I saw myself as a little girl who was very sad with all the adults around who failed her. Adult me went to her, picked her up, cried with her and at the end of the meditation they walked into space towards the stars. They're one with the universe, and the little girl is finally rescued.
I have been meditating with Sam for the past 5 days and it has made a difference in my life. When I start to get stress I just mentally step back and take deep breaths and retreat for a second or two. It has made me calmer. Thank you Sam Harris you are doing a great thing.
Not sure how many times I have listened to this guided meditation but I know one thing, I will keep coming back to listen to it again. Really enjoy the process Sam Harris takes me through.
Hey Sam, Australia, Melbourne here to help you find the best way to get the podcasts out. Question... Do you ceed to a n"ambiguity of irony" and if so does this have a place in your thoughts. ?Thanks for the first time in the UK. I have a look at the moment. The comments for your help.
Sam has said good things about Advaita Vedanta (one of the classic Hindu paths to spiritual realization) and Dzogchen (a tradition of teachings in Tibetan Buddhism), so I am not surprised that he is guiding this meditation exercise. Great voice to follow.
Noe Berengena thats how u think... but he is digesting thm without giving any credit to his sources... later u will name all this as sam harris meditation.. as oposed to original vipasana..
+nope123 does it really matter who did it first... Sam Harris is not hoarding and hiding his gifts and way of thought... where did vipsana get these meditation practice from?
I prefer this version to the original. Really wish Mr. Harris would do more of these guided meditations! Thanks for uploading this version and saved in my fave meditations playlist! :)
However, I have never noticed anybody who guides me so meticulously and precise into a guided meditation. Only by thinking of he as a guide made me enter alpha in a second. Second time around, though, this is soooo full of insight.
Then you have very limited experience of meditation. He actually talks too much. It's nothing special. But not bad either. Basic guided yoga meditation. But we don't open our eyes mid way through. He definitely talks too much silly nonsense.
I had depersonalisation for a month because of this video be careful. Hearing things like 'the person you think you are, is not actually you, so let go' is a recipe for disaster.
@@croslee i've done the short 8 minute version twice a day, everyday for the last 6 months. It single handedly cured my anxiety. But as far as your comments on LSD i completely disagree with your premise.
I've been trying to notice awareness for over a year And I honestly was it for a second or two half way through this!!,, I'm gonna listen again right now!✨🙏
Formerly, I was listening to a meditation video in which a Christian would say bullshit like, "My body is a temple," and "My life is divinely control." I am very happy to have found an atheistic meditation video. Some Christians have said that hell is anywhere without God; but this video is a hell of a lot like heaven. 😊
This was my very first meditation with Sam, and I've only mediated a few times so far. I felt very productive and felt like I meditated. Lovely experience, Thank you.❤
The best guided meditation I have experience. It allows me to experience the meditation while learning about meditation at the same time. My experience is so much deeper than it has been since I've dedicated myself to meditation.
I love the way the black sphere in the video is invisible and essentially not separate from the environment, that is until all those bloody thoughts gang up on the sphere and make it look like a separate entity. Great analogical graphical poetry my man Sam
i noticed a clear reduction in my stress and anxiety when I used to practice 1 to 2 hours daily. during this period I went through a very bad two months of employment with an asshole of a manager who eventually fired me. I did not lose an hour of sleep and was always calm even when my manager was being extremely dificult.
I found you on oculus go you were exactly why i brought it.... just more proof you create what you want....love love your video\meditation thank you!!!
Please make more of these. I wish Sam Did some of these to music. I know his version of mindfulness is a bit more.... focused and international? But I love these types of videos to just fall asleep to
i keep hearing a popping effect from the audio of this meditation, just like when you plug in your jack, now i can't unhear it and it's driving me crazy
Thank you very much! A meditation video made by a secular neuroscientist is a guarantee for a guided meditation free of pseudoscientific terminology and believes. Arigatou gozaimasu. :)
He is correct. Unfortunately for you, it is not your time... with that attitude you may be another 250 lifetime's away from your own peace and joy. Sucks for you. I will just be over here enjoying my life. Enjoy your own suffering... stay awake forever my child.
4:25 When his face appeared out of the darkness I just heard this echoing voice in my head saying: "Ben Stiller stiller stiller..." and I just couldn't help but laugh..
I went into this starting a anxious panic attack and came of out it enjoying my space/life! I didn’t know there was a longer version of this, it’s great! 😍 and the lights were stunning!
Before Sam Harris I knew I had a brain and that I was a conscious sentient being, however after Sam I think about it a lot more now and all I can say is life became awesome again and isn’t everything enough
I’ve got question for someone more enlightened to possibly answer? Sam says we do not authorise thoughts we simply observe them arise therefore we are just the mirror on the thoughts, but earlier in the video he asks us to visualise an object over our visual field isn’t that authorising a thought ? To think of the candle you have to authorise the thought, how do we know we aren’t subconsciously authorising every thought ?
