Waking Up with Sam Harris - Mindfulness Meditation (9 minutes)
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- This is a 9-minute mindfulness meditation, led by Sam Harris. In 2018, Sam created the Waking Up app to be the resource he would’ve wanted when he started meditating three decades ago.
To learn more about Waking Up and start a free trial, visit: wakingup.com.
Waking Up is free for anyone who can't afford it-so, if you'd like to listen to more meditations like this one, there's no reason not to try out the app.
Waking Up not only teaches the theory and practice of mindfulness-in a way that’s completely free of New Age fluff or religious dogma-but also acts a guide to living a better, more fulfilling, more examined life.
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He didn't tell me when to stop. I've been here for 5 hours
:) Huston Smith the great writer on religion, once said he called his Yoga teacher and said: Master, I have been sitting here with my right foot in my left pocket and and my left foot in my right pocket. I would so appreciate your help in coming out of this state! :)
I thought he was so going, so I observed the silence.
I originally thought it would be helpful to have an "ending" to let us know when the 9 minutes is up, but then again, ... it leaves it up to us when we're through our own meditation.
Lol
Buddha?
It automatically played the Joe Rogan episode with Sam afterwards and it starts with Joe going "SSSSSSSSSAM HARRIS, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!" and freaked me out lol
I had to turn my auto play OFF because of this exact fear.
😂😂yeah that would’ve scared the piss out of me haha
That clever bastard, making us meditate longer without realising it had ended.
👍☺️
Yeah! (LOL!) He's good, isn't he?
How do I stop the next video loading and disturbing me at the end?
@@tomesky In order to keep the next video from playing automatically, you just have to disable the autoplay. Within the video frame there's a switch that shows a pause sign ( ll ) with a sliding button ( o). This button must be drawn to the left side, next to the pause sign.
Now, this action only prevents the next video from playing automatically. However, if there's an ad at the end of the video currently playing, it will play anyway, until the video reaches the end of the video's timeline.
I hope my explanation will be easy to understand.
Blessed are those who read my "Evidence of God", for they shall obtain proof of God. Find my "Evidence of God" in the comments. To make that easier, change the comment settings on the video to "Newest" and then scroll down gently. Take care!💫📚✍️
this one guided mediation is the one that ALWAYS does it for me. Love that theres no music, no crazy fantasy visualizations.. just super simple and you fade away and don't even realize he stopped talking.
I was just like that, but autoplay started something else and that broke me out of it. I will have it without autoplay tomorrow
That’s because there was never a “you” to fade away
I didn't even realize the meditation was done, lol. Thanks Sam. :)
Unfortunately for me, RUclips autoplay was on and the meditation was suddenly disrupted when another video started playing.
Notice the tinnitus ringing in your ears, let the hiss from your damaged hearing remind you of peaceful ocean waves...
Hahah, I have tinnitus too but not that severe and it lessens when I meditate. I saw a lecturer who talked about how yoga and meditation helped him get rid of severe tinnitus after an accident
@@aqslayer19 That's weird, my tinnitus is very noticeable when I meditate. I know Sam has it too and I think he once said it can be an object of meditation.
@@juani2929 I've experienced that too, but my tinnitus is so subtle that if I don't pay very close attention to it, it's not there. Smoking weed used to make it worse, but I stopped that long ago
sam has tinnitus
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How wonderful it is to have a guide that doesn't muck it up with spooky nonsense.
Thank you, Sam Harris. Thank you very much.
Have you been keeping up the meditation? Is the spooky nonsense still mucking it up?
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hows ur progress as a person 3 year later. are you on your path to greatness?
@@omegamon 😂😂😂🤣🙏
that made me think of Joe dispenza how he uses effects on his voice😂 super trippy.
I can't tell for how long have I been sitting here after the video have ended.
But it felt great!
Hahahaa same
The world would probably be a less crazy place if we learned this stuff in school.
I actually had the possibility to choose it as a subject in school this year
I had as a choosable class in middle school for 30 minutes in the middle of the day. I for real think that's when I was the most emotionally mature in my life
Wow, am I seeing improvements in public education before my very eyes? 🎊 🎉
Thanks Ben Stiller, appreciate it!
Reminds me walter mitty every time sees his lectures.
Ben Stiller?!
That's not even his name, you fucking idiot. It's Zen Stiller. ZEN Stiller. How hard can it be?!
