Guided Meditations

With a Premium Subscription, you’ll have access to over 500 Guided Meditations developed by world-renowned meditation instructors. They'll guide you through topics tailored to your practice objectives – from reducing stress to improving focus, better work performance, more happiness, getting better sleep, and so much more.

After your session, you’ll receive personalized post-session reports to see how your brain and body responded. You can also complete any Guided Meditation without a Muse headband.

Guided Meditations are only available with a Premium Subscription, which can be purchased on our website. 
 

Starting a Guided Meditation
Saving Guided Meditations
Understanding your Guided Meditation data

 

Starting a Guided Meditation

To find and start a Guided Meditation:

1. Open your Muse app and log in to your Muse account.

2. Tap the Train tab.

3. Scroll down and tap Guided Meditations under More Experiences.

4. Tap one of the categories like Resilience or Happiness

5. Tap the guided meditation to download or play the content.

6. Tap the Start Session button.

Your downloaded and recently played guided meditations will be saved under My Library. 

 

Saving Guided Meditations

To save or pin Guided Meditations to your Today screen for quick and easy access:

1. Find and open your Guided Meditation category of choice.

2. Under the description, tap the Pin button to pin it to your Today screen.

3. Done! It will now be pinned to the top of the Today screen, ready for the next time you open the Muse app!

When you pin Muse biofeedback experiences (Training or Sleep), the Today screen shows the last completed session (for example - Calm: Reducing Tightness) so you can quickly return to your favourites.


To remove or unpin Guided Meditations from the Today screen:

1. Find the Guided Meditation category you want to remove.

2. Tap the arrow or the Continue button to go to the Guided Meditation screen for that category.

3. Under the description, tap the Unpin button to remove it from your Today screen.

 

Understanding your Guided Meditation data

During a guided meditation, you’ll hear the instructor taking you through the meditation. You won’t hear real-time audio feedback. Instead, the instructor may call on you to focus on different aspects of you or your life, like your breath or body experience, or for you to consider your thoughts or emotions. After your session, you’ll receive session data to see how your brain, heart, and body responded.
 

Guided Meditation graphs

After each guided meditation you complete with your Muse 2 or Muse S headband, you’ll see a Mind, Heart, Body, and Brainwave Powerbands graph. If you have an Original Muse, you’ll see a Mind graph only.

Each graph has the full data set as you would if you had completed a Mind, Heart, or Body Biofeedback session.

• Mind - charts your brainwaves and, using Muse's advanced algorithm, displays your session in three areas: active, neutral, and calm. To learn more about the Mind session data, see our Muse Biofeedback Sessions article.

• Heart - charts your heart rate in beats per minute, along with the average, lowest, and highest heart rate in this session. To learn more about the Heart session data, read our Heart Biofeedback Sessions article.

• Body - charts your time, either active or still over the duration of your session. To learn more about the Body session data, view our Body Biofeedback Sessions article.

• Brainwave Powerbands - displays the Alpha, Beta, Theta, Gamma, and Delta waves from your session. For more information, see our Brainwave Powerbands article.

If you listened to a guided meditation without your Muse headband, you won't receive biofeedback data, but your minutes, streaks, goals, and challenges will still count toward your overall session count.
 

Guided Meditation stats

Another way to understand how your guided meditation had an impact is to look at your stats. These are related and displayed on the Mind session graph only. They can also be accessed in the Stats section of your session data page.

• Birds: You're awarded birds when you enter the calm state and focus on your breath for an extended period of time. You'll see them on your post-session data graph, but unlike Biofeedback Meditations, you won't hear them in your Guided Meditation session.

• Recoveries: When you notice your mind wandering (active) and bring your attention back to the meditation (neutral or calm), you're awarded a recovery.

• Muse Points: You're awarded points for every second spent meditating in the neutral and calm states. You receive 1 point per second in neutral and 3 points per second in calm.
   

Other data

• You can gain Awards for key milestones. Earned a few birds for the first time? Maybe you’ll get the Birds of Eden Award!

• If you added notes after your session, you can review your feelings, patterns, and insights in the Journal section of the screen.