Welcome
Congratulations on choosing Vital Neuro to De-Stress, Meditate, Focus and Optimize your brain performance.
Let's get started with Vital!
Charge your headphones
Install the Vital Neuro App
Power on and connect to Bluetooth
Properly place headphones on your head
Start your session... Enjoy the Shift
Vital QuickStart
1. Charge Headphones — Included with your Vital headphones is a common USB ‘Type-C’ charging cable ( Fig. 1 ). Insert the small end into the charging port at the bottom of the Right (R) earcup ( Fig. 2 ) and plug the other end into a standard USB wall charger (brick), a computer, or a mobile power supply.
Charge battery overnight. A full charge should provide approximately 8 hours of operation.
Fig. 1 – Charging Cable
Fig. 2 – Charging Port
2. Download Vital Neuro App — Click on this App Store link ( Fig. 3 ) to put the Vital Neuro App on your iPhone/iPad.
Open Vital Neuro App and Login.
User Name: [Use credentials provided to you]
Password: [Use credentials provided to you]
If you choose to search for it in the App Store, please be sure to type the full name: "Vital Neuro"
Fig. 4 – Power Button
Fig. 6 - Pairing
Fig. 5 - Bluetooth
Fig. 7 – My Devices
3. Power On and Connect — Locate Power button at the bottom of the Right (R) earcup ( Fig. 4 ). Press and hold for 3 seconds. Listen for the “Power On” confirmation. Next you will hear “Pairing” as the headphones attempt to connect with Bluetooth.
Select Settings > Bluetooth on your iPhone/iPad. Verify that Bluetooth is turned on ( Fig. 5 ). In the Devices section, select the Vital Headphone appearing as VN-XXXXXX, where the Xs represent the unique ID of the headphones. You should hear “Connected”.
If presented with a pairing request similar to ( Fig. 6 ), select ‘Pair’. Successful pairing will be confirmed when you hear “Connected”. The unique ID will then move into the ‘My Devices’ section ( Fig. 7 )
Close Settings.
4. Properly Place Headphones — When you put on your headphones, be sure that they are correctly oriented. Position them top and center on your head between the middle of your ears—not too far forward, not too far back ( Fig. 8 ). Left-L and Right-R are printed inside the earcups. Adjust the headband for size and comfort.
Notice brain-monitoring sensors in each ear cup ( Fig. 9 ), and
on the headband ( Fig. 10 ). Make sure sensor ‘prongs’ are touching the scalp. Part hair if needed and sweep back any hair around your ears so ear-cup sensors make contact with the skin. Click ‘QuickStart Video’ to see a demo.
Fig. 8 – Headband Position
Fig. 13 & 14 – Zone Status
Fig. 15 – Progress Tracking
What to Expect: During your session you’ll be listening to Vital’s scientifically-designed psychoacoustic music and sounds. And as Vital analyses your brain state activity, you’ll periodically hear added reward feedback tones. These become audible each time you rise above the moving brain-training threshold, and disappear whenever you drop below the threshold—Green when ‘In the Zone’ above ( Fig. 13 ) and White when ‘Out of the Zone’ below ( Fig. 14 ). This real-time tracking display appears on the right side of the screen ( Fig. 15 ).
5. Start Your Session — Tap the Vital app and choose the state of mind you want to achieve ( Fig. 11 ). The RELAX collection ( Fig. 12 ) for de-stressing, is one of the most popular for first-time use.
Choose a session from within the collection. They vary in music style and length (5, 10, 15, 20, 30 min.) to suit your listening preferences and schedule. And remember, the more frequently and longer you train, the greater the benefit!
Fig. 11 – States of Mind
Fig. 12 – RELAX Options
Note: We all have uniquely shaped heads, so for some people a sensor-connection alert might appear in the lower left corner of the session screen ( Fig. 16 ). If so, slightly reposition headphone sensor band, and re-confirm that sensors are touching the scalp and skin in front of ears. You can check the session-data display in the lower left corner anytime to confirm an EEG signal ( Fig. 17 ).
Fig. 17 – Real-time EEG Signal
Fig. 16 – Headphone Connection Alert
(Helpful Tips and Information)
Choosing a Vital Session
When you open the Vital Neuro app, you will select one of the brain-training collections—RELAX, MEDITATION, FOCUS, or OPTIMIZE— and pick from within that collection a session based on how you are feeling, time of day, what you are planning to do in the next few hours, and the state of mind you want to achieve.
Appendix:
Consider activity-specific choices for when you are working, exercising, traveling, creating, performing, socializing, and relaxing. The benefits are huge when you make Vital Neuro sessions part of your regular routine—choosing collections for morning, mid-day, afternoon, early evening, nighttime, or going to bed.
