Flowtime: Meditation & Relax

I have found this to be my favorite device for monitoring meditation. It’s helps me find and strengthen the coherence state and flow too. I'd like to give it five stars and would do so if it didn't lose the contact between sensors and skin now and then and if it were more sturdy. I’d like to see them add a way to check contact with the skin as that would help keep the signal strong.

I started meditating during Covid lockdown. The more I read books to solidify my understanding and practise and learned about different brain forms; I wanted to measure these while meditating. But the devices available in the market was very few and Muse required their own app. Also I learned heart brain coherence is important. Flow measures all the brain waves AND heart coherence. The best part I can leave the app and do my own meditations on outside app. I can also journal and record my mood. So thank you!

I find this device frustrating, I have fine, curly hair that is short and so difficult to pull back. This headband pulls out my hair every time I wear it. It also is difficult to get a signal, the plastic band meant to secure the connection pops out constantly (I’m very petite so need the medium band with a knot in it). The plastic in the band also sticks to my hair and pulls it out. It then is difficult for me to get a good connection - by the time I get it working I’m so frustrated there’s no way I’m getting into alpha nonetheless theta. Further, I have training in Neurofeedback and I wonder how accurate these brainwave measurements are. It’s protagonists enough for home use, but I plan on comparing with my own Neurofeedback sensors. I’m curious which sensors are the ground and the reference. I only use the silent meditation and the resonant breathing, and haven’t paid for the full service at this point. I haven’t found the guided meditations helpful at this juncture- maybe in the future. If I still use it. All that said I do find the data interesting, and if it’s accurate enough it can be useful.