Chapter 05 · Understand

Questions Solvance can answer

Does meditation help your mood, your sleep, your stress? Turn each question into a small experiment and let Insights answer it.

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Most people start meditating with a question: will this help me sleep, feel calmer, be less reactive? Solvance can answer it from your own days instead of someone else's study. Each answer needs one small setup and two or three weeks of evening check-ins.

Pick your question

Does it improve my mood?
Add a Mood slider (+). Insights compares it on days you meditated and days you didn't. How
Does it help me sleep?
Add a Sleep slider (+) and rate last night each evening. Look at the day after a session. How
Does it lower my stress?
Add a Stress slider marked −, so lower reads as better. How
When and how long should I meditate?
Tag how sessions felt. Insights finds your best time and length. How
Which kind of meditation suits me?
Choose a practice type per session and compare. How
Do alcohol, exercise or late nights matter?
Tick activities in the Daily Log. How
Am I going deeper?
Mark profound sessions (✦) and tag feelings. How
Is my intention changing my days?
Link sessions to an intention. How

Why rest days matter

Insights answers these by comparing days with a session and days without one, so keep filling in the Daily Log on the days you skip. If you meditate every day, read the month-by-month slider chart instead: whether your mood or sleep rises as your practice grows.

Try it

The best way to learn it is to use it.

Set up a slider