You could meditate all day, but if you're not clear about what it is that you want, it's very hard for nature to give you the thing.

And conversely, you could line your wall with vision boards and watch the secret on repeat,

but if you are not meditating, chances are you don't believe that you deserve your desires.

And we don't get what we want in life.

We get what we believe we deserve.

And if you get your buns to the chair every single day, twice a day,

and carve out that stress from your nervous system,

you actually start to believe that you deserve your desires.

Welcome to Commune, where each week we explore the ideas and practices that bring us together and help us live healthy and purpose-filled

lives. I'm your host, Jeff Krasno. In addition to being a podcast, Commune is also an online

course platform hosting some of the world's greatest teachers. To learn more, click the link in the

episode show notes or go to Onecommun.com. We all have stress we need to manage in our lives.

God knows I do. And chances are you've read the headlines about how meditation is great for

anxiety, sleep, productivity, etc. And yet, even though most of us feel we should be meditating,

we're still not making time for it.

We try a free app here or a challenge there, but if we don't feel like we get enough value out of those experiences,

how can we expect ourselves to continue doing something that feels like a waste of time?

Meet Emily Fletcher, the creator of the Ziva Technique, author of the new book Stress Less, Accomplish More, and an expert in meditation for high performance.

Emily believes meditation is the single most important piece of mental hygiene we need to be practicing as a species,

and that these barriers to entry can be easily broken down

with a simple shift in perspective and technique. Emily has been named one of the top 100 women

in wellness to watch and has taught more than 15,000 students around the world. Ziva graduates include

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