Thanks to Sam I've ben stiller..
Zen Stiller
After years of meditative practice and having listened to hundreds of different guided meditations, nobody has helped to bring clarity to my practice in the same way as Harris. His style has helped me to unlock the full potential of meditation and he does so in such a straightforward way without any of the hocus pocus that so many other practitioners rely on.
I feel so relaxed when I close my eyes put on headphone sit in a lonely place and listen this.This is not sure from this world.Nothing in this universe is better and calming then this .Try it once
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The lack of music helps
He’s been doing it for over 30 years I believe. I suppose he would know 😂
It's cool how mindfulness alternates between types of focus. Like being aware of a thought but coming back to a focus point then letting the mind go back to the thought then bringing it back to the focus point. It's like weightlifting for focus with rest periods between sets.
Oh my goodness this is a radically wonderful visual picture! I love the focus weightlifting image!!
I am not the only one who kept waiting for him to tell me to stop and half hour later 😂 feeling refreshed!! Thanks Sam
It's so refreshing to have a guided meditation with no droning synthesizer track. As a beginner, the chord changes always take me out of the moment.
You can use only music for meditation as well. Same like Tibetan bowls 🙏
I always return to this 9 minute meditation routine when I am overwhelmed by work/stress. It works wonders.
Should be 10 minutes...
At the beginning of the guide I had so many thoughts, ruled by negative emotions all over me. Towards the end, there was only one thing that I wanted to remember, that I have to thank you Sam for bringing me back to the calm state I longed to be back in, for years. Words simply do not do justice to how much I appreciate this experience.
This is helpful beyond description. Thank you so much Sam! As ex-muslim, you're definitely one of the people I look up to.
An old god for a new? Jk
Sam Harris is an ex Muslim? I never knew that!
@@Forestier1 I'M an ex-muslim not him.
@@Fullyautomagic he's not praying five times a day and advocates for the killing of apostates and gay people for Sam Harris.
Thats some horrible english right there
Sam is one of the people who inspired me to share my mindfulness journey.
I started deeply looking into meditation as someone who struggles with a constantly wandering mind since early university days. Some days are easy but most days are incredibly hard to be present constantly, especially as a student. But Sam's podcast and audio on meditation has genuinely helped me become a better person and more importantly actively try to be a mindful person. Especially within a secular discourse.
Days are not easy but its the littles steps consistently that count!
This is one of my favorites on youtube. Its not some beautiful person sitting crossed legged under a waterfall, or a ride in outer space. This is a true guided meditation. Added to my Favorite's guided meditations playlist. Thank you!
When he described meditation as the practice of being aware of consciousness, it clicked for me. So useful
Fantastic, thank you Sam. Took me only 50 minutes to realise the video ended. 10/10 will listen again.
Intrusive thoughts started creeping up on me when I was 12. I’m 22 now and this 8 minute meditation has brought me peace of mind for the last 10 years. Especially helps me fall asleep these days.
I got startled when the next video started, hahaha.
Sam has taught me that I'm terribly bad at meditation, yet, I still keep coming back. I feel like I'm going to master this any day now....
Reading his book, he mentions it can take months to years to get it down, so no worries.
i always return to this video every morning, thanks sam
For the people who don't know when the video stops there is a 30 min version of this mindful meditation. Also meditation never has to end as it brings our being into a sense of peace and awareness. There's a lot of love in knowing that.
Simple. Elegant. Effective. Thank you 🙏🏼
I am starting to use mindfulness meditation in combination with a derivative of K to acknowledge and process my grief. My father passed away on Christmas Day, 2020 and I went through a divorce last year. I am going to continue to explore meditation in combination with psychedelics and dissociatives as it is helping me heal. Thank you for your contribution to the collective consciousness Sam.
Sorry for your loss, hope you get better x
Been going back to this recording for years. It's what helped me when I got into meditation, then I switched to his app, but I fell off my habit for a year or two. Back at it now, and again getting use out of this recording.
I love this meditation. Thank you Sam Harris
This is so simple yet perhaps the most useful RUclips video I've ever come across.
