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▶ Essentials: How to Access Your Creativity | Rick Rubin 30:18 “The other version is an awareness meditation where you're closing your eyes and you're being with whatever is.
There's no story.” ▷ Neuroscience of Emotions & Tools for Improving Emotion Regulation | Dr. Ralph Adolphs 1:57:33 “But he has a lot of studies on, even for the rest of us, you know, short stretches of meditation, regular meditative exercises. You know, he's done well-controlled studies, have demonstrable health benefits for sure.” ▷ Essentials: How to Optimize Female Hormone Health for Vitality & Longevity | Dr. Sara Gottfried 11:05 “but i want to say that meditation is obviously a wonderful tool Well, certainly it's a great tool and it's got such a scientific basis behind it” ▷ How Your Immune System Works & How to Improve It | Dr. Max Krummel 1:24:08 “One of my friends who's a faculty, Dan Lipman at NYU, we were talking about the same study and he was like, that may be what meditation is doing. Because it may be allowing your brain to communicate and reset less inflammatory states across your body because of this axis.” ▷ Essentials: Using Meditation to Focus, View Consciousness & Expand Your Mind | Dr. Sam Harris 2:46 “And the ultimate promise of meditation, I mean, there are really two levels at which you could be interested in meditation. One is very straightforward and remedial and non-paradoxical and very well subscribed.” ▷ Accelerate Learning & Increase Cognitive Capacity | Dr. Tommy Wood 59:05 “Maybe this is why meditation is such a useful tool for improving focus is that it's just a forced no breaks thing.” ▷ How to Improve Your Memory & Cognitive Function at Any Age | Dr. Alan Castel 1:08:58 “Now I work a lot, but I definitely take time to meditate, to pray, spend time with people in my life.” ▷ The Science & Treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) | Huberman Lab Essentials 29:35 “Rather, it seems that meditation is increasing focus on things like cognitive behavioral therapy homework and to not focus on other things and therefore indirectly improving the symptoms of OCD.” ▷ Master Self Control & Overcome Procrastination | Dr. Kentaro Fujita 2:15:30 “Again, psychology, I think, is starting to come to grips with it, but a lot of the work on mindfulness, I think, is really interesting and important.” ▷ How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc Brackett 56:35 “So do you recommend that people meditate in order to become better emotion regulators? 100%. Especially because if you can't be still, it's going to be hard to access the good strategies.” ▷ How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc Brackett 56:50 “I know that we're obsessed in our world right now with breathing and mindfulness, and it's great. But it's not enough.” ▷ Understand & Improve Memory Using Science-Based Tools | Huberman Lab Essentials 33:25 “First of all, that daily meditation of 13 minutes can enhance your ability to pay attention and to learn. It can truly enhance memory.” ▷ Cultivating Awe & Emotional Connection in Daily Life | Dr. Dacher Keltner 2:07:04 “You give them a little bit of opportunity for meditation and reflection.” ▷ Science-Based Meditation Tools to Improve Your Brain & Health | Dr. Richard Davidson 0:00 “We actually have really good data on this that at least for beginning meditators, if you do it for 30 days and you do it just five minutes a day, you will see a significant reduction in symptoms of depression, symptoms of anxiety and symptoms of stress.” ▷ Unlearn Negative Thoughts & Behaviors Patterns | Dr. Alok Kanojia (Healthy Gamer) 1:10:46 “But if you want to move beyond mind, and I don't mean that in like, oh, let's move beyond mind. What I mean is that if you look at your experience of existence, there is more to you than thoughts, emotions, and ego. And so if you want to get to that and step outside of your ego, meditation is the best thing for that.” ▷ How Dopamine & Serotonin Shape Decisions, Motivation & Learning | Dr. Read Montague 1:56:03 “"I think of meditation as some variant on close your eyes, focus on your internal state, direct your attention to your breathing