Teaching Kids to Meditate with Emily Fletcher | Recovery
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Dr. Adi and Sophie Jaffe
4.4 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Last week, Emily Fletcher, founder of Ziva and Ziva Kids, joined us to share her advice on incorporating meditative practices into everyday life. A wide body of research supports meditation as a valuable tool for improving mental and physical health. Picking up skills from meditation and mindfulness early on can help set us up to cope with future stressors. In this extended interview, Dr. Jaffe sits down with Emily for a deeper dive into the topics of meditation, mental health, addiction, and Ziva Kids’ revolutionary approach of using meditation to teach children lifelong coping skills and improve their wellbeing.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Ignited Recovery podcast, a new way forward for anyone looking for answers but feeling left out. |
| 0:10.2 | If you've been searching for empowerment, triumph, and purpose, you've found them right here. |
| 0:15.8 | You won't hear the same solutions and you're not going to have any excuses to fall back on because |
| 0:21.0 | ignited recovery allows heroes to rise and become their best selves. |
| 0:26.4 | I'm Dr. Adi Jaffe and I can't wait to be your guide on this journey. |
| 0:31.6 | Are you ready to become an ignited hero? Hello, everybody and welcome to this episode of the Ignited Recovery Secrets podcast. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm a DJ Affie. |
| 0:46.8 | So, so glad to be here with you today. |
| 0:49.3 | What I love about today's episode is this. |
| 0:51.3 | I deal so much with the aftermath of what happens when people don't have |
| 0:55.8 | the most appropriate attachment style or they struggle with trauma or they just don't get |
| 1:01.8 | given the tools early on in life to live a wholesome, intimately open, radically transparent, |
| 1:10.5 | functional life. |
| 1:11.5 | And so they find ways to cope with that. |
| 1:13.6 | That means drugs, alcohol, porn, food, all that stuff that we know. |
| 1:18.4 | And then we deal with it, which is I love it. |
| 1:21.3 | It's what I love doing, et cetera. |
| 1:22.5 | But how nice would it be if we could deal with it on the front end? |
| 1:25.6 | And so Emily here today is here to talk about how we can get kids to pay attention to some of |
| 1:35.4 | these components of well-being that maybe they haven't before. |
| 1:40.7 | And Ziva Kids is all about that. |
| 1:43.1 | It's all about introducing kids through media, something they're already loving and attracted to to the concept of mindfulness and meditation. And that is such a hard thing for me to teach adults. How beautiful would it be if we can get kids to jump on board? And so Emily being an actual actress, like a theater actress, what she gets to do here is take those skills. She implemented them. You're going to hear how cool the way they approach this is. But what they're doing is serving kids content in a TV show like way that they already want to absorb just teaching him incredible |
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