While the majority of people know meditation is beneficial, most people struggle to start a practice.
There are multiple body systems involved with a meditation practice that need to be learned. Taking time to sit down and meditate is the first step, but the best meditation devices can guide you on your progress.
Many of us lead busy lives and face plenty of pressures, whether it’s a high-pressure job or homeschooling the kids. Meditation is the regular process of training your mind to redirect your thoughts, and can help to reduce stress, boost concentration, enhance your mood, control anxiety and develop healthy sleep patterns.
These mediation devices to help you stay calm can be used in conjunction with mindfulness meditation apps to aid your journey towards wellness. Relax, restore and rejuvenate.
Best meditation devices to help you stay calm
1. Muse 2: the Brain-Sensing Headband
Muse helps make meditation easy, tangible, and enjoyable to learn by offering a simple and accessible “work out plan” for your meditation practice, with incredible insights into your inner world.
The Muse Headband is a brilliant way to practice mindfulness. It connects to your mobile via Bluetooth so you can enjoy the Muse Meditation app and allows you to review your results and track your progress.
So what is it exactly? A research-grade EEG device that senses your brain activity and translates it into the guiding sounds of weather to help you stay calm and focused.
Muse 2 features four rich feedback experiences including real-time feedback on brain activity, heart rate, breathing, and body movements. It’s able to provide feedback on focused attention (the mind), physical relaxation (body), relaxation response (heart) and breath-based cardiac control (breath). think of Muse 2 as your personal guide to a holistic meditation practice while experiencing your mind-body connection in a completely unique way.You’ll feel the difference in body by building the foundation of stillness.
You can enjoy over 500 meditations on sleep, performance, stress and more from renowned meditation instructors. It also has sleep tracking insights including sleep stage visualisation, sleep position tracking, and a personalised sleep efficiency score. Helps you refocus in the day and recover at night.
Price: £239, Amazon – buy here now
2. HeartMaths Inner Balance Bluetooth Sensor
This heart monitoring system is based around the idea that your heart rhythm reveals your emotional state. A sensor monitors your heart rate variability (HRV) to indicate how your emotional state is affecting your nervous system. It’s thought HRV offers a window into the quality of communication between the heart and brain, which directly impacts how you feel and perform.
The Inner Balance technology trains you to self-generate a highly efficient physiological state called HRV coherence, which helps you to increase emotional composure and clearer reasoning. It will tell you if you are in a ‘heart coherent’ state.
A few minutes of daily coherence practice has been shown to reduce and prevent the negative effects of stress, such as overwhelm, fatigue and exhaustion, sleep disruption, anxiety and burnout. The app also offers guided meditations to help reduce stress, be calmer, and sleep better.
One customer said: “I had been trying to practice meditation and relaxation practices from several ancient cultures but had no idea where to start. HeartMaths inner balance sensor gave me that ‘starting point’. Best thing about this sensor is that it gives you ‘visual feedback’ on your heart’s response which is amazing. I can actually see for myself that my heart responds to this communication technique that HeartMaths found. My heart rate has gone down and I am in the normal range of 60-80s most of the time.”
Price: £159, Amazon – buy here now
3. LEOP Portable White Noise Machine
Help switch off intrusive noises and get into your meditative zone with this device, which has 30 soothing sounds in six different categories: white noise, nature, ocean waves, thunderstorm, and baby heartbeat.
It masks unwanted noses so you can create a realistic and natural environment for good sleep, meditation and relaxation using the builtin earphone jack. It’s a compact size so you can escape into a peaceful atmosphere that supports rest, calm and relaxation whether you’re in bed, in the home office, or travelling.
Price: £25 99, Amazon – buy here now
4. Beurer ST100 Stress Relief, Anxiety & Meditation Device
This stress-relieving device helps to calm your nerves through sounds, vibrational therapy, light and guided breathing programmes.
It features three different meditating breathing rhythms for you to follow for total inner peace that works to teach and guide you through relaxation techniques using breathing training and the calming sounds of the forest, jungle or ocean. These conscious breathing exercises reduce your personal stress levels and low-frequency vibrations encourage relaxation and lower blood pressure.
The Beurer CalmDown app works in conjunction with the device to get audio-visual breathing exercises with a heart rate variability training programme.
Price: £109.99, Stress No More – buy here now
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5. DoDow Sleep Aid Device
Are you someone that wakes up in the night and can’t get back to sleep? Or struggle to drift off in the first place? The DoDow is an intelligent sleep and mediation device that helps you sleep.
Pop it on your bedside table and it emits a calming blue light onto the ceiling that slowly shrinks and grows. It combines meditation, yoga, and behavioural cognitive therapy techniques to slow down your breathing, and offers a meditative distraction to repetitive thoughts.
Price: £49.99, Cult Beauty – buy here now
6. 3D Sleep Mask Bluetooth 5.0 Wireless Sleeping Headphones
This multi-purpose Bluetooth sleep mask is perfect for blocking out noise and helping you to sleep or enjoy meditation.
You can play soothing sounds or meditation apps through the Bluetooth speakers, and it blocks out light as well as that extraneous noise to aid relaxation and help you get into the zone.
Price: £19.99, Amazon – buy here now
7. Flowtime: Biosensing Meditation Headband with Heart Rate and Brainwave Sensors
Not sure how your meditation is going? This will guide you. Created to help you achieve mindfulness more easily, this meditation device helps you see how your brain and body are working when you are meditating.
It records real-time brainwaves, heart rate, HRV, relaxation, attention and pressure level to tell you whether you are getting into meditation states.
The app helps you gain the basic techniques and make progress every day. A detailed bio-data report displays your performance of every minute so you can see when you get into the meditation state. You can compare your performance with the last seven times to see your improvement.