or your forehead."” ▷ Essentials: Tools to Boost Attention & Memory | Dr. Wendy Suzuki 33:44 “Just 10 minutes, not 30 minutes, not an hour meditation. That's too hard. 10 minutes guided meditation. It's a body scan, very basic, but easy to follow kind of meditation.” ▷ Improve Energy & Longevity by Optimizing Mitochondria | Dr. Martin Picard 2:00:19 “There are data showing that people who meditate for an hour or so per day or two 20-minute sessions, seems to be the most typically used protocol, can fairly dramatically reduce their sleep need and really go from like an eight-hour need to a six-hour need with a 40-minute investment of meditation.” ▷ How to Make Yourself Unbreakable | DJ Shipley 2:23:37 “He did MERT, meditation, yoga, talk therapy, drugs, did everything you could.” ▷ How to Expand Your Consciousness | Dr. Christof Koch 1:29:41 “I'd like to talk for a little bit about meditation and mindfulness, but not as Wu concepts or even practices to reduce stress, but rather as I look at meditation as a perceptual exercise to try and access different understanding of one's experience.” ▷ Transform Your Metabolic Health & Longevity by Knowing Your Unique Biology | Dr. Michael Snyder 1:40:36 “I am a big believer you need some form of calmness. And I used to meditate for like five minutes after exercise. I need to get back to that for sure.” ▷ Science & Health Benefits of Belief in God & Religion | Dr. David DeSteno 23:28 “You know, I've embraced for a long time the idea that there are behavioral tools that really help, things like meditation, breath work, certainly exercise, maybe even deliberate cold exposure, heat exposure, sauna, et cetera.” ▷ How to Rewire Your Brain & Learn Faster | Dr. Michael Kilgard 2:57:35 “People who do meditation, mindfulness, they recognize this trying to stay in this right sweet spot, which is back to that optimization we've talked a lot about.” ▷ Essentials: Science of Stress, Testosterone, Aggression & Motivation | Dr. Robert Sapolsky 19:49 “Oh, transcendental meditation, mindfulness, exercise, prayer, sort of reflecting on gratitude, all that sort of thing. Collectively, they work on the average.” ▷ Control Your Vagus Nerve to Improve Mood, Alertness & Neuroplasticity 1:14:02 “Plasticity is a process. It's not just triggered when you go about trying to learn something. It actually takes place in sleep, as well as sleep-like states like non-sleep, deep rest, and meditation, but especially in deep sleep and rapid eye movement sleep.” ▷ Improving Health With Stronger Brain-Body Connection | Huberman Lab Essentials 33:26 “When you stop taking in exteroceptive information, information from the outside world, by closing your eyes and focusing inward, as they say, you start paying attention to your breathing cadence. You start directing your mind's attention to your heart rate.” ▷ Healing From Grief & Loss | Dr. Mary-Frances O'Connor 1:19:48 “We did an intervention study in my lab with widows and widowers where one arm received mindfulness training... Turns out mindfulness training was helpful. But progressive muscle relaxation was even more helpful for people's grief.” ▷ Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave 1:17:17 “Proactive are going to be things that we schedule... other forms of mindfulness and meditation that actually allow us to raise capacity in our nervous system.” ▷ Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave 1:17:24 “You call it non-sleep, deep rest, other forms of mindfulness and meditation that actually allow us to raise capacity in our nervous system.” ▷ How to Find & Be a Great Romantic Partner | Lori Gottlieb 2:05:11 “For all that's been said about meditation and reflection and journaling on this podcast and others, we all know these tools are available.” ▷ Transform Your Mental Health With Diet & Lifestyle | Dr. Chris Palmer 36:21 “stress reduction practices, mindfulness, meditation, yoga” ▷ Transform Your Mental Health With Diet & Lifestyle | Dr. Chris Palmer 36:21 “stress reduction practices, mindfulness, meditation, yoga” ▷ How to Control Your Metabolism by Thyroid & Growth Hormone | Huberman Lab Essentials 16:11 “for for people that are interested in increasing growth