What podcasts say about Meditation
Every statement, with the speaker, the exact quote and the moment it was said.
What experts have said about Meditation
15 statements · 12 positive · 1 mixed · 2 neutral
Meditation can create distance from thoughts and reduce identification with them.
“when we meditate, that's essentially what we do when we look at our thoughts. We initially, we are our thoughts, but then when you just look at them and relax, they start to move and give a little bit of distance.”
Open the episode · Why the Wealthiest People in the Room Are Often the Most Miserable — And What to Do About ItListen at 19:08
Meditation helps reduce distracting mental noise.
“meditating helps drown the noise.”
Open the episode · Adam Neumann: The Real Story Behind WeWork, A $4 Billion Cab Ride, And Surviving A $460 Million DebtListen at 1:16:10
Meditation reduces distracting mental noise and supports clearer thinking.
“meditating helps drown the noise”
Open the episode · Adam Neumann: The Real Story Behind WeWork, A $4 Billion Cab Ride, And Surviving A $460 Million DebtListen at 1:16:10
Regular meditators may need approximately one fewer hour of sleep.
“the regular meditators are probably able to shave an hour off their sleep.”
Open the episode · Andrew Huberman: The Real Reason You Can't Get Deep Sleep & Wake Up ExhaustedListen at 1:57:28
Mantra and breath meditation involve single-pointed focus.
“It's a single pointed focus exercise in those that I described.”
Open the episode · Essentials: How to Access Your Creativity | Rick RubinListen at 33:39
Meditative states enable intentional information access and communication with other consciousnesses.
“And you can use your intent to do different things, get different information, talk to other consciousnesses.”
Open the episode · #2541 - Thomas CampbellListen at 1:13:53
Controlled studies demonstrate health benefits from regular meditation.
“these done well controlled studies have demonstrable health benefits for sure.”
Open the episode · Neuroscience of Emotions & Tools for Improving Emotion Regulation | Dr. Ralph AdolphsListen at 1:57:40
Meditation reveals how attention creates apparent separation from experience.
“what I'm calling meditation is a way of simply understanding the mechanics of attention”
Open the episode · Essentials: Using Meditation to Focus, View Consciousness & Expand Your Mind | Dr. Sam HarrisListen at 8:17
Meditation ultimately involves ceasing distraction rather than adding activity.
“Ultimately, meditation is not a practice that you're adding to your life. It's not doing more of anything. It's actually ceasing to do something.”
Open the episode · Essentials: Using Meditation to Focus, View Consciousness & Expand Your Mind | Dr. Sam HarrisListen at 21:23
Meditation can produce fulfillment before external events occur.
“meditation very directly does this. It reverses the causality and lets you actually change state such that you can be fulfilled before anything happens.”
Open the episode · Essentials: Using Meditation to Focus, View Consciousness & Expand Your Mind | Dr. Sam HarrisListen at 39:44
Meditation can make happiness less dependent on future positive events.
“Your happiness is no longer predicated on the next good thing happening.”
Open the episode · Essentials: Using Meditation to Focus, View Consciousness & Expand Your Mind | Dr. Sam HarrisListen at 39:58
Meditation can enable access to subtler levels of experience, according to Allen.
“if you meditate, if you practice certain practices, you can quiet yourself enough to be able to tap into a lot of the other levels that we actually exist on”
Open the episode · #873: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) (Repost)Listen at 1:01:50
Meditation may help reduce energetic stress.
“Taking the time to feel. Meditation.”
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Meditation quiets left-hemisphere activity and opens access to right-hemisphere processes.
“it's billion dollar industry of meditation to quiet what's going on in the left hemisphere so that we can open up the possibility to what's going on in the right hemisphere.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: The 4 Personalities Living In Your Brain! How To Switch Between ThemListen at 10:28
Meditation is necessary but insufficient for effective emotion regulation.
“It's a necessary but insufficient strategy.”
Open the episode · How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc BrackettListen at 56:49
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