Founder Sarah McDevitt, sought out to create Core after realizing the amount of anxiety she’s never experienced before after playing basketball in college and starting her career with Microsoft. She found personal relief in meditation, but discovered it was challenging to make it a regular long term habit and wanted to better understand the science behind it. We talk about the benefits and science of meditation and how your mental health can be in a better state when you regularly exercise the “meditation muscle.” We discuss the Core device and what it can do, syncing up with your rhythm and why it’s useful in meditation.

How Sarah got into meditation 1:11
Some of the science behind meditation 7:33
Cortisol 15:35
How meditation has been branded in society 16:39
Some of the things she felt she could improve 20:38
How the device works 24:22
Quantitation/results 30:00
How mental training is analogous to physical fitness 34:18
Where meditation lies with western research 36:59

“One thing that’s cool is just about being able to see the change in a session, over the course of the session is you can see which types of exercises help you calm down the most, for example there are some breathing techniques that are really intended to calm you down quickly and you can practice those so they calm you down faster each time.” 26:37

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