So, here is how I understand it. We are expected to comprehend that thoughts simply exist in the same field of consciousness as any other object. So we don't exactly resist the formation of thoughts, but observe them. The goal is to become aware that they rise, to look at it as a participant. So, when he means we don't authorize a thought, I understand it as placing it at a lower significance. So thoughts are a part of our memories, our neurotransmitters, but Sam Harris urges us to observe if we are each of those thoughts, or are we simply consciousness and if the self exists at all. If you read Waking Up, he discusses at various points how the self simply does not exist.
This is where Sam is at home. There are moments where I sense his antagonistic militantly atheist facade float away into the moment. I hope he continues this. He’s so brilliant and has so much insight. May it not be lost in his anger towards religious dogma
You are more than your consciousness. There is an other within you and that other is not to be seen as alien or far from you but on the contrary as being close to you and at the source of who you really are.
This is a positively disintegrated thought. It is not me but a culmination of nerve impulses transliterated to the common tongue by a mere act of will - but the thought is not me and I am not the thought.... :)
That there is gold. And I really needed it. At one point I had some kind of wow experience. Using the word "wow" instead of divine because I don't wanna sound cheesy. Does anyone know if this is how Sam Harris app is? Does narrate all the sessions. Im definitely doing this again tomorrow
I’ve always loved Sam’s voice I’m so glad I found this
I saw myself as a little girl who was very sad with all the adults around who failed her. Adult me went to her, picked her up, cried with her and at the end of the meditation they walked into space towards the stars. They're one with the universe, and the little girl is finally rescued.
i wish sam would do more of these hes the best at guided meditation
hes building a meditation app atm
or so he says.... the rapture may come before his app.
he's been talking about his meditation app since last summer. Hopefully its almost ready !!
Jake Brooks... haaaa! Indeed!
Every DAY the app seems to be two days further away....
and the drumpf/putin/lil'kim rapture gets a week closer! :-o
The APP is now available :)
I went into a trance and heard Sam say “Stephen, thanks for coming on the podcast.”
Falling Asleep with Sam Harris
You just made that the easiest 30 minutes I’ve ever experienced in meditation. Thanks .
Thanks so much Sam. You are living proof that the US still has a few very smart and caring people within its borders. This is so helpful for my PTSD.
I have been meditating for 40. Years. I find this meditation perfect. So many phrases that can take you deep into the center of consciousness.
I agree and have listened many times. I also suggest Mooji, who I was shocked by the insight I experienced.
Who here in 2024. Still using the voice of Sam as a lullaby.
“Take a moment to open your eyes”
*sees Sam Harris staring intensely into my soul*
The zen masters said if you are meditating and buddha a comes kill the buddha immediately don't spare a single moment
LMFAO
LOL The Soul ??? That thing Sam dosnt believe that exist?
Just had that moment, it was nerve-wracking seeing a hybrid of harris / Ben stiller, materialize from nothing
@@morfarson8592 omg yes that was me too.
I have been meditating with Sam for the past 5 days and it has made a difference in my life. When I start to get stress I just mentally step back and take deep breaths and retreat for a second or two. It has made me calmer. Thank you Sam Harris you are doing a great thing.
How are you doin?
Not sure how many times I have listened to this guided meditation but I know one thing, I will keep coming back to listen to it again. Really enjoy the process Sam Harris takes me through.
Fun fact: there is no music in this video, this is just what Sam Harris sounds like.
Deus Ex 😂😂😂😂
Hey Sam, Australia, Melbourne here to help you find the best way to get the podcasts out. Question... Do you ceed to a n"ambiguity of irony" and if so does this have a place in your thoughts. ?Thanks for the first time in the UK. I have a look at the moment. The comments for your help.
Bro. 😆
Playback at .75x for a guide through a sci-fi dream.
@@EugeneShmidt I'm so gonna do that thank s* for the inn ... ¿
Sam has said good things about Advaita Vedanta (one of the classic Hindu paths to spiritual realization) and Dzogchen (a tradition of teachings in Tibetan Buddhism), so I am not surprised that he is guiding this meditation exercise. Great voice to follow.
Noe Berengena I hear you!
Noe Berengena thats how u think... but he is digesting thm without giving any credit to his sources... later u will name all this as sam harris meditation.. as oposed to original vipasana..
nope123 Since labels, conspets and traditions are really what should be focused in meditation ;)
+nope123 does it really matter who did it first... Sam Harris is not hoarding and hiding his gifts and way of thought... where did vipsana get these meditation practice from?
"...just view the world as a single sphere of color, light and shadow"
Pure poetry.
Going to be the name of my next band, Color Light and Shadow.
MindBody Labs Sounds like a good album name
I got confused here. What am I supposed to visualize?
