And stops my self-bully dead in its tracks. This is very effective at keeping me focused. If I get distracted, the waves get louder. The calmer my mind is, as measured by Muse, the quieter the waves. So I could meditate to the sound of waves. After a brief introduction, I chose a background soundscape. I listen to it through the speaker phone or headphones. It’s connected to my iPhone via Bluetooth. I donned the sensor strip headband that makes me look like a high-tech hippy and monitors my brain activity. I am so bad at this!” This is, obviously, distracting. First I fall for a distraction like adding items to my shopping list or getting a great idea or thinking, “Wow! I am meditating!” But as soon as I realize I fell in a trap, I’m brutal, “Look, I fell for a classic distraction. Muse is somewhere between these two schools.īut neither style keeps me safe from my biggest mental trap: beating myself up. I memorized a short passage and spent thirty minutes a day reciting it silently. (Who isn’t?) There is also passage meditation, which is what I did in class. There’s the “Empty your mind of all thoughts” school, which is hard if you are inundated with stimulation. Now - twenty-something years later – Christina asked me to review a technology designed to turn meditating from obligation to game: Muse: the brain sensing headband. Eventually this knowledge made me so anxious I took a deep breath and let go of meditation. Then I worried about my failure to meditate. But when the class ended, so did meditation. I took a meditation class in college, hoping it would reduce my anxiety.
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