Healing from a Lifelong Accumulation of Stress Through Deep Rest Meditation
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Emily Fletcher joins the show to share her journey from New York City high-performance circles, to Rishikesh, India for a three-year meditation training program, back to the US to establish Ziva Meditation and the world's first online meditation training platform, Ziva Online.
Tune in to discover:
- The powerful differentiation between mindfulness and the meditation technique used at Ziva
- How a 15-minutes deep rest meditation allows the body to heal itself from stress, and make you feel like you just took an hour-long power nap
- How the practice of manifestation can allow you to distinguish between addictive longings and intuitive desires
- What meditation benefits you probably haven't even thought of, and what it means to have "structured, unfocused time" each day
Do you perform better when you're less stressed? Is it true that anxiety is making us stupid, sick, and slow? A lot of people would say "Yes," but a lot of those same people are also hesitant to try something that humans have been doing for thousands of years: meditation.
It wasn't until Fletcher could no longer ignore the mental and physical consequences of prolonged stress that she tried it out herself. To her surprise, it quickly transformed her, improving everything from her insomnia to her graying hair. Even more to her surprise was the fact that more people don't practice meditation. She enrolled in a three-year meditation program in India, and upon return, she started Ziva Meditation and Ziva Online. Since then, she has taken a practical approach to meditation and taught 25,000 people to do the same.
"The magic really happens when you're going in and getting rid of that stress from the past, that's what increases your IQ by up to 12 points, that's what reverses your body age by up to 15 years, that's what decreases your chance of being hospitalized; it's that eradication of the backlog of stress from ourselves," says Fletcher. She goes on to explain the three "Ms" of Ziva: mindfulness, meditation, and manifestation. To manifest, she says, is to consciously create a life you love. It's that simple. Fletcher talks in depth about all of this and so much more.
Tune in for the full conversation and some inspiration. Learn more by visiting https://zivameditation.com/.
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| 0:24.7 | field, sleep science, cancer, stem cells, ketogenic diets and more. Here come the geniuses. |
| 0:30.1 | This is the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | That is Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | I have a really great guest today. |
| 0:43.0 | Her name is Emily Fletcher. |
| 0:45.0 | She created a company called Ziva Meditations, Z-I-V-A, and that's the website as well, |
| 0:50.4 | Z-V-E-V-V-E-V-E-Vietta. |
| 0:52.0 | And I was telling her offline that I saw her speak and she actually led a guided |
| 0:56.2 | meditation of several hundred people at the Bulletproof Conference, you know, held by Dave Asper years ago in |
| 1:02.0 | Pasadena, not too many years ago but she did a great job and I felt really good after I think it was literally five minutes of hearing her voice and in her meditation and it seemed like she had a really great method and yeah I'd like to have her on |
| 1:15.3 | the podcast and talk about meditation and had a de-stress and I was joking with her too |
| 1:20.2 | that you know now in the days of COVID she probably doesn't have much to do and |
| 1:24.2 | it was an ironic laugh to that so Emily thanks for coming how you doing. |
| 1:27.6 | Hi I am happy to be here and yeah it turns out the world is pretty stressed right now. |
| 1:35.0 | So it's nice to be, it's nice to feel needed. |
| 1:38.8 | You know, I feel like my whole career, I've been like, hey everybody, you gotta meditate, like here's all the reasons you should meditate and now people are trapped in their homes and stressed AF and they're like give me all the meditation. |
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