Andrew Huberman· PhD
my laboratory has shown benefits in stress reduction, improvement in sleep, et cetera, with a five-minute-a-day meditation.
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my laboratory has shown benefits in stress reduction, improvement in sleep, et cetera, with a five-minute-a-day meditation.
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There's good evidence that even three minutes of meditation can be beneficial for a variety of things, including enhanced focus and enhanced anxiety management.
The better that you get at dropping into a particular brain state and the more your so-called traits of brain state shift, not just states as they're sometimes referred to, but traits, this is a theme that I've picked up from a terrific book that I'll refer to later, but the more that you can get into specific neural circuits quickly, actually, the less you need to meditate in order to derive the benefits of meditation.
And in fact, there are some studies of one-minute meditations and three-minute meditations and 10 and 60. My laboratory has been studying a 5-minute-a-day meditation, and that clearly has benefits, but I think it's also clear that by three minutes, many of the benefits are starting to arrive.
My laboratory has been studying a 5-minute-a-day meditation, and that clearly has benefits, but I think it's also clear that by three minutes, many of the benefits are starting to arrive.
And work from my laboratory, in collaboration with Dr. David Spiegel at Stanford, department of psychiatry has shown that even briefer meditations of even just five minutes per day can have fairly outsized positive effects on a number of different parameters, as well.
In her studies, that was also shown that sort of brief meditation could also greatly enhance mood and sleep and various aspects of cognitive performance.
However, the research on meditation has shown us that meditation, at least short meditations, mainly lead to improvements in focus and memory, not so much reductions in stress, although they do lead to reductions in stress.
if it's hey meditate every day and if you do a three minute meditation that you know you're better off doing three minutes a day than 20 minutes once a week