Why Meditation Alone Is Not Enough - Emily Fletcher
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🗓️ 25 November 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Many of us have started meditating during the chaos of 2020. Maybe we downloaded an app and are even practicing every day. But is this practice making us better people? Are we doing it right? Can we manage to meditate without falling asleep? In this talk from Emily Fletcher, the founder of Ziva Meditation, we learn to become the architects of the life of our dreams through meditation and manifesting.
Emily Fletcher is the founder of Ziva Meditation and the leading expert in meditation for extraordinary performance. The Ziva Technique is a powerful trifecta of mindfulness, meditation, and manifesting designed to unlock your full potential. Emily has been named one of the top 100 women in wellness to watch, has taught more than 25,000 students around the world, and has spoken on meditation for performance at Apple, Google, Harvard Business School, and Barclays Bank.
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- Difference between sleep and meditation.
- The Ziva Technique.
- The magic of manifesting after meditating.
- Guided meditation exercise.
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| 0:00.0 | I think that that's just a cover for I don't want to feel my feelings. |
| 0:06.1 | I'm terrified to actually go in and excavate this stuff that I've been avoiding or floating |
| 0:12.1 | on top of or denying for so long. |
| 0:14.8 | Hi, I'm Mission Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation. |
| 0:19.1 | You're listening to the Mind Valley Podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers and thought |
| 0:23.3 | leaders on the planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal |
| 0:27.6 | growth of a mind, body, spirit, and work. Oftentimes when we start a meditation practice, |
| 0:34.0 | our bodies and our minds are getting deep rest. |
| 0:36.0 | The type of meditation that I teach at Ziva |
| 0:38.0 | is giving your body rest that's five times deeper than sleep. |
| 0:42.0 | And so when we're falling into that rest, our brain is... five times deeper than sleep. |
| 0:42.6 | And so when we're falling into that rest, |
| 0:44.5 | our brain is entering a verifiable fourth state of consciousness. |
| 0:47.7 | It's different than waking, |
| 0:48.6 | different than sleeping, different than dreaming. |
| 0:51.0 | And in that state, our muscle tone actually soft softens and so it feels very much like we are falling into sleep. |
| 0:57.0 | But the way I like to think of it is that when you fall into meditation, it's like you're walking through the same doorway |
| 1:02.6 | to get through a different room. |
| 1:04.6 | So in sleep, you're walking through the same doorway, |
| 1:07.4 | like the meditation doorway, |
| 1:08.5 | but you fall into sleep. |
| 1:10.0 | Whereas when you're meditating, ideally back supported head free, |
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