hormone a meditation practice that allows you to get into these slow wave delta type frequency uh activity in the brain may be very beneficial because as I mentioned before that's what's gating growth hormone release” ▷ How to Achieve Inner Peace & Healing | Dr. Richard Schwartz 1:51:39 “I realized right as I would go into or come out of a meditation or what I call non-sleep deep rest, this kind of yoga nidra-like deep relaxation thing that listeners of this podcast will be familiar with hearing about, that there's this really terrifying moment where I realize someday... I'm going to take my last breath.” ▷ How to Make Better Decisions | Dr. Michael Platt 27:34 “At first I was thinking this sounds a lot like meditation, right? But there are a whole variety, I'm no expert on meditation, but there are a whole variety of different kinds of meditation.” ▷ Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer 3:26 “Meditation is great, but it's not mindful. You meditate in order to result in post-meditative mindfulness... for some people to sit still 20 minutes twice a day is work.” ▷ How to Best Guide Your Life Decisions & Path | Dr. Jordan Peterson 2:56:58 “Meditation to me is a way of enhancing one's ability to focus. You know, third eye meditation of concentrating your breath, et cetera. I mean, we know based on the data, improves focus.” ▷ How to Use Curiosity & Focus to Create a Joyful & Meaningful Life | Dr. Bernardo Huberman 1:32:01 “As you know, I meditate for many years and so on. I'm being in the present and being able to just be there and nothing else. It's a tremendous source of satisfaction and calms me down and so on.” ▷ How to Control Your Inner Voice & Increase Your Resilience | Dr. Ethan Kross 2:12:09 “things like long exhale, breathing, physiological size, meditation, Wendy Suzuki's lab at NYU showing you 13 minutes a day of meditation improves focus, emotion, regular emotional state.” ▷ Create Your Ideal Future Using Science-Based Protocols | Ari Wallach 14:41 “we need we absolutely need to take five to 10 minutes each day to exit stimulus response mode typically by closing one eyes and just looking inward It doesn even have to be called meditation” ▷ How to Improve Memory & Focus Using Science Protocols | Dr. Charan Ranganath 38:17 “I think this is one of the cool things about mindfulness training is it forces you to take the mundane and be curious about it. And when you start paying attention to your breathing... this one isn't the same as the last one, right?” ▷ How to Heal From Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) | Dr. Victor Carrión 5:06 “I started practicing meditation when I was about 15 years old and it made a profound impact on my life. And by now, there are thousands of quality peer-reviewed studies that emphasize how useful mindfulness meditation can be for improving our focus, managing stress and anxiety, improving our mood, and much more.” ▷ How to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence | Dr. Marc Brackett 2:04:42 “We've embedded a lot of the strategies that I've been talking about. So like these distancing strategies or the breathing exercises or the mindfulness exercises or gratitude exercises.” ▷ How to Cultivate a Positive, Growth-Oriented Mindset | Dr. Jamil Zaki 6:00 “Many people start a meditation practice and experience some benefits, but many people also have challenges keeping up with that practice.” ▷ Optimal Protocols for Studying & Learning 22:23 “The scientific data also support the fact that doing a brief, say five to 10 minute mindfulness meditation each day... People who do that on a regular basis improve their level of focus, they improve their memory and recall ability.” ▷ Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck 1:08:53 “I started practicing meditation when I was about 15 years old, and it made a profound impact on my life. And by now, there are thousands of quality peer-reviewed studies that emphasize how useful mindfulness meditation can be for improving our focus, managing stress and anxiety, improving our mood, and much more.” ▷ How to Improve Skin Health & Appearance 1:57:33 “There are also things you can do, and we're all aware of what they