Maximizing Your Vital Experience
• Settle into calm, quiet environment
• No distractions
• Set iPhone/iPad ‘Do Not Disturb’
• Privacy—ask not to be disturbed
• Comfy chair for all sessions
• Adjust to comfortable audio volume
• Recommend 1 hr. between sessions
• Normal activity between sessions
• Dim lighting preferred
• Eyes closed for RELAX/ MEDITATE
• Eyes open for FOCUS/ OPTIMIZE
• Hands free—iPhone/iPad on stand
or desk with screen still visible
Remember, before you begin a session, make sure your iPhone/ iPad has a stable WiFi/ Cellular Data connection. Then, power on your headphones—a solid white indicator light will appear. After properly positioning headphones, do not move the sensor headband or ear cups, as this may disrupt sensor connection. Also, tensing your facial muscles, or excessive eye motion, can interfere with the EEG signal. Try to remain still during the session for best results.
During Your Vital Session
Once you have launched the Vital App and selected a state-of-mind Collection, tap the session name to begin. Remain still, take a deep breath, and enjoy the music while Vital Neuro establishes your baseline EEG. This is the current state of your brain activity for the targeted training area. Your EEG is monitored in real time throughout the session, allowing Vital Neuro to personalize and optimize your brain training in real time. You can observe your brain activity in the Session Details display at the bottom left of the session screen ( see Fig. 17 above ) by expanding the display. If you notice the running EEG wave has squared lines, or is a flat line, simply nudge or reposition the sensors to improve contact.
If the condition persists, exit the session ( Fig. 18 ), power cycle your iPhone/iPad and headphones, then begin again.
Fig. 18 – Pause / End Session
In and Out of the ‘Zone’
Continue observing the EEG signal and session screen until you hear the reward feedback tones, which become audible each time you rise above the brain-training threshold. Remember, the progress tracking display ( Fig. 13 & 14 above ) appears green when “In the Zone” vs. white when “Out of the Zone”.
Also, the motion-visual feedback will freeze when you are out of the Zone, and resume when in the Zone. This is by design. Once the session is underway with correct sensor placement and EEG (eyes closed for Relax sessions), tune your mind in to the audio reward tones which will also stop and start, become aware of your internal state, and deeply relax.
When your session ends, take a moment to reflect on the sensations you felt. And don’t judge your performance. Be curious and see what you can learn from your Scorecard results.
Your Scorecard
At the end of each Vital session your Scorecard will appear ( Fig. 19 ). The dial at the top displays your overall Vital Score, which is a composite measure combining:
a. 'Time-In-Zone' results ( Fig. 20 ), with
b. 'Peak Shift' effort ( Fig. 22 ).
Fig. 20 – Time-in-Zone
Fig. 22 – Peak Shift
On a scale from 0-20, the Vital Score represents the amount of change, or shift you achieved into your desired state of mind, throughout the session. So, depending on the type of session you choose, your Vital Score will show: depth of Relaxation, or degree of Focus, or full extent of Optimization. You can use this number to track and compare your progress and performance from session to session. And since it is heavily influenced by session length, a longer session will boost your score.
Fig. 24 – Vital Persona
Fig. 23 - Lifetime in Zone
Lifetime in Zone:
Perhaps the greatest benefit of regularly using Vital Neuro, is how it rewires your brain. The long-term effect of repeated sessions, is the formation of new neuropathways-positive patterns putting you in control of your emotions, mental well-being and happiness. And research shows that beyond consistency, the cumulative benefit is even greater. So, the Scorecard tracks your ongoing Time in Zone ( Fig. 23 ), and notes your evolving Vital persona ( Fig. 24 ), as you accumulate more and more valuable periods of shift into desired states of mind.
What is Time-in-the-Zone?
This score represents an accumulation, during the session, of all the segments where you were above the moving training threshold ( Fig. 21 ), the moment-to-moment mental fitness goal. Being in the zone indicates: deeper Relaxation, increased Focus, or Optimized cognition and executive function. On average, people are in the Zone for 5-7 minutes during a 10-min. session, 8-10 minutes for a 15-min. session, and so forth. In Vital Neuro sample groups, we have observed that a 10-min. daily session has led to reduced stress, improved mood, and better sleep.
What is Peak Shift?
It's a strong indicator of your brain's training effort--the most significant, or foremost change from your beginning baseline ( Fig. 22 ), to the level you achieved during your session. Every shift in the session is measured, to identify the furthest push you made beyond your session average. It's like the fastest lap in a race; or what got the loudest applause from the stage.
Fig. 21 – In Zone
Vital Science
Brain Health:
Our brain can change and rewire its neural dynamics when given accurate and intuitive information about its current, real-time neuronal functioning.
This rewiring and adaptation occur according to principles of operant conditioning and brain plasticity.
Leading the Movement:
Vital scientists are at the forefront—technology innovators packing decades of experience in neuroscience research, clinical practice, psychoacoustics, neuroscience-based music, and visual feedback into a fashion forward neuro-sensing headphone designed to reward healthy brain patterns.
Together with the Vital App, they can guide you into peak states of relaxation, meditation, calm focus, and the optimization of your brain’s command centers and their dynamic functions.
