Why Meditation is Your Ultimate Life Hack – Light Watkins and Emily Fletcher : 836
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
People used to think that meditation made you gullible," says meditation teacher Light Watkins. "Now, they realized that meditation makes you bold, as some of the most influential business and thought leaders of our day see meditation as non-negotiable for making big moves."
Light has been immersed in the meditation space for two decades, first as a practitioner, then as an apprentice to his Vedic Meditation teacher, and finally as a teacher himself. He now leads meditation trainings and retreats world-wide. He’s been featured in major media, taught celebrity clients and written popular books on happiness and meditation.
You’d think he’d be a model meditator, but In reality, Light spent years sitting in uncomfortable positions with whirling thoughts, and feeling like he was failing at meditation. He couldn’t settle his body or his mind. He stuck with it (an inspiration to struggling meditators!) and eventually found his groove.
Emily Fletcher is the founder of Ziva Meditation, the creator of The Ziva Technique and is regarded as a leading expert in meditation for high performance. For a decade, she’s led Ziva's powerful combination of mindfulness, meditation and manifesting designed to help you get better at life, not get better at meditating.
Mindfulness creates a state change, Emily says, and meditation creates a trait change.
She’s reached more than 40,000 students so far, including Oscar, Grammy, Emmy and Tony award winners, Navy SEALS, NBA players and CEOs. Also entrepreneurs, busy parents and anyone looking to level up. She also expanded her meditation reach to zivaKIDS with a brand new program aimed at kids ages 4 to 14.
If you enjoy this special episode with Light and Emily, sten to their full Bulletproof Radio podcasts about meditation:
Meditation is the Ultimate Rest Hack – Light Watkins #580
- Learn more about Light's meditation program and books: https://www.lightwatkins.com
Meditation: The Ultimate High-Performance Tool— Emily Fletcher #568
Adult Talk: How to Get Your Kids to Meditate – Emily Fletcher with Dave Asprey – #817
- Learn more about Emily's meditation program and books: https://zivameditation.com
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| 0:00.0 | For this episode, I want you to be able to experience many of the different ways meditation |
| 0:07.0 | can make you better human, so I put together a package of resources for you. |
| 0:12.2 | What I've done is I've put together a conversation about meditation as a high performance tool |
| 0:16.9 | from Ziva Meditation Founder Emily Fletcher, who's a good friend, and also some content |
| 0:23.7 | from meditation teacher Light Watkins, who probably has the most perfect meditation teacher |
| 0:28.0 | name ever, and he goes in the other direction, explains meditation for rest. |
| 0:32.6 | We've got high performance and rest both in the sphere of the universe of meditation, |
| 0:37.7 | and they get into meditation's benefits on each end of that spectrum. |
| 0:42.0 | What you'll find is that there are a ton of meditation podcasts that I've pulled together |
| 0:46.4 | over the past six or seven years of doing Bulletproof Radio, where I talk with different |
| 0:51.4 | experts about all of these different things. |
| 0:54.4 | What I want you to do is understand that there's a meditation for flow states, there's a meditation |
| 0:59.1 | for learning, there's a meditation for cravings, for stress, for sex, and there are tons of |
| 1:03.7 | tools online to help you meditate. |
| 1:07.0 | If you go to dayvastory.com and you look around, you can actually get guided and unguided |
| 1:12.3 | videos by a lot of these people. |
| 1:14.7 | If your cells are doing a poor job of making energy, meditation is more challenging. |
| 1:19.9 | It's harder to pay attention. |
| 1:21.6 | You want to be at your highest invest when you show up for yourself, and that means eating |
| 1:26.8 | the right foods or maybe fasting even because some kinds of meditation require that. |
| 1:31.4 | But understand, meditating when you're completely bone-tired and exhausted, it can be rejuvenating, |
| 1:37.0 | but it's probably not going to be a super-charging meditation then. |
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