Stress Less, Live More: Meditation for Moms with Emily Fletcher of Ziva

Episode Highlights With EmilyHer unique journey into meditation and how it led to her work todayHow she had insomnia and was going grey at 27 before finding meditationWhat makes her method of meditation different and how it gives your body rest that is 5x more effective than sleepInvesting just 2% of your day helps the other 98% be even more amazingThe mind thinks involuntarily, just like the heart beats involuntarily Ziva is based on something 6,000 years old that means “big results based on action barely taken,” and how this helps us reach a fourth state of consciousnessHow meditation can be less about focus and concentration and more about carving out space to be unfocused and avoid focus fatigue that"s especially easy for momsThis method helps de-excite the nervous system and create more coherence When you give the body true rest, it knows how to heal itself and sleep is not the only form of rest we haveIf we only have sleep as our method of rest, the body has to use sleep to processThe sleep, immune, fertility, and productivity connectionsWe meditate to get better at life, not to get better at meditationSome tactical tips for making meditation a habit and how to incorporate this as a mom Resources MentionedHer InstagramZiva Online and Ziva MagicWhy Isn"t Everyone Doing This? - Emily"s podcastStress Less, Accomplish More: The 15-Minute Meditation Programme for Extraordinary Performance by Emily Fletcher