Vital Sessions:
On the Vital app, users choose a desired state of mind. Starting with the current brain state, Vital’s brain monitoring guides your mind into the targeted peak state, using real time adaptive and reacting music. The effects last throughout the day, and are cumulative over time.
Vital Neuro uses all original music that is composed, engineered, and produced under neuroscience -based guidance by Vital’s talented composers and musicians.
The unrelenting pace of today’s demanding life has pushed us into a constant state of threat and stress. We need to give our brains a chance to Shift back into balance in order to maximize our brain function. The Vital App, paired with Vital Headphones, is the only real-time, personalized, EEG-GuidedTM system that gives you control of your emotions, your state of mind, and your happiness.
Targeted Brain Zones
.jpg)
How it Works—The Vital Sensor Bar
• Proprietary curve, spring-loaded sensors, universal fit—most head shapes and hair variations
• EEG sensor placement in the actual brain regions responsible for desired outcomes
• Targeted zones for deep Relaxation, better Focus, and Optimized performance
• Real-time monitoring of brainwave activity in milliseconds
Vital combines decades of neuroscience research, clinical practice, psychoacoustics, neuroscience-based music, and visual feedback into clinical-grade brain training that is—
1. Neuro Responsive: As Vital’s neuro sensing headphones track your changing brain state and unique brain signature, they adapt their feedback to maximize your brain’s innate ability to learn, reorganize, and optimize; resulting in a completely personalized experience.
2. Neuro Dynamic: Each Vital session is unique as it captures 250 data points every second to create a dynamic experience based on our real time neuro-training algorithm. This teaches your brain maximum stability, flexibility, and optimization for each targeted brain state.
3. Skill Building: The Vital experience has a value extending way beyond feeling relaxed, deeply meditating, achieving a calm focus, or reaching a state of peak performance. Through the principle of neuroplasticity each session rewires your brain toward optimization. Simply put, your brain is developing a proficiency similar to learning a motor skill—like riding a bike, typing, or learning to play a sport or an instrument. Every time you do a Vital session, your brain learns and develops new and stronger neuropathways.
4. Engaging: Vital is entertaining. We use the latest, most advanced audio-visual elements to push your brain into your desired state without making it feel like work.
5. Fashion Forward: Vital works with top neuro-tech fashion advisors to make the design and brain-training experience trendy and chic—anytime, anywhere.
And sessions from the OPTIMIZE collection will help you feel primed for interactions, meetings, presentations, sports, workouts, activities, and artistic expression:
Optimize Sessions: Vital’s front sensor is activated in the brain area that controls executive function and movement—your brain’s management system. Expect to see improvement in working memory, planning, organization, reasoning, judgment, impulse control, and emotional regulation. You’ll feel ready to go, optimized to best perform for yourself, your family, in your career, and your community.
When you're feeling distracted, or need to concentrate, choose sessions the FOCUS collection.
Focus Sessions: Vital’s center sensor is activated, with an orientation toward open, calm, and mindful attention—ready to engage with sensory information. Neuroscientists refer to this as a calm focus, or being in a state of flow. You’ll feel ready to pay attention, prepared to be at task in the moment, alert, aware of and better able to regulate body sensations, clear headed, and calm centered.
If you are feeling stressed, anxious, want to start your day with relaxation, or need a peaceful break to reset and restore, or transition in the evening to sleep... choose sessions from the RELAX collection.
Relax Sessions: Vital’s rear sensor is activated, and your internal world is fully engaged for deeper states, and unconscious processing. There’s an almost immediate physiological shift from fight or flight into rest, relax and restore. Ideal any time throughout the day for resilience, self-regulation, deep relaxation and immersive meditation. Feel your stress level drop dramatically, and your sleep improve.
And, to practice a daily habit shared by over three quarters of the world's most successful people, choose sessions from the MEDITATE collection.
Meditate Sessions: Vital’s rear sensor is activated for delving deeper into a state of meditation. Begin an exploration of your mind and your deeper states of consciousness. Become more agile in the face of distressing thoughts. Achieve a greater sense of mastery of your mind, and a perception of general well-being, brighter mood, and a stronger feeling of inner peace. Reduce anxiety and better manage high stress.
Fig. 4 – Power Button
Fig. 5 - Bluetooth
Fig. 6 - Pairing
Fig. 7 – My Devices
3. Power On and Connect — Locate Power button at the bottom of the Right (R) earcup ( Fig. 4 ). Press and hold for 3 seconds. Listen for the “Power On” confirmation. Next you will hear “Pairing” as the headphones attempt to connect with Bluetooth.
Select Settings > Bluetooth on your iPhone/iPad. Verify that Bluetooth is turned on ( Fig. 5 ). In the Devices section, select the Vital Headphone appearing as VN-XXXXXX, where the Xs represent the unique ID of the headphones. You should hear “Connected”.
If presented with a pairing request similar to ( Fig. 6 ), select ‘Pair’. Successful pairing will be confirmed when you hear “Connected”. The unique ID will then move into the ‘My Devices’ section ( Fig. 7 )
Close Settings.