What Andrew Huberman has said about Meditation

Huberman describes using a ten-breath meditation as a requirement for getting out of bed, escalating to five minutes if he cannot focus.

“So I force that 10-breath meditation as a requirement to get into the day”

On Purpose with Jay Shetty: Andrew Huberman: The Simple Habits That Will Transform Your Health (Sep 7, 2026) · Listen from 5:28

Huberman relays Hollis's view that letting the mind idle outside role fulfillment allows the unconscious to surface truths.

“let your mind idle because that's where your unconscious will spontaneously just toss things up to your conscious mind to receive”

On Purpose with Jay Shetty: Andrew Huberman: The Simple Habits That Will Transform Your Health (Sep 7, 2026) · Listen from 46:07

Huberman says there is no protocol for turning off thoughts, only for returning to sensation and breath.

“I do not have a protocol in my book for how to turn off thoughts because it doesn't work. What we can do is get back into sensation, back to breath”

On Purpose with Jay Shetty: Andrew Huberman: The Simple Habits That Will Transform Your Health (Sep 7, 2026) · Listen from 52:32

Huberman says habits can be embedded in three to six days if attention is fully brought to the behavior, rather than the commonly cited 21 days.

“three to six days of doing something or avoiding something and you're locked in, it's in you. But the more attention you can bring to it, the faster you're gonna embed that thing”

On Purpose with Jay Shetty: Andrew Huberman: The Simple Habits That Will Transform Your Health (Sep 7, 2026) · Listen from 1:35:07