Greatest meditaton.. universal.. rational.. effective.. direct ti the soul and mind.. generous.. so musical.. never seen a non musician master the silences like sam does.. so spiritual.. specially for an atheist.. his god is the human miracle.. so inteligent.. so simple.. thanks so much
So far, I’ve done this three times and I’m enjoying what I’m discovering. I can’t explain, yet, it sure leaves me felling lighter with a sense of inside-peacefulness. (Like watching a voiceless film or an empty.....??? I must keep practicing so I can see further😝😝😝😝😝😝! I love it! Thank you for sharing!
I actually love that this is open ended. I've done many of his guided meditations in the Waking Up app, but there he ends each session with some talking which usually means that I'll end the meditation afterwards as well.
However, I feel like the way he's speaking has improved since this video. His newer ones feel softer and smoother.
Love it.. So fresh and liberating.. we put our own music and images.. sam says... dont control your breathing.. love his respect for us.. his silences... music starts when his voice vanishes into peace.. thanks
Thank you for sharing this with information
Listened to this in the ER in between CT, US, waiting for doc, and it helped.
Focusing on the pause in the middle of the breath kept my focus IN the breath.
very nice voice and very calming. I had many distressing dreams last night and now my nerves feel settled. Thank you.
It's like teaching a kid to ride a bike kinda feeling how your parent is holding on to the bike and at a certain point the parent let's go and now you're riding a bike
Just sharing how I suddenly figured out how to meditate, and totally solved my procrastination problem, along with a single time vaping marijuana THC.
I am a graduate student in condensed matter physics, but I had extreme procrastination problem (developed during late high school years). So extreme that I felt physical repulsion when I work on stuff that I don't want to do. I tried mediation twice, for two hours total. Didn't feel anything.
About eight years later, I tried weed for the first time (small dosage, THC vape), and I felt a total lack of anxiety that I haven't felt in years, and I can do whatever task without feeling of procrastination at all. With this feeling of normality now in my mind, I spontaniously realized a similar sudden decrease of anxiety when I was watching a bobby mcferine music video on youtube. It sudden occured to me that this feeling is possibly related to marijuana and meditation.
The next time I felt the physical repulsion from procrastination. I watched the music video again, and tried to follow the mindfulness basics I learned years ago (like focusing on specific things to keep your mind not wondering). I felt the sudden decrease in anxiety in seconds and I started working with little effort.
This is how I learned meditation in a few seconds (or in eight years...in some other sense) and totally solved my procrastination problem.
This is my go-to morning meditation right now. I’ve gotten out of the habit so I’m starting with the shorter ones first. He’s the best. Well, him or Jordan. You pick.
I fell asleep to this last night and will do the same tonight. I love you Sam
I kept meditating for about another 5 minutes after the video stopped playing. The funny thing is I couldn’t tell you how or why I decided to open my eyes and end my session. It was so weird, I just opened my eyes and I was done and now I’m back.
This is literally giving me my life back.
Thanks, this has done a lot for me. I've done it many many times.
thank you very much for this gift
If I didn’t look at the screen, I wouldn’t have known it was done. So amazing, really relaxing
This is one of my favorite meditations all time 🙏🏻👍💟🕉☯️
Thanks Sam for a simple no bull shit meditation guide. You're a good human.
This is a great place to start if one is a beginner. Lovely.
Total Standard Meditation Technique Very Simply and Clearly Guided :) 👏👏
The more clear your mind, the more simple your language
Thank you, Sam.
Thankyou Sam!!
thank you so much for this.I love the way you present it. It helps me alot in my life.
I did it for the first time today after a long break in meditation and it Was awesome! Thank you ❤
As I sit here typing, I have the book "Waking Up" by Sam Harris in front of me. I MUST read it carefully again. The Title also says "A Guide To Spirituality Without Religion." However, it is the blending of three magnificent religions that awakened me: Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism. Hinduism taught me that my Inner/Greater Consciousness is my core. Buddhism taught me to help that inner consciousness to observe everything else in and around me. Taoism taught me to do so in a state of deep relaxation, with no aim of "achieving" anything; to just be. Hey, just let go and smile; don't *try* to meditate, just *be* the meditation! As the wonderful Hindu manthra says: "Tat Tvam Asi (pronounced thuth thvum asi) You Are That (which you seek). As the Kena Upanishad says, That which the eye cannot see, but by which the eye sees. That which the mind cannot comprehend, but by which the mind knows. Know that to be Brahman, the Cosmic Infinite Mind also referred to as Atman (Aathmun, the mun as in mundane, often called Self) which is the part of the Infinite Brahman that pervades us. So I don't really have or own an aathmun, rather It is what my mind, energy and body arise from.
