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Ryan Soave

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1146 total appearances

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Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

But when you're doing that, you kind of have to focus on that mantra. So sometimes having to focus on something can bring you out of it. And in those practices, bringing you out of it is โ€“ beneficial too, because you want to be brought out of it and then you can find ways to get back into it, it being the meditative experience.

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

So you're laying down and there's generally a series of kind of, I'll say physical movements. It's not like yoga doing stretching. It might be something like tensing and relaxing your muscles. It might be something like massaging your face as you're being guided through this to kind of just relax the body. And after a certain point,

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

So you're laying down and there's generally a series of kind of, I'll say physical movements. It's not like yoga doing stretching. It might be something like tensing and relaxing your muscles. It might be something like massaging your face as you're being guided through this to kind of just relax the body. And after a certain point,

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

So you're laying down and there's generally a series of kind of, I'll say physical movements. It's not like yoga doing stretching. It might be something like tensing and relaxing your muscles. It might be something like massaging your face as you're being guided through this to kind of just relax the body. And after a certain point,

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

And in a lot of the teachings that when I do it or I've been taught, there's a certain point at which all movement stops and you just want to follow the, you're just instructed to follow the person's voice. In Yoga Nidra, we, or Nidra, we set an intention, like an intention might be like, I'm at peace with myself as I am in the world as it is.

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

And in a lot of the teachings that when I do it or I've been taught, there's a certain point at which all movement stops and you just want to follow the, you're just instructed to follow the person's voice. In Yoga Nidra, we, or Nidra, we set an intention, like an intention might be like, I'm at peace with myself as I am in the world as it is.

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

And in a lot of the teachings that when I do it or I've been taught, there's a certain point at which all movement stops and you just want to follow the, you're just instructed to follow the person's voice. In Yoga Nidra, we, or Nidra, we set an intention, like an intention might be like, I'm at peace with myself as I am in the world as it is.

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

Something like that, something that you want to bring in or, a state that you want to experience. I know that you distinguish, I believe you distinguish non-sleep deep breaths as like yoga nidra without intention.

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

Something like that, something that you want to bring in or, a state that you want to experience. I know that you distinguish, I believe you distinguish non-sleep deep breaths as like yoga nidra without intention.

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

Something like that, something that you want to bring in or, a state that you want to experience. I know that you distinguish, I believe you distinguish non-sleep deep breaths as like yoga nidra without intention.

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

If you fall asleep, it's okay. But, and actually sometimes people think they're asleep, but when I'm guiding them and I'll, I'll, I'll give a direction like, you know, uh, to roll over on their right, uh, on their side at the end and they do it, but they thought they were asleep. So they, What we believe is happening in that is they're in the brain states of sleep while still being awake.

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

If you fall asleep, it's okay. But, and actually sometimes people think they're asleep, but when I'm guiding them and I'll, I'll, I'll give a direction like, you know, uh, to roll over on their right, uh, on their side at the end and they do it, but they thought they were asleep. So they, What we believe is happening in that is they're in the brain states of sleep while still being awake.

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

If you fall asleep, it's okay. But, and actually sometimes people think they're asleep, but when I'm guiding them and I'll, I'll, I'll give a direction like, you know, uh, to roll over on their right, uh, on their side at the end and they do it, but they thought they were asleep. So they, What we believe is happening in that is they're in the brain states of sleep while still being awake.

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

Once they're in that relaxed space after doing some movement in the beginning or the space to be relaxed and still, I should say still versus relaxed, still physically is through breath, different breath exercises, specifically ones that have long exhales, right? That's like you said, it activates the parasympathetic nervous system. And then- guiding them through their body in some way.

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

Once they're in that relaxed space after doing some movement in the beginning or the space to be relaxed and still, I should say still versus relaxed, still physically is through breath, different breath exercises, specifically ones that have long exhales, right? That's like you said, it activates the parasympathetic nervous system. And then- guiding them through their body in some way.

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

Once they're in that relaxed space after doing some movement in the beginning or the space to be relaxed and still, I should say still versus relaxed, still physically is through breath, different breath exercises, specifically ones that have long exhales, right? That's like you said, it activates the parasympathetic nervous system. And then- guiding them through their body in some way.

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

So it might be, there's one called 61 points where you identify all these different points in the body, starting with the forehead down to the pit of the throat and then all different parts from your shoulder down to your fingers and then all the way down to your toes.

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

So it might be, there's one called 61 points where you identify all these different points in the body, starting with the forehead down to the pit of the throat and then all different parts from your shoulder down to your fingers and then all the way down to your toes.

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

So it might be, there's one called 61 points where you identify all these different points in the body, starting with the forehead down to the pit of the throat and then all different parts from your shoulder down to your fingers and then all the way down to your toes.

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

And people being able to kind of move their awareness in their body kind of gets them away from that thinking and doing into the more feeling and being. They're putting their awareness on their body rather than everything external.