Announcing 'Your Music'

Neuralingual has always let you set background music under your affirmations — a whole library of it, tuned to different moods. That's not going anywhere. But we've added a new option we're excited about, and it opens up a lot of moments the built-in music doesn't reach.

It's called Your Music, and it does what it sounds like: your session plays over whatever you're already listening to.

Meet 'Your Music'

Pick Your Music instead of a background track, and your session renders with just the voice and whatever layers you've chosen — no background music of its own. When you play it, it sits on top of whatever your phone is already playing.

That's useful because the right soundtrack changes with the moment:

• Your usual playlist on a run.
• Something chill in the hot tub.
• Whatever you already put on to focus.

The affirmations come through over all of it. One session, rendered once, works against any of them — which mostly means more chances to actually use it. That's the whole point of the practice: doing it often, and Your Music makes "often" easier by fitting sessions into things you're already doing.

How to turn it on

Three taps, from any session's review screen:

1. On the Review & Create Audio screen, tap the Background row.
2. Choose Your Music — it's at the top, above the background music options.
3. A short note explains how it works. Tap Got it, and create your audio.

Then start your music in whatever app you like and play your session — either order works. The affirmations settle in on top.

A couple of things to know

Your music and your session are two separate apps playing at once, so a few things work the way that implies:

• The pause button pauses your music, not the affirmations. Your music app is in charge of playback, so the controls you'd normally reach for — the lock screen, your headphones — pause the music. The session keeps going underneath. To pause the affirmations, open Neuralingual.
• Your lock screen shows your music. Same reason: your music app owns the lock-screen and Control Center card, so that's what you'll see there, with the session running under it.
• You set the balance from your music app. The affirmation voice plays at a fixed level; nudge your music's volume up or down to sit it where you want against the voice.

When the built-in background music is the better pick

Your Music is an option, not a replacement — and sometimes the built-in background music is the better choice:

• For sleep, naps, and meditation. The built-in tracks are tuned for winding down, and — the part that matters at 3am — they end when the session ends. Your own playlist would keep going into the quiet you were trying to reach.
• When you want one self-contained recording — to share a session, or to have the whole thing as a single piece of audio that sounds the same anywhere.

So: winding down, or sharing? Built-in background music. Moving through a day that already has a soundtrack? Your Music.

A note from the founder

I use Your Music a lot now. On a workout I'll put on my usual playlist and start a session over it. For the cooldown I switch to something slower, and the same session keeps going — it doesn't care that the music changed. On the elliptical I'll turn the screen on and read each affirmation as it plays; reading the line while I hear it, mid-effort, does something the audio alone doesn't.

Mostly it just means I reach for a session in more moments than I used to. That's the point.

— Dave

Your Music is live now. Open any session's Background row and it's the first option, right at the top.