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The Wellness Mama Podcast

315: Mindfulness for Moms With Ziva Meditation’s Emily Fletcher

The Wellness Mama Podcast

Katie Wells

Parenting, Education, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Motherhood, Mom Life, Wellness, Kids & Family, Organic, Health, Natural Living, Self-improvement

4.73.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Emily Fletcher, founder of Ziva Meditation and author of the best-selling book Stress Less. Emily really caught my attention when we were chatting at an event about meditation. Meditating has never been the easiest thing for me, but something she said that day stuck with me.

She said we meditate not to get good at meditation, but to get good at life. And that’s when I started actually wanting to learn to clear my mind and sit and do “nothing” for a while!

Emily teaches leaders at Apple, Google, and Harvard Business School how to meditate… the question is, can she teach this Type-A mom?

Episode Highlights on Ziva Meditation

  • How a certain meditation technique can be 5x as restful as sleep for the brain
  • Why one of the top doctors in the US says 15 minutes of meditation gives him an extra three hours of productivity a day
  • The difference between meditation and mindfulness
  • Why clearing the mind isn’t the point (oops!)
  • How meditation can improve sleep, sex, and immune function
  • Ways to incorporate meditation with kids for better sleep and calmer interactions
  • The way terrible questions lead to terrible answers… and the ones to stop asking yourself internally
  • And more!

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