are, proper sleep, meditation, non-sleep deep rest.” ▷ How to Improve Brain Health & Offset Neurodegeneration | Dr. Gary Steinberg 56:55 “And I've run a very busy life and learning to slow down, prioritize sleep, prioritize meditation, non-sleep deep rest is something I've benefited from a lot.” ▷ How to Find Your True Purpose & Create Your Best Life | Dr. James Hollis 30:59 “I spend 15 minutes every morning before starting just meditating, particularly working on a dream if I've had a dream.” ▷ Dr. Matt Walker: How to Structure Your Sleep, Use Naps & Time Caffeine | Huberman Lab Guest Series 4:07 “By now, there's an abundance of data showing that even short daily meditations can greatly improve our mood, reduce anxiety, improve our ability to focus, and can improve our memory.” ▷ Overcoming Physical & Emotional Challenges | Coleman Ruiz 26:32 “No meditation, no breath work. Zero.” ▷ LIVE EVENT Q&A: Dr. Andrew Huberman Question & Answer in Melbourne, AU 34:07 “Meditation typically... closing your eyes, focusing your concentration on a point just sort of at your forehead, concentrating on your breathing, redirecting your attention to your breathing if your attention drifts... can improve memory, can improve focus, and does seem to have some stress offsetting effects.” ▷ How the Brain Works, Curing Blindness & How to Navigate a Career Path | Dr. E.J. Chichilnisky 1:46:36 “Yeah. I meditate in an informal way in the morning with my coffee. Every morning, I make a fantastic cup of coffee. And I sit with it for five or 10 minutes and take in my world as it's coming toward me and start to... As I come into the day and come into consciousness, I meditate like that.” ▷ Protocols for Excellent Parenting & Improving Relationships of All Kinds | Dr. Becky Kennedy 1:41:01 “To me, meditation, things like that, like always like icing on the cake, like that's always helpful.” ▷ How to Optimize Cognitive Function & Brain Health | Dr. Mark D'Esposito 2:04:46 “A lot of these studies also, if they add mindfulness training to the hardcore goal management training, it's better than just the executive training alone. Just learning skills to stop, relax, refocus kind of gives this sort of boost to executive function as well.” ▷ How to Optimize Cognitive Function & Brain Health | Dr. Mark D'Esposito 2:08:20 “And then I do a mindfulness meditation. The thing about mindfulness meditation that the biggest impact for me has been the problems of my life. Get re I get a different perspective.” ▷ LIVE EVENT Q&A: Dr. Andrew Huberman Question & Answer in Chicago, IL 24:42 “She has data showing that even 10, I think it's 13, but as little as 10 minutes of meditation... has been shown to increase memory focus, a.k.a. learning. But there's some interesting footnotes in those papers, which point to the fact that when people meditate too close to bedtime, oftentimes they have trouble sleeping” ▷ Dr. Paul Conti: Tools and Protocols for Mental Health | Huberman Lab Guest Series 4:04 “By now, there's an abundance of data showing that even short daily meditations can greatly improve our mood, reduce anxiety, improve our ability to focus, and can improve our memory.” ▷ Life, Death & the Neuroscience of Your Unique Experience | Dr. David Linden 32:56 “Well, I think, you know, perhaps this is maybe not what you had in mind, but one way in which experience modifies the visual world has to do with how much light you're exposed to in the first five years or so of your life.” ▷ The Science of Psychedelics for Mental Health | Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris 1:16:18 “And I think one of the solutions might be that it's in a sense on you to a point, you know, the therapeutic team can treat you to a point and then it becomes what you might call practice. In a similar way that meditation is a practice.” ▷ Science-Based Mental Training & Visualization for Improved Learning 13:13 “There are now hundreds of studies in both animal models and in humans showing that it is really during sleep and other states of deep relaxation, things like meditation and non-sleep deep rest... that the rewiring of neural connections, that is the actual neuroplasticity takes place.” ▷ Control Stress for