#129 Ariel Garten - Why Proper Meditation Feels Different

26/11/2025 50 min
#129 Ariel Garten - Why Proper Meditation Feels Different

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Learn more about muse here; https://choosemuse.com/tadbChapters:0:00 Welcome to Take a Deep Breath0:49 Why a Neuroscientist Couldn't Meditate2:03 The Real Reasons People Struggle with Meditation2:54 What IS Meditation? Science Explained4:06 Game-Changing Benefits You'll Actually Notice5:53 The Minimum Effective Dose for Results7:05 Serial Meditation Failures Unite7:29 How Muse Tracks Your Brain in Real-Time9:03 What Are You Actually Doing When Meditating?10:44 Focus on Breath or Let Thoughts Pass?12:40 How to Change Your Relationship with Emotions13:20 Breath Awareness vs Breath Work in Meditation15:23 Body-Led Meditation Deep Dive16:33 Dropping Into Your Body & Out of Your Mind18:28 The Truth About Pain & Secondary Suffering19:51 NASA's Mars Meditation Experiments21:58 How Muse Transformed Sleep Science24:29 The Digital Sleeping Pill That Actually Works25:54 Deep Sleep Stimulation Breakthrough28:30 How Much Deep Sleep Do You Really Need?30:31 Avoid This Common Sleep Mistake31:27 Mental Fitness vs Physical Fitness33:33 How to Measure Your Mental Fitness34:31 Oxygen Flow to Your Brain Explained36:42 Training Your Brain to Demand More Oxygen38:40 Breath Work Meets Brain Tracking41:02 Best Time to Meditate (Honest Answer)43:16 Eyes Open vs Eyes Closed Meditation45:35 Lying Down vs Sitting Meditation47:14 You Are More Wonderful Than You Think48:26 Final Thanks & Discount Code

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