Meditation

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”

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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”

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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”

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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”

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Palehorse reports that testing an exciting idea with calm love in meditation sometimes reveals he has no real interest in it, saving time before starting.

“I'll go into a meditation and water it with that calm love. And then when I'm done with that meditation, all of a sudden, I have no interest in that idea anymore”

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Palehorse describes keeping his mind on God and on the intended feeling with each brushstroke so that viewers can feel what he felt while painting.

“they have an opportunity to feel what I'm feeling as I'm creating the work, as that work is flowing through me”

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Palehorse describes a period in which deep meditation made art feel trivial, after which he turned to guiding meditations before returning to art.

“you may go through a period where you're like, wow, making art seems so trivial now. I don't have the motivation that I used to have”

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Palehorse says he originally took up meditation for creative purposes, to receive visions and ideas for his artwork.

“I originally got into meditation for creative purposes, to tap into those realms beyond the thinking mind, beyond the physical realm”

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Bialik relays the view, from many people the show has interviewed, that the quiet state needed to receive information can be learned and strengthened.

“Once you drop in and you learn that as a skill, it is a muscle that you can exercise and strengthen”

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Bialik concludes that everyone has a different path to unblending and objects to people claiming to know what will work for others.

“everyone... has a different path to ways to unblend that there's not one path there's not one answer”

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Shetty says energy becomes stuck when a person lacks either a mentor or a mentee, leaving them only giving or only receiving.

“if you don't have a mentor, then you're stuck because then you're only giving and not getting anything. If you only have a mentor and you don't have a mentee, that means you're only getting and not giving anything”

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Shetty argues energy is not finite and grows through service and genuine giving rather than being depleted by it.

“the more I give to you, if I'm giving out of genuine compassion, the more I receive from above. It's not mathematically finite”

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Nguyen described breath awareness as an anchor to the present because one cannot breathe in the past or future.

“and you can't breathe in the future. And so when you just simply are aware of your breath, it's like an, it's like an anchor that pulls you to the present moment outside your brain”

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Nguyen argued that stillness alone concentrates suffering while community dilutes it, using his teacher's salt-in-a-cup analogy.

“But when we can cultivate an open heart, compassion in our minds, especially within community, then what happens is it dilutes the salt where it's digestible, that you can work with it”

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May says that studies found long-term meditators perform no better at psi tasks than people who have never meditated.

“There have been studies of the monks who spent 30 years meditating, and they're no better good than somebody who's never even tried meditation”

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Lewis describes her meditation as 20 to 25 minutes of drinking coffee in bed, staring out the window and planning her day.

“I take about 20, 25 minutes of drinking my coffee in bed. And I just stare out the window, process my day, try to calm my mind”

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Spira says each return to being weakens the pull of objective experience until one feels one lives there.

“each time you go back to your being, the capacity that you're objective experience has to take you away from your being weakens”

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Neumann says meditation, which he has practiced more over the past year, helps him quiet external noise.

“I've been enjoying meditating lately in the past year, and I've been getting better and better at it”

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Cohen recounted discovering somatic body work at 17 and experiencing an unexplainable sensation in his hands after a four-day workshop.

“I began to have a sensation in my hands that someone could call energy, but I didn't understand what that would even mean. But it was fundamentally unexplainable and profound”

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Wilson said he meditates about fifteen minutes daily and that meditation need not involve apps or mantras.

“I do. I meditate every day. I keep it very simple. It's about 15 minutes and it's just about quieting the mind”

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Hale says she needs more solitude than most people and gets her insights alone, though she recognizes a fine line with isolation.

“I feel like I get my most insights or downloads or creativity in solitude and I feel like I need more solitude than most people”

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