I prefer this version to the original. Really wish Mr. Harris would do more of these guided meditations! Thanks for uploading this version and saved in my fave meditations playlist! :)
He speaks so calmly yet fully articulates every single word it’s amazing
I think I've added a hundred views to this video
same here
I added 200.
Chris P I love the atmospheric music it really adds to the relaxation vibe
SURE!
but.... how many LISTENS....
or, more so, how many THINKS
and how many AWARENESS's have you given it? ;-)
Chris P me too
The best meditation i'v had since I started a year ago. Wow!!
This meditation is soooo good! He’s so clear and articulate. Amazing stuff right here.
Mr. Harris I love your matter-of-fact no-nonsense delivery in a polite manner best meditation I ever heard thank you
Meow
Thanks dude, I really love the reverb especially - it makes his voice more pervasive and less sleepy-making.
This is nice I just wish his voice didn’t sound like my lawyer’s
This vid doesn’t charge you each time you interact with it tho
This shit has me dying lol
Imagine Sam harris as your lawyer in a soothing voice saying the many ways you are screwed legally in this situation.
That’s so funny
LMFAO
Got this video recommendation from my therapist for my sleep and honestly the best sleep I've had in a bit.
However, I have never noticed anybody who guides me so meticulously and precise into a guided meditation. Only by thinking of he as a guide made me enter alpha in a second. Second time around, though, this is soooo full of insight.
Then you have very limited experience of meditation. He actually talks too much. It's nothing special. But not bad either. Basic guided yoga meditation. But we don't open our eyes mid way through. He definitely talks too much silly nonsense.
ahhh this on a TV while me and 2 friends tripped., unreal. And keep the video and add Alt-j. Wonderful.
I think this might be the most successful guided medication I've ever tried out, first time I ever became a mirror
It felt as though I was nearing a sense of ego death. Really intense stuff.
Me too kind of a slight glimpse of an ego death
I had depersonalisation for a month because of this video be careful. Hearing things like 'the person you think you are, is not actually you, so let go' is a recipe for disaster.
@@croslee i've done the short 8 minute version twice a day, everyday for the last 6 months. It single handedly cured my anxiety. But as far as your comments on LSD i completely disagree with your premise.
@@josephbriffa120 How would words affect you that much.
@@NessieAndrew meditation is alot more then just words my freind. Surely if you've listed to sam in the past you would know that
I’ve watched this 100 times. Thanks for putting such appropriate music to this mediation. PS: make more 🤞
I've been trying to notice awareness for over a year And I honestly was it for a second or two half way through this!!,, I'm gonna listen again right now!✨🙏
Formerly, I was listening to a meditation video in which a Christian would say bullshit like, "My body is a temple," and "My life is divinely control." I am very happy to have found an atheistic meditation video. Some Christians have said that hell is anywhere without God; but this video is a hell of a lot like heaven. 😊
This was my very first meditation with Sam, and I've only mediated a few times so far. I felt very productive and felt like I meditated. Lovely experience, Thank you.❤
I love his voice .. just discovered him recently. What a gem.
Yo. These visuals are dope.
Meditation is good too.
The best guided meditation I have experience. It allows me to experience the meditation while learning about meditation at the same time. My experience is so much deeper than it has been since I've dedicated myself to meditation.
I love the way the black sphere in the video is invisible and essentially not separate from the environment, that is until all those bloody thoughts gang up on the sphere and make it look like a separate entity. Great analogical graphical poetry my man Sam
I do this every day. Sometimes 2 or 3 times...
So whats happening now, have you become headless?. I mean significantly increase your happiness.
i noticed a clear reduction in my stress and anxiety when I used to practice 1 to 2 hours daily.
during this period I went through a very bad two months of employment with an asshole of a manager who eventually fired me. I did not lose an hour of sleep and was always calm even when my manager was being extremely dificult.
i have not been meditating much recently and I have noticed a clear resurgence of anxiety due to small things
This is the best meditation ever. It takes me right into pure consciousness.
how? Please help me, meditation seems to do nothing for me
I found you on oculus go you were exactly why i brought it.... just more proof you create what you want....love love your video\meditation thank you!!!
Please make more of these. I wish Sam Did some of these to music. I know his version of mindfulness is a bit more.... focused and international? But I love these types of videos to just fall asleep to
This is just fantastic - so much wisdom here
Sam Harris meditation is good housekeeping for your brain!
I really enjoy this version with the background music.
This meditation is a treasure to us people
This meditation is everything. Me making me aware of me.
Slept for six hours waking up every half hour with this. Amazing.
Thank you. This was awesome!
I only have a few meditations. I want to really understand how and why we are SELFLESS? Thank you SH, you really want to help humanity.
