Dr Sam Harris Using Meditation to Focus View Consciousness Expand Your Mind Huberman Lab 105

My guest is Sam Harris Ph D Sam earned his bachelor s degree in philosophy from Stanford University and his doctorate Ph D in neuroscience from the University of California Los Angeles UCLA He is the author of multiple best-selling books and is a world-renowned public-facing intellectual on meditation consciousness free will psychedelics and neuroscience He is also the creator of Waking Up and the host of the Making Sense podcast In this episode we discuss meditation as a route to understanding the self and experiencing consciousness not just changing one s conscious state Sam describes several meditation techniques and their benefits including how meditation fundamentally changes our worldview and how it can be merged seamlessly into daily life It can help us overcome universal challenges such as distractibility and persistent internal dialogue chatter to allow for deep contentment and pervasive shifts in our awareness all while acknowledging the more immediate stress-lowering and memory-improving effects of meditation We also discuss the therapeutic use of psychedelics and the mechanistic similarities between the benefits of a psychedelic journey and long-term meditation practices And we discuss the rationale behind Sam s recent decision to close his social media Twitter account This episode should interest anyone wanting to learn more about the higher order functions of the brain the brain-body connection consciousness and of course meditation and why and how to meditate for maximum benefit HubermanLab SamHarris Meditation Thank you to our sponsors AG1 Athletic Greens a https 3A 2F 2Fathleticgreens com 2Fhuberman a Levels a https 3A 2F 2Flevels link 2Fhuberman a WHOOP a https 3A 2F 2Fjoin whoop com 2Fhuberman a Eight Sleep a https 3A 2F 2Feightsleep com 2Fhuberman a InsideTracker a https 3A 2F 2Fwww insidetracker com 2Fhuberman a Supplements from Momentous a https 3A 2F 2Fwww livemomentous com 2Fhuberman a Huberman Lab Special Offer for Waking Up a https 3A 2F 2Fwww wakingup com 2Fhuberman a Huberman Lab Premium a https 3A 2F 2Fhubermanlab com 2Fpremium a Social Website Instagram a https 3A 2F 2Fwww instagram com 2Fhubermanlab a Twitter a https 3A 2F 2Ftwitter com 2Fhubermanlab a Facebook a https 3A 2F 2Fwww facebook com 2Fhubermanlab a TikTok a https 3A 2F 2Fwww tiktok com 2F 40hubermanlab a LinkedIn a https 3A 2F 2Fwww linkedin com 2Fin 2Fandrew-huberman a Website a https 3A 2F 2Fhubermanlab com a Newsletter a https 3A 2F 2Fhubermanlab com a neural-network Dr Sam Harris Waking Up app a https 3A 2F 2Fwww wakingup com 2Fhuberman a Making Sense podcast a https 3A 2F 2Fwww samharris org 2Fpodcasts a Website a https 3A 2F 2Fwww samharris org a Instagram a https 3A 2F 2Fwww instagram com 2Fsamharrisorg a YouTube a https 3A 2F 2Fwww youtube com 2F 40samharrisorg a Facebook a https 3A 2F 2Fwww facebook com 2FSamharrisorg a Books Waking Up A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion a https 3A 2F 2Famzn to 2F3Z51pIb a Making Sense Conversations on Consciousness Morality and the Future of Humanity a https 3A 2F 2Famzn to 2F3CgbIQ3 a Timestamps 00 00 00 Dr Sam Harris 00 04 36 Levels WHOOP Eight Sleep Momentous 00 08 54 Sense of Self Meditation Dualism of Self 00 18 07 Sense of Self in Brain Body 00 25 28 Consciousness vs Contents Meditation 00 28 25 Interrupting Sense of Self Attentional Focus Visual Saccade 00 33 30 Observer Actor Default Mode Network Meditation Blind Spot 00 40 48 AG1 Athletic Greens 00 41 57 Mediation Paths to Understanding Consciousness Non-Dualistic Experience 00 57 32 Sense of Self throughout Evolution 01 07 40 Sense of Self from Human Development Language 01 18 42 InsideTracker 01 19 46 Internal Dialogue Distractibility Mindfulness 01 26 27 Time Perception Mindfulness Vipassana Meditation Resistance Pain 01 37 13 Consciousness Sense of Control Free Will 01 43 14 Authoring Thoughts Storytelling Ideas Free Will 01 52 11 Meditation the Paradoxical Search for Self 02 06 44 Meditation Concentration Practice 02 11 58 Mindfulness Skylike Mind Thoughts 02 15 11 States of Self Context Dualistic Experiences 02 32 39 Distraction Identification of Thoughts Meditation Flow States 02 42 58 Eyes-Open Meditations Sense of Self Visual Cues Social Interactions 02 54 59 Paths to Meditation Mindfulness Meditation Step-Functions 03 05 58 Psychedelics MDMA Experiences in Consciousness Religion 03 21 11 Meditation Psychedelic Journeys Inner Truths 03 29 48 Psilocybin Ego-Dissolution Thought Expansion 03 40 09 Process vs Achievement of Goals Fulfillment in Present 03 54 29 Leaving Twitter Conflict Life Interruption Politics 04 06 14 Social Media Attentional Disruption Deep Work 04 15 39 Meditation Sense of Self 04 19 02 Sam Harris Waking Up App Zero-Cost Support YouTube Feedback Spotify Apple Reviews Sponsors Momentous Social Media Neural Network Newsletter Disclaimer a https 3A 2F 2Fhubermanlab com a disclaimer Title Card Photo Credit Mike Blabac - a https 3A 2F 2Fwww blabacphoto com a

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