Healthy Eating, Metabolism & Aging | Dr. Elissa Epel 1:18:49 “we have found that there is slower biological aging and other people have found that um in these meditation interventions we do the short-term ones the inflammatory pathways of gene expression are dampened way down.” ▷ Control Stress for Healthy Eating, Metabolism & Aging | Dr. Elissa Epel 1:23:04 “I think the short bouts every day” ▷ Control Stress for Healthy Eating, Metabolism & Aging | Dr. Elissa Epel 1:56:27 “We have been basically comparing low arousal, relaxation methods, mindfulness, slow breathing to positive stress, exercise, and Wim Hof method.” ▷ Leverage Dopamine to Overcome Procrastination & Optimize Effort 56:32 “Meditation itself is a focusing exercise. It is not known to increase dopamine... oftentimes a brief five to 10 minute meditation... is... an additional tool in your kit that you can use anytime you are feeling amotivated and procrastinating.” ▷ AMA #5: Intrusive Thoughts, CGMs, Behavioral Change, Naps & NSDR 12:16 “Things like mindful meditation, doing a 10 or even just five minutes a day practice... has been shown to increase focus for singular topics and can improve memory” ▷ How to Breathe Correctly for Optimal Health, Mood, Learning & Performance 1:25:54 “However, the research on meditation has shown us that meditation, at least short meditations, mainly lead to improvements in focus and memory, not so much reductions in stress, although they do lead to reductions in stress.” ▷ Dr. Andy Galpin: Maximize Recovery to Achieve Fitness & Performance Goals | Huberman Lab 2:31:50 “you can do things like journaling or meditation and those have an acute effect as well as a chronic effect” ▷ How to Optimize Female Hormone Health for Vitality & Longevity | Dr. Sara Gottfried 1:02:31 “But I want to say that meditation is obviously a wonderful tool. It's just, it's a, it's a tool, not unlike any other tool that is great for some people and less great for others.” ▷ How to Access Your Creativity | Rick Rubin 2:52:07 “"I learned when I was 14 and I started with TM and that's probably the meditation that I've done the most in my life and I come back to"” ▷ AMA #3: Adaptogens, Fasting & Fertility, Bluetooth/EMF Risks, Cognitive Load Limits & More 25:33 “Five minutes or even, my laboratory and other laboratories have shown it's even five minutes a day of just what would be called mindfulness meditation. Very simple.” ▷ Using Meditation to Focus, View Consciousness & Expand Your Mind | Dr. Sam Harris 3:06 “"I pushed Sam to share with us what his specific practices are and how we can all arrive at a clearer and better understanding of a meditation practice that we can each and all apply so that we can derive these incredible benefits."” ▷ Using Meditation to Focus, View Consciousness & Expand Your Mind | Dr. Sam Harris 1:24:19 “"Mindfulness is nothing other than this very careful attention to the contents of consciousness. But the crucial piece is it is not a moment of being lost in thought."” ▷ Science-Based Tools for Increasing Happiness 1:37:04 “And the practice that's known to be beneficial for increasing our ability to focus is, among other things, a short meditation practice.” ▷ LIVE EVENT Q&A: Dr. Andrew Huberman Question & Answer in Los Angeles, CA 13:01 “I would encourage you to cultivate some sort of mindfulness practice.” ▷ How Meditation Works & Science-Based Effective Meditations 1:22:05 “a daily 13-minute meditation, which is of the traditional third eye, interoceptively biased, focus on breathing and focus on that location directly behind one's forehead or both, that meditation done daily for about eight weeks... greatly improved mood, improved ability to sleep, improved cognitive ability and focus, memory” ▷ How Meditation Works & Science-Based Effective Meditations 1:22:56 “If you answer the question about consistency honestly, and you find that you can only do one meditation session per week” ▷ How Meditation Works & Science-Based Effective Meditations 2:02:52 “there are other studies... that doing two 20 minute sessions per day of meditation can reduce the need for sleep... the stress reduction... brought about by that type of meditation practice” ▷ Psychedelics & Neurostimulation for Brain Rewiring | Dr. Nolan Williams 25:20 “So there's, there's a number of studies implicating DLP, the dorsolateral and, and say, you know, meditation, mindfulness, that sort of thing. And they're small studies, but, but pretty well designed studies suggesting, you know, behavioral interventions in mild depression actually work quite well.” ▷ Biology & Treatments for Compulsive Eating & Behaviors | Dr. Casey Halpern 2:10:06 “Meditation helps me a bit. I do that every night before I go to sleep. ... If it keeps you doing it regularly, it's the best way to do it.” ▷ Nicotine’s Effects on the Brain & Body & How to Quit Smoking or Vaping 4:40 “Studies done in her laboratory point to the fact that a daily, very brief, in fact, only 13 minute meditation can vastly increase focus and focus ability. So again, this is a meditation practice done daily for just 13 minutes.” ▷ The Science & Treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) 2:02:56 “Turns out that mindfulness meditation can be useful in the treatment of OCD, but mainly by way of how it impacts the focus on and the ability to engage in cognitive behavioral therapies. Rather, it seems that meditation is increasing focus on things like cognitive behavioral therapy homework.” ▷ Boost Attention & Memory with Science-Based Tools | Dr. Wendy Suzuki 1:28:18 “"10 minutes guided meditation... And we asked them to do it how often? Daily. Daily. Seven days a week, just 10 minutes a day."” ▷ Understand & Improve Memory Using Science-Based Tools 1:54:59 “There were two general groups in this study. One group did a 13-minute long meditation... Every subject in the study either meditated daily... for a period of eight weeks.” ▷ Using Hypnosis to Enhance Health & Performance | Dr. David Spiegel 1:05:17 “We're going to do something else. You know, medication, systematic desensitization, mindfulness, other things.” ▷ Breathing for Mental & Physical Health & Performance | Dr. Jack Feldman 1:02:39 “So I signed up for the course, and as I joked to you before, I had two goals. One was to see whether or not breathing had an effect, and the other was to levitate.” ▷ Healthy Eating & Eating Disorders - Anorexia, Bulimia, Binging 2:09:04 “Things like mindfulness meditation certainly can help. There are data, a lot of studies out there showing that meditation practice can help people deal with eating-related anxiety and disorders.” ▷ Maximizing Productivity, Physical & Mental Health with Daily Tools 1:25:03 “There is robust and ample literature supporting the fact that a regular meditation practice is beneficial.” ▷ Using Cortisol & Adrenaline to Boost Our Energy & Immune System Function 1:17:12 “you can do that by either having a practice that helps you regulate stress on a consistent basis. So something like non-sleep deep rest or meditation, if you can get access to massages or vacations, those are great, but having a practice to keep stress clamped so that it's not chronically elevated, that will be great.” ▷ How to Control Your Metabolism by Thyroid & Growth Hormone 1:03:26 “People who do 20 minutes of sitting meditation per day can access these slow wave sleep-like brain states.” ▷ How to Increase Motivation & Drive 28:13 “Jon Kabat-Zinn talks about this meditation practice... where you eat one almond and you focus all of your attention on the almond, the taste of the almond, the texture of the almond.” ▷ How to Defeat Jet Lag, Shift Work & Sleeplessness 1:10:09 “Meditation would be another example. Meditation of certain kinds of meditation involve focus and alertness. Those are slightly different than meditations that involve lack of focus and attention to say internal states.” ▷ Using Science to Optimize Sleep, Learning & Metabolism 1:35:32 “That could be meditation, that could be yoga nidra, that could be hypnosis, anything that you're using to deliberately teach your nervous system how to go from more alertness to more calmness in the waking state.” ▷ Master Your Sleep & Be More Alert When Awake 1:03:46 “The other thing that works really well is meditation. ... Meditation and yoga nidra scripts have been immensely helpful for me in terms of accelerating the transition to sleep.”