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How Meditation Works & Science-Based Effective Meditations

2022/10/31
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是一位专注于神经科学、学习和健康的斯坦福大学教授和播客主持人。
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Andrew Huberman: 本期播客深入探讨了冥想的科学机制,包括冥想过程中大脑和身体的变化,以及冥想对大脑和身体的长期影响。研究表明,冥想可以减轻抑郁症状,增强注意力,改善睡眠质量,提高幸福感等。冥想的有效性与冥想时间长短并非简单的正相关关系,熟练掌握冥想技巧后,即使冥想时间较短,也能获得显著益处。 本期播客还介绍了多种冥想练习方法,包括闭眼静坐、内观冥想、外观冥想等,并讲解了不同冥想方法的原理及针对特定目标(如增强专注力、改善情绪、提高睡眠质量等)的应用方法。此外,播客还强调了在冥想练习中调节内感受和外感受的平衡,以及内感受和解离之间的平衡的重要性。 Andrew Huberman: 冥想练习的关键在于坚持,而不是时间长短。即使是短暂的冥想练习,也能带来益处。此外,冥想练习中呼吸方式也很重要。吸气时间长于呼气时间会让人更警觉,反之则更放松。有意识的呼吸练习本身可以被视为一种冥想。 Andrew Huberman: 健康的内心状态应该在内感受和解离之间保持平衡。冥想练习可以帮助人们在内感受和解离之间保持平衡,从而提高幸福感和改善睡眠质量。瑜伽尼德拉和非睡眠深度休息(NSDR)是两种可以改善睡眠的冥想练习方法。 Andrew Huberman: 本期播客还介绍了一种新的冥想练习方法:时空桥接(STB),该方法结合了内感受、外感受和时间维度,可以帮助人们灵活地调整注意力,提高身心健康水平。

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This chapter introduces meditation, dispelling common misconceptions and highlighting its diverse practices. It emphasizes the importance of selecting the right practice to achieve specific goals, such as mood improvement, focus enhancement, and sleep optimization. The chapter also briefly outlines the episode's structure, focusing on the biology of meditation and effective techniques.
  • Meditation encompasses various practices, from seated with eyes closed to walking with eyes open.
  • Effective meditation practices lead to long-term brain and body changes.
  • Choosing the right practice is crucial for achieving specific goals.

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In this episode, I discuss the biological mechanisms of the state changes that occur during different types of meditation and describe how to develop the meditation practice optimal for you. I explain key meditation principles, such as using specific breathwork patterns and adjusting your perception to specific locations along the continuum between interoception, exteroception and dissociation. I discuss how meditation practices lead to long-term trait changes and neuroplasticity, including changing your default mood, reducing baseline anxiety/depression, increasing your ability to focus, enhancing relaxation, improving sleep, and increasing your overall happiness level. I also explain the concept behind the “third-eye center,” what mindfulness is from a biological standpoint, the power of ultra-brief meditations and how to select the best meditation and time and duration to meditate to meet your need. I also explain a novel open-eyed perception-based meditation that may enhance focus, relaxation and task-switching ability. Whether you are a novice or an experienced meditator or simply interested in how our brain controls different aspects of conscious awareness and self-regulation, this episode should interest you.

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Timestamps

(00:00:00) Meditation

(00:04:48) Sponsor: LMNT

(00:08:25) Brief History of Meditation: Consciousness, Psychedelics, fMRI

(00:16:19) How the Brain Interprets the Body & Surrounding Environment; Mindfulness

(00:26:07) Neuroscience of Meditation; Perceptual Spotlights

(00:31:58) Sponsor: AG1

(00:33:41) Interoception vs. Exteroception

(00:42:20) Default Mode Network, Continuum of Interoception & Exteroception

(00:53:30) Tools: Interoceptive or Exteroceptive Bias, Meditation Challenge

(01:01:48) State & Trait Changes, Interoceptive & Exteroceptive Meditations, Refocusing

(01:07:35) Tool: Brief Meditations, Waking Up App

(01:10:30) “Third Eye Center” & Wandering Thoughts

(01:20:46) Meditation: Practice Types, Focal Points & Consistency

(01:24:10) Breathwork: Cyclic Hyperventilation, Box Breathing & Interoception

(01:30:41) Tool: Meditation Breathwork, Cyclic vs. Complex Breathwork

(01:39:22) Interoception vs. Dissociation, Trauma

(01:47:43) Model of Interoception & Dissociation Continuum

(01:53:39) Meditation & Dissociation: Mood, Bias & Corresponding Challenge

(02:00:18) Meditation & Sleep: Yoga Nidra, Non-Sleep Deep Rest (NSDR)

(02:11:33) Choosing a Meditative Practice; Hypnosis

(02:14:53) Tool: Space-Time Bridging (STB)

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