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

Episode Highlights With Emily

• Her unique journey into meditation and how it led to her work today
• How she had insomnia and was going grey at 27 before finding meditation
• What makes her method of meditation different and how it gives your body rest that is 5x more effective than sleep
• Investing just 2% of your day helps the other 98% be even more amazing
• The 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 consciousness
• How 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 moms
• This 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 have
• If we only have sleep as our method of rest, the body has to use sleep to process
• The sleep, immune, fertility, and productivity connections
• We meditate to get better at life, not to get better at meditation
• Some tactical tips for making meditation a habit and how to incorporate this as a mom

Resources Mentioned

• Her Instagram
• Ziva Online and Ziva Magic
• Why Isn't Everyone Doing This? - Emily's podcast
• Stress Less, Accomplish More: The 15-Minute Meditation Programme for Extraordinary Performance by Emily Fletcher