Welcome to Untangle, the podcast from Muse, the brain sensing headband that helps you meditate and sleep and meditation studio, the five-star app.

I'm Patricia Carpice.

Excited to still share with you something new from Muse.

If you're like the rest of us who struggle with getting a good night's sleep, you'll want to check out the new digital sleeping pill.

It's an intuitive sleep guide, part of the next generation of Muse S that responds to your brain activity to help you quiet your busy mind and guide you into a more restful sleep.

It's a responsive sleep experience that's designed to put you to sleep and help you

fall back to sleep if you wake up in the middle of the night. Check it out at choosemuse.com

and use discount code launch 15 if you want to give it a try. I love how this guest goes on her

own personal journey to understand how meditating for a year straight can actually change your

life. Our guest is Shannon Harvey, an award-winning Australian health journalist, author, and

filmmaker. Overwhelmed with insomnia, an autoimmune disease, and a family history of

mental health issues,

Shannon was highly motivated to find a way to address the challenges she faced,

but also those we all face with the growing epidemics of stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction.

Out of this mission and a deep curiosity came her film and now book My Year of Living

Mindfully. In the film, Shannon committed to meditating every day, as I said for 365 days,

and to put meditation to the test, she enlisted a team of top scientists from around the world to measure

the impact of meditation. They tracked everything from her stress hormones to her immune function,

to her cellular aging and gene expression, to her subjective well-being. Could learning to quiet

our busy minds, she wondered, be the simple solution the world so desperately

needs? What began as a self-experiment transformed into a life-changing experience for Shannon. Her hope is that the

film will spark meaningful conversations and help us all feel a bit more grounded and calm as we face the inevitable challenges of being human.

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