center fee graph reveals your common resting coronary heart fee, your lowest level in addition to fluctuations all through the night time. Your rating within the prime proper nook reveals your common coronary heart fee over the course of the sleep session. Ideally, your coronary heart fee ought to dip and be the bottom in the course of your sleep session, which signifies your physique is relaxed and can rise to an excellent night time’s relaxation.
Observe Your Progress
‘Me’ Dashboard
You’ll discover your entire 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 offers a historic view that will help you observe your progress and maintain 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 encourage you to construct your every day meditation.
Your Meditation Historical past
Straight beneath, you’ll discover two areas to toggle between; your meditation stats and your sleep stats. Within the meditation tab, you’ll be capable of 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 check day-to-day. You possibly can toggle between the various kinds of experiences to view your stats over time. In order for you a extra in-depth view of a session, click on on Session historical past. This offers a listing of all of your accomplished meditations and post-session outcomes.
All-Time Stats
Slightly additional beneath the ‘Me Dashboard’ historical past graph, you’ll discover just a few motivational instruments that will help you keep on observe together with:
- Complete 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 Objectives?
Weekly Objectives 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 alter 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 will help you set up a every day or weekly routine that will help you construct your meditation observe. Challenges might embrace a larger variety of minutes of meditating each within the morning and at night time, or for a number of days in a row. It will 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?
If 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 properly accomplished. Milestones embrace:
Complete 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
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 Periods
- 10 Calm Periods
- 25 Calm Periods
- 50 Calm Periods
- +50 Calm Periods for every following milestone
Complete 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 document for many time spent Musing in a single day.
- Longest Session Milestone: Every time you set a brand new private document for the longest single Muse session.
- Calmest Session: Every time you set a brand new private document for time spent with a peaceful frame of mind in a single session.
What are Awards?
There are over 100 Awards and Milestones throughout the Muse utility. Under is extra details about our awards milestones and the way you obtain them.
- Courageous Adventurer Award – 60% lively to your present session
- Good Timing Award – Session was lower than 10% calm
- Wanderlust Award – Your calm % at first third of your session was 20% greater than the final third of your session
- Aviary Award – Incomes not 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 peaceful frame of mind in your present session
And plenty of extra!
Meditation Suggestions & Assets
What is the most effective time of the day to meditate? >
The Benefits of a 5-Minute Meditation >
What is the difference between meditation and mindfulness? >
A Deep Dive Into Brainwaves: Brainwave Frequencies Explained >
Sleep Suggestions & Assets
The Benefits of Sleep Trackers & How Tech Can Help >
Deep Sleep: Why It’s Key To Your Health (& How To Get More Of It) >
What Is The Best Sleep Position For You? It Depends. >
The Difference Between Meditation and Sleep >
How Many Hours of Sleep Do I Need Each Day for My Age? >
Did You Know Getting Ready for Bed is Almost as Important as Sleep? >
Further Assets
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