Andrew Huberman· PhD
I've been meditating for a fair amount since I was in my teens, but more along the lines of paying attention to breath and open-observer type meditation, or focused-attention.
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I've been meditating for a fair amount since I was in my teens, but more along the lines of paying attention to breath and open-observer type meditation, or focused-attention.
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So I essentially designed, and I'm sure other people have done it, but a meditation that, the name doesn't matter, but that essentially consists of the following. I would sit or stand and close my eyes and just focus on everything from my skin inward, my breathing for maybe the three breath cycles, and just really focus on what's right here. Then I would open my eyes, I would look at my body from the outside, like look at my hand and focus my attention and look there, and breathe for three cycles, you know, three breaths. Then I would focus my attention on something maybe eight to 10 feet away and do the same, and then to the most distant point I could. And then I would imagine myself, I would kind of go pale blue dot mentality, and I would think, "Oh, I'm right here in my room or on this cliff, and we're on a big rock spinning in space."