Andrew Huberman is neither a meditation master nor taken seriously by the community of neuroscientists although by some metrics he is a financially successful podcaster. Please disregard his efforts to warn obsessive compulsives off of meditation.
If you have been diagnosed as such, please work with either a psychiatrist or a psychologist who SPECIALIZES in OCD and who’s continuing education has focused on lifestyle medicine. Towards that end I recommend the FREE data base PCRM.org/findadoctor .
If you choose to meditate avoid both concentration and analysis as they could trigger your amygdala (the seat of both anxiety and aggression). Rather, rely upon your sympathetic nervous system (during your inhalation) to notice vulnerably, passively, viscerally, randomly, and fleetingly whatever comes up: be it internal, external, physical, mental, pleasurable, painful, interesting, boring, glorious or grotesque. During your exhalation rely upon your parasympathetic nervous system to physically relax and mentally release your resistance to the presence or absence of that which you noticed during your inhalation. Although doing so is not a cure-all. It could help you to cope with the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.
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