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▶ Essentials: How to Access Your Creativity | Rick Rubin 30:01 “or it could be focused on the breath
But the purpose of being focused on the breath is to not hear the self-talk that we normally have.” ▷ Essentials: Using Meditation to Focus, View Consciousness & Expand Your Mind | Dr. Sam Harris 15:07 “So the practice is just pay attention to the breath when they're sitting, and then eventually you incorporate everything, sounds and other sensations.” ▷ Essentials: Using Meditation to Focus, View Consciousness & Expand Your Mind | Dr. Sam Harris 19:51 “And that a training that can be good to do It becomes a tool that you can use for other kinds of insight, but it's a very specific and it's kind of brittle skill in the end. I mean, it's a skill, just like I'm going to pay attention to one thing and I'm going to do that so well that everything else is going to fade out.” ▷ Science-Based Meditation Tools to Improve Your Brain & Health | Dr. Richard Davidson 23:37 “So one kind of meditation we call focused attention meditation. And focused attention meditation is where you are narrowing your aperture of awareness to a specific object.” ▷ How to Make Better Decisions | Dr. Michael Platt 27:49 “Some, as you mentioned, you know, you're focusing on breathwork, physical stimulus.” ▷ AMA #18: Cold Therapy Advice, Skin Health Tips, Motivation, Learning Strategies & More 34:22 “Wouldn't it be wonderful if in every school that started the day with a five minute meditation or non-sleep deep rest... even a very brief meditation session in that particular study, it was about 13 minutes per day, can significantly improve working memory” ▷ How to Find Your True Purpose & Create Your Best Life | Dr. James Hollis 51:43 “It can be done to enhance focus by focusing on a specific location behind the forehead or looking at a light.” ▷ Using Meditation to Focus, View Consciousness & Expand Your Mind | Dr. Sam Harris 57:40 “"I've been meditating a fair amount since I was in my teens, but more along the lines of just paying attention to breath and recognize that sort of observer, open observer type meditation or focused attention. I would suppose more of the focused attention type."” ▷ How to Become Resilient, Forge Your Identity & Lead Others | Jocko Willink 2:16:04 “One is a focused attention meditation. You know, sitting, closing your eyes, focusing on your breath, body, body surface, or even a visual target in your environment and just focus. And we know that that enhances one's ability to focus.” ▷ The Science of Creativity & How to Enhance Creative Innovation 1:07:49 “Focused attention meditation... involves sitting or lying down, closing your eyes, focusing either on your breath or some element of your body, could be the tops of your knees or the clasp of your hands. It could be focusing on an auditory tone.” ▷ LIVE EVENT Q&A: Dr. Andrew Huberman Question & Answer in Los Angeles, CA 5:27 “But roughly 10 minute, it's actually 13 minute a day meditation of the sort where you just focus on your breathing has been shown to improve focus significantly.” ▷ How Meditation Works & Science-Based Effective Meditations 35:41 “or in some cases where people will focus on their breathing. So the movement of their stomach or the movement of their diaphragm or the lifting of their chest or the extension of their belly while they breathe.” ▷ How Meditation Works & Science-Based Effective Meditations 56:47 “If you feel you can do that reasonably well to the exclusion of what's happening around you, well then, an important question arises.” ▷ How Meditation Works & Science-Based Effective Meditations 2:09:38 “a more traditional third eye center type meditation... would be beneficial.” ▷ Nicotine’s Effects on the Brain & Body & How to Quit Smoking or Vaping 5:00 “It's a very simple meditation practice where one sits or lies down, closes your eyes and directs your attention to a place just between your two eyes and right above it. So the idea then is that you continually bring your focus back to that location, just about an inch behind your forehead over and over again.” ▷ Focus Toolkit: Tools to Improve Your Focus & Concentration 1:01:52 “What you would want to do is set a timer for about 13 minutes... You would sit or lie down, close your eyes, and you would simply focus on your breathing.” ▷ ADHD & How Anyone Can Improve Their Focus 1:19:29 “Subjects were asked to just sit quietly, eyes closed, and do what is sort of akin to meditation, but to not direct their mind into any particular state or place, but simply to think about their breathing and to focus on their so-called interoception, focus on how their body feels, their mind drifted to bring it back.”