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what's up ladies and gentlemen this is
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David Benjamin from WellStar reviews and
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healthy wild freat today I'm going to be
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reviewing the Calm app and the Muse app
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and the reason I'm comparing these two
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apps is because they're very similar in
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nature and they offer similar solutions
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to our modern-day problems our stress
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our lack of focus our inability to calm
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our mind our inability to sleep our
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inability to breathe properly our
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inability to regulate our heart rate and
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heart rate variability our heart's
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adaption to stress and so much more so
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I'm actually wearing the Muse s device
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right now and I just want to compare
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these two because uh initially I
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downloaded the Calm app because I wanted
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to have a solution to sort of meditate
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calm my mind create more focus and
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mental Clarity and soon after
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downloading the call app I really just
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sort of got to this place where I
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realized that everything in the call app
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is essentially free on YouTube and the
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call app was just another app on my
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phone that I didn't need and I could
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have just as easily gone to YouTube and
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listened to these calm meditative tracks
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or sleep stories or whatever it may be
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and they do offer a free solution but uh
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you really only get anything good with
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subscriptions especially with the sort
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of personal wellness products and I
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found that with The Muse app which is
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connected to this Muse device this is
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the muse s they have other models as
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well uh I found a lot more uh range in
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terms of the ability of the device the
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ability of the programs within the app
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and more importantly the ability for me
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to gauge the health of my brain the
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health of my focus the state that I'm in
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whether I'm calm or stressed and my
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ability to prepare my mind to do
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something such as create content like
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this in a focused state or to calm my
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mind and to be in a calm state for sleep
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or rest or in just simply a meditative
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state so what I found was that by using
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the Muse device I found that it was much
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more Dynamic and I really personally
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love neuro feedback this is a neuro
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feedback device within the sort of biof
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feedback category it utiliz e it
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utilizes EEG to measure your brain waves
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in real time to tell you uh not only
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your brain waves but your breath rate
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your heart rate variability your heart
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rate and your body's ability to adapt to
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stress and to adapt uh to changes
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essentially so to modulate and regulate
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your breath your heart rate your the
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state of your mind the state of your
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stress is incredibly valuable and I
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found that with the call map I only had
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the ability to tune into these things
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but I didn't have the ability to get
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feedback in order to self-regulate and
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to train my mind which is exactly what
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the Muse s offers or any of the Muse
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products for that matter so what I like
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about it is it helps to sort of train a
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uh a meditative mind and a focused mind
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and then additionally it gives your
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uh the ability to have that personal
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feedback and then within the app you
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have that personalized insight to see
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after your meditation session or breath
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work session or sleep pre-sleep session
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or sleep session because it tracks your
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sleep as well by the way you see what's
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going on with your health and what's
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going on with your nervous system which
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is incredibly valuable I cannot state
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that enough because the ability to
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regulate your nervous system your heart
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rate and your breath is really giving
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you the power and control to regulate
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your brain your heart your your calm
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response your stress response all of
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that so I found that incredibly valuable
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additionally one of the cool offerings
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that uh Muse has is connecting to brain
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FM and if you aren't familiar with brain
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FM it's a subscription product that I
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have personal friends of mine in my
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network that are huge fans of and they
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say it really helps them Focus dive in
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and to do deep work effectively so to be
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able to connect brain FM to your Muse
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device to have that real time neural
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feedback to see how effective your
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focused sessions are takes it to an
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entire new level I really like that
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additionally I really like that you can
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see your brain w brain wave activity so
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you can see your Alpha your Theta brain
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waves your beta brain waves you can see
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all of the brain waves and it actually
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charts it out for you and essentially
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shows you which brain waves are active
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and which brain waves are ele elevated
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in which brain waves are suppressed and
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it helps you understand where your brain
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waves are along that Journey with
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whatever program you choose within the
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app which I think is exceptional and I
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personally love because as a biohacker a
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neurohacker uh someone who really likes
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to uh optimize brain health and
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performance who takes New Tropics and do
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does all these specific things to
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improve and enhance and optimize brain
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health I like to see in real time after
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those sessions whether it be breath work
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Focus whatever it may be where my brain
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was at and if I'm using a neut Tropic if
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I'm using something to enhance my brain
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wave state right whether it's uh you
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know a neut Tropic that has caffeine or
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that's caffeine free or a neut Tropic
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that has uh you know MCT or B vitamins
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or Omega-3s or whatever it may be I get
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to see the real-time feedback and I get
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to see what brain waves are affected by
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that neut Tropic which is absolutely
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incredible uh additionally I really like
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the realtime cues this is a really cool
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function of their app that you get with
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the neuro feedback that you don't get
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with the c app you get the ability to
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see in actually here in real time it's
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actually not see it's actually here in
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real time how effective your breath work
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or meditation session is so essentially
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what happens is that as you're
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meditating what occurs is that nature
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sounds will be playing through the app
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and if you start to get distracted or
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not focused the nature sounds sort of
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dwindle or it turns into a storm and
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then you go oh I'm not being focused on
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my meditation so you have to go back to
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that meditative State and what I've
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found and what I love about the musees
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is that as you're going through these
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programs within Muse you're actually
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training your brain this is realtime
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brain training brain wve training which
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by the way I used to go and pay for
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these sessions in a neural feedback
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facility every single session and with
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this you get the device one time you can
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offer you know you can take the offering
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for the subscription monthly if you want
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to or you can just get the device and
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utilize it regardless whatever works for
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you that real time feedback is so
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incredibly valuable because that gives
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you the Insight so that you know when
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your mind is wandering to the left or to
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the right and it helps you get back into
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a focused state to get into that medit
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meditative state to control your breath
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to enhance your breath work and to
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really regulate your nervous system and
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your brain and really to regulate your
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being self regulation is one of the most
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underutilized and most ignored aspects
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of human health and performance and what
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I love about the MS is that it gives you
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it literally empowers you with the
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ability to utilize real-time neuro
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feedback technology to improve enhance
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and optimize your brain health and
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performance your focus your meditative
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mind your breath work right your heart
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rate your heart variability your breath
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work and your breath and really just
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focus on these areas and Center yourself
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so I found it incredibly valuable and
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Incredibly powerful additionally one
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last comparison to the call map I found
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that with the call M the more I used it
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the less I wanted to use it and with The
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Muse I find the more I use it the more I
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want to use it so I find that with
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technology if I start to use something
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and I like it I gravitate towards it and
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I want to use it more and if I use it
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and I don't like it I just drop it and
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in the case of the call map I just un I
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un installed it off my phone because it
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really wasn't working for me and to just
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simply hear something and not have that
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real-time feedback it's like YouTube it
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really means nothing so if you want to
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take your mental health your state of
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calm and your breath work and your
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meditations and your sleep health and
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all of this to the next level I highly
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recommend the Muse I will link this up
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right below this video it's an
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incredible device I find it very
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fascinating and I think it's really uh
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innovating the way Health mental health
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and wellness will be done in the future
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so check out that device below if
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there's any discounts or anything like
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that I'll put that pinned in the comment
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in the next video cheers