I have been told there are only three religions. Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Everything else is mythology...
@@fredddamedgjedda Judaism and Christianity are based on myth. There never was a Moses or Noah. There never was a living breathing walking talking Jesus.
@@toheaveninjoy been there done that too. Wrote all about it...www.authorhouse.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/239578-A-Way-Beyond-Religion
@@toheaveninjoy you will HATE my book in which I pesent all available proof that Jesus was a Mythical God, not a historical Man-God.
@@OnlineMD Why do you exclude islam when you refer to the other 2 religions as being based on myth?
Still using this when i need some guide. Thanks Sam.
Very grateful for these - thank you!
Thank you Sam!
Thankyou very much Sam. Apt morning audio for meditation.
That moment when I got mad because I thought it was an ad in the middle of my meditation but-it was just the next video and the meditation was over.
Thanks Sam 🙏 Your video helps me sleep after the meditation.
Thank you for this.
Very relaxing video and the perfect length. Thank you!
this is a gem
I’m still here. It’s been 8 days now. Is the meditation over yet? I’m really hungry. That’s my sensation.
Love for from an iranian atheist. We should be so glad to live in a timeline that we get share your wisdom
Thank you Sam!!! Life is hard!!
Thanks Sammy......
Grateful for you Sam😃
So far, I’ve done this three times and I’m enjoying what I’m discovering. I can’t explain, yet, it sure leaves me felling lighter with a sense of inside-peacefulness. (Like watching a voiceless film or an empty.....???) I must keep practicing so I can see further😝😝😝😝😝😝! I love it! Thank you for sharing! ( This is my RUclips account) I used my husband’s before 😬)
Dear Sam, thank you 🙏 for this meditation 🧘♀️ ! Just subscribed. You are filling a much needed void for caring sensible thought
This is a great resource for days when the Waking Up app has a guest guide you don't care for.
that's pretty much all of them in my opinion. Sam's voice and clarity are the best!
This was a great help. Thank you
Loved it!!😊
Very helpful. Thankyou sir
Thank you
I knew about meditation for many years, but like most of the idiots leaving funny comments under this video, I was skeptical about meditation coz I was believing it was just another stupid way of contemplative spiritual bullshit. but I have started random practices almost a year ago / just gave it a try after reading Sam's book - Waking Up.. and after a while I started gradually feeling more relief, in situations where I had never been able to feel it. being an uber-impulsive neurotic person all my life, i cannot overemphasize its influence: and as Sam and others emphasize it, there is no magic with meditation, it is just a subtle technique of becoming more mindful in everyday situations.
People often say that it is just a placebo - well, I dont fucking care what that is, if it is fully sustainable and it works more than it was believed to work.
A placebo? It isn't a drug. If someone were to call it a placebo I wouldn't know what they were talking about and I'd assume they didn't either.
Thanks for the mindful experience
This was amazing!!!!
It made my mind relax, thanks a lot.
It may not work for some but it works for me very well
tysm, didn't even realize the video ended ❤
So... a little bit of housekeeping. So to speak.
Dr Peterson says that
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*roughly speaking intensifies*
Excellent!. Complementary to this would be "Mahamritunjaya mantra - Sacred Sounds Choir". Listen to it for 5 min per day for at least two weeks and dive into the Source of All, Sat-Chit-Ananda, the "One" of Plotinus, The Tao. Or, simply Pure Consciousness-In-Itself. Enjoy the Bliss.
With all the spiritual snake oil salesmen about on RUclips and with the commercialization of yoga and meditation practice, nice to see someone doing something just for the sake of helping. Heres to you, Sam.
If you're not sure when the meditation ends, just listen to your shakra - there will be a bright light in your third eye that will make your pineal gland throb when this is over and you will feel your spirit come back into your body through the power of attraction.
Love it every time ✌🏽
That was great! I've never done anything like that before
you didnt tell me when to stop this is me typing from heaven also yes we got youtube now in heaven.
Coming back for air for 9 years now.
