Qualy #94 - Comparing the two broad types of meditation, and Peter’s favorite meditation apps

The Peter Attia Drive

Peter Attia, MD

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Fitness

4.7 • 7.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode of The Qualys is from podcast #34 – Sam Harris, Ph.D.: The transformative power of mindfulness.

The Qualys is a subscriber-exclusive podcast, released Tuesday through Friday, and published exclusively on our private, subscriber-only podcast feed. Qualys is short-hand for “qualifying round,” which are typically the fastest laps driven in a race car—done before the race to determine starting position on the grid for race day. The Qualys are short (i.e., “fast”), typically less than ten minutes, and highlight the best questions, topics, and tactics discussed on The Drive.

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0:00.0	Welcome to a special bonus episode of the Peter Atia Qualies, a member exclusive podcast.
0:16.3	The Qualies is just a shorthand slang for Qualification Round, which is something you do prior
0:20.6	to the race, just much quicker.
0:22.5	The Qualies highlight the best of the questions, topics and tactics that are discussed in previous
0:28.0	episodes of the drive.
0:30.1	So if you enjoy the quality, you can access dozens more of them through our membership
0:33.6	program.
0:35.2	Without further delay, I hope you enjoy today's quality.
0:41.0	You've talked about this idea of noticing what is arising versus not noticing at all.
0:46.1	Can you elaborate on this?
0:48.1	Yeah, well, so I guess I should define mindfulness, which is really the target state that one
0:54.2	is trying to cultivate in at least this probably what's the most popular type of meditation
1:00.1	now?
1:01.1	I mean, they're different as you alluded to.
1:02.1	They're different types.
1:03.6	They're two basic types of meditation where the distinction is between being lost and
1:09.9	thought and being clearly aware of whatever the object of meditation is.
1:15.6	So that's true for all types of meditation.
1:18.3	Thought really is the obstacle.
1:21.3	One is overcoming, one is learning to meditate because our natural or default mode is to
1:26.9	just be lost and thought.
1:28.4	We're telling ourselves a story all day long and we're not aware of it.
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