Dave Asprey: Meditation Power, Dopamine Reset & the Truth About Triggers

Change Your Brain Every Day

Dr Daniel Amen

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🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this mind-expanding episode, Dr. Daniel Amen sits down with biohacker and Heavily Meditated author Dave Asprey to explore how meditation—and a few unexpected brain hacks—can rewire your nervous system in real time. You’ll learn Dave’s go-to “reset process” to calm your brain and body within seconds of being triggered, why most relationship conflicts have nothing to do with your partner, and the two emotional concepts adults dread most. Plus, discover a rapid-fire breathing technique to instantly destress, a controversial one-minute trick to reset your dopamine, and how intimacy can become one of the most transformative meditations of all.

https://daveasprey.com/heavily-meditated/

00:00 Intro

00:38 Sponsor

02:03 The Father of Biohacking

05:08 Training Your Brain for Meditation

07:40 Our Inner States Don’t Have Words

10:40 Managing Alerts

12:21 What Meditation Does to the Brain

14:06 The Reset Process

19:19 Compassion

22:24 Joe Rogan Incident

24:52 Building Resilience

27:36 Connections/Removing Friction

32:08 Creating a Meditation Practice

33:47 Breathwork

36:18 Entrainment Methods

38:40 Gaining Control Over Your Nervous System

42:48 Conscious Loving Intimacy

45:21 Sponsor

46:35 Wrap Up

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0:00.0	The problem is most people, forgiveness is a mental and a cognitive concept.
0:05.0	I decide I forgive them. I've said I forgive them, therefore I forgive them.
0:08.0	But if you check in with your heart and your nervous system, you did not forgive them.
0:12.0	So this is a way of really turning on so that the feelings in the body match the thoughts in the head.
0:18.0	And the sense of relaxation and power and removal of friction in your life. It's profound.
0:26.2	Every day you are making your brain better or you are making it worse. Stay with us to learn
0:33.0	how you can change your brain for the better every day.
0:46.6	Are you excited to optimize your brain and help the brains of those you love?
0:56.6	Do you want to prevent or treat memory problems, anxiety or depression? Do you want to be happier? That's why I created Amen University to take what I've learned over the last 45 years and help you have a better
1:04.7	brain, a better mind, and a better body. You can take courses like our 30-day happiness challenge, which was shown in
1:14.2	research to increase happiness by 32% in just 30 days, or memory rescue, or overcoming anxiety,
1:25.2	depression, trauma, and grief, or healing ADD at home in 30 days and much more.
1:32.6	We also have professional courses and courses for kids, including Brain Thrive by 25, which was found in
1:41.5	independent research to decrease depression and improve self-esteem.
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1:55.8	Visit amenuniversity.com and use the code podcast 20.
2:03.8	Welcome, everybody.
2:05.5	I am so excited about this podcast.
2:09.6	I know you will be too.
2:11.1	I am with my really good friend, Dave Asprey, and Dave has been on the show before. He has a new book.
2:21.7	Love the title, heavily meditated. The Fast Path to Remove Your Triggers, Dissolves, Stress,
2:32.3	and Activate Inner Peace. So for those of you who don't know, Dave's dissolve stress, and activate inner peace.
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