They tell you, "You are not free; you are constrained by the chemistry of your brain. You are just a neural machine." Yet, some of them advise you to embrace life, overcome challenges, strengthen your personality, and build psychological resilience. Isn't that a huge contradiction? If my brain is the one controlling all this, then why give me advice, since neural determinism is supposedly responsible for achieving these outcomes?
However, we often lean toward feeling enthusiasm and strength as a result of applying such ideas in our minds, which clearly indicates the existence-and power-of human will. But we tend to forget to logically analyze the contradiction in such claims, like those made by Sam Harris. He says, "You are just a machine," implying that there is no "you" in reality, and yet he tells you to follow certain advice. Isn't my application of such advice proof of my will to change my perspective and thoughts about matters? Isn't my interaction with life’s events with happiness, strength, and joy evidence of my free will? Or does merely recalling something involuntarily mean the absence of free will? That’s a shallow philosophical absurdity.
The speed at which we make daily decisions and analyze situations within our minds makes people like Harris imagine that our brains are solely responsible for everything. But in reality, you are the one exercising your freedom and will through your brain. Reflect on this: the speed of analyzing scenarios when you want to make a decision or the rapid transition from one idea to another within your mind does not indicate the absence of "you." Instead, it reflects the precision of our minds. It is you, acting with will, who makes those transitions.
Of course, you will exercise your freedom in what you experience and learn. So, don’t ask, "Why did that image come to my mind and not another?" and conclude, "It wasn’t me who chose." That’s nonsense.
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Thank you Sam
Did it while driving in rush-hour. Nice.
Take a seat either in a chair or crosslegged on a cushion, and gradually become aware of the sensations of sitting, the feeling of pressure in your back or legs, feel your arms at your sides, and perhaps take a few deep breaths
allow gravity to settle you into your seat
and now gradually become aware of the process of breathing
notice where you feel the breath most distinctly, either at the tip of your nose or in the rising and falling of your abdomen
just feel the mere sensations associated with the breath, from the beginning of the inhalation, through the pause between breaths, and follow the exhalation to the end. Simply cover the breath with your awareness
theres no reason to control the breath, just allow it to come and go naturally
every time your mind wanders to a thought, gently return it to the breath, or to the sensations of sitting, to the feeling of your back against the chair, or the cushion, to the feelings of pressure in the legs
as you focus on the process of breathing, you will also perceive sounds and bodily sensations and emotions and the full flow of your experience. Simply observe these phenomenon as they appear in consciousness, and return to the breath
See if you can notice the next breath in the moment it arises, through its full duration to the moment it subsides
begin again in this moment, noticing the next inhalation, and the pause between breaths, and the next exhalation
the moment you notice a thought present in the mind, watch what happens to that thought, to the image or bit of language; where does it go?
It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been lost in thought; just notice it in this instant and come back to the feeling of breathing, the raw sensations of the movement, temperature, pressure
If there’s a mood or emotion present in the mind, notice that too, notice the constellation of sensations, in the face and the body
If you’re feeling sleepy, notice how it is that you feel sleepy, what is it like in your face, and your body
And come back to the sensations of breathing
Notice any sounds in the room; observe how they arise spontaneously. You don’t have to make any effort to hear them. They’re continuously arising and changing and passing away
With each sound, simply reveal the space of consciousness, where all sounds and sensations, thoughts, and emotions are simply appearing, moment to moment
Theres nothing in principle that falls outside this practice of meditation; you’re simply being aware of sights and sounds and sensations as they arise.
Simply notice what you do in fact notice in each moment; there’s no need to change your experience into anything
Again the moment you notice you’re lost in thought, simply observe the thought itself, as it passes away, and then return your attention to the breath, or to sounds, or sensations in the body
And just continue in this way until you can merely witness all the objects of consciousness: sights and sounds, sensations, emotions, even thoughts themselves, as they arise and change, and pass away.
Yep stayed longer !! Was good without end instruction
Before I can observe a thought, it's already gone. All that's left is a feeling of resentment, mainly about my loud computer, but this, too, is elusive. I couldn't even feel happy or sad bringing up the memories.
But I could already see the beginnings of awareness, of taking a step back.
Got the same thing going on, whenever I try to conjure up sadness or frustration my mind is just like "nah we chill now" and I can't feel jack squat.
fuck me too,
Powerful man, powerful. Trick is calming down enough to DO it! 🤣🤣🤣
His meditation app is awesome too
is it free please ?
Namaste