The last 4 letters in the URL
MdmA
lol
Lmaoo haha
i keep hearing a popping effect from the audio of this meditation, just like when you plug in your jack, now i can't unhear it and it's driving me crazy
Just incorporate it into your meditation. You need to observe and be aware of all the distractions that arise. It doesn't have to be a problem.
I appreciate this very much. Thank you
Thank you Sam very realistic really appreciate it!
I thought i was looking at Ben Stiller at the beginning...maybe that's who my spirit guide is....
Steven D. Maye LOL
I was thinking the same thing. Harris and Stiller...I would have thought they're brothers, even twins.
He talks too much.
@@setback4908 it's tough when the horses won't talk back ... E D lol
zen stiller
Sooo good! Thanks for this.
Thank you very much! A meditation video made by a secular neuroscientist is a guarantee for a guided meditation free of pseudoscientific terminology and believes. Arigatou gozaimasu. :)
For those people saying it's bullshit and meditation doesn't work says more about you yourself than the benefits from meditation. Stay asleep.
Mr. High and Mighty Knowing More Than Others, we bow to you and your ego.
He is correct. Unfortunately for you, it is not your time... with that attitude you may be another 250 lifetime's away from your own peace and joy. Sucks for you.
I will just be over here enjoying my life. Enjoy your own suffering... stay awake forever my child.
"A mirror is never changed by what it reflects"
Amazing, thank you!
Got a sharp stab of anxiety when I momentarily lost my ego at around the 22 minutiae mark
Celebrating my 1000th view of this meditation
Absolutely amazing
Great to come back to, after training somewhat in some of the things he and others focus on.
💎Incomparable!!
Does Sam Harris dream of electric sheep?
This is brilliant.
This is fantastic. Thank you so mych
Pretty intense
This type of exercise is fine for the mind but if you suffer from 24/7 chronic inflammatory pain???
4:25 When his face appeared out of the darkness I just heard this echoing voice in my head saying: "Ben Stiller stiller stiller..." and I just couldn't help but laugh..
Rrrrrrrrrh.rrrrrrrreeerrrreeerrreeeer
Awesome as always thax Sam!
I need more of these videos
Great way to start each day
I went into this starting a anxious panic attack and came of out it enjoying my space/life! I didn’t know there was a longer version of this, it’s great! 😍 and the lights were stunning!
Thanks Sam ❤
Before Sam Harris I knew I had a brain and that I was a conscious sentient being, however after Sam I think about it a lot more now and all I can say is life became awesome again and isn’t everything enough
So Peaceful... 🌿🕊️
Thank you 🙏🏼
love this channel, it always inspires me with my channel :)
Thank you acid man
When did Ben Stiller become a spiritually enlightened being
WE MUST ALL REALIZE THE KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS WITHIN
I’ve got question for someone more enlightened to possibly answer? Sam says we do not authorise thoughts we simply observe them arise therefore we are just the mirror on the thoughts, but earlier in the video he asks us to visualise an object over our visual field isn’t that authorising a thought ? To think of the candle you have to authorise the thought, how do we know we aren’t subconsciously authorising every thought ?
So, here is how I understand it. We are expected to comprehend that thoughts simply exist in the same field of consciousness as any other object. So we don't exactly resist the formation of thoughts, but observe them. The goal is to become aware that they rise, to look at it as a participant. So, when he means we don't authorize a thought, I understand it as placing it at a lower significance. So thoughts are a part of our memories, our neurotransmitters, but Sam Harris urges us to observe if we are each of those thoughts, or are we simply consciousness and if the self exists at all. If you read Waking Up, he discusses at various points how the self simply does not exist.
He helped me a lot with my thoughts
If I were not an atheist, I'd say Sam Harris is a god. 😎
What was used to produce these animations?
This is where Sam is at home. There are moments where I sense his antagonistic militantly atheist facade float away into the moment. I hope he continues this. He’s so brilliant and has so much insight. May it not be lost in his anger towards religious dogma
You are more than your consciousness. There is an other within you and that other is not to be seen as alien or far from you but on the contrary as being close to you and at the source of who you really are.
Needed that. Thanks
Thank you Sam.
Very nice. Thank you
Thanks.
Amazing!
It's beautiful
Sam H. is my newest 'big find' here in u-tube world ... with this first rate production out of his intelligence
Thanks Sam
This was truly great.
That what is aware of pain is not pain. That what is aware of thought is not thought, or is it.
This is a positively disintegrated thought. It is not me but a culmination of nerve impulses transliterated to the common tongue by a mere act of will - but the thought is not me and I am not the thought.... :)
That there is gold. And I really needed it. At one point I had some kind of wow experience. Using the word "wow" instead of divine because I don't wanna sound cheesy. Does anyone know if this is how Sam Harris app is? Does narrate all the sessions. Im definitely doing this again tomorrow
You can do twice the amount of meditation in the same amount of time if you use x2 speed :D