Meditation has been practised for thousands of years. Today, advances in neuroscience, wearable technology, and artificial intelligence are opening entirely new ways to support, measure, and deepen the practice, from EEG headbands that translate brainwave patterns into real-time feedback, to AI systems that generate personalised guided sessions on demand. This book is a comprehensive guide to this rapidly evolving field.
It covers the following:
• EEG-based devices: Muse meditation headband, Neurosky MindWave, how brainwave biofeedback works and how to use it effectively
• Biofeedback wearables: Unyte IOM2, heart rate variability, coherence training, and stress reduction
• Smart rings: Dhyana, meditation-specific tracking from the wrist
• Neurostimulation: tDCS headsets and their effects on attention and mood; the Shiva Helmet and its capacity to stimulate non-ordinary states
• Lucid dreaming devices, meditation lamps, and flotation tanks
• Sound-based tools: binaural beats, PEMF, and frequency-based relaxation technology
• Apps: Insight Timer, Calm, Headspace, and the newer wave of AI-powered apps that generate unique sessions based on user input
• AI agents and LLM-based meditation companions, conversational systems that can coach, reflect, and adapt in real time
• VR meditation environments, smart home integration, and digital minimalism frameworks
• Traditional meditation systems, Vipassana, Jhana, Zen, Yogic dhyana, Dzogchen, contextualised alongside the technology
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Joy Bose, Siva Prasad Bose
Joy Bose is a data scientist and software engineer by profession. He lives and works in Bangalore, India. He has practiced meditation in multiple traditions including mindfulness meditation and Vajrayana, and is keenly interested in applications of technology in the field of meditation.
