I am Mission Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.

You're listening to the Mind Valley Podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers and

thought leaders on the planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth for mind, body, spirit, and work.

Welcome back to the Mind Valley Podcast.

Today we're going to explore the ideas of mindfulness, meditation, and manifesting.

Let's call it the three M's.

And our teacher today is Emily Fletcher.

What I'm going to play for you is a speech from Emily Fletcher from Mind Valley Reunion 2018.

It's an event in LA where an entire community comes together to listen to some of the world's

most remarkable teachers.

Now, why is Emily fascinating as a meditation instructor?

Well firstly she's been teaching meditation at Harvard, at Google.

She is brilliant, but the main reason Mind Valley supports Emily is because the meditation that she teaches is not

monastic meditation. It's called modern meditation. You see we tend to confuse meditation

and most people who start meditation

actually give it up fairly quickly because they buy into

outdated ideas of monastic style meditation, ideas like clearing your mind, trying not to think about anything, focusing solely on your

breathing. And guess what? In our busy modern worlds, this is sometimes near impossible.

Emily says, trying to get your mind to stop thinking.

It's like trying to get your heart to stop beating.

So she says, do not confuse monastic practices that were suitable

if you were a hermit in India 500 years ago with the practices that are useful today

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